One day, Gladwell, the author of the best-selling Alien, told you: "The genius in people's eyes is extraordinary, not because of superior talent, but because of continuous efforts. As long as it takes 10000 hours of training, anyone can change from ordinary to extraordinary. "

As long as you practice 10000 hours, you will hopefully become a leader in this field, regardless of talent or background. Are you excited?-Ordinary life can finally start to counterattack: buy Gladwell's books at once and sign up for various 10000-hour practice groups.

However, the fact is that there has never been a law of 1000 hours, which is just the author's less rigorous interpretation of psychological science research.

The result of practice is not positively related to time, which also depends on the practice method. Millard J. Erickson cited many examples in his book, and there are many people around us who seem to be working hard, but in fact they have achieved nothing. In other words, the method is wrong, and it is useless to practice 65438+ million hours.

The learning efficiency is the highest in the situation.

Most unreliable and successful students choose the wrong way to practice. Although the slogan is deliberate practice, its essence is not deliberate practice.

People's learning is restricted or promoted by situations. In what situation will what you want to learn be actually applied, then in what situation should you learn these things.

For example, if you want to learn programming, go to GitHub, because your future programming will go through GitHub. For another example, if you want to learn bargaining skills, you must learn in the actual sales situation, because this skill is ultimately used in the sales situation.

A lot of research on learning science shows that the best way for adults to learn is not to practice alone, but to learn in situations.

Genius or the day after tomorrow

In music, "absolute pitch" is a technical term. Extremely rare, only 1 person in every 10,000 people has this ability.

In 20 14, Tokyo Music Club conducted an experiment, and the experimental results were published in the scientific journal Music Psychology, revealing the true characteristics of perfect pitch. Japanese psychologist johanna recruited 24 children aged 2-6 and organized them for several months' training. After completing the training, every child involved in the study was trained to have a perfect pitch.

This is a shocking result. Although under normal circumstances, only 1 of every 10,000 people has a perfect pitch, all the children who participated in the johanna research in Wuyuan have it. This obviously means that perfect pitch is not a talent possessed by only a few lucky people at all, but an ability that almost everyone can cultivate and develop through moderate contact and training. This study completely subverts our understanding of perfect pitch. Simply put, perfect pitch is not a genius, but the ability to develop perfect pitch is a genius. At the same time, we can almost say that almost everyone has that talent.

This is a beautiful and shocking fact.

Summary Deliberate practice is to help people become the most outstanding figures in the world in their industry or field, not just to become "excellent enough", so it is the most powerful learning method we have found so far.