How to learn hard concepts?
An interesting thing about Developing Your Intuition For Math article is how it starts by defining a cat — yes, the animal 🐱. Author challenges us to describe a cat, buuuuut that is too boring. Dont get me wrong, I really do love cats, but I’m not interested about what’s inside a cat, KEKW.
So, I will use the blackbox analogy for this
Warning
to fully understand it, you need to be familiar withdecomposition pattern*(break down the problem into smaller pieces)*
so, the first step after identify the theme:
1. make questions
- what do i already know about a “black box”?
- what problems black box solves?
- why we need a black box?
- what was the author thinking when he created a black box?
- what problems he wanted to solve?
if you can think about 2 or 1 answers, great!
we are ready to use the out of the box(XDXD 🥁) approach that article mentioned!
intuition each definition is a piece - your intuition is an important piece here.
the whole point is to start from a pieces that you are able to use your intuition.