Hello, I'm the owner of the fish hall, a professional reader.
Last time, I talked to Ah Mao, and I talked about how we need a lot of soft skills in our daily life, in addition to learning various work skills.
They are not as straightforward as the various skills, but there are many scenarios where they are applied at work.
For example, you can do PPT, which is a hard skill, but how to do PPT well, this is a soft skill.
Usually we mainly learn hard skills, and soft skills have also been relatively popular in recent years, and various training camps are teaching.
Today, I want to break through a little further, in addition to soft skills and hard skills, there is also an ability called "meta-skill".
I didn't make up the word, it's really easier to distinguish between different abilities.
Hard skills: the ability to solve a problem concretely;
Soft skills: to help you solve problems better;
And what is a meta-skill?
My understanding is that meta-skills are the ability to help you learn the above two skills.
For example, the ability to learn and the ability to read can help you support the ability to achieve both of these abilities.
If you have the ability to learn, you can theoretically learn all the skills you need, whether it's doing PPT or presentation.
There are many books on the ability to learn, and today I would like to recommend one to you, which inspires me a lot, which is very suitable for friends who want to learn, this is a book about learning methods.
This book is "Effective Learning", and at first glance it is a book about learning, and the reason why I recommend it is not how many parties are talked about in it**.
Rather, he analyzes a lot of more essential questions about learning, and the method is mainly to tell you how to learn, and this book shares a lot of learning logic.
There's a lot of talk about scientific experiments about learning, and all kinds of cognitive psychology knowledge.
If you feel that you are studying very hard but have gained little, if you feel that you have studied for a long time but have not touched the door, then this effective study book is very suitable for you.
In other words, when you have passed the initial learning stage and want to improve further, you must study effectively, not just to learn, but to pursue learning well.
The book introduces 6 strategies that can help us acquire the right learning ability and thinking to become an effective learner.
The 6 strategies are: Sense of Value, Goal, Promotion, Practice, Integration, and Reflection.
The first sense of value.
This is actually the essence of learning, if you don't want to learn, you can't really learn something.
Therefore, this problem is unavoidable, if you are reluctant to study in your heart, I suggest that you can stop learning first, do something else, and wait until you think clearly, and then start learning what you really need.
But don't worry, it's not difficult to find a sense of value at all, just come up with a reason to convince yourself.
For example, if you want to insist on running and fitness, if you want to pursue the goddess, then the motivation to persist is enough, this is the reason, that is, the values.
Why do you do this, what is the value of this thing to you, this reason is a sense of value.
In the words of the book, it is to find "unique meaning", so that the learning effect is also better.
This also illustrates the importance of adopting active learning strategies instead of passive learning, such as reading repeatedly or marking important points in books.
The second goal.
It is important to develop your ability to concentrate at the beginning of your studies.
The goal is a good way to assist concentration, you know what you want, know what you want to do, and it is easier to focus on it.
Goals must be clear and have a timeline, because it is easier for people to accomplish small goals that seem to be easier to measure.
Numerous studies have shown that people with clear goals achieve much better results than those who set vague goals such as "work hard" and "read more".
So, instead of setting a goal like "I want to read," it's better to set a small goal like "read 30 pages a day."
And when it comes to setting learning goals, there's also a trick to making them a little harder than you can usually master, so that the results are best.
It can neither be too difficult nor not without difficulty.
You have to step out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself to a higher level for learning to really begin.
The third is ascension.
This is very easy to understand, just like a person playing chess, always playing against a novice, and there will be no progress after 10 years of playing.
Good abilities must have been acquired through a lot of training.
If you want to see if you are improving, it is important to establish a feedback mechanism in a timely manner.
When you go for a run today, you have to give feedback in time on the quality of your running and the effect of your running.
That is, feedback at any time, adjust at any time.
To optimize learning, learn to ask questions.
For example, after reading a book, try to ask yourself a few questions: What is this text trying to convey? Is there anything I don't understand? What happens if you don't do what the book suggests?
Learning to ask questions can help us improve our metacognitive abilities to think deeply.
Asking questions is much deeper than simply repeating the text, and understanding is much deeper.
These are the first 3 of the 6 learning strategies introduced in the book "Effective Learning", which I hope will inspire you.
This article was originally published on the public account: Yutang Master loves to read.