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This is how I have intuitively learnt pretty much everything that I know so far. Didn't know there is a name to this technique. The only way to know that I understood something properly, is to try to explain it in my own words/vocabulary/analogies. Mostly I would be thinking out loud to myself or writing down/drawing flow chart etc, during such 'absorb info & explain' phase. Sometimes sounding off to a friend or colleague also helps.