3W hours of learning programming
I am a very hardworking child, since childhood.
The only thing my family asks of me is to study.
I was in a children's school and had access to computers relatively early. At that time I learned Wubi, CCED and WPS. WPS has a universal password: hold down the Ctrl key + Qiu Bojun's full spell. I use it to find all the love letters I can find on my school computer. This is the first time I have felt the dividends of information asymmetry.
Later I also wrote a program. The password is: Ctrl + Jiang Zhihui.
Programming this skill requires a lot of deliberate practice with real guns.
There is a law of genius, you can become an expert only after you have immersed in a field for about 1W hours. I'm a bit stupid and used 3W hours.
I'm guessing it's because of those traditional learning patterns that took me a lot of detours. I've been trying to understand who wrote "Cinderella"? Which country and dynasty? From Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen? (Please search for the differences in education between Chinese and American teachers when they talk about "Cinderella")
Progress is very slow. I was a little discouraged at first, and it took me a long time to get out of this tangle.
hindsight
The 1W hour rule is based on skillful, deliberate practice.
A master has been renting for 5 years, is his driving skills very good? A programmer has been writing code for 5 years, is his technology superb? Not really.
The practice of programming basic skills is the same as the practice of martial arts boxing. Through a set of effective "boxing methods", the basic skills are built into it, and repeated practice makes the development skills a part of the finger memory. In this way, when faced with actual development, we don't need to worry about basic skills and spend more time thinking about business logic.
At the same time practice requires methods.
10,000 hours of practice in this skill of CRUD does not make you a master. You need a body of knowledge, and then split this body of knowledge into several small nodes, and practice a lot of deliberate repetition for each node. (About this part, you can reply to jQlite in my personal public account "Jiang Hushuo" to see how I designed Kata exercises for JS)
Set up a set of standards and an instant feedback mechanism to facilitate continuous adjustment and improvement. Establish connections between each node and nodes to form a systematic knowledge network. This kind of practice is deliberate.
This seems to be a good thing now, as it allowed me to slowly move from traditional exam-oriented learning to practical learning.
This transition guided me to take classes at Peking University for two years, learning everything I wanted to learn, from philosophy to business administration. There are some of the best learning resources in the country. You can straddle a variety of subjects, choose what to study, no exams or tuition fees. Just don't have a diploma.
do what you like
I don't need a diploma. I am the best proof there. The change brought about by this kind of thinking made me start to explore all kinds of possibilities. At first I fell in love with graffiti. Just simply love. When you do what you love, the field around you changes. This may be the "law of attraction". I met a lot of people at the time...and then we formed VTC together.
I find that a lot of industries are actually driven by some layman. Because they have some enthusiasm in their own practitioners that they do not have. Doodles have helped me a lot in my work. I'm not a professional painter and can't figure out shadows and perspective. This is great, it pushes me to express the complexity behind it with the simplest lines.
I don't have PPT for my classes and I don't need to take notes. Some people sit around casually and communicate freely and simply. This approach made me very popular, and the course pay went up. One person, one story is a form of drama that I like very much.
There I learned to listen to everyone's stories and to feel their lives with my heart. Then present it with a performance. All presentation and feedback is immediate, in the moment. Thankfully, before learning about those so-called product methodologies, I knew one person, one story.
Products serve people, and no method can be separated from the understanding of human nature.
What technology is used is important, but more importantly what problem is solved for the user. Insight, Empathy, Scenario, Awareness, Germination, Action, Feedback. That's how to make a product. It's also a way to form a team.
Around the end of 2003, I formed a software development team. My character also started erratic. It is a programmer, a manager, and an architect. I read a lot of books, from technology to management, from CMMI to agile. Guidance has helped me a lot.
Contact guide because of a very accidental opportunity. Of course it is inevitable. Changes in consciousness affect the field around you. In turn, the surrounding field will also act on you. Not doing a proper job has allowed me to meet many friends outside the original field. I acted on them, and they acted on me.
我开始学习各种各样的理论，SPOT、开放空间、行动学习、U型理论等等。那些理论让我认识到最好的答案并不是由你传达的，而是来自于人的内部。来自于他的自我认知。这更改了我的世界观，更改了我和他人的相处方式，更改了我对团队的认识。
我不讲什么是自组织，因为你就沉浸在自组织的场域里。我也不讲什么是敏捷，你可以在那个场域里自己去感知。就像禅。我看了张小龙在饭否上的日记，我能理解他当时的状态。我也修习禅学、每天会静心冥想。它并不高深，就像刷牙洗脸一样。你需要每天清理你身上的木马程序。
我开始接触任何不务正业的领域。比如练习写作、音乐。当然也包括「姜胡说」这个公众账号。(我发现音乐可以影响人的情绪。在互联网时代它可以做为一个非常酷的”界面”影响人们学习的场域)。
有一个T型理论，就是当你的纵向足够深的时候，横向发展会给你带来更大的收益。
【注】比如我在纵线上花费了 10 年的时间，从 2 万到 20 万。但并不代表你也需要 10 年。这和打游戏是一样的，没有地图，漫无目的的瞎走，会浪费很多时间。有个人带着下副本，会轻松很多。有时候花点银子找个 NPC 问问路，还是挺划算的。我那会儿就是太穷了。
从 20 万到 200 万，用了差不多 5 年的时间不务正业，其实是在完成这条横线。
有前面 10000 小时打下的根基，在进入其他领域时，实际上用不了 1W 小时，很快就可以成为一名 大工。因为这个时候的你已经拥有了学习方法，会节省很多时间。同时社交货币的价值也体现出来了，你见到的是另一个领域同一级别的 BOSS，不需要从一袋弟子做起。
别只盯着后 5 年，既需要低头走路，还要抬头看天。两者缺一不可。
我发现这是一个很好的理论基础。我的发展轨迹也确实证明了这一点。但我并不是基于这个理论才行动的。我是基于热爱。别紧张，他不是要寻找你的终身伴侣。我根本没准备把视觉、引导、戏剧当成我的终身职业。甚至还有点始乱终弃。他们是我人生中的过客。经历过就好。
接触他们是因为那一瞬间会让我兴奋。当你做自己喜欢做的事时，时间就弯曲了，你整个人都开始绽放光芒。根据吸引力法则，你身边就会聚集很多很多和你一样的人。你徜徉在那里面，甚至都不用刻意的行动，生命会自然的把你带到你该去的地方。就像河流，你只需要顺着它就可以了。
打破思维局限、提升视野
我猜想很多人会说，那是因为你已经实现了财务自由。
不。这和财务自由没有关系。他们没有时间的先后，他们是相互的。
我知道说服你也『不务正业』这很难。你需要打破原有思维的局限。墙的作用就是让你知道自己能够达到的最大高度。很多时候你不愿意跳出牢笼，是因为一旦跳出牢笼，那些原本的食物没有了。别给自己太多限制，视野有时候比工作效率更重要。
比如从 1 加到 100，最后的结果是多少？你是怎么算出来的？难道真的是从 1 加到 100？
由你的内心出发。找到那些让你兴奋的事，然后进入其中。不要太功利，你做这些仅仅是因为你快乐。快乐会带给你无限的创造力。你不需要刻意为之，你不需要辞掉原来的工作，不要从一个极端到达另一个极端。我仅仅是提醒你不要把全部的时间都浪费在为了生存上。
喜欢就去接触他们，享受他们给你带来的快乐。站在科技和人文的十字路口。中国正在进入一个愿意为知识和创造力消费的时代。