When reading the skill book, you must remember the key cases, but you can't remember the methodology at all.

Let me start with an experience I had in college.

In order to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination, I read many books about negotiation, but after reading them, none of the methods mentioned in these books can be directly used in the interview, such as expressing worship and step by step, which have nothing to do with the interview I am going to.

Everyone has only 15 minutes for the interview. How can we "step by step" with professors?

Books on negotiation and communication, psychology and investment and financial management are in great demand in the market now. These three kinds of books belong to method books. Although these skill books are easy to read and seem to be full of dry goods, they have many fatal problems:

For example:

First, the method is too fragmentary and unsystematic to remember after reading it;

Second, all the knowledge points seem to be very important and can't grasp the key points at all;

Third, there is only one sentence in each specific method, and there are no cases, so I am too lazy to do it.

Then how did I solve this problem?

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One day, I turned to a biography of Austrian diplomat metternich, and found that the whole biography was telling a truth: active negotiation is to create a situation, let the other side enter the track you set, and don't give the other side a chance to expose their weaknesses. In this way, metternich let the weak Austrian dominate European diplomacy for more than half a century.

Later, I rethought the logic of the interview according to this method. The core point is that professors should not be allowed any time to ask professional questions.

On the day of the interview, after I entered the door, I gave each professor a copy of my thesis published in the core journals during my undergraduate period. They all thought it was amazing and asked me how this paper was designed. Who directed it? How do undergraduates publish core journals? And the notes are all in English and French, which is amazing.

The questions asked by the tutor to other students are all tricky and unpopular questions. But after I sent the paper to my tutor, they all asked questions related to the paper, and I'm sure I know the answers.

Shortly after the interview, I received a phone call from my future tutor asking me to study with him.

This experience also completely changed my whole reading style. I read it paragraph by paragraph, so I might as well find a classic case directly. In a case, I refined my thinking and solved the problem.

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Series connection is the most effective memory method.

The best way to connect in series is the scene.

Let me talk about the second point and solve the problem I can't remember:

Serial connection is the most efficient way to remember, and the best serial connection is the scene.

This is the law I discovered during my college years. In junior year, if you want to go abroad, you must pass the GRE and TOEFL exams in less than half a year.

It happened that the Harry Potter series was over. I counted the words in it and was surprised to find that it covered 90% of TOEFL vocabulary and nearly 70% of GRE vocabulary.

This means that if I memorize all my lines, not only will the process be painless, but I will also remember these words very deeply.

In this way, after half a year, I not only finished my semester coursework normally, but also got two English exams. During this period, I also published the core journals I just mentioned. In our major, you must have at least a doctorate to publish such a periodical, because all the notes are in English and French.

This experience made me understand that the essence of memory is logic. You can remember them in series, otherwise you can't remember them at all, and it's useless to remember them.

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If you want to learn methods, it is better to learn directly from Daniel.

Have you noticed a phenomenon? Are all the people who teach you communication in the market experts? What are the family relationships of the best-selling psychological counselors on the market? How do those economists behave in their own stock trading? Moreover, many method books seen in the market are edited and saved, and one * * * may be written for half a month.

For example, there is a book on the market called McKinsey Thinking and Working Law. Let's take a look at McKinsey Niu, buy it! This book is a fake book, which was kept by a domestic book editor. They know that some people like reading this kind of books, so they copy them in large quantities. Therefore, if you want to study, you have to read the best.

For example, if we want to learn negotiation and communication skills, why not learn with the help of experts' experience, and why do we have to torture ourselves by memorizing the knowledge points saved by editing?

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For example, in diplomatic negotiations, besides the metternich I just mentioned, there is also Zeng Guofan's son Ceng Jize. Under the passive situation that Chonghou, the former minister, had already signed a treaty of humiliating the country and the country with Russia, he was ordered by the crisis, carefully studied the negotiation records left by Chonghou on the train negotiating with Russia, and came up with a set of combination boxing negotiation strategies.

Based on the principle of "don't worry, talk slowly", he dug into the specific details bit by bit, which lasted for a year and finally got almost all the benefits of Chonghou's betrayal back.