You read the paragraph three times. Every word is English, and you still have no idea what it means. Then you search for it, and the first five results explain it using words you would also have to look up.
The problem is almost never you. It is that most explanations are written by people who already understand the thing, and they have forgotten what it was like not to.
AI fixes this because you can tell it exactly who it is explaining to. A five-year-old, a school student, or an adult who has simply never met this subject. The same topic, three completely different explanations, and you pick the one that lands.
The prompt below is short, but it does three things at once: plain language, a real-life analogy, and a one-sentence takeaway you can actually keep in your head. You run it in the AIMIKA chat in Text mode - no setup, no account juggling.
What comes back is not a shorter version of the textbook. It is a different explanation built for a different reader: the analogy comes from ordinary life, the example is concrete enough to picture, and the takeaway is one sentence you could repeat to someone else without looking it up. That last part is the test of whether you actually understood something.
The most common mistake is asking about the subject instead of the thing that confuses you. "Explain economics" gets you a summary. "Explain why raising interest rates is supposed to slow down prices" gets you the answer you were actually after.