for the adult learner who can do the procedure but can't explain why it works
Goal
Spend one sprint explaining the hardest concept aloud until the explanation has zero hand-waving.
Source principle
Intuition: explain the why until the explanation has no gaps. : from Ultralearning by Scott Young.
The plan
- 🎯0:00-0:05Pick the one concept that still feels fuzzy. Name it.
- 🗣️0:05-0:15Explain it aloud in plain words. Record or write as you go.
- 🔍0:15-0:25Mark every hedge, 'basically', and hand-wave. Be honest.
- 📖0:25-0:40Re-derive the mechanism from first principles. No skipping.
- ✏️0:40-0:55Sketch the mechanism. Boxes and arrows. No formulas yet.
- 🧪0:55-1:05Find one edge case that breaks your sketch. Hunt hard.
- 🔧1:05-1:15Patch the sketch. Refine until the edge case fits.
- 🗣️1:15-1:25Explain it again aloud, end to end. No notes.
- ✅1:25-1:30One-line intuition summary. The why, distilled.