Learning density and concentration

Learning density and concentration _ (from: http://mindhacks.cn/2007/05/24/learn-to-focus/tags: learning method, changing thinking life save it7 saved

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There was a free Li Yang English lecture in the school last time, so I went to listen with curiosity. I was deeply impressed by a sentence. The general idea is that many people have learned English for 10 years, and their opening time is not as long as the opening time in the seven days of training. That is to say, although the learning time is long, the learning density is extremely low, and the result is still low. In fact, this situation not only exists in English learning, but also is a common phenomenon. People are too easy to be distracted from various things. It is very difficult to concentrate on one thing. But because of the embarrassment that few people do, what they do has become a bull.

In fact, in college, the best thing is the spare time, the most lacking is the focus, extraordinary attention to create extraordinary experts. There are too many distracting factors in life: games, basketball, electives, girlfriends, etc... It is still quite difficult to concentrate on a single goal. This difficulty does not come from self-control. If a person needs to rely on self-control to force himself not to be disturbed, it can only be said to be an ordinary person (mediocres ). The real efficiency is derived from our strong enthusiasm for one thing, also known as our pursuit. At this time, we realized from the surface that deep consciousness is concerned about this matter, and our brain cells are highly active, in order to create maximum efficiency. Why do we need to enjoy the wine when writing poetry? It is because the efficiency is low due to the lack of such enthusiasm and attention. A poem is mediocre for several days, there is no difference in handing in homework. Many people come to college for four years just like others because of their lack of focus. In fact, the time used in the four years is virtually missing.

Why does concentration have such a big impact on learning efficiency. This comes from two aspects: first, focusing on one thing can make the surface consciousness fully operate, which is an explicit efficiency. Second, and more importantly, it also enables your subconscious to focus on this matter. People who have been thinking about the same problem for several days or even a week or longer may feel that during this period of thinking, sometimes, although the surface consciousness is not thinking about this problem for various reasons (for example, sleeping, or being interrupted by other things), its subconscious level still retains its "inertia", that is, at the subconscious level, I am still thinking about it. Although the surface consciousness is occupied by other things, the subconscious still uses time virtually. This kind of invisible time, over time, can produce a huge effect. The next famous example is the well-known leader who came up with the chemical formula of benzene during sleep. In a non-famous example, my father told me two things: first, when he was about 20 years old and assembled the first TV set in the village, the TV set was always unable to work, after a full day of meditation, I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and thought of the answer. I installed the TV all night long. Another time, my sister asked him a high school math question and thought about it for more than a day. These prove that the subconscious can produce efficiency without your awareness. On the other hand, the subconscious can also interfere with your attention without your awareness. We usually have this experience, even when a fan is focused on his work, he may suddenly think of the game, A person who is anxious about something will be suddenly interrupted by anxiety even when doing other things. That is to say, the surface consciousness is paying attention to one thing, but the subconscious is paying attention to another thing, and from time to disturb the surface consciousness, thus affecting attention and efficiency. Therefore, if both the surface consciousness and subconscious can focus on the same thing, that is, full input, the efficiency can be double at this time. In addition, this kind of attention becomes a habit, so it is easy to bring your subconscious into a kind of attention "inertia" in a short time, so even if the attention of the surface consciousness has been removed, however, the subconscious is still paying attention to the original problems. For example, you may have had such an experience, learning a song, but you didn't fully learn it at the beginning, and then you are busy with other things. After a week, you think of this song, I found that the hard-to-learn areas were suddenly grayed out. Or I thought about a problem. At the beginning, there was always a place I didn't think about, and then you put it first, A few days later, I thought back to this problem and suddenly found everything clear. This is the subconscious efficiency, which can be used without knowing it.

Understanding the role of concentration is not enough. How to obtain concentration is more important. Other characteristics of people (personality, mentality ...) Attention is also a habit. A person who is used to focusing on things is easy to do and quickly enters a state of focus. Since it is a habit, We can cultivate the concept of "thinking and physical strength" mentioned in Jin fa Wu Xiong's "thinking like a layman, practicing like an expert-the way to scientific research success, the so-called mental physical strength is the time for continuous attention. Attention creates extraordinary experts, and genius comes from long-term focused training. Cultivating your mental strength is a necessary condition to become an extraordinary expert. In addition to cultivating the habit of focusing, you can also focus on what you like to do through another adequate condition. We are very focused on what we like to do from an early age. Of course, even when we grow up, we still retain this ability of focus to some extent, just because of various external factors, the ability to focus for a long time has weakened. We need to consider the house, performance, children, and medical insurance... These anxious things will accumulate in the subconscious, always affecting your focus on things and reducing your life efficiency. Carnegie Mellon uses the entire book "advantages of human nature" to describe how to overcome anxiety and see how much negative the impact of anxiety has. In addition to overcoming the negative effects of anxiety, you have another condition that you cannot give up, in this year's Oscar independent movie sunshine beauty, Frank and Dwayne talked about the loser at the dock and Richard decided to take his father's body away: "There are two types of people in the world: Winners and Losers. The difference between the two is that winners never give up ...". The Buddhist family said that adversity is an increasing link. The textbook said that the daily downgrading and the general loss of the people in Sri Lanka must first suffer from their mental fatigue... Religion says that suffering is the only way to reach the other side. But I still like what Frank said at the dock (from Zhuo beiling's blog ):

"(Prester) is a French writer. A complete loser. I have never worked in my life, and I am still a gay man. It took 20 years to write a novel that few people read. But he may be the greatest writer after Shakespeare. Looking back at his life in his later years, he found that the difficult days are the best time in his life, because those days have created him. However, happy days are a waste of time without any gains. When you wake up at the age of 18, you can skip the pain of high school. But high school is the most important time in your life, and you cannot experience better suffering than this ."

What a good mentality. What is a golden mindset. In fact, you and I have such experiences. In addition, how to prevent other details from interfering with your life is also an important factor, except for those you are anxious about, there are also fourth-generation time management rules, such as packing clothes, cleaning rooms, cleaning desks, taking children home, yoga, etc. Stephen Covey mentioned in "Seven Habits of high-performance people, that is to say, the first rule is very effective (it refers to important but not urgent things, that is, things that will have a major impact on your future life in the long term. There are two ways of attention: active attention and passive attention. Many people take active attention to trivial errors. For example, they often start to think about "what else is not done today" when they get home ", in fact, let these unimportant things come to you by yourself, that is, the interruption-type passive attention, the latter can prevent the wasted time of empty round robin, so that the most concentrated time can be used on the most important thing.

Finally, how do you know that you have gained concentration. There are too many such phenomena. For example, if you don't want to wash your hair, but you don't need to pour the shampoo into your hands, you have to wash your hair, or you just need to use the shampoo as a body wash. For example, when you go to the canteen to eat, point to the pumpkin and say that the cucumber (because the pumpkin is yellow), or take the free soup and take it out to punch in. As for the boss like Newton, he can think of a table with a huge difference in hand as an egg, but it is far from reaching this stage. It seems that the name of the ox is not the name of the white surname :-)