A student chatted with me and said that since entering college, he has always been empty and confused, unable to find the direction of life.

But there are some students around me who always know clearly what they want.

While praising others for their sobriety, the students couldn't help but sigh that the reason why some people are great is because they have more qualities than ordinary people when dealing with others.

It is precisely because of these qualities that there is a difference between "ordinary" and "awesome" between people.

The student asked me: "Teacher, how can I have his characteristics so that my life will not be confused?"

I shared the following little story with him:

Yes, where does our confusion come from?

Faced with the problems we encounter in life, we are limited by our limited life experience. Many times we cannot solve them with mature and rational thinking, and we even always worry that we will never come. to the future.

People who read little have always liked "fantasy".

Because you can get what you imagined effortlessly, which just caters to the laziness in human nature.

However, because of the emptiness in my heart, after thinking about it, my thinking always stayed in the same place and could not get out, so the more I thought about it, the more emptiness I felt, the more emptiness I felt, the more confused I became, and the more confused I became. The less you can see the future, the less you can see the direction of life.

Reading can expand people’s experience and horizons, improve their way of thinking and thinking ability, and change people’s cognition. When changes occur, many problems will be solved.

As mentioned in the book "Wu Jun Reading and Writing Lectures":

People want to become the elite of society , first of all, you must become an elite spiritually, so that you can think in an elite way and do things with a master's attitude, so that you can surpass ordinary people.

"Silicon Valley investor, expert in artificial intelligence, speech recognition and Internet search, and best-selling author", these two people have conflicting temperaments at first glance All the labels were attached to Wu Jun.

Wu Jun graduated from the Department of Computer and Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University. He taught at Tsinghua University for three years and received a PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins University.

He has visited more than a dozen top universities in the United Kingdom and the United States, and wrote "The Road to College - Accompanying My Daughter to Choose a College in the United States", which compares the educational differences between China and the United States. This book The book has become a classic for understanding university education.

He is a well-known computer expert and the main designer of Google's Chinese, Japanese and Korean search algorithms.

He is also a well-known industrialist. He once served as vice president of Tencent and founded Fengyuan Capital.

At the same time, he is also a famous best-selling author, having written "The Mystery of Silicon Valley", "The Light of Civilization", "The Road to College", "The Beauty of Mathematics", " Top of the Wave" and other best-selling books.

Such an accomplished man in science and engineering proposed in the book "Wu Jun Reading and Writing Notes": The importance of reading is not only reflected in its influence on human studies and The impact of work is even more reflected in its decisive role in people’s lives.

He proposed in the book that the essence of reading is to understand and love others.

Reading not only requires understanding the literal meaning, but also understanding the author’s thoughts and hearts. Only in this way can we have soul dialogue with outstanding authors of different eras and quickly improve ourselves. .

Cai Kangyong once said this:

“Why do I often encourage everyone to read?

Because our lives are very limited, reading can broaden our experience and see what other people's lives are like

Whenever we have the opportunity. Seeing how other people grow up will cultivate the ability to detach. Cultivating the ability to detach can help us escape from the current pain and frustrations and make it easier to face failure.

This ability will not fall from the sky. It depends on us constantly exploring other people’s lives and accumulating enough confidence to know that I am not the only one alive in the world, and there are countless living possibilities. ”

As stated in the book "Wu Jun Reading and Writing Lectures": "Through reading, we can understand people, understand the times, and understand history and society. This is also what we read. The purpose. ”

Through reading, we gain valuable experience from our predecessors, thereby helping us improve our ability to judge and make correct choices at critical times.

I once saw a true story on the Internet:

The author said that she found that Some people with poor thinking and problem-solving abilities have basically never learned a set of things systematically and completely since childhood.

For example, her 70-year-old parents were unhappy with everything in their lives and had a very difficult life.

No matter what they learn, they only dabble in it. Even if it is a skill necessary for life, they basically learn half of it and throw away the other half.

For example, when learning to cook, it is enough that you can eat it when it is cooked. As for the taste of the heat, it is not important. When you learn to knit a sweater, it is enough that you can wear it well. There is no need to pay attention to anything. Does the pattern look good or not...

He does not strive for improvement in his work, only looks at the surface when thinking, and lacks the perseverance and perseverance to improve himself.

All their experiences are pieced together piece by piece. Therefore, they are never able to form a complete logical thinking or master a set of methods to complete Analyze problems and solve them.

This makes their life not only difficult, but also easy to be deceived and often deceived.

You see, although it seems that they have "eaten more salt than you have eaten rice", because they have not built their own knowledge system, their life is a mess. Oops.

How to build your own knowledge system through reading, the book "Wu Jun Reading and Writing Notes" tells us:

1. Start by reading “orthodox” documents or works.

Wu Jun mentioned a "baseline thinking" in the book. Start with the current orthodox viewpoints (that is, recognized by the mainstream in a certain field or industry), because they provide a baseline, and subsequent readings will be modified based on the baseline.

As for the Internet, which is used by many people to obtain information today, Wu Jun does not recommend it because the cost of finding good content on the Internet is too high. When you can't judge which one is better and which one is worse, once you choose the wrong content, it will be difficult to improve your taste.

2. Read authoritative review articles.

If you want to understand the latest research progress in various fields, the easiest way is to read review articles.

In the book, Wu Jun introduces authoritative magazines in various fields, and tells us that if you are interested in a certain type of knowledge, you will become more familiar with it after reading about five review articles. Have a general understanding of the field.

Although you are not at the level of scientific research, you can at least have enough judgment. It will be difficult for others to deceive you.

3. Read some interesting monographs.

After you have some understanding of orthodox knowledge, you can read some monographs. Many views in the monograph will be very clear and even extreme, so you must read it after you have a historical baseline, so that you will not be biased and gain a lot.

Reading is the cheapest but fastest growing way of learning and personal improvement.

When we read and thoroughly read a book with a focused and professional attitude, when we build our own knowledge system, when we build our own cognitive system, when With our own thinking model, we can calmly face the confusion in life, find our own shortcomings, and solve problems with ease.

Every book we read will be like a step, taking us to wherever we want to go.

Reading will give us the wings to fly and ultimately achieve an unparalleled life.