Have you ever experienced the "secret realm" of learning?

Since childhood, many people have praised me for learning things very quickly. Later, no matter what I learned, in the eyes of others, it was attributed to "being born smart".

When I was a child, I was a little complacent at first. However, as I grew older, I felt that the word "smart" was being slapped down like a hat, defining my learning.

Because of the so-called smartness, it seems that those results are taken for granted, but no one sees the efforts I have put in in the process of learning and growing.

However, in the process of learning, I often notice my clumsiness and jerkiness, and sometimes I even doubt whether I am really not the material...

Until One day, I suddenly realized a truth and was freed from this self-doubt.

I experienced the "secret realm" of learning.

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There was a vacation in high school, and I went to my aunt’s shop to help. My aunt opened an eye care shop that specialized in eye massage and physical therapy for myopic children.

My aunt asked me to learn massage techniques from the technicians in the store. I can recognize the acupuncture points fairly well, but there is a finger movement of swiping back and forth on the bridge of my nose. It feels very awkward to do it. I have been practicing for a whole afternoon, but I can't do it well.

The technician demonstrated and explained to me over and over again, but I just felt that something was missing and I couldn’t find the feeling at all. The afternoon ended hastily.

I was immersed in a feeling of depression that afternoon. Until after dinner, I put this feeling behind me, chatted on the Internet to relax, and had a good sleep. Go practice this move.

However, when I arrived at the store the next day and started practicing again, I miraculously found that the movement was no longer difficult, as if I already knew it, and I could do it naturally and smoothly.

The only frustrating thing is that the technician aunt never believed that I didn’t practice at all after I got home. She kept saying that I was trying to save face by saying that I had never practiced.

Later, I recalled how I felt the day before. It seemed that no matter what I did, there was a small private space in my mind, with the small motor running, smoothing out the action, as if my brain automatically and spontaneously replaced it. I finished the exercise.

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I also had this feeling when I was learning to dance.

Once I went to learn Latin dance, and I learned a movement in one class. The movement itself was not complicated, but there was a foot movement whose position and shape were not in line with my usual habits, so it was very difficult to do.

So I was always super twisted doing this movement, and I always felt that my feet were no longer my own. I practiced like this for a whole class, and I was sweating profusely.

After a few minutes of break between classes, I restarted the action again, and suddenly everything fell into place, as if I had never troubled my brain on this issue.

The teacher even praised me for not only jumping out of the "form", but also jumping out of the "spirit".

God knows that just ten minutes ago, I thought I would never learn this move.

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There was a period in high school when I lay in bed every night and listened to the radio with headphones on.

What I listened to was Lai Shixiong’s “English on the Air”.

I’m not afraid of your jokes, I listened to this program as a cross talk...

So at that time I only listened to it for entertainment, I never took notes or reviewed anything. Yes, but to this day, I still remember many of the English knowledge points mentioned in the program very clearly.

My spoken English has always been very good, thanks to the fact that I often regard English programs, article readings, and American TV series original sounds as the background sounds of my life.

Active learning is important, but in many cases passive learning allows knowledge and skills to reach deep levels of consciousness.

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I discovered that there is a secret realm of human learning, that is, our subconscious is learning automatically and spontaneously when we are not aware of it.

This kind of spontaneous learning is probably based on some specific conditions -

For example, we have just experienced high-intensity training of a certain knowledge and skill and are in a state of relaxation.

Or we continue to receive certain signals that reach a certain intensity and duration.

Skills developed through active high-intensity training are often only suitable for active control. Once an unexpected situation occurs and our intuition needs to take over, our subconscious will not be able to correctly apply the skills we have learned.

That’s why some “female drivers” (not specifically gender-specific) get completely panicked and lose their driving skills when they encounter an emergency.

On the contrary, some skills learned passively through subconsciousness are easier to use and may even rise to the level of "intuition".

Therefore, when you feel that you encounter a bottleneck in your learning, you might as well try to relax yourself first and let your brain "run autonomously in the background" in a relaxed state, quietly absorbing knowledge and skills.

Give learning a "cooling time", and the skill point level may explode.

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