But what about the result? Unlike what you think, some children are at a loss about their future and don't know what they want to do. So winning at the starting line is really to discover the specialty of cultivating children early and make him a leader among his peers?
Life is not a 100-meter sprint. When you cross the finish line, you win. Life is actually a long marathon. You can only keep running, reach the finish line and win. Only by constant thinking and practice can we find our true self.
Today's society is becoming more and more complex, and the former "professionals" are becoming more and more unsuitable for the development of modern society. What society needs more and more is "generalists", not "professionals". Darwin was able to put forward the great theory of evolution, which also benefited from his extensive spirit of seeking knowledge and his ability to learn more and learn more.
Then, in this era of iterative changes in skills and rapidly changing trends, where is the road to personal growth, why can generalists beat professionals, and can the 10,000-hour law really make you a super talent? Have you become a puppet of deliberate practice? In the book The Boundaries of Growth, you can find the unique answers to these questions.
This book is a landmark masterpiece in the field of self-growth that has swept through major mainstream media. Since its listing, it has been well received by celebrity media! Bill Gates strongly recommended the 2020 book list-A Good Book to Expose the Myth of Specialization.
This book spans sports, education, music, astronomy, art, science, business, medicine, workplace and other fields, summarizes the growth path different from the mainstream with the cases of world-class successful people, deeply analyzes the disadvantages of over-specialization, and affirms the great significance of generalists in the era of the rise of AI. The key to success in this era is to dabble before learning, try in many ways, think horizontally by analogy, and persist in self-discovery.
As mentioned in "Boundaries of Growth" I, the future social trends are ever-changing. We need to forge ourselves into a multifunctional Swiss army knife and constantly expand our capabilities through cross-border-growth has no boundaries and the future is endless.
1. Do you need to start professional training at an early age?
Tiger Woods showed his extraordinary talent in golf at an early age. He started playing golf clubs when he was a few months old. At the age of 2, he went to TV because he could play golf. He beat bob hope, a famous American golfer, with a club about shoulder-high. At the age of 3, he was learning how to play sandpit ball. Tiger woods's father thinks his son is the "chosen son" of golf. So he planned his future early. Tiger woods was famous before he entered Stanford University. Soon, his father made him more important, believing that his son would be more influential than nelson mandela, Gandhi and even Buddha.
Tiger woods's father's unique way of training him has become the core content of a large number of bestsellers-how to train professionals, including of course a parenting manual he wrote. Tiger woods is not only practicing golf, he is actually doing "deliberate practice"-that is, the most important method in the popular "10,000-hour rule". The length of deliberate practice determines whether it is successful or not, and tiger woods has undoubtedly become the spokesman of this law-and verified the inevitable conclusion of this law: deliberate practice must start as soon as possible, the sooner the better.
Epstein deliberately took the book Battle Hymn of Tiger Mother, which was a sensation a few years ago, as an example. Chua Meier, the author of this book and a professor at Yale University, laid down various strict rules for her daughter. One of them is that no musical instrument is allowed to play except violin and piano. It's really good that the two daughters practiced the piano strictly since childhood. But at the age of 13, Lulu, the second daughter, began to play rough and never practiced the piano again-because the violin was arranged by her mother.
Compulsory early education can really win at the starting line, but the stamina is insufficient. Research shows that the accumulation of early learning in kindergarten will be leveled by time after the fourth grade.
Generalists are more popular than professionals in this era.
The division of labor in industrialization has spawned many professionals, and the researchers have counted the evolution of several talents' contributions. The general trend since the end of World War II is that the more important professionals are, the more professional the world will become.
The importance of professionals reached its peak in 1985, and then declined sharply, and generalists and generalists became more and more important. After maintaining a stable period, the role of professionals began to decline again in 2007. The researchers analyzed that this is probably because with the Internet, professional knowledge has become easier and the scarcity of professional talents is declining.
The generalist has the ability to change the runway at any time because of the expansion of many fields, and also has the ability to improve in a specific field. Jobs also said that Apple's beautiful fonts were completely beneficial to his calligraphy class at the university. Claude shannon, an electronic engineer, started the information age because he had to study philosophy at the University of Michigan.
A lot of research shows that the most valuable thing in this era is genius, but most people are more suitable to be generalists. Doing a generalist requires great interest, more attempts and dabbling.
The biggest constant in this era is change. Only through learning can people have abstract thinking and conceptual reasoning, so as to learn to classify and summarize through the similarity of various things.
Many so-called professionals, after making some achievements in their own fields, began to be complacent, feeling that they had chosen the right path long ago, despising those people in the East and the West, but they didn't know that those who thought they could live by their profession for a lifetime were being quietly eliminated in this era.
3. There is no boundary to cross.
Bill Gates said: "My own professional experience is very consistent with the generalist model ... My passion for computers is always mixed with many other interests ... I think one of the main reasons for Microsoft's success is that we have considered more extensively than other startups of that era."
If you want to develop a wide range of personal hobbies and professional interests and become a generalist, you must spend more time-slowly accumulate those persistent knowledge and give up "winning at the starting line".
If you want to be an excellent person, you must have cross-disciplinary learning experience and have the ability to reflect and improve yourself in practice. Take fewer detours, practice more, try from multiple angles, then choose yourself and find what you really love in life, so that you can truly know yourself and find the most suitable stage of your life.
Cross-border is for better lifelong growth! Growth has no boundaries, and the future can only be expected!
Step 4 write it at the end
Everything has two sides, both advantages and disadvantages. Starting professional training early will help you achieve early results and win at the starting line, but you will soon encounter bottlenecks and eventually lose at the finish line due to lack of innovation and adaptability.
Haste makes waste. Don't miss the roadside scenery because of the pursuit of speed. Roadside scenery is probably the source of innovation.
We should learn to broaden our study, explore more possibilities of life and find our favorite fields, instead of being confined to a narrow space.
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