Learning for a long time does not mean that the harvest effect is great. Real efforts should be based on our vision, mind and ability.
Recently, I read Sun Juanquan's new book "Please Stop Ineffective Efforts", which gives a detailed methodology for "efforts". The author believes that how much value a person can create is inseparable from three internal factors, namely knowledge and skills, ability and talent.
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When learning new knowledge, we should pay attention to transforming knowledge into ability, find our scarce skills, and find our talents in the process of continuous trial and summary. Only by making good use of these internal factors reasonably, combined with external factors such as birth, choice and luck, can the individual's greatest value be exerted.
In the process of learning, we often just study blindly and enter many misunderstandings in learning.
For example, fragmented learning is popular now, so many people will use fragmented time to study against time. However, due to the lack of their own knowledge system, knowledge acquisition is fragmented. Due to the thirst for information, the content in the process of information acquisition is overloaded, far exceeding the scope that one can digest.
Another misunderstanding is that knowledge and ability are separated. Although I learned a lot of knowledge, I didn't use it. Knowing and doing are not integrated, but they are satisfied with the pleasure of knowledge acquisition, but they have not seen the real change in life.
These misunderstandings weaken the learning effect. Although they seem to work hard, they haven't changed in essence. It can even be said that many efforts are ineffective.
Take learning itself as an example. Only by mastering the truly correct posture can we turn knowledge into ability and create more value for ourselves.
As for how to continue to learn happily, the author thinks we can start from the following four aspects: learning on demand, adjusting mentality, improving metacognitive strategies and making mistakes correctly.
1, learn on demand
Many times we want to learn too much. When we see what others are learning or what is popular, we want to participate. But because of the limited energy and willpower, many things often start, but they can't persist.
According to the characteristics of adults' autonomous learning, experience, autonomy and action, the author points out that the following four principles can be followed when selecting learning content:
(1) Useful: It should be useful to us at this stage. This purpose is not necessarily to work or make money, but also to relax people.
(2) Matching: matching with our experience background, neither too shallow nor too deep.
(3) Participation: You can have a sense of participation, and it is best not to participate in didactic learning.
(4) Application: It can be applied to actions and combined with our work and life.
So we can see that there are routines to follow for truly effective learning. If you learn some knowledge that is not suitable for your own situation, can't be used for the time being, and can't be combined with life, it is easy to lose interest in learning, and it will become a natural thing to persist.
Step 2 adjust your mentality
The adjustment of mentality here is not to equate learning with pain. If you think that learning is obtained at the expense of other things, it is inevitable that you will be reluctant, unhappy and unhappy.
In addition, if you control yourself by willpower in the process of learning, there will always be a time when willpower runs out. So it may be difficult to cultivate learning behavior into a habit at first, but it will be easy to continue after forming a habit.
3. Promote metacognitive strategies
If you want to improve your learning ability, you must constantly improve your metacognitive strategies, and make clear your advantages and disadvantages by constantly analyzing and summarizing your learning style, so as to adjust your learning methods.
By improving metacognition, we can also find the connection between knowledge more easily and internalize knowledge into our own abilities better.
Step 4 make mistakes correctly
I believe that the word trial and error is familiar to everyone, and it plays an important role in the process of learning. If we can learn from our mistakes and make continuous progress, then these mistakes will be a great wealth on our growth path.
And if in the process of trial and error, because of setbacks, it may also become a stumbling block to our growth. So how to treat setbacks is also a compulsory course for us to grow up.
From the above four aspects, we can see that if we want to continue learning, the learning content itself must be something we like, which can give us a sense of accomplishment and bring us value. Not only in study, but also in work and life.
Mastering the correct method can avoid a lot of ineffective efforts and save a lot of precious time for us.
Once, we naively thought that long-term efforts were hard work, and hard work would definitely pay off, but it often backfired.
The reason why we can't "do" what we "know" in the end is that we lack the correct methods.
There are few books on how to work hard correctly. Most of them are shouting slogans and telling stories. It is often not easy to really start on your own.
This book "Please Stop Ineffective Efforts" introduces many methods of efforts, and each ending is accompanied by corresponding practice instructions, which can be said to be a sincere book.
Therefore, if you find yourself "working hard" for a long time and still have little effect, you may wish to consider whether your methods need to be improved from the source.
Only by spending time on valuable things can we see more satisfactory results.
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