Explanation Effect Mastery Manual (Simmons & Pagan)
9 terms across 1 theme — every definition in the Atlas sourced from this manual, with executive examples and counter-moves.
Six escalating levels of teaching that compound learning: self-explain, simulated other, dialogue, informal teach, full-spectrum teach, professional teach.
Turning raw input (books, talks, conversations) into proprietary frameworks by re-explaining through your own lens.
The act of preparing to teach exposes precisely where your understanding is shallow.
Three-stage cycle: learn by seeing, learn by doing, learn by teaching — looped continuously.
Saying or writing the idea back to yourself in your own words to surface gaps before they're public.
Teaching the same concept to different audiences over time is naturally spaced repetition with feedback baked in.
Default identity shift: you read, watch, and listen as a future teacher, not a passive consumer.
A visual map of where in your day, mind, and environment your best thinking actually happens.
Daily one-line capture of the single most important thing you learned that day.