In Athens, there is a temple of Dahl, and the stone tablet on the porch of the temple gate is engraved with a warning: "Know yourself". This is the slogan put forward by Socrates, a great thinker more than two thousand years ago. This sentence means that it is the most difficult to know yourself, and a person's contribution to society is often directly proportional to the breadth, depth and accuracy of his understanding of himself. This famous saying inspired the growth of generations of famous scholars in history.
More than two thousand years later, 19 century, an equally great thinker and famous Danish philosopher Suellen? Kierkegaard put forward another slogan "Choose yourself". It not only means knowing yourself and the world in theory, but also means choosing yourself, life and the world accurately in action. It is also difficult to do this. It can be said that this slogan has opened a brand-new era for us. Only by knowing yourself and the world accurately can we choose ourselves accurately. Understanding is the foundation, and choice is development.
It can be said that a person's life is made up of big and small choices, from the choice of will and character to the choice of strength; As big as the choice at the crossroads of life. The difficulty of life lies in having to face big and small choices again and again, and suffering from mental troubles and emotional turmoil again and again. In learning, it is no exception.
Sherlock Holmes is a world-class detective written by British writer Conan Doyle and a man full of wisdom.
As soon as the image of Sherlock Holmes was born, it became the object of imitation and worship by many people. Even when Einstein was writing the book Evolution of Physics, he could not help but take him as the beginning of the book, taking Sherlock Holmes' exploration process as an example to explore the general methods for scientists to discover natural mysteries.
So, why on earth can Sherlock Holmes win by surprise in all kinds of complicated mysteries? In 1887, Conan Doyle introduced the image of Sherlock Holmes for the first time in A Study of Blood Characters, and made a brief list of Sherlock Holmes knowledge for people:
Sherlock? The scope of Holmes' knowledge:
(1) literary knowledge-none. (2) Philosophical knowledge-none. (3) knowledge of astronomy-none. (4) knowledge of political science-shallow. (5) Knowledge of botany-incomplete, but very familiar with alfalfa preparation and opium. (6) Geological knowledge-practical, but limited. But he can tell different soils at a glance. When he came back from a walk, according to the color and firmness of the mud splashed on his trousers, he could tell where it splashed in London. (7) chemical knowledge-profound. (8) Anatomical knowledge-accurate, but not systematic. (9) thrilling events-very extensive, he seems to know all the details of all the terrorist events that happened in the past century. (10) plays the violin very well. (1 1) Be good at using sticks and fighting. (12) He has sufficient practical knowledge of English law.
From this brief table, we can find that Holmes' knowledge has its specific structure, and the knowledge structure of any successful person can serve his success well. There is no end to knowledge, but there must be a relative end to learning. What you have learned is enough to achieve your goal, and you can always supplement it when it is not enough. If studying is useless to your goal, there is no need to spend time studying.
Holmes' knowledge of astronomy is close to zero. He has a wonderful theory about this: "It is said that we walk around the sun, but even if we walk around the moon every day, what does it matter to me or my work?"
Regarding the choice of knowledge, Holmes warned us: "The human brain is like an empty attic, so we should put some furniture in it selectively. Only a fool will put all kinds of rubbish he meets. The consequence of this is that what is useful to him is squeezed out, or at most, mixed with many other things. When you want to use it, you will feel difficult. "
For students, it is easier to succeed if they can accurately choose a certain part and a certain field as their learning direction in endless knowledge.