Because now I often feel that I have encountered a bottleneck in my work, and the progress is very slow. Powerful people have strong learning ability and understanding ability. They learn quickly and find solutions. I feel very deficient. How to efficiently finish the work you don't like? How to change your thinking and working habits and get positive feedback? The following is a collection of reasons I collected for you. Let's have a look!
What is the bottleneck? Should we embrace it or avoid it?
Author: Bai Shishi
After the last update, many people enthusiastically told me your inner secrets backstage. I want to thank you for this trust. I didn't have time to reply to a lot of content. After all, there are too many messages. But I have collected every message you left. There is a God three feet above my head. God can prove that what I said is true.
In the future, I will select these messages and carefully answer them for you. Today, I'll pick the following one. Sometimes I write a little longer for only one purpose, that is to include more useful information, let the content radiate more relevant questions, and let more people get some inspiration and harvest. So, please be patient when writing a long time, and you will certainly gain more.
The question came from a reader:
Because now I often feel that I have encountered a bottleneck in my work, and the progress is very slow. Powerful people have strong learning ability and understanding ability. They learn quickly and find solutions. I feel very deficient. How to efficiently finish the work you don't like? How to change your thinking and working habits and get positive feedback?
Let's start with the "bottleneck".
What is a bottleneck? Should we avoid it or embrace it?
In terms of willingness, we must avoid bottlenecks. Who doesn't want to develop at a high speed all the time? However, from the growth and development track of general things, bottlenecks cannot be avoided, because growth is always phased, including slow development period, platform period and rapid development period.
Suppose you compete with another person in an industry, and you encounter the platform period faster. What does this mean? First, it may mean that you are so stupid that you encounter the bottleneck so quickly, which is really frustrating.
Another possibility means that you develop faster - because you reach your own bottleneck faster, you can overcome the bottleneck earlier and have the opportunity to enter the next stage of rapid development earlier. From the perspective of competition with people, these two possibilities do exist.
However, from the perspective of personal self-growth, the two explanations can be combined: for individuals, it doesn't matter whether we are stupid or not. If we are born stupid, what's the use of lamenting? The important thing is that we should save time, speed up the pace, find our real problems faster, and then solve them early. This will give us a little more advantages in our own life, and maybe make you smarter.
My idea has always been to embrace the bottleneck, not only embrace, but also pursue, crazy to pursue the bottleneck.
Why and how?
There is a word called bonus period. When I was giving learning suggestions to high school children, I told them to spend my bonus period as soon as possible. (see details: some learning methods for high school children.)
Those with poor or average grades, I told them, don't just do it. As long as you work hard, you can catch up with the average score of the whole class in a short time. A large area of rough efforts in the early stage can bring considerable results, which is a dividend.
After the average score, we should pay attention to learning methods. Why? Because the results are not so obvious after the average score, we must change the way and pay attention to the method, otherwise you will suffer for a long time in the bottleneck period of this rising channel.
Another example.
If a reading Xiaobai wants to improve his reading ability, what should he do in the first stage?
The answer is that the first stage should be hungry reading.
At first, don't ask anyone for a list of books. Just read it. Find what you are interested in, and then start reading a lot, until you can't read it and feel like vomiting.
If you haven't read enough in the past, this stage is to make up for your lack of reading in the past.
Don't worry about reading bad books. In fact, reading bad books is a process that needs to be experienced. You can only pick books after you encounter bad books. Your ability to pick books is accumulated in continuous reading.
The only thing you need to care about at this stage is whether you are reading.
A lot of reading in a short time will keep your brain in a kind of excitement and climax, because you haven't been stimulated by knowledge so often before. Once you start reading a lot, you will find that there are many unexpected knowledge points that break into your brain, your cognition and wash your three views, which will make you climax.
My girlfriend didn't read much before she met me, but under the influence of my reading maniac, she now loves reading. Last year, she read more than me.
She said she was very grateful for my influence on her. To be exact, I'm just an inducement. What's really useful to her must be the flash and wisdom in the book. That's what really attracts her. Otherwise, no matter how I bring her into the pit, she can't get in. If the book is not a good thing.
Knowledge is sexy, books are good things, and you haven't read enough before. Do you want to read a lot in the first stage to make your brain cool?
Having said so much, what I want you to understand is that whether it is the initial struggle for academic performance, the improvement of reading level, or the improvement of work skills, the initial attitude is still a little fierce. Just work hard, you can squeeze the initial growth dividend.
Don't be afraid of bottlenecks, and welcome them. To meet the bottleneck as soon as possible, we can face those abilities we really need to improve and overcome the problems we need to overcome.
Overcoming bottlenecks is a systemic problem. This period requires patience and the mentality of overcoming difficulties. What are we fighting against?
"Powerful people have strong learning ability and understanding ability. They learn quickly and find solutions."
In the opinion of the subject, the key objects to break through the bottleneck are fast learning ability and understanding ability - how to obtain fast learning ability and improve understanding ability?
If you don't read one of his best-selling books, you will often ask me how to improve my ability to understand it?
Believe it or not.
A doctor of psychology told me that he basically doesn't read the best-selling books on the market, which is not rigorous, and many books are only by-products of the translation and processing of foreign papers, and these translations still have a serious time lag. Most importantly, the density of knowledge in the best-selling books is too low for him, and the time cost of reading them is too high.
This is a doctor's choice, but why do I also suggest that if you want to improve your understanding, you go directly to the paper?
The reason is also very simple. It is found that the author will not consider the contents in the paper from the perspective of ordinary readers. They don't care whether the ordinary people can understand it. They care about logic.
Reading such words will be difficult for many readers - therefore, if you can really read these "unfriendly" papers for understanding, you will be able to unconsciously obtain incredible reading comprehension ability.
Note that this paper is optional. For example, if you want to learn time management, look at the academic papers related to time management But its core lies in the word "difficult".
Constantly improve their own standards, constantly do things that make them difficult, study and grind with the spirit of stubbornness, and the ability of understanding will naturally rise.
In addition, the fast learning ability that the subject wants is essentially the same as the improvement of understanding ability. The so-called powerful people can find solutions through "fast learning",
In fact, those powerful people have a deeper and more thorough understanding of the same things and the same things, so that they can find the key where you can't find a solution. Of course, this learning ability is also the result of accumulation.
In the first stage, through the accumulation of frenzied efforts, we quickly consumed our personal dividends and reached a bottleneck - this stage is the extensive accumulation of efforts.
The next step is to enter the next stage. In this stage, we will accumulate the targeted accumulation of the nature of death and strike, which requires systematic learning. The key word of the second stage is the targeted accumulation of the nature of death and strike.
Take programming as an example. For an open source project in the process of programming and development, you only need to be able to use it at the beginning, but after working for a period of time, you can no longer be limited to this. You should start reading the source code behind the open source project, because only there is the principle.
It must be painful to start reading the source code because you can't understand it.
But it doesn't matter. Stick to it.
It doesn't matter if you don't understand it at one time. Read it again and again. Slowly, you will begin to understand a little, and then you will know more. If you understand the principle behind it and the operation, you will be more and more comfortable in your work.
For example, take the official account as an example -- it is not appropriate for me to give an example, because even if I don't update, there will still be fans coming to us, and we will talk about H.
H wrote in the official account. His growth pattern at the beginning was that he wrote out to various groups, and threw red envelopes for everyone's attention and forwarding, so he got some attention accumulation. But this model does not make it sustainable in the long run. If he wants to make the official account truly develop, it will ultimately depend on the self dissemination of the article itself.
What what principle should he do in this article is to study the articles of tonal blending of public official account, from each heading to material selection, and to the arrangement of content, and to conduct a targeted study. He needs to know what the principles behind the propagation are, and this involves communication studies. He needs to understand the motive of people's forwarding each time, which involves understanding of human nature. He needs to know what kind of activities can improve the activity of users and increase the stickiness of fans, which involves the principles of marketing.
The real learning starts after he meets the bottleneck. At this time, he knows what he urgently needs to learn.
So we say that if a person wants to make rapid progress, what he can accumulate in the first stage is vigorous behavior; In the second stage, if you want to make rapid progress, you need to accumulate principles. Whoever can master more principles can break through the bottleneck of the second stage.
Finally, let's say, "how to change your thinking and work habits and get positive feedback?"
I suggest you focus on specific things. Both thinking and working habits are reflected when we do specific things. "Black cat and white cat, what can solve the problem is a good cat". Thinking and habits that can solve the problem are good thinking and good habits - and, to do specific things well, isn't that our real purpose?
As for feedback, we value feedback, and feedback must be needed, but we must also be aware that the way feedback is presented is different at each stage of development.
In the first stage, feedback can be clearly reflected in the effect of doing things.
I know that an efficient learning method is the project-based learning method. For example, what kind of things you want to accomplish, what kind of things you want to make, and then think about what to achieve, what knowledge and skills you need to learn. This kind of learning is often the fastest, the feedback is the most obvious, and the purpose is the most clear, rather than the general kind of determining what to learn first, Then check what knowledge you want to learn. Finally, step-by-step discovery depends on a lot of theories and materials. This situation often makes the learning process boring and lack of motivation.
In the second stage, what we need to accumulate is the cognition of principles.
The feedback at this stage is not obvious, and it is relatively long, especially for most people. Because of this, most people are blocked in the first stage for a long time.
How do you get from the first stage to the second stage?
With active motivation, some people are born with a stubborn spirit. For example, a friend of mine will study the rules and recommendation mechanism of Zhihu when she plans to write an article in Zhihu, and then enter the site. Such people are good at doing things. What they do, from the first stage to the second stage, the "boil" cycle is shorter than that of ordinary people.
By passive motivation, for example, they have to pay off the money and debts at home, or the environment when they were young gives them a strong desire for something, such as money. They will have a lot of pressure and motivation, and they will be very inspirational.
What about ordinary people?
What can ordinary people do? Ordinary people can only do it like this. Isn't this the way most ordinary people do it?
But there are still some ordinary people who survive, and those who survive will be interpreted as not ordinary - but most "not ordinary" people come out of ordinary.
How did these people survive? At this time, we will talk about the term of Psychology - delayed satisfaction.
The so-called delayed satisfaction is actually to adjust one's state of mind. Don't let oneself rely too much on the current feedback to do things, but rely on deeper things such as rationality, cognition and belief. Buffett's long-term value investment. He is optimistic about the long-term future development of a company. After buying stocks, he won't stare every day. If he stare every day, his heart may be unbearable.
Therefore, if you believe in something for a long time, you will continue to do it, and its long-term will bring returns.