At the same time, in this era full of self-flaunting, I must also cater to the trend of the times and frankly admit that I am a very good learner, a very good learner.
In this article, I will share six personal learning experiences with you, hoping to help you.
1. Establish a close relationship between the new knowledge learned and the existing old knowledge.
I don't know if you have this experience when you recite words. Sometimes, an isolated word is difficult to remember, but it is easier to remember by remembering words with similar meanings or roots.
This is because people's memory process is a process of information coding, storage and extraction. It is very difficult to extract some information aimlessly in the vast mind. If the knowledge in everyone's brain is compared to a library, then we must put the book (knowledge) on the shelf with the correct index number in order to successfully find the book (extract memory).
As far as my personal experience is concerned, most people do have a library in their minds after receiving nine-year compulsory education and college professional education, but most of the books in the library are scattered on the ground and there are no bookshelves at all (systematic and related knowledge structure).
Learned a lot, but also miscellaneous. I am studying psychology, philosophy, economics, sociology and other subjects. I can analyze problems and process data from the theories and models of these disciplines because this knowledge is not useless in my mind. They have a close relationship. Philosophical analysis of basic concepts, psychology studies human behavior and cognitive mechanism, and economics also studies human behavior, but pays more attention to trading behavior and economic decision-making than psychology. My concern for sociology lies more in sociological theory. I am very interested in the thoughts of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Bourdieu and Foucault.
This knowledge has built a dense network in my mind, with a lot of factual knowledge, a microscopic nerve cell structure and a macroscopic geographical, economic and political situation of all countries in the world. These facts serve theories and models. You can think of them as raw materials, and after theoretical or model processing, you can output valuable conclusions.
Since learning knowledge is like building a library, the stronger the foundation, the better. If you are not familiar with elementary mathematics, basic physics and life science, no matter what job you are engaged in now, it is recommended to make up these knowledge. As tool knowledge, logic and statistics will be used in any discipline.
When everyone builds the library to a certain scale, learning will become easier and easier. Because you will find that the new knowledge you have learned can always be easily associated with the old knowledge you have.
2. Share what you have learned with others.
If you just read and listen passively, even if you can remember it at that time, you can pass the exam and even get high marks. But after a long time, it is still easy to forget. Because the depth of human processing information also affects the effect of memory. By the way, the introductory course of psychology is called general psychology, and there will be a chapter devoted to memory in general psychology. You can learn this chapter first to understand the principles of human memory, so as to use these principles to help you learn and remember information better.
What is the processing depth of information? In fact, this is similar to the above, which is to establish the connection between new knowledge and old knowledge. Is to have a deeper processing of information. For example, I am writing an article to share my knowledge with you, which is a deeper treatment of the knowledge I already have in my mind. I want to consider how to express my existing knowledge in words and sentences. I will repeat those factual knowledge (simple repetition can also help memory), and I will use model knowledge to deal with new problems, which is also a deeper application of that theoretical model.
In this way, the knowledge in your mind will be remembered more firmly. I still remember sharing Kant's moral laws with others, I still remember telling my friends the details of Robert Jeffrey Sternberg's love triad, and I still remember sharing the birth and development of analytical philosophy with my friends from the historical time dimension. Sharing knowledge not only makes friends gain something, but also makes their memory stronger.
This sharing can also be a debate. Because others will not always listen to you passively, they will ask questions and wait for your answer. The process of answering questions made me reprocess the old knowledge.
3. Establish an incentive mechanism for learning
Any activity needs motivation. A community website needs a user incentive mechanism to attract more users and encourage existing users to produce content. Learning should also have a set of incentive mechanism. We do have an incentive mechanism for learning at school. Students who study well usually do well in exams. Such students are regarded as excellent students by teachers, classmates and parents. Social evaluation from others can be an incentive mechanism. If you study well, your teacher will praise you, your parents will buy you new toys, and your classmates will envy you. Even if you have already worked, as long as you improve your work performance from your study, the leaders appreciate you very much, and your salary has also increased. These are all incentive mechanisms.
For those friends who have established a learning incentive mechanism, I believe I have already realized the benefits of doing so without telling me. But the trouble is that those who don't get direct benefits from learning often don't take the initiative to learn. These people may not study well enough, their grades are not good enough, they are criticized by teachers and parents, and they are despised by classmates. Such people will start to hate learning, because the result of learning is criticized by teachers and parents.
I don't have a good solution to establish an incentive mechanism for learning. I think of several cases. Everyone may have their own long-cherished male god or goddess. But male gods or goddesses are particularly excellent and have nothing in common with themselves. At this time, learning has become a factor with an incentive mechanism. For example, the goddess likes piano very much, so she has a strong motivation to learn piano. Male gods are particularly interested in economics, so they are particularly motivated to learn economics.
In short, everyone tries to get immediate results from their study. For example, if you learn a new knowledge, you can go to Zhihu or Baidu to know the answers to search-related questions, and then someone will give you a compliment. This is also an incentive mechanism.
4. Join a learning community
When people around you are lazy, unwilling to take the initiative to learn, and have no enterprise, you are likely to become a lazy person who does not take the initiative to learn and has no enterprise. This is because people are social animals and are easily influenced by people around them.
And when you are surrounded by that kind of schoolmaster, you study hard every day. I believe you don't want to be the only lazy person. Seeing that everyone is studying, you may also be studying. At the same time, we can also discuss what we have learned together. This further deepened the memory of knowledge.
Sometimes, the pressure from others is much greater than that from yourself. I have arranged a lot of reading plans for myself, saying how much to read today and how much to read tomorrow. But many times, I didn't finish these plans. But there are exceptions If I promise someone to write a book review, I will share it. I read that book quickly. The dead line is indeed the primary productive force.
There are many learning communities. Primary and middle school students can try to play with those children who study well. College students can join clubs and other organizations. Even if you are working, you can find various learning communities online. Scallop net is a learning community for memorizing words. Compared with single word memory tool software, the existence of community makes users more motivated to learn.
5. Find your favorite learning style
Different people may have their own unique preferences for the way to learn new things. I like reading very much. I can listen to others and discuss with others. But some people just don't like reading, prefer to acquire new knowledge through sound, and are willing to deal with living people instead of books. This will do.
There are countless learning resources on the Internet. TED, there are countless wonderful speeches on it. Khan Academy has many basic courses and advanced courses. There are video courses of the world's top universities on various large-scale open online course platforms. Or, if you want to be more motivated to study, you can also spend money to attend offline training courses. Now that all the money has been spent, the motivation to study should be stronger.
From the concept definition of learning, learning is an experience that makes a lasting change in behavior or behavioral potential. That many phenomena can be regarded as learning. However, what we emphasize here is more about learning those knowledge and skills with high social evaluation. For example, learning foreign languages, learning programming and so on. Instead of learning to play hearthstone and watch pioneers. However, there are also gamification learning products that you can try.
6. There is a methodology of learning.
At the beginning of this article, I mentioned the game Watching Pioneer, which is a first-person shooter game developed by Blizzard. This is very interesting. However, another card game developed by Blizzard, Hearthstone, has more players. In hearthstone legend, I played a legendary level in the ladder and won twelve victories in the arena, which means that I am the best minority among tens of millions of players in the world.
Why do I play hearthstone so well? Yes, I didn't blush at all when I said this. This is because when I first started playing this game, I spent two-thirds of my time watching Raiders, watching other people's graphic stickers and doing video tutorials.
I knew how to play hearthstone before I played hearthstone. Most people just play hearthstone. They don't look at the raiders and don't know how to optimize their decisions. I admit, compared with playing games, reading graphic strategy is a relatively boring process. However, sharpening the knife and cutting the wood is one of the important reasons why I became a legendary player.
The same is true of learning. Everyone should also look at the study guide. My article is a learning strategy, telling everyone how to learn. However, this is a general learning strategy, which is suitable for all kinds of learning. But for some specialized fields, there are more professional, in-depth and specialized learning strategies, and everyone should also take a look. For example, there are different strategies for how to learn philosophy and psychology. The same is true for memorizing words. Some people just recite the dictionary from beginning to end, and finally only remember to dislike it. However, if you recite words through the roots, the learning effect will be twice as effective.
What should everyone do first after reading this article?
No, I'm not asking people to praise me or spend money on me. This doesn't inspire me much. I hope everyone can realize the importance of methodology at the first time. Then go to Amazon and other book-buying websites to find some methodological books on how to learn. Or search online for some articles and posts suitable for your professional field to read. If you don't know how to search the information you want online, you can search "How to find the information you want online" first.