In the previous article " How do we achieve self-improvement after work ", I mentioned that deliberate practice in the study area was limited in space and did not explain much, so some students left a message in the background to ask, so I have a chat today The methodology of "deliberate practice".
What is deliberate practice? Wikipedia explains: Intentionally learn materials and convert them to memory, as opposed to accidental learning . My understanding is to jump out of the comfort zone of the brain, focus on the learning area of the brain, and improve through effective feedback .
The main features of deliberate practice: 1. Repeat the practice in the "learning area" 2. Get timely and effective feedback
Repeating exercises in the study area
One characteristic of deliberate practice is to repeat practice in the study area. I believe that most people have read the book "Heterogeneous" and once said something like this:
The reason why the genius in the eyes of people is extraordinary is not that it is superhuman, but that it has made continuous efforts. After 10,000 hours of tempering, anyone can change from ordinary to extraordinary.
However, the more rigorous theory of 1W hours of practice should be "1W small moments of intentional practice", because simply repeating the work content of the comfort zone has little meaning for one's own work and limited personal improvement.
There is a saying in software development. A person says that he has done system development for 5 years, but the actual situation may be 1 year of development, and then repeated 5 years. This refers to repetitive exercises in the comfort zone, which is less helpful for improving your technical ability.
Among the three areas of the brain's comfort zone, learning zone, and panic zone, only jumping out of the comfort zone and entering the learning zone for repeated exercises is the most effective, and then gradually turning the panic zone into the learning zone, and the original learning zone becomes the comfort zone. In this way, iteratively repeat the practice and keep improving.
Timely and effective feedback
Another characteristic of deliberate practice is timely and effective feedback. Timely feedback not only allows us to grow faster in professional knowledge, but also to better understand ourselves.
The important thing to get effective feedback is to find senior people in this field and continue to reflect and upgrade yourself through their guidance. Fortunately, I have the guidance of good teachers and helpful friends on the road to start programming, and I have avoided many detours.
There are often non-CS majors who want to know a little programming technology, and I hope I recommend some materials for some suggestions. In this case, I generally recommend technologies such as Python or HTML/CSS for him to understand first, rather than technologies such as C++ and JAVA. There is no other reason. These development techniques can allow beginners to immediately see the corresponding effect and give effective feedback, and will not give up because of the delay in the beginning.
An effective feedback can not only make it easier for us to persevere, but also know our shortcomings, so as to conduct more targeted training.
Common mistakes
Knowing the method of deliberate practice, we can solve the misunderstandings in our daily lives.
For example, those who think that they are not suitable for doing XX are related to genetic errors. The reason is that most of the work tasks can be solved by repeated practice, and seldom reach the task of fighting talent genes. And after intensive training, reaching the level of genius is only a matter of time. One of the famous examples is that researchers have allowed 24 young children to have Mozart's perfect pitch ability through one year of training.
For example, there is a misunderstanding of thinking that as long as you work hard, you will gain something. If you learn by stubbornly and violently, you ignore the comfort zone, learning zone and effective feedback. Why do the same learning, the same teacher, and some students are better? Some of the reasons.
Keep practicing
Deliberate practice is a down-to-earth method of thinking. The main thing is that you need to spend time in the study area to practice, get guidance and feedback, so as to constantly correct your own problems. If there is a process that is interrupted, the effect will be greatly reduced.
For deliberate practice, I think the meaning of my personal guidance is:
Know what is effective practice and what is invalid practice.
If we don't take the initiative to set limits on ourselves, even if we can't be a genius, we can achieve a certain achievement through a certain amount of practice. The key is whether we really want to do it.
No matter how many methodology, we still need to practice.