Compared with food, another resource we have in another dimension also has the same goal as the trend of food development, and that is information. In recent years, with the development of the two monsters of the Internet and smartphones, we have moved from the first stage of information poverty to the second stage of gradually abundant information. There has never been a generation in history that has been able to obtain information as quickly and conveniently as our generation. Even the "god-like product manager" Zhang Xiaolong created the push method. Faced with this sudden information explosion, people were caught off guard.

Many people want to use their limited time to obtain more information and knowledge, so a term called "fragmented time" came into being. Many people check Zhihu all the time, look at Guoke, and read WeChat public accounts. I want to use these short and quick contents to enrich my fragmented time. I was like this once, but after going through this state for a while, I found that my knowledge level had not improved much and I was not very happy either. After a lot of thinking, I found that using fragmented time to study is a false proposition. The main reasons are as follows:

The above sentence is a famous saying of Nietzsche. My understanding of this sentence is this. Although we are free on the surface, our words and actions are limited by our vision and thinking. The best way to broaden our horizons is to read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. Compared with the expansion of horizons, the improvement of thinking and cognitive upgrading are more important. To expand our thinking and achieve cognitive upgrade, what is needed is systematic knowledge and deep enough thinking. Each of us lives in our own prison, and we all long to successfully "escape" like Andy in "The Shawshank Redemption." And our knowledge is like that little hammer. Fragmented learning is like you take one hammer and hit it here and there, while systematic learning is like digging hard when you find a little bit. If you read a hundred comments or articles about the Three Kingdoms era on Zhihu or WeChat public accounts, they are not as useful as reading "Three Kingdoms" once. What's more, it's difficult for us to use our fragmented time to only look at content in one field. More often than not, we look at fitness knowledge today, study history tomorrow, and care about international politics the day after tomorrow. Such a short, flat and quick way of acquiring knowledge makes it difficult for people to form a real knowledge system and obtain a real accumulation of knowledge.

I just mentioned two points to achieve cognitive upgrade. One point is systematic knowledge, and the other point is deep enough thinking. In addition to making it difficult to acquire systematic knowledge, fragmented reading does not leave enough time and a good environment for people to think. And some slightly in-depth articles tend to be longer. Many times we either skim the entire article and then close it, or we read half of it and close it without reading. Very few people will remember this article later. In this situation, let alone thinking, it is difficult to understand the author's meaning and the central idea of ??the article.

Friends who are familiar with me know that I am a football fan. For games, I usually only play "Pro Evolution Soccer". One feature of this game is that a game only takes ten minutes. I know that playing games is an activity with a very short half-life, but there is a little black man in my brain always telling myself, just ten minutes, just play it. If this is a good situation, you can stop after playing two games. If it is not good, you will waste an hour or two. Watching time slip away from your hands. In fact, the time to play "Pro Evolution Soccer" seems to be only 10 minutes, but you can't guarantee that your willpower will be able to stop when the point is reached, and even if you stop, you can't guarantee that you won't think about it. This is the same as fragmented time. When we are studying and working, we often reply to a few irrelevant group chats or read a few articles on Zhihu or official accounts. In this way, our originally precious entire time is occupied by these seemingly inconspicuous things. The fragments of time are scattered. This ultimately leads to a decrease in concentration and thus affects the efficiency of work and study.

Well, after talking about so many reasons why fragmented reading is not good, can it be that we can only be in a daze during those fragmented times, wasting time in vain? The answer is of course not.

As a person who gives soup and spoons, let me talk about some of my personal skills and methods of using fragmented time. Any similarity is purely coincidental.

Turning fragments into whole pieces is the most ideal way to solve the problem of fragmented learning. There are two ways to turn fragmented learning into whole learning, one is physical and the other is logical.

First of all, the physical essence is to reduce fragmented time. When you get up every day, roughly plan what you want to do today, and have a general concept of the order and timing of things. And without affecting the quality of work, try to reduce the tedious links in the middle. For example, in the school gym, I found that many students have this habit of taking a shower after working out:

Among them, they go back to the dormitory to get a bath box, go back to the dormitory to the bathhouse, go from the bathhouse to the dormitory, and go from the dormitory to the experiment These steps in the room are fragmented time, and they are all points that can be optimized. And if you can choose to take a shower in the gym, then the steps will be changed to the following:

This small change can turn the above fragmented time into a whole time of at least half an hour.

I have also asked many students why they don’t go to the gym to take a shower, and the answers they all received were the same: 1. The gym is more expensive than the bathhouse. 2. The bath frame is placed in the gymnasium to avoid losing it. From my own experience, a bath in a gymnasium is only one yuan more expensive than a bathhouse, and there is no need to queue and you can adjust the water temperature yourself. It only costs one yuan to store items in the gym at a time. So that means you can get a better bathing experience by spending an extra two yuan a day, and at the same time save at least half an hour of effective study time. Isn’t it very profitable?

In layman's terms, logically speaking, reducing fragmented time means "use kindle more and use mobile phone less". As mentioned above, it is difficult to establish a complete knowledge system and experience serious thinking through fragmented time learning. As for Kindle, a product that I have never seen before, I think its biggest advantage is that it can only read books. Next time you open it, you'll still be at the same place you read last time. Through the small and lightweight kindle, and with appropriate annotation, you can connect the accumulation of many fragments of time into chunks, and finally read the books one by one and build your own complete knowledge system.

People generally only understand fragmented learning in terms of reading, believing that reading is the most effective way to learn. Our fragmented time is often at the station, in the car or on the road, where it is difficult to keep our eyes focused. In these scenarios, our ears can ensure concentration better than our eyes.

At this time, ears are needed to help, and in recent years, some good FM applications have appeared. Some of the contents of these applications are about traditional culture, some are about history, and some are about storytelling. And many popular video programs have also taken root on these platforms. Use your fragmented time to listen to some famous people tell you their knowledge, insights and professional skills. It has the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort by expanding knowledge and better understanding of time.

Take myself as an example. Apart from Kindle, another product that caught my eye and made me regret seeing it so late is Himalayan FM. Through Himalaya, I have listened to all of Luo Pang's "Luo Ji's Thinking", Comrade Gao Dajin's "Xiaosong Qi Tan" and the Qi Pa Shuo team's "Have a Good Talk" program. Recently, I listened to the "Disciple Rules" lectured by teacher Cai Lixu from Amway. 》. Although I sometimes disagree with some of the views expressed by the speakers of these programs, I think it is a sure win to be able to use the fragmented time to receive more knowledge and ideas.

There are often many details in life that we do not pay attention to, and these details sometimes hinder our study and work. And we can use our fragmented time to deal with these fragmented details. For example, set the note name of your WeChat friends, clean up the useless software on your phone, and delete some useless emails. By handling these fragmented affairs, we can clear the way for our future study.

Another important thing you can do with your fragmented time is to call your loved ones. We are working hard outside, and the people who care about us the most are undoubtedly our grandparents, parents, and parents. It is such a small gesture to use the time we are waiting for the bus to walk to call them to check that we are safe and chat, and to let them know that we are doing well. It can give your family great spiritual satisfaction.

Why not?