Today reproduced a Liu Peng, 10 years ago, not a blog, "Why should you (from now on) write a blog," I feel very good summary, at university I read, because from this blog so I 13 years began to insist on writing blog. Liu Peng, not the more recent blog nor may his blog slowly sank, but I think he can not sink a lot of quality content, like on this article, I think it suits entering CSDN, the beginning of school students technology Therefore hereby reproduced once. Original Address http://mindhacks.cn/2009/02/15/why-you-should-start-blogging-now/ , this is his blog, interested junior partner can focus the next.
A. Why should you (from now on) to write blog
Is the one sentence, write a blog has many benefits, but without any apparent harm . (Situation Arlington is an exception rather than the norm, as smoke can not get to live to a hundred cases of a British woman of great damage to refute smoking on health, like)
Let me be clear: in the form of blog to record your valuable thinking, will bring many benefits, but without any apparent harm . Note: Sui Suinian not thinking, mood Notions not think whining is not too think, not too Meihuazhaohua think, so please.
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Here is a write long I personally think that the value of blog Some of the biggest benefits:
1. Be able to make many like-minded friends
Either way I write a blog, read other people's blog, in this day and age, for the life of most people, to broaden the circle of friends is almost only one, through the network, and how to find like-minded friends in the network how to judge others and whether they have a common language? Obviously, those diaries every day on SNS Sui Suinian is difficult to do. I admire some of my friends almost all long-term record with blog ideas of people, therefore, and even if they do not fight face to face, but also tacitly . Even if never met you can sit down to talk in full swing.
Why blog make like-minded friends in the potential to be far better than the original terms of conversational style? Very simple, first, blog without geographical restrictions, across the Internet from A to B is only a click away , and the traditional way to create a circle of friends is subject to geographical restrictions. Second , and more important point, that is, if the manner previously make friends, we need to chat with each other, exchange ideas, and then gradually familiar, which requires a long process, but even worse is when you encounter another a stranger, and the whole process should be repeated once, you have to express the idea of remarks old friend once expressed. Can blog has done, " once expressed, many times read ," When I saw several years to write a blog, after reading this and if I talk to people for a long time, with programmers like to listen to the words of that " blog greatly enhanced reusability discourse " .
I have written in the past six years of the CSDN blog , set up a Google Groups (in a year and a half ago TopLanguage ), because of my blog readers are long-term have a common language with each other, so the Group beginning in full swing , while the high quality of the technical discussions to further attract more people to participate in cattle, after the snowball roll up, it is difficult to stop, nearly a year and a half down from my discussion of the Group's benefit [1 ]. As for the non-programmer friend, scientific squirrel is a good example.
2. Writing in order to better thinking
I was "writing is to better thinking," which detailed summary of the benefits of writing, there is not a copy and paste. Some ideas if you do not write it down, forget it, there is a widespread "Math cattle people of anecdotes" (Glory to ukim) which tells a story of Hilbert: a discussion in the class of Hilbert, a young man report, which used a very beautiful theorem, Hilbert said, "this is really a wonderful (wunderbaschon) theorem Yeah, who discovered?" the young man stood dazed for a long time, said Hilbert: " It's you.……".
3. "teaching" is the best "learning"
If one thing you can not make it clear, in all likelihood you are not completely understood . Most people should know in the industry programmers often interviewer asks you to explain something to him, he would say he did not understand this thing (if you really do not know if he really is the best effect), and your Speaking task is to make him understand so far.
In order for a person to do understand do not understand, you have to know to understand exactly what he does not understand the concept to master, forcing us to our brains a whole body of knowledge to get to the bottom, hidden under the surface of the water all those things out of you, the brain that we know, but do not know they know the underlying concepts or assumptions (assumptions) are dug up, put them from implicit memory pulled into explicit memory in. Because only fully aware of, and know that they know all the ins and outs of who can really put the thing all let in .
However, you may wonder, can make it clear that in addition to outside, there are other things to find out what the benefits of their own in the end what you know? If there are no other benefits, then why should I charge this trouble? I'm not a teacher.
A friend on TopLanguage sagasw had talked about such a story: before said that in a well-known software companies, the development team will be on the table stood a bear, we ask each other questions, first against the Cubs say the problem again see if you can clear description of the problem, after basically say relatively organized, the answer will come into play . Of course, you do not have to say to the Cubs, you can make one audience in the brain, listeners do not understand a line, and then you say to him. This is possible, I often use the road. But if you can sit down, I suggest you say the actual audience to listen - that is to write down your thinking, because writing is better to think .
Most of our knowledge most of the time hidden in the subconscious, in fact, a very small window of our consciousness, our working memory can only accommodate a few entries (remember that "you can see on the screen at the same time remember the flash how many digital "flash games you?), the reasoning process we usually made it mostly automated , take place in the subconscious, and we can only perceive to some intermediate conclusions. Do not believe you recall how many times you think "when others discuss issues anyway, is the way I feel it is right, but you ask me, I can not tell how matter in the end ," this do not you think strange? If you support the conclusion that you can not pass on logic, how can you be sure it's right? Just because your intuition tells you that it is strongly right? What if there is another person next to him and you hold the opposite idea, but his intuition told him strongly he was right. This time how do you think? "His intuition was wrong, my intuition was right"? Are you so confident your intuition is the most reliable?
I myself was very cherished opportunity like this , that is, when "I strongly feel that it is right, but I can not tell what they were," this time is often the time rummaging through the brain and figure out the ins and outs of the time, in-depth the time to reflect, to correct the underlying premise has always been wrong assumptions when . On the other hand, " I strongly think this is a problem, but I can not tell why it is a problem, in the end how can there be a problem ", which is a very significant moment, it almost always means that you are a problem understanding of potential bias, certainly in yourself are not aware of where the introduction of a potential hypothesis, substitution of an important concept, and so on. And this time is deeply pondering time, when you finally dive into the underlying problem, touch the essence of the problem, the whole iceberg under the water when you see the whole body create a feeling there will be a feeling.
Why these? Because just said is that you have to wait for the opportunity to reflect on this, but if you choose often summarize their knowledge, and say listen to your readers, you will find yourself creating that opportunity . If we usually do not reflect, we think a lot of things are, of course, but the results if you want to speak to someone else a will often find that things started to become less obvious, you talking, she began inexplicably find yourself needing to use " anyway, " this term.
So, the opportunity to reflect on the come.
Once you put inside your own subconscious pull something out from behind the scenes, you have to face and reflect on their possible, rather than any of their sinister about your thinking behind the scenes. Many times we are thinking of a problem is not that we do not reflect on, but do not know their thinking in those assumptions (assumptions) implicit, if you just feel the answer, but do not know until you get the answer brain What reasoning, and how do you know which ring may be a problem with it ? On the other hand, once you knew who in the end is how to think, not far from aware of the problem, a very simple reason - if someone else and you always argue when only put position, you'll struggle with him debate, but if he put his reasoning exactly exposed to you, it is always much easier to criticize. (It is because of this reason there are a lot of people are always hiding behind the logic, not exposed)
In fact, most of the time we will unthinkingly draw some conclusions, like clockwork automaton , but in fact we do not know how come these conclusions in the end, in the end what's happening behind the thinking, and therefore when we we found the wrong conclusion when, confused, can not set out to find where is wrong. If you look at a lot of people speak (forum, blog, etc.), if you take their statements into "precondition", "assume", "logical", "conclusion" four parts, you will find a lot of people will stop to conclusions, swing position, but did not see or leave the premise of these conclusions, assumptions and a logic, it would not be logical that they do not want to write, but to reflect on their thinking process because it is a piece very difficult thing, a large part of our reasoning processes take place below the water surface of consciousness, and only when the time has important conclusion of this logic chain will float out to take a bubble, let our consciousness to capture. Not to mention most of the time we are using is not really complete strict logical thinking, but thinking shortcut .
To teach people a completely do not understand, it is a reflection of the most powerful and thorough way - because he did not have any preliminary knowledge, so let him understand that you know, you have a radical rethink your knowledge system, understand the foundation of this building where you are, find out what it's skeleton in place, brick by brick in the end is how base up, you can not stand on its own layer 11, and then assume that your readers stand on 10 floors, counting just tell him 11th floor have those content to let him know. Your readers stand on the first floor, you must know your walking at the foot of the other 10 layers in the end is how construction. This forces you to correct those things as thoroughly, deep reflection, the more your audience do not understand, you need to have to reflect on the more profound right, or possession before you think .
4. Discussion is an excellent reflection
On the other hand, many times we do not have the opportunity to say to people who listen to fully understand, the greater the possibility is said to have some basis in the same field who listen , this time does not mean they can not be led to reflect the fact you will find that if you open your mind, almost always see people you disagree with, and then you pass the difference between you and compare his ideas , you will find there is on the idea of beginning the difference, the difference come from? In further discussion, you will continue to force the other to come up with a deeper reason , which is also a very effective method to promote their own reflection in the course of discussion of the reasons the two sides will naturally become deeper and deeper, more the closer to the essence of the problem, a few usually difficult to notice the difference deep levels will gradually emerge, you are also more than a rare opportunity to examine their own thinking in the end what is stored wrong information .
5. encourage you to continue to learn and think
If you do not have the habit of continuous learning and thinking, your blog will soon no content to write, you can only stop the annoying chatters or reprint the whole point, then you will lose readers, then you'll turn off the blog, and then once after you turn off the blog will die of heart to blog, and then a little way to motivate you to think and summarize, then you become more upset summary and thinking, and then ...
To break this cycle of death and do not permanently stop updating your blog, even if you two months, three months, do not write, as long as you are of each product to write to think for themselves, to write something of value, on the Internet, gold indeed always shining, because there are a myriad of information aggregation platform in anticipation of these valuable content, search engines have to offer massive potential readers of your content, there is a mass of human flesh in the manual excavation and reprint those valuable things. One of the worst decisions we can do than to stop doing something no harm, there are a lot of things that benefit .
To make your blog valuable, you have to constantly sum up the results of their own learning, you have to constantly think, given profound than others, unique insights. It looks a bit cart before the horse, but soon and this will end up being.
6. learn to do one thing consistently
A lot of people in life is easy to feel lost and do not know what you want to do, because no one can continue to do, with the saying goes, it is no backbone. In the words of positive psychology, it is not possible to create a streaming experience things that matter, and write their ideas is an easy flow of produce experience, at the time of writing, especially when writing rationally, gradually into the brain inference analysis module, all unpleasant emotions, irritability sense blanking will gradually go down. But the premise is that you have to start, and insisted that the beginning of a difficult period, after everything has become second nature.
7. A long-term value of a blog is a good resume
Here the "resume" is not resume in the narrow sense, after all, it is not yet the era value of the blog , a lot of people write a blog or simply annoying chatters are reproduced everywhere, precisely because the interviewer may not take personal blog as a man of understanding more reliable window. Here the "resume" means a let others know their window, although we may not do it like Overheating, Keso this blog, personal influence is sufficient to support a career out (Bullog and 5gme), but at least you will So get to know more people, the higher the value of your blog, the more cattle you get to know people, to communicate with people and let your cattle greatly broaden horizons, opened up the large door did not know you had , so you become more cattle ... it's a virtuous circle .
II. How to do long-term value to write a blog
Notice I did not say "how long do adhere to write a value of the blog," because when thinking and summarizing a habit, put into words as well as to further reflection becomes a natural thing by means of writing, it becomes a an "because you have to write down in order to think and summary" thing, blog becomes a by-product.
In the beginning because you write blog away and think hard to sum up, expect to be given something eye-catching, to the later, it becomes because you're used to thinking and summary, because you realize that writing is better to think, you have to make your ideas become words. So far this will end and each in his own place, not reversed.
How do long-term value to write a blog? Maybe someone will give a lot of interesting helpful tips to provide motivation and incentives, such as how to do SEO, how to encourage reader comments, and so on, but these I do not want to say, I just want to say the most important thing, that is:
Let yourself to be a person continuous learning and thinking, and what you really think and write only after the product summary, everything else will follow.
Like the phrase people often circulated words: only things you are most interested in, the money will follow [2].
Specific examples of this we can look at, you can see, not a stroke of. I would like to repeat that, do not stop the annoying chatters, I can understand everyone wants the occasional urge to blow off steam, but now have a good window: twitter, so stop immediately on your blog Sui Suinian, read the blog people want to get information rather than noise. If you can not help but want to stop the annoying chatters may wish to change places, so tell yourself: If you see someone on a blog to such a period, you will be interested to see it?
III. Issues that may arise and how to cope
Even if the reasons given above, the N to blog, but sometimes as long as a reason not to write it will make people stop doing one thing. So I add a special "issues that may arise and how to deal with", "influence 2" [3] The fifth chapter eloquently proved that, "Much of Will is Skill" , willpower largely comes from the correct approach, rather than innate .
1. worry about what others think of no value
The fact is, you faced problems faced someone, you think independently, and others do not, your article will be valuable to them. Of course, some people will certainly be of no value, they already know, but even if you then powerful, always someone better than you are, can not say that these reasons do not record your own ideas, your own thinking Once you understand the most profound, even if there are other people thought about it, people have not thought of. Moreover, thinking becomes a habit, your thinking will become increasingly strong, your article will be more valuable. Repeat, no matter what you are facing confusion, there is always a lot of people also face too, so after the results of your thinking very hard, a lot of people will certainly be interesting.
Or, after you figured out that is actually very simple so reluctant or embarrassed to write, but you know, after the issue figured out always simple, the difficulty lies not figured out yet that after how difficult, but rather from you find it difficult that you think it's simply how much thought physically takes , the longer you spend time, indicating that there are more people ultimately did not want to understand (the road longer go in the end fewer people).
Finally, although I now see the article a year ago feel very immature, but without those immature thinking, there will not be now more mature reflection, I wrote a few years later things look now, still feel immature .
2. The idea worried too naive or vulnerable, and so is being a joke
People are not saints. It is because of a single person's ideas are always flawed, it is worth out exchange ( "Writing is better to think" , discussion is an excellent reflection), by others pointed out that the problem is the room for improvement, not conceal The idea never become more mature.
Much of intelligence is knowledge, there is such a very thought-provoking classic psychology experiment [4]:
The children were divided into two groups by giving them a different set of reading materials to make believe that intelligence is innate, unchangeable in the day after tomorrow, the other group so that they believe that intelligence is really just a synonym for knowledge and skills, is entirely a learned of. Let them do a set of tasks, those who believe that intelligence is innate say children tend to avoid the difficult task of selecting the easier task, surely logic here is this: If you do difficult tasks, increases the failure chance, in reducing the value of their own intelligence and their own in the eyes of others. In order to protect the value of intelligence is not reduced, you should avoid those with risk of failure of the project. While another group of children are eager for a challenging thing, and obviously the former is not depressed at the time of failure, because failure is to learn new things, anyway is to improve the "intelligence" of.
Moreover, only criticism and even ridicule someone who is most people do not know how the construction, ignore them.
3. lack of incentives
In fact, this is the most boring question, and only write the blog will stop the annoying chatters face the problem of "incentive" of. If you write your own summary, write your own independent thinking, then write down, transparent understanding of itself is a great incentive. Even on his private notebook inside the same sense of accomplishment. Moreover, if you really did write the value of blog , then we need not worry about your point of view can not be spread, maybe a little longer to start would be time-consuming, but it is necessary in the initial stages of any matter, Gmail central figure in the group, FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit , bloggers and community programming blogger Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror are once lamented: (Overnight Success Takes a Long Time (1) , () 2 ), however, the value of the blog network is now the aggregation service class so much, machines, human flesh, human flesh has half, but also the situation is much better, and I believe the situation will get better and better.
4. write to
This problem is also more boring, think this is not an anxious thing. Long-term subscribe to my blog friends know I usually issued in a month thirty-five frequency, there are actually quite a few times a month I do not publish the article, the reason is very simple, either have the time to deal with the matter at hand is thinking compressed, or is suffering from major or difficult issues that need to think long and heritage, it does not matter, if you do not think clearly think again, love to think of people who do not like to think there is an essential difference, the former life is always wearing several problems in the brain, they often will emerge to harass you and let you pondering, I do not love to think it is all right not to take the initiative to the problem, but also to think about problems encountered if you can find a shortcut (to get help) to solve.
In any case, do not be so anxious, deep down thinking on a topic, people can always dig dug corner. You can make a time problem stays in the brain longer, the more able to find something new, generally speaking, I think I'll make him a valuable question to be as short as a week of consciousness or subconscious, as long a month (depending on the size of the problem), use of walking dinner time pondering (I found that I admire a lot of people who have this habit), and sometimes even written down already figured out sent out, the brain will still remain in the aftertaste issue, have not taken it to withdraw the subconscious, and then saw an article or a book when suddenly there are new insights .
Able to stop the problem for a long time in the subconscious is a skill that can bring great benefits, the longer you stay the more refined too thorough, the more to see than others . We have to look at things with glasses problem to discover new perspectives, or turn a blind eye effect will be, to say the least, well-known example is Archimedes "Eureka!", If not for a long time wondering one problem, has put it in thinking, not from the bath to comprehend "the measured volume drain", otherwise he washed so many years without a bath how early detection of it? [5]
So, if you are accustomed to think, there will always be something to write, to think first, and then a summary, and then further reflection in the summary.
Of course, you can also try the immature ideas down, trying to sort out the clarity of the text, and then see if we can go further in the process of finishing. This is often feasible. For example, this article in my abbreviated there had in fact only three lines (containing about a dozen memos keywords) to problems emerge initially in my mind there is only one walk - why write blog?
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[1] You can look at some of the wonderful theme of my collection .
Spirit [2] Although I do not fully agree with this statement in itself, but this solution is more basic aspects of the problem chain problem is that I agree with.
[3] "influence 2" is the name from the very clever, in fact, it is not of the "influence" of writing.
[4] I forgot that the source of the experiment, but the spirit of the experiment is to remember, and students who remember the original source of the trouble to remind me.
[5] For the story of Archimedes authenticity is disputed , after all, thousands of years old who makes things clear yet. But the truth is the very essence of the story, we usually often have a similar experience, coupled with Archimedes "Eureka" is too famous, so I believe that with the use anyway.
