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Finding your brilliance by cultivating a deep understanding

Finding your brilliance by cultivating a deep understanding

From the course: Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career and Outsmart the Competition (Blinkist Summary)

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Finding your brilliance by cultivating a deep understanding

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- [Instructor] Blink number nine, cultivating deep understanding is the surest path to finding your intuitive brilliance. Physicist Richard Feynman was known for his uncanny intuition. He had the knack of looking at a complex problem and seemingly plucking the solution out of thin air. The technical term for this ability is intuitive expertise and it can seem rather mysterious to outside observers, but there's a perfectly rational explanation for Feynman's flashes of brilliance. His deep understanding of physics enabled him to intuit unexpected connections and patterns. Whatever subject you may be studying, it takes time and patience to build up the level of deep understanding on which intuitive expertise is built. But by employing a few simple strategies, you can accelerate the rate at which you acquire it. Start by getting back to basics. Feynman was famous for asking stupid questions and would frustrate his students by…

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