This is related to in-depth learning skills. This ability determines whether a person can become a scarce talent.
The English teacher and publisher, Wang Yunhu, learned to write in English as follows: find a well-known book in English, which is translated into Chinese after several readings; translate Chinese back into English after a week, and never read the original English language during translation; and then compare it to the original language, identifying errors, errors and insufficiently refined translations.
As a result of such repeated exercises, Mr. Wang Yunhu has accumulated a solid foundation in English and laid a solid foundation for future English teaching and publishing. In that era, when technology and information were far less developed than today, limited learning conditions forced people to learn more in peace.
After decades of time, our societies have changed dramatically and humankind has entered an era of unprecedented material and information enrichment. To this day, I am afraid that few people will be able to study in such a quiet and in-depth way as Mr. Wang, or even many believe that today, learning does not have to be so hard and hard, and that there are too many ways in which people can easily access their knowledge, such as listening to a book every day, participating in a well-known course, subscribing to a well-known column or participating in a particular learning community, and so on, to be efficient and effective, to be fully engaged, and to be able to achieve as long as they are able to sustain themselves.
Unfortunately, it’s just a delusion. While science and technology and information have developed tremendously in our generation, human learning mechanisms have not changed rapidly, and our brains are operating almost as fast as they did hundreds of years ago. Worse yet, while a wealth of information and diverse approaches bring about easy access, they are also deeply undermining people ‘ s ability to learn in depth, and this tendency is increasingly evident.
There are indications that the nature of the rapid, simple and easy way to make people seek refuge has been amplified, that the potential of the mind has been suppressed, and that the ability to learn in depth is almost entirely supported by a high-level mind.
I have come to see that a small group of intellectual elites still face the core of the challenge of working hard to develop and produce content, while the majority of the information audience continues to enjoy light learning and consumption content. If we really want to take a place in the currents of the times, then the illusion of easy learning should be abandoned as soon as possible, so that we can learn in depth, so that we can rise up and become scarce, otherwise the path of life will inevitably get narrower.
What’s deep learning?
In 1946, American scholar Edgar Dale introduced the theory of the “learning pyramid”. Subsequently, the National Training Laboratory in Maine, United States, also released a study pyramid report, which reported that people’s learning is divided into passive and active learning (see figures 5-1).
Passive learning: the average retention rate of these activities for learning content is 5 per cent, 10 per cent, 20 per cent and 30 per cent for listening, reading, audio-visual and demonstration purposes.
Active learning: Increase the retention rate of passive learning content to 50%, 75% and 90% by discussion, practice, teaching others.
Figure 5-1 Learning Pyramid
The model presents a good comparison between different levels of learning. By looking back at our own learning, we can also clearly divide different levels. As shown in figure 5-2, reading, for example, ranges from shallow to deep: listening to books, reading to yourself, reading to yourself, reading to yourself, reading to yourself, reading to yourself, reading to yourself, reading to yourself, reading to yourself, studying to yourself, learning to yourself, learning to yourself, learning to yourself, learning to yourself, learning to yourself, learning to yourself, learning to do to you, and exporting to you.
Figure 5-2 Reading pyramids
There are a lot of listening products, reading a book in 10 minutes, assuming that we can hear more than 300 in a year, a simple, new and condensed way of learning, which seems to be easy and efficient, is at the shallowest level of passive learning.
A good case is that of reading the original book, but if it is never re-readed, thought is satisfied with the input process, the retention rate of such learning is low. A few days later I couldn’t remember what I read. Worse still, such efforts can cause people to blindly pursue the speed and quantity of reading and create a sense of diligence, which is, in fact, low-level diligence, with the greater the loss of investment.
There are also a lot of people. Such persons were able to read for themselves, as well as to make book notes or thought maps, but unfortunately, their books tended to be a mere combo of the contents of the books, more like an outline. Many people are so drunk that they seem to have knowledge of the book as a whole that they simply carry it. While this approach is, to some extent, active learning, it is a simple statement of knowledge, which is very different from the high level of knowledge transfer.
More than that, it is remarkable that even one or two of the things that make a difference in life can be put into practice, because from this moment on, knowledge has been transformed.
It is a great advance from knowing to doing, yet it is one thing to know or to do, and another thing to let others know or do. If you don’t believe that you can try to make what you know clear to others, it’s not easy. I can’t believe I’ve been talking to you. What if you write down what you know? You might find it impossible to write.
Attention, this is the real beginning of deep learning! Because you must use the knowledge you already have to interpret new knowledge, when you can explain it clearly, it means integrating it into your own knowledge system, reaching the level that can teach others and possibly creating new knowledge.
Ro Jin-woo said that he had learned this: “I ask myself to write five readings a day, without long speeches, short words.” Because real learning is like a suture, sewing new knowledge into the original knowledge structure, writing five readings a day to force the original knowledge structure to react to new knowledge, and then cementing those reactions with words, the stitching process is complete. I’m sorry.
Seeing “suture” is the key to in-depth learning, and most people do “get to know” but ignore “suture.” As a result, their learning process is incomplete. Some have made some stitches, but they are not deep enough to produce high-quality outputs, which also reduces the depth of learning.
Underground learning meets input, and in-depth learning focuses on output. From thought to language to text, the transformation of mesh thinking into tree structure into linear text is tantamount to transforming ideas from gas to liquid to solid — something that really belongs to itself. After all, any knowledge will inevitably be lost, and such loss will persist, and if we do not try to fix what we have learned, for a long time, it will disappear and leave little trace.
When you have something of your own, you have to teach to go out, and you and the suture strengthen each other and form a cycle. Liu Weppen, author of Dark Time, said that “Teaching” is the best “learning” and that if one thing you can’t say clearly, you have not fully understood it. Of course, the highest level of teaching is to let an outsider understand what you say in the simplest words.
It is therefore a way to learn in depth by forcing yourself to acquire high-quality knowledge and to sew up new knowledge and teach others in their own language or text.
How to study in depth
In-depth learning has three steps:
(1) Access to high-quality knowledge;
(2) Deep sewn new knowledge;
(3) Output results to professor.
Such learning entails abandoning the sense of security that accompanies quick learning, multi-learning, more time-consuming, more difficult situations, and even “suffering”. But please be sure that the right actions are often anti-natural, that things that make you feel comfortable and easy often fail to produce good results, and that things that you thought were hard and difficult at first to really yield, so we can gradually improve them by a few means.
The first is to acquire and develop, as far as possible, first-hand knowledge. For example, we can read classics, books, even academic papers. The classic first-hand knowledge has been deposited over time, and its value has been proven and deserves to be ploughed. We’re going to give up the “a few minutes to finish” “a 10 lessons a day” fantasy, and although these methods can also bring some inspiration, they are broken and chewed. It may be more difficult to study in person, but it is more than comfortable to feel the real pleasure of deep understanding than to absorb shallow second-hand knowledge. In the long run, it is better not to hire people to study than to acquire the ability to dig.
The second is to write as much as possible about what has been learned in their own words. Every time a good and valuable book is read, the author ‘ s mind is re-formed in his own language, trying to combine his own experience, knowledge, position, interpretation, extension, rather than simply listing the main points of the book. Since a simple statement of knowledge does not have the effect of a deep suture, it is only through knowledge conversion that new knowledge can be sewn in depth with old knowledge systems, so in the recasting we can take only the most touching views, and others can be abandoned, even if they make sense. If given the opportunity, we can also spend long enough time grinding a subject or perspective, and when a piece that you grind so carefully moves others, it will have much more impact than it does on a daily basis but lacks in-depth thinking. Moreover, writing has a multiplier effect, and our articles can be read at any time, which indirectly serves the purpose of discussing communication and teaching others.
Three is to reflect on life. Learning goes beyond learning, and life experience can be studied in depth. For example, the author of the book ” Learn Well ” focuses on reflection, and he spends about two hours a day in the morning re-thinking and asking his own staff to do the same. He spent a great deal of time in his book on ways and benefits of reflection, saying that the gap between people was not from age, not even from experience, but from the ability to take stock, reflect and advance.
I’ve been working on this idea since February 2017, and I’ve been working on it every day, sometimes a few words, sometimes a thousand words. Through constant reflection, many things that were not thought out had become clear, many vague concepts had become clearer, and many things that seemed unrelated had a bottom-up connection. Continuous reflection has made me feel better about the details of my life and more and more from life. The idea and the idea of this segment are also reflected in the day. If I were to recommend an indispensable habit, I would push for daily reflection.
Benefits of deep learning
In addition to making us less impatient and more rational, deep learning can bring many benefits, such as increased capacity across borders. In the book ” What’s within Your Life ” , classical refers to three levels of knowledge, skills and competence: knowledge is the least able to migrate, and you become a doctor of medicine and, in any case, you may not be a soybean; skills usually consist of 70 per cent of common skills and 30 per cent of professional skills, and mobility is better; and at the talent level, the line between occupations is completely broken.
This explains why some people can easily cross borders, as they already possess certain talents through in-depth learning, which are equally applicable in other areas, so they need only a small amount of time to become familiar with their knowledge and skills. But, on the other hand, if you do not have certain skills, when you switch to other industries, you can only start to develop knowledge and skills at the bottom, which is very hard.
Deep learning also inspires people. We know Einstein was on his way to the patent office, and when he saw the Berne Bell Building, he suddenly came up with the assumption, “If the bus moved at the speed of light, would the bell tower’s pointer be static from the car? The idea is that one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century — narrow relativism — is in the eyes of people. And the German chemist, Kekule, had a dream of a very tired snake with its tails biting, which became his clue to the benzene molecular structure. Scientists are impressed by their intuition and inspiration, but, assuming Einstein and Kekule do not have the capacity to study in depth, they will not have those instincts and inspirations. It is only when one ‘ s own territory is explored sufficiently in depth that inspiration can be felt with subconscious help. Although we are not scientists, in-depth learning can also give us a greater chance to harvest surprises.
At the same time, in-depth learning also allows us to see more linkages and insights between things. For example, I took my daughter to see the film “The Kingdom of the Western Travel”, in which the King of the Kingdom and the monk died and said to him, “I had a dream. After many years, you grew old with me, but you were not happy. I immediately said, “This is the vision of the future.” The king looked back from the future and then made a rational decision, restrained his feelings and let the monks go. Because a week ago I wrote an article on the perspective of the future: ” What to Save Your Power ” , which I must not have felt before. And all my daughter saw was that the king was so beautiful, that Sun Wukong was so funny…
Moreover, even when faced with such distractions as video programmes, entertainment gossip or news hotspots, it is possible to mobilize high-level awareness, linking them to useful thinking and generating deeper and more unique insights.
As far as I know, a lot of serious growers like to enjoy entertainment, like Lee, who comes to watch movies. I dare say that when they are in a recreational environment, they are still dominated by a rational mind, who is unwittingly associated with knowledge and inspiration, rather than simply meeting the primitive needs of instinctive and emotional brains.
Recreational hotspots are not worthless, and subsurface knowledge is equally relevant, but only if you have a certain cognitive depth — the breadth of depth is effective.
It’s a good name for shallow learning.
With all this in-depth learning, what should we do with the Internet’s knowledge columns, fine classes, books, etc.? Is it completely rejected or far away? I do not think it is necessary, because in-depth learning does not actually conflict with shallow learning, but it is also of value. The key is not to counter their weighty relationship. We can use light learning as a gateway to new information, but not all the needs of growth can be placed here, and it is more rational to focus on in-depth learning while keeping it open to shallow learning.
Choose some people of concern and keep them connected. Some of the valuable information that they have released will lead us to a wider world, but in any event, it will have to read, think and do it.
Like this book, if it touches you and just opens up a new perspective for you, and ultimately the ability to learn in depth can only come from you, and no one can replace it. Record number: YX11P1YWkop
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
