41 Learning Methods That Benefit a Lifetime

Chapter 24 Concentration, the "Leaning Tower" survived the fall

The speed and depth of understanding of the great revolutionary teacher Lenin are amazing.Once, an old Bolshevik saw Lenin flipping through a thick foreign language book in his hand, and asked him how many times he needed to read a poem by heart. Lenin replied: It only needs to be read twice.

The reason why Lenin has such a strong memory is inseparable from his concentration in the process of studying.When he started reading, he couldn't pay attention to everything around him.Once, several of his sisters played a prank and used 6 chairs to build an unstable triangular tower behind him. As long as Lenin moved, the tower would fall down.However, Lenin, who was concentrating on reading, didn't notice it and remained motionless.It wasn't until half an hour later, when he finished reading the chapter he was scheduled to read, that he raised his head, and the tower collapsed...

Lenin's reading story tells us that if we want to read and memorize the book thoroughly, we must concentrate our attention.The ancients have long said: "Reading has three points: the heart, the eyes, and the mouth. If the heart is not here, the eyes will not be careful. The mind is not focused, but it is only a leisurely recitation. It must not be memorized, and it cannot be remembered for a long time. Among the three arrivals, the heart is the most urgent. Now that the heart has arrived, is there anyone who cannot see it with eyes or mouth?"

Enthusiasm for reading, which cares about the world

During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty in my country, there was a bookworm named Liu Yuan, who "had no other addiction in his life, but devoted himself to books." His family has tens of thousands of volumes of books.Once, when robbers invaded the country, everyone in the city was frightened away, but he sat upright in his study, concentrating on his studies.The robber entered the study and rebuked him, saying: "Everyone in the city has run away, why don't you run away and sit here waiting to die?" Liu Yuan said: "Books are my life. If the books are gone, what do you want this life for?" ?” Hearing this, the robber retreated in awe.It can be seen that the level of concentration is so strong that even the robbers in the grass have to admire.

In modern China, there are rumors that Wen Yiduo is addicted to reading and gets "drunk" just by looking at it.It is said that on the day of his wedding, the bridal chamber was decorated with lights and festoons, and it was very lively.Early in the morning, relatives and friends all came to the door to congratulate, and when the bridal sedan chair for welcoming the new year was about to arrive home, people could not find the bridegroom everywhere.Everyone was so anxious that they searched here and there, but found him in the study.Still wearing his old robe, he was fascinated with a book in his hand.No wonder people say that he can't read, and he will get "drunk" just by looking at it.The degree of concentration, even forgetting to get married, is amazing.

There are many kinds of language environments. Generally speaking, there are natural language environment, partial language environment and self-created artificial language environment.The natural language environment refers to the living environment in which the language is the mother tongue.A local language environment means that learners live or study part of the time in the language environment.The artificial language environment mainly refers to the learners retelling, describing, remembering or creating certain scenes in the language in their minds.Although playing English tapes all day long and listening to foreign language broadcasts is also a way to create an artificial language environment, it is just a simple extension of the natural language environment.We are mainly concerned with the artificial language environment inside the brain.

A text with a clear structure shows a good scene.Reciting and repeating it in your mind is creating an artificial language environment, and the reciter is living in a well-structured artificial language environment.Moreover, this language environment is more standardized, more concentrated, and more valuable for learning than the natural language environment.Reciting texts in large numbers and intensively is essentially a kind of inner madness with rigorous structure, and it can also be said to embody the spirit of "humanizing" the learning content.In fact, the complete recitation of a large amount of written materials is the highest state that these methods are pursuing.Of course, it is difficult to recite a large number of texts.The emergence of the picture memory method is aimed at this phenomenon.

Every written material is a reflection of some objective thing.This kind of objective thing can be described in natural language, so theoretically speaking, it should be able to be represented by images.If the necessary transplantation and improvement are made to the schema description language used in this research project, then this idea is entirely possible.

Due to the powerful memory ability of the human right brain for images, such a method can be used in various fields of learning and memory, which will generate huge social benefits and have far-reaching significance for the development and progress of the country and mankind.

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