1, why did you learn so much knowledge, but it was useless?
Why did we learn so much knowledge, only to find it useless later? This is because the knowledge conversion rate is low. Many people think this is because people don't understand, lack experience and don't pay enough attention to knowledge. But the reason is actually inexperience.
There is a theory called "Elephant and Elephant Knight". Almost everyone thinks he is a rational animal when he studies psychology. In fact, when you really analyze them carefully, you will find that most things in our life and work are very much like a person riding an elephant. People who ride elephants are conscious, and elephants are subconscious. We naively think that consciousness is controlling us, but it is not. 90% of our words and deeds depend on our subconscious mind, and 10% depends on our consciousness. When we know this truth, it is easy to understand why many studies are ineffective. So how can learning be effective?
2. From the 10,000-hour law to deliberate practice.
The "10,000-hour law" put forward by Alien has been highly praised by many people, but there are actually many paradoxes in it. Many people have been learning chess since childhood, but they still suck all their lives. Many people have played football all their lives, but they still can't.
Why is this? Because they didn't do deliberate exercises. People who used to believe in the law of 10 thousand hours can try to upgrade this method and turn it into deliberate practice. For example, reading textbooks and doing exercises in textbooks.
Textbooks are actually awesome. Even if you are stupid and have little experience in the past, textbooks can at least let you learn the basic methods.
This textbook contains basic concepts and formulas. It not only tells you the method, but also tells you the case and the steps to solve the problem. Finally, I must do exercises. This design mode allows a person with ordinary qualifications to practice deliberately at a certain point and learn profound and complicated things. So, what is the biggest problem of non-textbooks? Why can't everyone learn?
For example, from 0 to 1, many concepts are talked about, such as "monopoly" and "exponential development", but there are no formulas, methods and exercises in this book. Most non-teaching materials are about concepts and cases, and people will feel very high after reading them. But once I closed the book, I couldn't remember all the concepts and cases, and I didn't know the method.
When reading a book, you should sum up the core ideas and then use them as tools. Why is western management particularly awesome? The reason is that they are instrumentalized. You don't need a high IQ to open McDonald's on a global scale. It has standard procedures, one, two and three, which anyone can operate. This is instrumentalization.
3. Absolute truth
There are "absolute truths" in this world, and these "absolute truths" span time. They are right today and will be right in the future. "Absolute truth" is universal and interdisciplinary, and can be established in any industry. I recommend reading The Collected Works of Poor Charlie, which contains Charles Munger's main public speeches in the past 20 years, and the core is "absolute truth".
Take these principles out, use them across fields in your lifetime, and deliberately practice them. There is a passage in the Tao Te Ching: "Staff sergeant is diligent when he hears the Tao; The sergeant heard that living is death; The corporal laughed, but it wasn't enough. " Only by firmly believing in theory, deliberately practicing and being diligent in practice can a person become a staff sergeant.