Without a teacher, how to learn?

In the eyes of younger sister envy, leaving the campus of their own, as if to see the door to freedom is slowly open, can not help but feel a bright future. No more study, no need to catch up on homework, and finally away from the terrible exam, parents blame a set of teacher's urging.

But when you enter the workplace with a vision and a high-spirited foot, you become an employee rather than a student . You will find that the facts are not as good as you think, you need not only to learn, but also to learn more than when you go to school, more than you do not even know where to start. When dreams collapse, you start to lose your wits and even get overwhelmed.

Although you hate everything on campus, but believe me, in the years of student life, you are actually accustomed to this life. Like Boo, who has lived in Shawshank for more than 60 years, you are facing a bigger challenge from the moment you get out of door .

In the student age, although have the teacher to have the examination, the daily life is in the abyss of misery, but you have not thought, in this kind of environment, you do not need to consider the question which studies. Because the teacher has already given you the plan, all you have to do is listen to the teacher: let learn what to learn, how to learn how to learn. Even if you are lax, schools have a variety of activities, examinations, roll-call, quizzes, exams and other heinous ways to urge you to study, to ensure that your study progress.

If the student age is likened to a 400-meter runway, there is a clear line, a clear end, and the side of the stern and rambling coach. At first, it was like being in a desert, you got the so-called Freedom Day and night, but lost your way.

At this time you begin to miss a teacher, the goal of a clear campus life, miss that as long as the effort can "success" of the student era.

I hope this kind of thing is very strange, the most beautiful time is often not get the time.

That...... What to do?

The answer is very simple and very helpless: without the teacher, we will be our own teachers.

And as a teacher, the first thing we need to figure out is the three most important questions: What to learn? How to learn? How to supervise?

Learn what?

What is the first thing to learn? Directly throws my point of view, is: from the work content starts, the work uses what to learn what .

I think there are two characteristics of technical knowledge: the stable structure of jujube kernel and the structure of Net-link .

Learning and using knowledge at work is not the same as the knowledge in the student age has been broken down into clear sequences and steps, clearly knowing what to learn first. There are now many students are easy to be a new technology to lead the nose, chasing new tide, but slowly will find the more new and more tide of technology is easier to quickly outdated, followed by a cry, in my opinion is also because of the technical knowledge of these two characteristics caused by the following we come in-depth chat.

Stable structure of jujube kernel type

Refers to the closer to the bottom (language, algorithm, data structure, HTTP, TCP ...). And the closer to the upper layer (layering, component, concept, theory, pattern, experience, thought, balance) the less and more stable the knowledge and experience, and the closer the middle (frame, tool) the more and more unstable.

Mesh junction Structure

Refers to the computer technology does not have a linear learning route, all the knowledge and technology is a network of nodes, the nodes are connected to each other (this also explains why the first people will be very tangled, too many things, do not know what to learn, and the campus of the familiar clear linear learning path is not the same), which caused It's hard to learn things at first , and the faster you learn them, because most of the new technologies are only associated with other known nodes in their knowledge network.

So for the first question of what to learn, my advice is:

• Based on the knowledge of the stable structure of jujube kernel, the focus of time on the bottom and high-level knowledge building, the intermediate level of tools and frameworks to learn what, the main purpose is to enrich and practice the bottom and high-level knowledge system.
• Based on the knowledge of the network connection structure, so in the work, regardless of "net" at which point to start learning, are correct, do not waste time to choose what kind of technology.
• Learn more with more practice more thinking more summary, not anxious crash, do not demand the latest fashion, meditation training to build their own knowledge network system.

Extended reading:

• Technical Practice – I Code it
• What is better knowledge – Li Yu to

How to learn?

After defining what to learn, it is the question of how to learn. I suggest more hands-on, more practice. to say that a little on the tall is to know the line of oneness. There are many ways to practice, the simplest is to practice in the actual work, which is why I said in front of the work of what to learn the main reason. Because of this we can maximize the knowledge put into practice, the maximum use of working time to learn, and the results of the practice of feedback to work, the so-called homeopathic and for, boating, without too much effort, you will be faster than others, go far.

There are many ways to practice, such as blogging, sharing, and many of the people we know are very early bloggers who write blogs. One thing to remind is that writing is for your own sake, so don't write because you're afraid of writing. Daniel, the reason why they can become Daniel, is to first blow out the cows, and then forcing themselves to do it all.

Extended reading:

• Unity of knowledge and line – Li Guanglei
• It's not me, I have nothing to take – transparent thinking
• Publish the Knowledge –iamhukai
• Writing-driven learning

How to supervise?

Know what to learn, know how to learn, there is a most important problem, is that you say all right, but I can not do ah! Without the teacher, there is no urge and supervision. At this time we must fulfill another important duty of the teacher: urge. that is, we often say self-management, to be their own teachers.

Self-management is not complicated, and planning is a simple way to manage yourself now, and there are many ways of self-management. While GTD (Getting things done), is one of the most widely used set of time and task management methods. I myself also use this way to manage myself, make plans, collect tasks, break down tasks, perform tasks, review tasks, and summarize tasks.

The only thing to note is that GTD is not a simple to-do list, nor a specific tool, but a complete set of methodologies. Everyone will have different practices, tools, and processes. Do not waste time and money on the choice of tools, and do not struggle to understand why other people's methods themselves with the effect is not good. It took me 5 years to find a way to suit myself, and some things made haste.

Extended reading:

• My Time management and methodology – the faded ink

How to open the field of vision?

Finally, a problem that bothers a lot of people: today's technology, you let me not impetuous, only focus on the work of those skills and knowledge, how to ensure that they are not behind closed doors? How can I open my horizons and breadth when you old birds are very important and breadth-minded every day? How to find the balance of depth and breadth?

I myself am through PKM (Personal knowledge Management), the Chinese is called the personal knowledge management way to ensure oneself in the depth and the breadth to strike the balance. GTD is used to manage tasks and time, and PKM is a management knowledge, especially suited to the era of fragmented information explosion such as the present.

PKM can let us focus on a technical field at the same time, with a small cost to collect, collate, summarize other aspects of information and knowledge, expand their horizons, increase their knowledge of the precipitation and breadth, and slowly build their own knowledge system.

For example, I will now browse almost 1000 articles per day (title), collection of dozens of of them, after several years of accumulation, has now collected thousands of fine resources, and these slowly built my personal knowledge system. And these things will only occupy me for half an hour or so of time, visible accumulation of power, can 10th not general, not one day not arch stroke.

Extended reading:

• Programmer's Knowledge Management – Chohansson
• My list of knowledge management tools – Moonlight Blog
• Do not learn the east, the first to establish their own knowledge system it! – Peng

Summary and too long non-read version

In fact, without a teacher, not necessarily a good feeling. Because we not only want to continue to do students, continuous learning, but also to be a teacher, planning and urging themselves to learn. As an old teacher with more than 10 years ' seniority, I suggest you:

• What to learn: work with what to learn, but pay attention to the underlying knowledge and high-level concept of thinking and accumulation.
• How to learn: more hands-on, more practice, think more, write more blogs, share more
• How to supervise: GTD
• How to ensure the balance of knowledge width and depth: PKM (personal knowledge management)

• Label:
• Gtd
• PKM

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Without a teacher, how to learn?