1.Choose direction
Before doing anything, you must first determine the direction. Learning skills is no exception. People are always full of infinite passion for the fields they are interested in. There is one biggest difference between the fields they are interested in and other fields, and that is: tirelessness. That is to say, if the field you engage in at the beginning is an area that interests you, or the skills you learn at the beginning are skills that you are excited about, then you will never tire of it and learn and grow automatically and spontaneously.
The direction is very important because it is a basic job, and it is one of the fundamental factors that determine whether you can continue to learn this skill in the future. You have to choose an industry that you are willing to engage in for the rest of your life based on your own interests, and stick to this learning behavior for life through your own interests. At that time, it will be difficult for you not to become famous.
Furthermore, giving priority to the fields that interest you will shorten your learning time. With the stimulation of your own brain, you can quickly learn relevant knowledge in this field. In an era when time is so precious, everyone wants to use the fastest time. To become an expert in a certain field, after all, you grow fast enough, and you will enjoy the feeling of being respected in advance.
2. Concentrate
Some people have such a problem, that is, they want to learn all kinds of skills in one go. As everyone knows, one of the key factors in learning skills is whether you can focus your limited time on the learning of existing skills. If you spend one or two hours learning 10 skills, you can only get an average of 6-12 minutes for each skill. This kind of learning time is not enough to quickly learn the skills you want to learn. of.
If you want to learn a skill quickly, you must focus your time on learning this skill. Some people always have such a situation, that is, today they see a field that they are interested in, and they will learn it. Tomorrow, when I see another field and I feel very good, I will go to study again, which will easily lead to the dispersion of energy. In the end, it still had little effect. It is undoubtedly irresponsible to one's own life to waste too much time shuttling through the learning of various skills. Not being consistent is a taboo for any skill acquisition.
Some students are really interested in new fields. The author provides you with a method, which is to record the skills that you are temporarily interested in and make a list. When you've mastered your current skills, you can take time off to learn other skills that are of great interest to you. This will not delay your main business, which is what you will rely on for a living in the future, nor will you miss out on your additional business. It's better to have it, and it doesn't matter if you don't have it. Your top priority is to make your main business "refined and thorough".
3. Set goals
Learning in any field is inseparable from the management of goals. Without goals, you will not acquire skills quickly, and without goals, you will not be able to test whether you match the results you set in the first place. Only when you engrave your expected goals in your heart, will you continue to push yourself towards excellence.
Of course, the more detailed the goal, the better. You list all the key points that you need to pay attention to in the process of learning this skill, and write down all the details of learning this skill. This will enable you to constantly review your progress and level during the skill acquisition process, and reflect your efforts. The direction is firmly in your own hands, and it will definitely bring about twice the result with half the effort for your rapid learning of skills.
When setting goals, be sure to remember to match your own learning situation. No one can become a master-level figure all at once. Therefore, the setting of goals must be reasonable and must be done step by step. Don't expect yourself to be a master at the beginning. You have to take into account both ability and efficiency. You can lower your standards. When you are truly proficient, you can move towards perfection.
4. Decomposition skills
Generally speaking, we need to refine and decompose the learning of most skills. You must follow the steps and learn step by step. Just like learning English, you will not become an expert in simultaneous interpretation at first. You need to follow the basic-advanced-professional learning strategy. At the beginning, you must first learn the English letters and how to pronounce them, and then master them. Words, and then sentences, until you reach the state of fluent expression and barrier-free communication.
Our decomposition of skill learning steps helps us grasp the key content of each learning node at any time. As long as we master all the key content, our learning will be more efficient. Because in the process of learning skills, through subdivision and analysis, we can see where the skill is the key point and where it can be ignored, so as to save learning time and be aware of the results and efficiency of our own learning.
5. Use of tools
Learning a skill is inseparable from reasonable and effective tools. Of course, this kind of tool does not only refer to the entry-level operation tools that you must have when learning this skill. For example, tennis rackets in tennis learning, cameras in photography, etc. You also want to keep an eye on the latest learning tools in your field of study. Just like our most common English learning software, mobile APPs, online learning English websites, and online and offline communication tools to continuously practice your spoken English.
Nowadays, new technologies are emerging one after another, and you can find and try new products provided by innovators in those industries by yourself. The current infrastructure is very different from before, and the advancement of new technologies is a great help for us to learn skills quickly. Using the Internet to chat with foreigners is nothing new, using iPad to study is not an unattainable tool, and using Kindle to read is not new either.
It’s not that you can learn any skill just by leveraging new tools. All we focus on is using new tools to improve your learning efficiency. Learning tools can be used flexibly, and you can boldly try anything that is helpful for quickly improving your skills. If you spend 2,000 yuan to purchase new tools, it will ultimately save you time to master the skill. Even if it is only a week, you will be able to do it in the end. The rewards you get will be n times your previous investment. You must remember this key point. Don't always focus on old learning methods, but keep an eye on all directions and listen to all directions. You can use them as long as they are beneficial to improving your learning efficiency.
6. Remove obstacles
Certain factors can create obstacles in the process of learning a skill, which can make it more difficult for you to learn that skill. These obstacles may be in the following areas:
a. Environmental interference : There is too much noise around you when you are studying, which makes you unable to concentrate on studying. For example, when you are learning to write, you need a quiet environment to plan the layout of your article, and you need a quiet space to think, and you need quiet. The environment to stimulate your own inspiration, this problem is something you have to solve.
b. Interference from equipment : For example, the mobile phone you carry with you will have phone ringtones and WeChat message notification sounds from time to time; there will be interference from the TV; there may also be interference from the computer. These devices that have nothing to do with your learning can be put aside temporarily, allowing you to devote yourself to the learning of skills.
c. Emotional barriers : When learning new skills, you will initially have fear and fear. For example, when you learn to swim, you will first have a fear of going into the water; doubts are doubts about whether you can learn this skill well. ; Shyness, for example, when learning to speak, you will internally refuse to speak in public.
All of these psychology will become an obstacle for you to learn skills, and it is far from that. If you do not remove these barriers, you will not be able to achieve good learning results. If it is an environmental obstacle, you can find relevant places to overcome it; if it is an equipment obstacle, you can keep yourself away from them, do not touch them during study time, or even turn off the phone; if it is a psychological and emotional obstacle, Obstacles you can overcome with willpower. Only by eliminating all these factors that are detrimental to learning can your skill learning be achieved at the fastest speed.
7. Make time
We must set aside dedicated time to learn skills. Some people will have questions at this time, I am very busy every day, how can I have a fixed time to study? In fact, we can easily solve this problem. Some people say they are very busy because they spend all their free time surfing the Internet and playing with their mobile phones. At this time, some people will question, after working so hard every day, why not take some time to surf the Internet, play WeChat and mobile games?
I think you will gradually understand this kind of question. When you don't have the capital to "play", the first thing you do is to think of ways to get yourself into the halls of success as soon as possible, so that you have more time to do everything you want to do. If you have nothing and you find all kinds of excuses for yourself to postpone your studies, your future will still not change much. That is to say, your current busyness will accompany your effective working time for a long time until retirement. Your life will still be lifelong embarrassment, and you will only envy others' brilliance. When you understand this truth, you will automatically take out your "leisure" time to learn immediately.
There are also people who are very busy, and that is because they have not organized their time well. If you are this kind of person, the author will tell you a way. That is to list all the times of the day and what things were done at which time. Only by writing out all these things, you will clearly see which time is your inefficient time at work. Our principle is not to let you use your working time as study time, but to sort out these inefficient times and combine them into a whole period of time for study, so that your time for skill learning is fixed. At least not less than an hour.
In addition, remember that you must ensure continuous learning time, and you cannot give up this skill halfway. Even if you don't have to study for 10,000 hours, you have to guarantee 1-2 hours a day for 30 days. After such learning, your skill acquisition will definitely be effective.
8. Timely feedback
After timely feedback, you will check the problems or misunderstandings you found during the skill learning process, and then correct your details. At this time, if possible, you can find an expert or teacher in this industry to guide you. They will use their own experience to point out the problems that arise during your learning process, and then give you an effective learning skills guide. method, which will help you continuously improve yourself and quickly acquire this skill.
You can also test the effectiveness of your own learning through videos and audio recordings. Just like you want to learn the skill of broadcasting and hosting, you can constantly correct your mistakes in expression through the feedback of the camera. You can also adjust your volume and tone by recording. These tools will help you learn skills better.
In short, you need to get feedback through various resources available, and the faster you read through your feedback channels, the faster you will learn skills.
9. Timed training
In the process of skill learning, the brain cannot predict the precise time it takes to do something. Especially when you are in poor condition, you will feel that the time is very long. In fact, your training is far less than what you feel. long time. Under such circumstances, it is easy for you to miscalculate your training time, resulting in a reduction in effective learning and training time.
In this case, you'd better use split timing training. In other words, divide the total learning and training time into several time periods. You can focus on training in 20-minute periods and do not give up or stop midway. Train 3-6 times a day, so that you will find that you have improved significantly in a short time.
If you follow the above 9 methods completely, you can achieve efficient acquisition of skills. If you have doubts, it means that you are not confident enough to learn and master the new skill yourself. In your thinking, you need to understand a scientific cognitive theory. There are two human thinking modes, one is the fixed thinking mode, and the other is the growth thinking mode.
The rigid thinking mode believes that human talent is ability itself. In other words, the acquisition of all abilities is determined by talent. Students who learn well are born. If you do not have considerable talent, you will not be able to acquire the skills you want to learn.
The growth mindset believes that real learning can be achieved through long-term persistence and practice to improve one's own talents. As long as the method is appropriate, diligent in practice, diligent in thinking, and persistent, you can master the corresponding knowledge.