I wrote a book list article called "Three Books to Teach You to Become an Expert in Half a Year", and some readers said that they didn't want to read the book and asked me if there was a ready-made method that I could use directly. I'm a little speechless. How can it be so easy to become an expert even if you don't want to take the time to read three books?However, the experts I am talking about here are not the predecessors who have studied "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Zhou Yi" all their livesIt is a person who has reached the level of being able to teach others in a certain niche
For example, if you want to be a copywriting coach, you can reach the upper middle level in the field within half a year, and it is no problem to teach beginners or lower-level students. If you want to be a psychological counselor, you can also improve your professional knowledge to the level of an expert within half a year after the examination.
To make a long story short, I will take a psychological counselor as an example and briefly share how to become an expert in half a year.
As a new counselor, what books should I read?I'm going to give you a list of books step by step.
Start by reading a few books on how to do counseling.
It is recommended to read "Our Path to Counselors" and "The path to practice as a psychological counselorThese two books have been published in the past two or three years, which are more valuable for reference and are also in line with the domestic **, which clearly explains the steps of psychological counseling, and can be directly used as an operation guide for reference. If you have time, read "14 Compulsory Lessons for Counselors" and "A Gift for Psychologists" by Owen Aron.
Second, read a few books on the history of psychology and the principles of psychology.
Reading Eric Sheere's History of Psychology and Hogenhaim's Introduction to the History of Psychology gives you an overview of how psychology was formed and developed.
Read Richard Grieg's bookPsychology and Life"Social Psychology" by David Myers and "General Psychology of Zimbardo" by Philip Zimbardo, etc., take you to systematically learn the principles of psychology. David Myers also has a book called "Psychology", which can be read if you have the spare time.
Finally, read a few popular books on psychology。Highly recommended Keith Stanovich'sThis is Psychology, Leot Aronson's autobiography "No Accident".
Others, such as "Maybe You Should Have Someone to Talk To", "The Psychology of the Grotesque", "Mr. Goes to a Psychiatrist", "The Courage to Be Hated", and "40 Studies to Change Psychology", are all worth reading.
Although there are not many of these books, you will have a deeper understanding of psychology after reading them carefully. But reading is not enough, the following is the main point.
You collect as many counseling questions as you can online, as many as you want, and when you see similar ones, you merge them togetherBuild your own question bank. In other words, as long as the psychological questions that the customer is likely to ask, they are collected.
It's enough for you to collect 1,000 questions in this half year, and it's okay to discount 500 questions, and put it in one place, such as various cloud notes and cloud documents, and mark the serial number.
Next, you should focus on researching the information, answer all these questions, and try to be as comprehensive as possible, the more systematic the better. For example, "How do you wake up early without pain?".What you searched out was a question from Zhihu, with more than 23 million onlookers and more than 8,000 answers, so you don't have to look for information everywhere, directly refer to the answers of netizens, and sort out your own answers.
If you don't think this answer is perfectIn the future, when reading books or actual combat, I will add better content and constantly improve my answers
When you've perfected 500 questions, you'll definitely know the problems encountered in the industry, and it's no exaggeration to say that you've reached the level of an expert.
Other fields can also use the same method to list all the questions in the field, spend more time and energy to find authoritative information, answer all these questions, and constantly improveThis question bank is your core database. Under normal circumstances, within half a year, you must know more than 90% of the people in this field, and become a veritable expert. If you think it works, give it a try.