2015 16th Wednesday know to do

There is a book called "Know To Do", the author is Ken Bland Jia, Paul Meyer and Dick Luch Three people, this book to solve the problem is that the title of the book "Know To Do." People tend to learn and acquire knowledge in a variety of ways, although the theory knows how to do it, but the actual action does not change.
The book mentions that there are three reasons why people can not complete the leap from know-how to action:

1. Too much know-how-overload of knowledge

2. Excessive negativity-inappropriate filtration systems

3. Bad habits-inappropriate ways of learning

and the key to overcoming these hurdles is to "revisit",That is, if you want to make important know-how affect your behavior, you should review it over and over again.
Many people learn through a variety of ways, but not put into practice, not the knowledge learned to consistently apply to their daily work.
Remember that the change in one's behavior begins with a change of heart, and then gradually changes from the inside out.
Today, science and technology have reached an incredible level, and everyone has easy access to a vast amount of knowledge, which makes the gap particularly large. People tend to spend a lot of time getting new information, rather than trying to apply their newfound knowledge to everyday life.
One writer has learned three things from a professor who has studied "learning problems" for many years to solve this problem:

The first is: keep taking notes. Unless a person can have a pair of camera-like ears (a person who accounts for only 0.0001% of the total population), it is impossible for him to complete the entire learning process by listening only. In fact, 30 hours after the end of the seminar, those who learn only by listening can remember less than 50% of the content. After 24 hours, they will forget half of what they have learned. and 1 months later, the new knowledge they can remember is less than 5%.

The second thing is to urge the students to reread their notes within 24 hours, summarizing the things that make them "aha" or some important ideas. He advises them to write them clearly and neatly in a notebook, or to store them in a computer. Why do you have to be clear and tidy? Because he found that after the seminar, most of the students who took notes would immediately file their notes instead of reviewing them. After a while, someone asked, "You went to the seminar--What did you say?" "Then they would open their files and look right at the left, but they couldn't even recognize their handwriting." Such notes have no meaning.
Finally, the writer urged the students to convey the knowledge they had learned to others. He suggested that within one weeks after the end of the training, they'd better be able to book a conference room, invite their more important partners to spend half a day with them and share what they've learned from the seminar to make their own "aha" sound. The writer knows that one of the best ways to start applying new knowledge is to impart it to others.

Look at the problem from the human instinct, the nerve and the cognition. The point is to find out, what is the mechanism that most people can't do? What are the missing links between "know" and "do"? What is the workaround?

first, what is the mechanism
The fundamental mechanism of personal analysis is 3:
1: Working memory to long-term memory takes a long time to repeat training.
2: The process of declarative memory to non-declarative memory requires proper skill guidance.
3: People's attention is scattered all the times, only focus can "do".

1. "Know" a truth, for the brain is only a short time to save working memory.

You understand today and remember the truth, not every day to jump out to guide your behavior, only to become unforgettable long-term memory, can often remind you. What does "hardships" do? In fact, every day to stimulate themselves, gradually forming a long-term memory process. Any long-term memory formation must have a planned repetition of the practice, and at least 3 weeks to adhere to the time.

2. Even "know" is not enough to become a long-term memory, as it may be a "declarative memory" rather than a long-term memory of a "conditioned" nature, which is a "non-declarative Memory".

"Declarative Memory" remembers facts and events, such as a truth. and "Non-declarative Memory" is the consciousness can not be described and controlled. For example, learn to ride a bike, tell you the skills of cycling, you remember, this is declarative memory, but you still do not ride a bike. You have to ride your own bike and let your body get used to the power, balance and other relationships. But how you control it, can't express it in words, and is not controlled by your mind, it is the "body" that remembers the trick and responds to each situation in a reflex way to learn how to ride a bike. This is the subconscious, even the cerebellum category.

Habits are non-declarative memories. It is customary to brush and wash your face every morning, which is the result of long-term training for parents from small to large. Adults do not need to think consciously, every day according to the procedure to complete, if one day did not brush teeth, wash face will be uncomfortable, but did not develop this habit of people will not be uncomfortable. So this is a non-declarative memory that is not controlled by consciousness.

Skills are also non-declarative memories. More complicated things, such as learning to fight, not only to elaborate, but also to coach the timely guidance and use of the right training methods. Fist hitting your belly, you have several ways to resist and fight back, this need to have a coach and repeated training, to achieve the instinctive reflex is mastered. There are languages, you look at each of the above text, your understanding time will be less than 0.5 seconds, is already a reflex. But for foreigners who are beginners in Chinese, it takes a long time to understand every word, such as grammar, order of expression and habit of thinking. We are fast because parents, teachers, people around the training for decades, all kinds of mistakes have been corrected, repeated every day, so recognition efficiency is very high. Foreigners may not have learned to give up.

From declarative memory to non-declarative memory, it is the hardest part in the process of "knowing" to "doing".

3. Awareness is limited in its control of attention.
Where our eyes fall, not under the control of consciousness. Do an experiment: try to keep your eyes on the horizontal line and scan the contents of the room. You obviously feel the eyeball beating, not under your control. So people's attention is very easy to disperse.

On the one hand, people's attention is constantly attracted and dispersed, on the other hand, working memory preservation time is very short, there are few things to save, so the brain as a CPU, the vast majority of computing time is used to calculate the present, that is, the past and the next few minutes of things, will rarely care beyond this range of long-term problems. If you have children at home, it's hard to ask a child to focus on one thing for a long time (except TV, games), which is better for adults because of the results of decades of mandatory training. To "Do" one thing, you have to stick to one thing for 3 weeks, which is not generally difficult for adults.

second, the missing link
Missing Links: Attention control, long-term repetition, instant feedback and corrections, sustainable motivation, a large number of reminders of the environment
In fact, to "do" is very simple, is to control their own attention, long-term repetition of the correct training can be.

There are many ways to control attention, and endogenous support is the motivation system, such as curiosity, instinct-driven, and exogenous support for planning, motivation, coaching, and the environment. If the internal source is strong enough, do not need external support can be done, but this is only a very few, the vast majority of people rely on external source support.

Imagine, if there is no kindergarten, primary school, High school, university, this set of compulsory modern education system, how many people can adhere to 20 years of self-study, until become a talent? Modern education as a whole enhances the human thinking ability, relying on the mandatory long-term repetitive training, there is a lot of hints of the environment. Why go to school, because everyone is in school, do not go to school. Why should the school, because there are good coaches, in addition when you want to lazy, the top students around the effort, they are showing you the gap, do not want to lazy. This is the external support, as individuals, we have to build such a system.

In fact, all successful people, are intentionally or unintentionally, built an effective internal and external support system.

For example, successful people can make plans and strictly implement plans. A plan is essentially a focus control tool that draws your attention to the next step by setting a phased goal. Without a plan, you will continue to be attracted to other things, unable to focus, long time and forget, the result is nothing.

Is there any plan to succeed? Also can, can rely on curiosity, this is endogenous. For example, many scientists rely on curiosity, a problem solved to elicit more questions, interest is growing, knowledge is expanding, and finally traversing the entire field, becoming an expert or making new discoveries. So, like our country by money to smash scientific research, is unable to make original results, because the external support can not go deep, but not long.

2015 16th Wednesday know to do