Super top students: the most efficient learning method for top students

Chapter 15 Cultivating Clear Learning Goals (1)
Studying the Formulation of Learning Goals from Yale University's Goal Tracking Survey

When Schlappner was a Chinese football coach, he had a particularly classic saying to teach players: "When you don't know where to kick the ball on the court, please remember to kick it into the opponent's goal." This sentence The words are a bit like a joke, but the meaning is profound.Whether it is on the court or in study, we must develop the habit of clear goals, mobilize our enthusiasm for learning, and increase chips for good grades.

Mumu and Taotao were browsing the web in front of the computer, and a line of eye-catching headlines attracted Mumu, and he immediately said to Taotao: "Look at this, look at the Yale University target tracking survey."

Taotao opened this webpage:
The following is a follow-up survey from the famous Yale University in the United States.The research is actually quite simple.

At the beginning, the researchers asked the students who participated in the survey a question: "Do you have goals?" For this question, only 10% of the students confirmed that they had goals.

The researchers then asked the students a second question: "If you have goals, do you write them down?" This time, only 4 percent of the students answered in the affirmative.

Twenty years later, when researchers at Yale University followed up the students who participated in the survey around the world, they found that those who wrote down their life goals back then were far behind in terms of career development and living standards. outperformed other peers who did not.Not to mention anything else, in terms of wealth alone, the wealth owned by these 20% of people exceeds the sum of the remaining 4% of people!

After reading it, Taotao said: "Goal leads to wealth!"

"Goals not only lead to wealth, but also tell us that we should have goals in everything we do, no matter how specific or abstract the goal is. Learning is no exception. We must learn to set an appropriate goal for our learning. Only Only in this way can we make greater progress. The specificization of learning objectives also regulates our learning content. On the one hand, today’s learning is to improve personal ability and quality, and on the other hand, it is also preparing skills for entering the society. Under the guidance of the goal, we can plan a learning system within a few years, and every choice during this period is enriching and enriching it, just like the course selection when we entered school, we are planning a learning system for our professional direction.”

The ancients said: "Everything is forewarned, and nothing is foregone." From this we can see the importance of setting goals before learning.The formulation of a good learning goal can mobilize our enthusiasm for learning, let us make full use of time, maximize our potential, and improve our academic performance.

The success of many people has proved that goals can indeed lead us into a good learning environment and achieve good grades, but we must not be blind when setting goals.Pay attention to the following points:

(1) Setting goals cannot be regarded as the task of coping with teachers and parents.

(2) The goals you set must be suitable for you, otherwise you will only frustrate yourself and cannot effectively improve your academic performance.For example, if you usually score 70 points in all subjects, if you set yourself a goal of 95 points in all subjects during the monthly exam, it is obviously difficult to achieve.If you fail to achieve the goal, you will feel frustrated, which is not conducive to mobilizing your enthusiasm for learning and improving your grades.

(3) Always replace learning objectives.As the saying goes: "People without ambition often set up aspirations, and those with aspirations set up long-term ambitions." Some students don't know the direction of their learning efforts at all. Find the reason from yourself and think that the goal is wrong, so in the process of constantly changing the goal, I lost the best time to improve my academic performance.

Reasonably formulate the learning process
After dinner, Taotao took out a book from the bookcase and read it seriously.

Mumu wandered around the house with nothing to do, leaned up to Taotao, and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Life Comes for a Big Event" written by President Liu Pengzhi of the National People's Congress.

"Oh, leaving aside the content of the book, just understand this sentence. How did you know it?"

"I think it is to have a big goal in life. Break down this goal into small goals, and then think about the steps and methods to achieve each goal. In fact, this is a plan. With a plan, we It is possible to achieve the goal.”

"You're right. Phileas Fogg won the bet with a perfect plan."

"Who is Phileas Fogg?"

"The protagonist in "Around the World in 80 Days" by the famous writer Jules Verne."

"How did he accomplish this impossible thing in the eyes of ordinary people?"

"Then let me tell you!"

Mumu talked to Taotao attentively.

One day, Phileas Fogg made a bet that he could travel around the world in 80 days.Of course, when he first announced the news, all he got was laughter, and everyone didn't believe that he could make it.So he put half his fortune on the bet to prove he was right.He lays out a detailed plan:

7 days from London to Suez via Sydney Hills and Brdisi (train, boat)

13 days from Suez to Mumbai (ship)

3 days from Mumbai to Kolkata (train)

From Calcutta to Hong Kong, China (ship) 13 days

6 days from Hong Kong to Yokohama, Japan (ship)

From Yokohama to San Francisco (ship) 22 days

7 days from San Francisco to New York (train)

9 days from San Francisco to London (ship, train)

Total: 80 days

After Mumu finished telling the story, Taotao said, "Philiad Fogg's win is dramatic."

"Although it was dramatic, it gave us a deep inspiration. Before he decided to bet, he had already made several perfect time schedules, and he won on the plan. It can be seen how important planning is in order to achieve the goal The same is true in academics, in order to achieve our learning goals, making a reasonable plan is a top priority.”

Learning is a protracted battle, a marathon run, and a building of knowledge accumulated brick by stone.A war must have an overall strategic plan, and a building must first have a blueprint.Similarly, learning is inseparable from a reasonable plan.It is a good habit to formulate and stick to the implementation of the study plan, and never give up halfway.

The study plan should be reasonable, detailed and flexible.In light of your own actual situation, you must define your learning tasks and goals before formulating a learning plan.Pay attention to the feasibility of the plan. If it is too high or difficult to realize, it will produce a sense of inferiority; if it is too low, it will hinder the development of learning potential.To list long-term plans and short-term plans, it is best to list the learning points and progress of each semester, week, and day for inspection and implementation.When formulating a study plan, pay attention to concise and clear language.

In order to avoid learning new knowledge and forgetting old knowledge, the study plan should emphasize the connection of newly acquired knowledge with the knowledge already mastered. Drawing a knowledge structure diagram is a good way, so you might as well give it a try.

Gradually develop a good habit of making a reasonable study plan during the study, so that the dream of getting a high score can become a reality.

Be flexible and adjust goals in time

"Mumu, let me tell you something new. You know that Xiao Lei in our class, right? After lying at home for a week, in this exam, his grades not only did not drop, but rose instead."

"Oh, it's a little strange. What's going on? Tell me quickly."

Here's the thing:

Last month, Xiao Lei accidentally twisted his foot while skating and lay at home for a week.Our study is very intense, and everyone knows that it is a great loss to delay the course for a week.He knew that the biggest problem he faced was how to keep up with the progress of school after he recovered from his illness, so as not to fall further and further behind.

He was very anxious lying on the bed, the original study plan must not continue to be used.Later, he decided to study by himself, put textbooks, reference books, and exercise sets by his bed, and attacked them one by one.Read the textbook first, then read the reference book, and finally do the questions.He thought that the purpose of studying in class is also to solve the problems. As long as he can solve the problems well, he can learn by himself at home.

Unexpectedly, self-study at home is more efficient than school.He said: "At school, teachers have to take care of students with different levels, so the progress of the lectures will not be too fast. Sometimes the teacher will repeat the questions I understand, and sometimes the teacher will explain them all. Self-study is not easy. It’s the same, the concentration is more concentrated, the interest in learning is stronger, the efficiency is higher, and the time is of course more sufficient. As a result, I not only did all the relevant problems in the exercise set, but also reworked the problems that I did wrong. Do it again until the meeting. I will write down the questions that I really can’t figure out, and call my classmates at night for advice.”

After recovering from the illness, other classmates wanted to help him make up lessons. He shook his hand and said, "No, I have already learned everything." Since he did well in the exam, the teacher asked him to introduce his experience. He said, "Thank you very much for being ill this time. I learned how to learn by myself, and then I realized that learning can be so much fun.”

After listening, Mumu concluded: "In fact, his success this time is not only in self-study, but mainly in the change of plan. Since he knew that the original plan could not continue to be implemented, he quickly cut the mess and changed the study plan in time. , which allowed him to achieve excellent results.”

In learning, we must learn to be flexible. When our study plan is broken, we have to learn to adjust the study plan in time, so as to ensure a steady increase in academic performance, otherwise we will miss the high score.

In the process of learning, sometimes there are partial subjects, and sometimes due to illness or accidents, the original study plan cannot be guaranteed to go smoothly. At this time, it is necessary to adjust the plan and make up for the missed subjects as soon as possible.

Here are a few things to keep in mind about how to adjust our study plan:
1. Make use of maneuver time

No matter what plan you make, allow some maneuvering time.In the daily study plan, at least half an hour should be set aside as a mobile arrangement.It is mainly used for review and review, to string together the knowledge points learned in the previous period and organize them into a system to deepen the impression, grasp it more firmly, and lay a more solid foundation.

2. Reasonably adjust the time schedule according to the results of each subject

In the learning process, individual subjects often lag behind. At this time, it is necessary to focus on planning and arrangement, and spend more time on subjects with poor grades.It is best to use the flexible time to check for leaks and fill vacancies without affecting the normal plan, and at least one problem should be solved every day.

3. Make a summary of the implementation of the study plan every semester
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