Knowledge has background dependence, and the inspiration of knowledge generation needs to be recorded at will.

In the closed late Qing dynasty, people regarded photography as a "ghost eye" to capture people's souls, and many people were afraid to take pictures at all. In the background film of the Republic of China, the coppersmith refused to take pictures because he was afraid of taking pictures for a short time.

/kloc-in the 0/9th century, cars became popular in Britain. 1865, the British parliament passed a motor vehicle bill, stipulating that every motor vehicle on the road must be driven by three people, one of whom must be guided 50 meters away from the front of the vehicle, and constantly shake the red flag to clear the way for the motor vehicle, and the speed should not exceed 4 miles per hour (6.4 kilometers per hour). Later, it was ridiculed as the red flag bill.

The wheel of history rolled forward and ran over one historical joke after another.

The cognition of one era is subverted and submerged by the next generation; The insights of one era have become common sense in another era; The experience of one era has become a joke in another.

It is in such a continuous cognitive and practical dynamic that human beings are making continuous progress, coming out of ignorance and chaos and embracing modern civilization. Human cognition, learning, practice and the formation of final knowledge, experience and views are always carried out within a certain background and time frame. Without background, there is no cognition and knowledge.

In the Principle and Application of Knowledge Management, it is mentioned that knowledge depends on the background, it is alive and rich, it is closely linked with the cause and effect (background) of things, and cause and effect give it meaning. Without it, it can only be information.

The enlightenment of the background dependence of cognition and knowledge on learning lies in: we must always pay attention to and record our feelings at a certain time and place. Once we are out of the background at that time, this feeling will fade, lose and even become strange with the passage of time. Even if I wrote down this feeling at that time, in retrospect, I will have an incomprehensible sense of separation, and I will be surprised at why I had such an understanding at that time. It can be seen that personal feelings and sentiments, experiences and experiences are always inseparable from certain situations. Only in specific situations can people inspire specific feelings; Only in a certain background will some knowledge be produced.

As the saying goes, a good memory is not as good as a bad writing, which also means this. Memories will be distorted, and written words can permanently retain the background and feelings at that time.

I call this method of recording thoughts, moods, feelings and thinking inspirations inspiration capture, and I am the practitioner and beneficiary of this method. My mobile phone memo has been updated. No matter what information and opinions I get from books, official WeChat accounts or TV programs that I think are useful to me, I will record them in the mobile phone memo for the first time (thanks to technological progress, we are much more convenient than the ancients). I also pay attention to catch the fleeting sparks in my brain and record all my thoughts about my mood, feelings, study and current affairs. In the work computer, I have a special document for recording, which are others' opinions, where they come from, and which are my own opinions and feelings, all marked and distinguished.

This habit of taking notes has been maintained for nearly three years. I not only gained a lot of research materials, but also sorted out some interesting clues from the records: for example, how I decided my career research direction bit by bit, and even my mood showed a certain regular track, such as what my mood was more susceptible to.

To understand any kind of practice more deeply, we must analyze it from the height of theory.

First of all, memory is unreliable. People's memory is prone to deviation, and the pictures often recalled are not true historical reappearance. Memory will self-fabricate, self-repair, tamper with facts, and gradually bring your subjective consciousness. Peng Youling, a professor of psychology in China, said in General Psychology: "In court trials, in many cases, judges and juries make judgments based on the testimony of witnesses. It is generally believed that the witness's testimony is correct and reliable. However, Munster Berg (1927) found that different witnesses would have different descriptions of the same thing, so he testified for the case.

Memories are easy to forget. Without enough regular repetition, it is difficult for short-term memory to form long-term memory, but many moments of inspiration are fleeting and many meaningful ideas disappear from memory before they can be repeated. Even if we are lucky enough to enter the long-term memory, our original thinking may be restored beyond recognition because of memory distortion.

Records can stimulate memories. I used to keep a diary when I was in college. Once, when I was idle, I looked through it and saw that one of them recorded a difficult situation with my classmates. The words in my diary are full of anger, which I will never forget, but I think about it afterwards. If I hadn't seen these words, I would have completely forgotten them, forgotten the names of the parties, and didn't remember the anger and sadness at that time. This is the power of diary.

Secondly, we form a global and systematic knowledge in a field, which is a long process, not overnight. Inspiration capture method promotes the formation of personal knowledge system in the process of capturing thinking fragments again and again.

The establishment of knowledge system is bottom-up, and it is a layer-by-layer iteration from concrete concepts to abstract concepts to top-level concepts. Novices try to find the general direction of personal knowledge system by looking for fragmented content and clues in fragmentation, and then constantly optimize it in learning and practice.

Take me as an example, I am interested in the research in the field of meta-learning, so I usually pay attention to recording all the knowledge fragments and personal thoughts about cognition, thinking, learning, knowledge management and experience management. As a self-taught student with no background in pedagogy, cognitive science and psychology, I don't have a formed meta-learning knowledge system, and I don't attempt to copy such knowledge system directly from anywhere. In fact, there may not be such a ready-made system. Only from the personal knowledge management, the relationship between knowledge and cognition, the relationship between thinking and cognition and other small concepts, and gradually accumulate. By the time my study notes accumulated to nearly100000 words, my thinking became clear, and I gradually combed out a global context, taking architectural design drawings as metaphors-this is a first-class concept and a concept map; Those are secondary concepts, and they are all unfolded design drawings; Those are three-level concepts, which are construction stage drawings; These are low-level tools and methods, thus forming a bottom-up knowledge system.

Third, after adding the variable time, the record itself becomes meaningful. Time will subvert people's old cognition and reveal people's growth in time. Looking at the original opinion, thinking, how so naive! It doesn't matter, that means you have made progress. There is a funny analogy: everyone looks at their children and says they haven't grown up. There is no change between last year and this year. However, others can see changes that you can't see yourself. You feel that day after day, you are still yourself, and you can't see change or progress. The authorities are obsessed with the bystander, and the record is that bystander, which provides you with another perspective to examine yourself.

Finally, inspiration capture helps us broaden our cognitive boundaries, discover the world we don't know and discover the world we don't know. The more knowledgeable people are, the more ignorant they feel. There is an image explanation on the internet: the knowledge people have is like a circle, and the fields outside the circle are unknown. The more things you master, the wider the circle can touch and the more things you can see. This statement is actually the concept of "cognitive snowball" in cognitive science. People's cognition will not be damaged, but it will have a compound interest effect, just like a snowball falling into snow is not getting smaller, but getting bigger.

Every time you come into contact with a new idea and form an idea, write it down, and then connect it with the original record to create a new knowledge connection. Every time you tie a knot, you broaden your knowledge a little. Every time you tie a knot, your knowledge will deepen, just like a tall building, thus forming a personal knowledge spiral. According to the law of compound interest, when you reach a certain critical point, your knowledge will be wide enough and deep enough, just like

I only recorded some fragments about organizational knowledge management at first. Remember, I find that personal knowledge management is a very relevant topic, which appears very frequently. Remember, I found that personal knowledge management is not just knowledge. Many people also talked about learning, cognition, cognition and cognitive psychology, so I upgraded from the cognitive framework of personal knowledge management to individual meta-learning. If I don't record, but let those interrelated concepts and knowledge frames fade in and out in my mind, I won't have the opportunity to examine their high correlation and explore personal learning from a broader perspective.

Compared with the formal summary and serious logical thinking of writing an article, the inspiration capture method does not need rigorous conception and is very easy. You can do it by picking up your mobile phone and pen, and it is easy to record anytime and anywhere, just by heart and perseverance.