The learning methods and training details of Harvard's top students

Chapter 6 Those who can control time will be favored by it (2)
Regarding time, the famous writer Voltaire has such a classic sentence in his novel: "The longest is time, because it is endless; the shortest is time, because it is fleeting; in the eyes of those who wait, Time is the slowest; in the eyes of those who are having fun, time is the fastest; it can be expanded infinitely, and it can be divided infinitely; no one pays attention to it at the time, but regrets it later; without it, everything can be done No."

French science fiction writer Jules Verne completed the famous fantasy novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" during his voyage.Mozart, the great Austrian musician, was thinking about composing music even when he was getting a haircut. He often recorded the new music he conceived as soon as his hair was cut.He often said: "Whoever is as good at using time as I am will be as successful as me."

There was once an excellent speaker who loved music, especially the violin.However, because I was busy with speeches all day long, I didn't have time to go to a special school for professional training, so I had to practice hard by myself.This speaker is very good at using every minute. No matter where he goes to give a speech, he always takes the violin with him.Whether it's while waiting for the plane or after the speech, whenever there is time, he will take out the violin to practice, and finally this speaker has also achieved great achievements in music.

This speaker’s good use of every minute has set an example for us. If students can make good use of every minute like this speaker, then their academic performance will be very good.

In an interview with Harvard alumni, Dr. Zhang Junni from Peking University, Li Jin from the United Nations Development Program and Ye Wenbin from the United States who is currently working for an international consulting company talked about their experience of studying and living at Harvard University and feel.

In addition to intense schoolwork, their extracurricular life is also quite rich.Zhang Junni "divides her time into sections". Apart from studying, she goes on outings, skis, plays bowling, organizes forums, chats with people, watches movies, plays, and participates in the "North Bridge Poetry Club"; Li Jin goes to nearby schools to do Volunteers, teaching mathematics to Haitian refugee children, left behind "experiences that are difficult to obtain elsewhere"; when Ye Wenbin was an undergraduate, a day was "1/4 classes, 1/4 self-study, 1/4 extracurricular activities, 1/4 sleep", he participated in many music-related activities.It seems that Harvard people are all good at using their time wisely.

As long as we are good at thinking with our brains, all the time can be used for learning.If we make good use of every minute of our time, our learning efficiency will be greatly improved, and we will no longer worry about the lack of learning time.

[Easy interaction]

1. Do you think learning is a process of time accumulation?
2. In your usual study, do you pay attention to the use of time?
3. Think about it, do you have a good habit of using time well?
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how to use time effectively
Concentration is especially important when studying and attending classes.

Accelerate the pace of learning.Appropriately speeding up the rhythm can effectively stimulate the brain and boost the spirit.The learning tasks that should be completed within one hour should not be procrastinated and completed in two hours.When studying, set a time limit so that you have an urgent time concept and prevent procrastination.At the same time, once the pace of work is accelerated, the time saved can be used to do some cultural and sports activities and rest adjustments, so as to more effectively eliminate mental fatigue and make it easier to concentrate.

Rich and diverse life.Such as playing ball, listening to music, watching movies, reading some magazines, playing chess, etc., which can adjust the psychological fatigue caused by learning.

Conducting sport exercises.After physical activity, people will be in a good mood and full of energy to study.

When you are tired, you should lie on the desk or lie on the bed and sleep for a while.Because it is impossible for people to keep turning like machines.When very tired, the human brain is already in a chaotic state, and it will be counterproductive to support learning by force.

There is a famous formula: "8-1>8", which means taking one hour out of 8 hours for exercise, entertainment or rest. On the surface, you only study for 7 hours, but because of your energy, its efficiency is far greater than that of not studying. Study intermittently for 8 hours.Teenagers generally need 8 hours of sleep in order to better restore their mental and physical strength.

【Harvard view】

Grasp the best time point, learning will get twice the result with half the effort

When a person learns most efficiently in a day, this is the best point of learning time we want to master.In the process of learning, try to find out the best learning time point that allows you to achieve the highest efficiency according to your personal physiological characteristics, so as to help achieve the best learning effect.

According to the research of the famous Harvard psychologist William James, if you persist in learning for a certain period of time, then whenever you study during that period of time, the relevant parts of the brain will be involuntarily excited, and then you will achieve better results. Good learning effect.

In fact, the living habits of most people are similar. They usually go to bed at eleven or two in the evening and wake up at six or seven in the morning.However, in a day, there must be periods of particularly good energy and particularly poor energy. If you work hard for an hour, if you are full of energy, the effect will be good; if you are sluggish, your learning efficiency will naturally decrease.Always maintain strong energy, of course it is satisfactory to study, but the best time to study in a day varies from person to person, we must try our best to arrange the best time and place to study according to our own biological clock.

Most people's rest time starts at six or seven in the evening. If you have eaten and bathed first, and then started to study and memorize for a long time, but you always feel that the learning effect during this period is not good, it is recommended that you might as well go home first. Go to sleep and stay until midnight to start studying.

You can try as many ways as possible and use different time periods in a mixture. For example, after dinner, recall what you have learned today while your impression is still clear, then go to bed around eight or nine o'clock, and get up at three or four o'clock in the morning to review one time.

We can recite English vocabulary at a fixed time and place every morning. Over time and more times, our memory effect will be greatly enhanced, and our learning state will be naturally stimulated.This is like when it's time to eat, people's saliva and gastric juice will naturally secrete more. At this time, people will feel a little hungry and have the desire to eat.Therefore, it is best to choose your best learning time to study every day, and try to ensure that you complete it on time, so that you can at least maintain the enthusiasm and efficiency of learning.

In the process of learning, when you feel tired, it is when you start to turn from the "sweet spot of learning". This signal tells you that you should immediately change your pattern to do another thing, so that your brain can be rested and time can be used effectively. Efficiency will not be low.

Determine the best time point for personal learning, and after long-term and reasonable use, you can form a habitual rhythm and law.What time to do in a day, what to do next, in an orderly manner, after a long time, it will become a kind of time-use law.In this regular time, the most clear-headed time is undoubtedly used for reciting, memorizing, and creating; the other time is used for reading, browsing, organizing materials, observing, and experimenting.Reasonable arrangement of time will definitely greatly improve your learning efficiency.

[Easy interaction]

1. Do you have the habit of studying at night and often staying up late?How much do you think this habit has helped your study?

2. In the usual learning process, do you pay attention to learning at your best learning time?
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According to research by physiologists, there are four high-efficiency learning periods in one day. If you use them properly, you can easily master, digest, and consolidate knowledge.

After waking up in the morning, after a night's rest, the brain has eliminated the fatigue of the previous day. The brain nerves are in an active state, and there is no new memory interference. Suitable, such as the memory and storage of language, laws, events, etc.Sometimes even if you can’t remember it by force, if you read it aloud several times, the possibility of memorizing it is stronger than other times. This is the first memory climax.

From [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am is the second high-efficiency learning period. The secretion of adrenal gland and other hormones in the body is strong, the energy is full, and the brain has rigorous and careful thinking ability, cognitive ability and processing ability. Now is a good time to overcome difficulties and should be grasped Fighter, make full use of brain excitement to tackle key problems.

The third high-efficiency learning period is from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] pm. This is the best time to use your brain. Many people use this time to review and review what they have learned throughout the day, deepen their impressions, classify, and summarize.This is also a golden time to organize your notes.

One hour before falling asleep is the fourth climax period of learning and memory. Use this time to deepen your impression, especially to review some difficult-to-remember things so that they are not easy to forget.

(End of this chapter)