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

Chapter 53 Learning to Grasp the Key Points

The best win first and do the most important thing first
In learning, some people are always greedy for more and always want to learn all the content at once.This kind of practice of pursuing everything but failing to grasp the key points of learning will eventually lead to nothing.

Why can the drill bit drill through thick walls or hard rock formations in a very short time?Students have already learned this problem in physics. The principle is: when the same force is concentrated at one point, the unit pressure will be greater; and if it is concentrated on a plane, the unit pressure will be reduced countless times.A strategy of attacking one point like a drill is a good way to solve a problem.

Only when we know what is the most important and grasp the key to learning, can we concentrate time and energy on one point, identify the goal, and carry out the learning to the end.For the limited learning time and energy, everyone should cherish and use it reasonably, and improve the efficiency of learning.There are many temptations in modern society. Going online, playing games, and making friends will all involve a lot of energy. At this time, it is even more necessary to improve one's self-control ability. Take effective control and do the most important things first.In the process of learning, only by grasping the key to learning can we use every opportunity to actively overcome the difficulties in learning.

During the learning process, students often feel that they are busy all day long, but they don't know what they have done.In fact, there are three kinds of busyness behind this:
(1) Can't manage their busy time.These students often feel that time is not enough, and they are even crazy busy.

(2) Has learned to cope with the busyness of trade-offs.This kind of busyness is often the most effective use of time.

(3) Pretending to be busy.Because we almost associate busyness with success, idleness and failure now, some students think that as long as they are busy studying, they will succeed, so they are busy all day long, but the effect is not very satisfactory.

"Are you busy?" is often used as a greeting, but few people realize that they need to pay attention to the "time management" behind it and do the most important things first.In today's society, competition is becoming more and more fierce. It can be said that whoever first learns to grasp the key to learning will win the success of learning.

Think about it, in the usual learning process, are you too greedy and greedy and forget the most important content?
Many students often can't tell the importance of what they have to do, and their things are often arranged by their parents and teachers.This is a major reason why you are not good at using your time.

In fact, only by fully realizing the relationship between what you have to do and yourself can you handle all these things well.Every day, you should arrange the things you have to do in order of importance and urgency:
The first category is important and urgent things, such as exams, quizzes;
The second category is urgent but unimportant things, such as completing homework;
The third category is important but not urgent things, such as improving reading skills;
The fourth category is things that are neither important nor urgent, and you can skip them if time does not allow.

If you can arrange the learning tasks in this order, you can ensure that all the important things are completed and the learning is arranged in an orderly manner.

For the matter of reading, you should understand that this is the most important and urgent.The Soviet educator Sukhomlinsky once said: "You must learn to force yourself to read every day, and don't put off today's work until tomorrow. What is discarded today, you can't make up for it tomorrow."

For playing, shopping, etc., before teenagers do these things, ask themselves: "Do I need to do this?"

"How long will it take me to do this?"

"Is there anything more important than this that I need to do?" Through this kind of pre-thinking, you can do less unimportant things, thereby improving the utilization of time.

Learning to focus is the weapon of all outstanding people
When studying, only by ignoring all kinds of interfering factors and studying with one mind can the efficiency of learning be improved.

Harvard psychology experts have found that the attention of learning can last about 40 to 50 minutes, but this time can be changed, because the attention is also related to the specific learning environment, the mood of the learner and other factors.

The duration of a person's attention is the so-called "concentration limit".Concentration limits determine when we should take a break, when we should study, and when we should return to study.

If you have been concentrating on studying for a long time, feel physically and mentally exhausted, and are still "persevering" there, your learning efficiency must be very low.Therefore, if you feel tired while studying, you should take a rest immediately in order to recover your energy and refocus your attention on learning.

When studying, how can we cultivate the habit of focusing on ourselves?We have to start from the following aspects.

1. Do a good job of previewing before class
Preview is the preparation for listening to the class. When we preview, we will find out what we don’t understand, and we will have a clear purpose and a mental preparation before listening to the class, so that we can focus on the class.When the teacher tells something that he doesn't understand, his attention can be highly concentrated.

2. Take class notes
Taking notes in class is the most effective way to pay attention when listening to lectures.When taking notes, not only the ears need to listen, the hands need to remember, the eyes need to see, but the brain also needs to think. This puts our various organs in a relatively tense state, not easy to be distracted, and can effectively concentrate force.Of course, taking notes is not simply to write down all the teacher's words. You must learn to draw circles on the textbook, learn to make annotations, and learn to grasp the key points of the teacher's lectures. This is not only beneficial to future review, but also conducive to concentration. Focus on listening to lectures.

3. Dare to question the teacher
Confucius said: "Learning without thinking will lead to peril, and thinking without learning will lead to peril."That is to say, if you just study without thinking, you will be confused and ignorant; if you just think without learning, you will be confused.

When we study, we should have a questioning attitude instead of taking ourselves as a receiver to listen to the class. In this way, we can concentrate and learn knowledge well.

Listening to the class with a questioning attitude, we can ask many questions for the teacher to answer. In this way, when listening to the lecture, it is no longer the teacher's mouth like a faucet, and the students just accept it passively like a bucket, but the interaction between teachers and students , It fully embodies the modern learning method that students are the main body of learning and teachers are the leader of learning, thus really improving the learning efficiency.

Lateral Thinking Improves Chances of Solving Problems

Horizontal thinking is also called "divergent thinking", which is produced relative to "vertical thinking".Its main characteristics are unrestrained, open sea and sky, free association, free jumping, no need to pay attention to reason or logic.

The definition of "horizontal thinking" in the Oxford dictionary is this: "seek solutions to problems in unorthodox or apparently illogical ways".We can understand horizontal thinking more generally as: you can't think by digging the same hole deeper and deeper, but by digging different holes in different places.What we are emphasizing here is seeking different ways of looking at things and different paths.

Compared with horizontal thinking, "vertical thinking" is a more traditional way of thinking. "Vertical thinking" is a logical thinking method with causal relationship; horizontal thinking is neither logical nor causal. Leaping thinking is like being blocked by rocks when digging a hole, so you give up immediately and quickly dig a new hole next to it. Horizontal thinking can even think about the reason from the result.

The following two examples provide a good comparison of vertical and horizontal thinking.

Example [-]:

There is a department store whose business is unexpectedly good after opening.The two elevators originally installed were not enough at all, and customers were often restless and complained because they waited for the elevators at the narrow entrance.

In order to solve this problem, the company quickly convened a meeting of cadres, and asked everyone to come up with a good way to solve the problem.So some people suggested to install another elevator (the original building must be destroyed, which is not feasible), and some people suggested to speed up the elevator (the speed of the elevator is already fast enough and cannot be accelerated). These solutions are all based on vertical thinking, and have been discussed for a long time Still to no avail.

Finally, an employee used the method of horizontal thinking. He gave up thinking from the elevator and suggested installing large mirrors on the walls near the elevator on the first floor.

The company adopted this plan.After the mirror is installed, the effect is very obvious. Not only does the customer feel that the entrance is much more spacious, but many customers can also use the time to clean up their appearance while waiting for the elevator.

In this way, the anxious feeling of customers while waiting is also easily disappeared because of several large mirrors.

Example [-]:
Many years ago, a young painter who was obsessed with painting visited a famous old painter.

After the meeting, the young painter asked the old painter for advice: "Mr., I have a question that I can't understand. Why does it only take one day to paint a painting, but it takes a whole year to sell it? "

Hearing the young man's confusion, the old painter smiled and said: "Young man, do you want to sell your paintings quickly? You might as well think about it in reverse, spend a year painting a painting, and sell the painting for only Times of Day."

A few simple words from the old painter gave the young man an epiphany, and he was filled with joy ever since.The old painter's suggestion is to think horizontally from effect to cause.

In fact, mind mapping is the most effective brain development tool that combines vertical thinking and horizontal thinking.When we think horizontally with the help of mind maps, we can bloom our thinking, open our minds, solve the "bottleneck" problem of thinking, expand our thinking, develop associations, and develop the potential of our brains to the greatest extent.

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