"Never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking" read Letters Kee

1. Confirm bias (confirmation bias) never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 291-291)

(or to be referred to as false, verifiable bias)

It is the tendency of individuals to favor their own prejudices and speculations, whether they are factual or not. In this way, people in the brain selectively recall, collect favorable details, ignoring contradictory information, and to be one-sided interpretation.

2. One of the great pleasures of scientific research is that people change their minds! never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 424-424)

I think "change" is a process of epiphany, with research being 99% perspiration (gradients), 1% Inspiration (change), new ideas.

3. fear makes people afraid of loss, romance makes people love adventure. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 462-462)

Evolutionary psychology argues that fear comes from human self-protection instincts, and that risk comes from human courtship instincts. When making decisions, it's best to act rationally and control your instincts.

4. the most fundamental idea of probability theory is that some things happen without reason. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 493-494)

So, everything is light. Don't look at people who have made a mistake, and make a policy to correct the mistakes. That would only turn the mistake into a scar.

5. The energy of human willpower comes from glucose in the blood. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 1112-1113)

It's good to accidentally drink some sugary juice.

6. An interesting finding is that making choices consumes willpower. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 1120-1121)

That is why we are reluctant to make choices when we are weak-willed. So don't make continuous decisions.

7. willpower is a generic resource, which means that you can increase your willpower by doing some everyday things and then use it for other things. An effective practice in this book is to do what you are not accustomed to doing. For example, if you are accustomed to using your right hand, you can consciously use your left hand. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 1144-1146)

8. the key to defeating Goliath ( a bigger opponent than you ) is two points. First, you need to know your disadvantage, in some cases it may be your advantage, and the so-called advantage of giants may in some cases be his disadvantage. Second, you must not follow the opponent's game to play with him, you sometimes have to use unconventional means. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 1192-1194)

The enemy, with long shot short.

9."Deliberate practice": 1. Only in the "learning area" exercise; 2. The content to be trained into a targeted small pieces, each of the small pieces of repeated exercises; 3. Effective feedback is available at any time throughout the course of the exercise; 4. Attention must be highly concentrated during practice. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 1333-1335)

Psychologists divide people's knowledge and skills into three circular areas that are nested in layers: The inner layer is the "comfort zone", a skill we have mastered, and the "Panic Zone" is the first, the skills we cannot learn at the moment, and the "learning area" in between.

The real practice is not to complete the exercise, the essence of practice is to continue to do their own bad things.

For mental workers, the level of the key depends on the master of the number of routines

everyone wants to challenge themselves, but in real life, the main focus is on something that is very familiar. Even if there are sufficient conditions to leave the comfort zone, people will not be tempted to stay there. The greater the age, the greater the difference in thought among people. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 1394-1396)

The practice of domestic training students to engage in scientific research is not to engage in scientific research, to engage in "class" research. Teaching and learning are to test as the core, when speaking at any time to summarize knowledge points, before the exam will draw the key. People use scientific knowledge as historical allusions and other test materials, and do not know that these knowledge can be used, but also do not know that your task is not to learn this knowledge but to create new knowledge! In this atmosphere, many Chinese students even like to comment on textbooks, the book is well written, the author is a bull, intoxicated with the appreciation of textbooks. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 1603-1606)

in the early days of learning a skill, IQ may be the deciding factor. But as the study progresses, the interest may become more and more important, because interest can determine to a large extent who can hold on. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 1934-1935)

Everyone has a natural interest, the only difference is that some people are lucky enough to find a suitable environment for their interests in the early days, and some people have not found a lifetime. Can not find, not necessarily this person does not work, the greater possibility is the whole environment is not.

Everyone has the same time, so time is not money. Time is go: You walk a hand, the ox people also go hand in hand, the ox person wins not because he walks more than you, but he each hands all walks in the most valuable place. To perform such an efficiency requires steel-like will. Who can do not read boring articles, who can do not to refresh the page, who can do not watch TV news? Cows can do it. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 2166-2168)

In Nicholas Carr (Nicholas Carr), the "shallow" (The shallows), the surfer is the real slave. Compared to reading, Internet reading allows us to remember less information, understanding and creativity decline, can not form the knowledge system: The Internet has turned our brains shallow.

Intensive study requires that reading notes must include four aspects: ① clearly shows the logical context of each chapter; ② takes away all the highlights of the book, ③ has a lot of his own views and experiences, ④ found the book and other books or articles previously read the link. never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 2502-2504)

The most direct purpose of taking notes is to form your own knowledge system and change your view of things.

in the book "Company Concept" (Concept of the Corporation), Drucker argues that the key to GM's success is decentralization. Unlike other companies at the time, GM's department managers had a big decision, and the top level was largely a catalyst and co-ordinated role. In other words, GM is more like a loose confederation than a centralised system. In order to ensure the independence of managers in decision-making, they even give them the right to veto, and ensure that each department manager is rich, so that when they make decisions, they do not want to raise wages to please the high-level! never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking (Wan Wei, loc. 2652-2656)

"Never thought: Understand the world with science and engineering thinking" read Letters Kee