"If people think that people who have achieved success without hard work are geniuses, then I am not a genius; If people who make achievements after hard work are called geniuses, I think I am a genius. After Ichiro Suzuki, a world-class professional baseball player who crossed the United States and Japan, announced his retirement last month, this famous saying was once again quoted and praised by various media.
Ichiro Suzuki has been famous for more than a quarter of a century. Even if he doesn't play ball, he still practices pitching, hitting and defending 250 to 300 balls every day, which is even more amazing. "The genius of hard work" seems to be a distant legend, which makes people wonder: Is it talent that decides everything, or hard work?
In fact, everyone has a basic talent. The biggest misunderstanding in the world is that talent is regarded as ability, but talent represents potential. Ichiro Suzuki used his own experience to prove to the world that the only key to reach the peak is to develop the habit of self-discipline of "deliberate practice", and his athletic talent is only a cornerstone of his start.
Turning potential into ability depends on "deliberate practice"
Anders, a professor of psychology at Florida State University? Anders Ericsson has studied the top experts in the fields of music, dance, Go and sports for more than 30 years, and put forward a set of "deliberate practice" theory, which not only challenges the widely circulated view in education that "genius is born", but also points out that the real talent of human beings is that the brain has amazing adaptability as well as the body. As long as everyone can do what they couldn't do before through correct and purposeful deliberate practice, they can reach their peak performance.
In other words, the degree of people's deliberate practice determines whether their grades will rise to the top level or stay at the average level. According to Anders? Eriksson's theory is that talent can be cultivated. If ordinary people want to improve their level, they must consciously practice walking out of the comfort zone in order to develop their natural potential into their inherent ability. If success is excessively attributed to talent, it may become an excuse for self-rationalization and unwillingness to work hard.
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Dai Ziying, the badminton queen, once said in an interview that she had no rivals in the sixth grade. At that time, her father asked her to compete with the old players, and the frustration of losing again thanked her for her motivation to go beyond her limits. Even though Dai Ziying's adult height is ten centimeters lower than that of the world's outstanding players (talent disadvantage), her solid basic skills training since childhood still makes her have a stronger backhand and more sensitive fake moves than others, so that she can become the queen of the world.
The biggest enemy that prevents you from becoming excellent is talent.
On the way to school, many people envy those students who play computer on weekdays and cram for exams but get the first place. They think it can be done with 60% effort 100% is a sign of genius, or boast that "you can get high marks by studying the day before". There are also many students who rely on their own cleverness, take advantage of their own memorization and high understanding of IQ, and have achieved good results, but they have no upward pursuit, working less than others every day and leaving the society.
Compared with Dai Ziying, who was called a "talented woman" since she was a child, she persisted in constantly challenging herself, and later became the first Taiwanese player to be banned from international competitions. The achievement gap caused by the mentality of "good enough" and "better and better" shows that only doing what you are familiar with, unwilling to go out of the comfort zone and not establishing learning discipline, can not effectively increase your ability.
Perseverance+good environment is better than taking shortcuts.
There is no shortcut to learning. If parents want to create an environment conducive to deliberate practice for their children, they need to pay attention to two points:
The first thing is to avoid learning becoming "mechanical"
Take learning English as an example. Students recite words, grammar and phrases in order to finish their homework. Most of them pick up textbooks and recite them repeatedly or copy them over and over again. Over time, they can skillfully finish their homework without deep thinking, and intuitively only do what they can, that is, stop learning in the comfort zone, which is not easy to cultivate enthusiasm and initiative.
The arranged "deliberate practice" requires students to constantly try to break through the existing level. For example, an English article that originally took half an hour to read through a large number of dictionaries can be required to shorten the time and reduce citations. Or a movie you can't understand until you watch the subtitles. You can try to turn off the subtitles and practice listening. With the deliberate practice of pursuing progress independently, you will eventually achieve considerable results in your studies.
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The second thing is to help children develop "perseverance"
From Ichiro Suzuki and Dai Ziying, we can find that they led them through difficulties with extraordinary perseverance and hard work, and then the key to Excellence lies in their strong determination.
Angela, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania? Angela Duckworth called this combination of enthusiasm and perseverance "perseverance" and pointed out through research that talent has nothing to do with perseverance. As long as children spend some time on challenging and difficult things they are interested in every week, whether it is ballet, piano, gymnastics, painting or English conversation, they can cultivate perseverance and open the door to success with a good learning environment.
Mechanicity and perseverance are both "continuous" States, but the former only mechanically maintains the same action; The latter is continuous growth and progress. The key difference lies in whether to make good use of "talent" and whether to work hard on the basis of all talents. This is what Ichiro Suzuki called a "genius".
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