How to become an "expert" in a field quickly?

The media experience has given me two lifelong skills: social and fast learning. The previous skill, I have summed up the 10 recommendations of the "People investment". After a skill, this article to summarize today.

What is learning?

In my category, learning can be divided into two categories, one is "apply to the knowledge", one kind is "gentleman not the device". As for primary and secondary schools, test-oriented education, TOEFL, GRE this kind of study, not in the scope of our discussion today.

As the name implies, it is to guide the practice of learning, learning content mainly includes professional skills and industry knowledge, this is a very pragmatic learning behavior, with a clear purpose. "Gentleman is not the device" is a more transcendental learning behavior, it only for the truth, Love wisdom, learning itself is the purpose, but not with secular purposes.

Two kinds of learning are important to people, the former makes a person useful, the latter makes a person have a stylish. But today this article we only talk about "apply to the Knowledge", why? Because there is a way to "learn", everyone can master this method through learning. And "The gentleman does not have any method, it is more to rely on a perception, understanding of the Enlightenment, some people do not have to learn also can realize, so we will not talk about it."

Now we are officially starting to talk about "applying to our knowledge". The literal meaning has been told that the purpose of this study is to guide the practice, and we set out a few guiding principles for it:

1, we do not need to remember the vast majority of knowledge;

2, we do not have to dwell on the absolute correctness of the theory;

3, never "graduation" test, never "graduated" day.

Learning is sometimes difficult and time-consuming, but in the beginning it is the wrong one. Mankind has already entered the information age, we now produce more than 200 years ago, more than a century, how can we expect a human head in its limited life time to exhaust all the information in a certain field? This is an unrealistic idea.

Since I "apply" to the purpose is "useful", then we do not have to care about a theoretical logic is not rigorous, do not care whether its argument is the perfect support of the argument, do not care whether it is universal, do not care whether this faction is correct or that faction right, The only thing we care about is whether it works in our practice.

We also do not have "Ching, Lloyd" The idea, always feel that I have to learn, and then practice, this is a typical "student thinking", because accustomed to the "study-test-end" mode. The real war is not to give you the time of training, even if you are the recruits eggs, the enemy will not be soft on you. So each of us must practice, while learning, we must be in a situation of insufficient knowledge to practice. In fact, we will never be able to reach the "poor do everything" day.

When we pre-set these assumptions, our learning has a "boundary", and we know we don't need to do anything about it.

The secret of quick learning: Don't waste your time

As we all know, the consulting industry brings together a lot of high IQ people, the best of them can really do not know a certain area today, and when you see him tomorrow, he can be like an expert to talk with you, but also quite to the point.

Not only does the industry need this ability, but the media industry too, a journalist cannot be an expert in all fields, but a really good journalist can quickly write an in-depth report on a field he has never been in contact with.

There are not many magical places in this, which is a kind of "fast learning" ability. To be sure, being a real expert is really very, very difficult, and it's strictly in accordance with the 10,000-hour law, but making yourself "look like an expert" is very simple, especially in an era when the information gets extremely convenient .

In fact, inefficient learners and high-efficiency learners spend more time on "effective learning" than they do, and the biggest difference is in the difference between "ineffective learning" and the time invested in them. Inefficient learners may look diligent, they also read a lot of books, browse a lot of articles, but they will feel: "Oh, today again read a book not much value." "and efficient learners seldom do that, they don't waste their time on ineffective materials, they go around."

Not wasting time is saving time. Less detours, is to copy a shortcut.

This is the secret of quick learning!

Quick learning three-word tactic: point, line, face

As shown in title, the Quick learning method can be summed up as "point, line, polygon" three words. Point is a "breakthrough", he Is your learning guide, his role is to help you draw a "Learning Road Map" (line), tell you what you should learn, what should not learn, and you just follow the road map to learn to get the "knowledge" you want.

For example, the first thing I do when I move from a sales market post to a product post is to ask the people who are the product managers of my friends to eat, and I'm asking them: What do the product managers do? What kind of knowledge do you need? Where can I find this knowledge? What kind of websites do people in the industry like to subscribe to and which public numbers? What good books are worth reading?

These friends are my "breakthrough point", I do not need them to explain to me the specific knowledge, they just help me to show the way is enough. Typical breakthroughs include your leaders, seniors, professionals, opinion leaders, who may be people you know around you, or a big V on the Web.

The "28 rule" is equally effective in fast learning. 20% of the knowledge can solve 80% of the problem, so my suggestion is that we just learn 20% just fine. In fact, if we really exhausted a field of information, we will find that a lot of information is repeated, they may be in different cases, different expressions to express the same meaning. 20%, it's enough to make you look like an expert.

Among the various sources of information, I prefer the media of "books". The reason is very simple, this media production process is the most stringent, so its quality control is the best, so the study efficiency is the highest. Books in China is a seriously undervalued asset, although the price has risen a lot in the past two years, but compared with foreign countries that is too cheap, must not put cheap not to occupy Ah! I buy books like Amazon, its associated recommendation function is very useful, when I found a good book, I used to see what it has the relevance of recommendations, and then see which books have a very high number of comments and the star is very tall, generally not particularly bad.

Of course, we will definitely use the Internet media. My advice is that we'd better find the "insider" site in that area rather than go to the mass media for information about the field. For example, in the past few years, e-commerce special fire, mainstream media will have a report on e-commerce, but they are often not professional. What do people in the circle look at? Send behalf of the network, the World Network, sellers. All walks of life, there are similar industry people website.

To summarize briefly, the secret of quick learning is to minimize invalid learning time, and the fast learning method is:

1. Find a person who is more than your cow (point);

2. Let the bull show you the way (line);

3, according to the way the ox refers to the past (face).

Simple, no?

How to become an "expert" in a field quickly?