Why is there a bottleneck? Should we embrace the bottleneck or run away from it?

Because now I often feel that I have encountered a bottleneck in my work and my progress is very slow. As for powerful people, they have strong learning ability and understanding ability, so they learn quickly and can find solutions. I feel very lacking. How to finish the work you don't like efficiently? How to change your thinking and work habits and get positive feedback? The following is a complete collection of reasons I collected for you. Let's have a look!

What is the bottleneck? Should we embrace the bottleneck or run away from it?

Author: Bai Shishi

After the last update, many people enthusiastically told me your inner secrets backstage. I want to express my gratitude for this trust. I didn't have time to reply to a lot of content, after all, there was too much news. But I kept every message of yours. Look up three feet and there are gods, and the gods can prove that what I said is true.

I will carefully select these messages to answer for you in the future, and I will choose the following one today. Sometimes I write a little longer, with only one purpose, that is, to include more useful information, let the content radiate more related issues, and let more people get some inspiration and gains. Therefore, please wait patiently after writing for a long time, and you will certainly gain more.

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Because now I often feel that I have encountered a bottleneck in my work and my progress is very slow. As for powerful people, they have strong learning ability and understanding ability, so they learn quickly and can find solutions. I feel very lacking. How to finish the work you don't like efficiently? How to change your thinking and work habits and get positive feedback?

Let's talk about bottlenecks first.

What is a bottleneck? Should we avoid or hug?

We definitely want to avoid the bottleneck. Who doesn't want to maintain rapid development? However, judging from the law of the growth and development track of general things, the bottleneck is inevitable, because there are always stages of growth, including slow development period, platform period and rapid development period.

Suppose you compete with another person in a certain industry, and you encounter a platform period faster. What does this mean? First, it may mean that you are so stupid that you meet the bottleneck so quickly, which is really frustrating.

Another possibility means that you develop faster-because you reach your bottleneck period faster, you can overcome the bottleneck problem earlier and have the opportunity to enter the next stage of rapid development earlier. From the point of view of competition with others, these two possibilities do exist.

But from the perspective of personal self-growth, these two explanations can be combined into one: for an individual, it doesn't matter whether he is stupid or not. What's the use of lamenting if we are born stupid? It is important that we save time, speed up the pace, find our real problems faster, and then start solving them as soon as possible, which will give us a little more advantage in our own life and maybe make you smarter.

My idea has always been to embrace the bottleneck, not only to embrace, but also to pursue, crazy pursuit of the bottleneck.

Why pursue it? How to pursue?

There is a word called dividend period. When I was giving advice to high school children, I told them to consume my bonus period as soon as possible. (See: Some Learning Methods of Senior High School Students. )

For those with poor or average grades, I told them not to be timid and to do it. As long as they work hard, they can catch up with the class average in a short time. At the beginning, large-scale rough efforts can bring considerable results, which is the dividend.

After reaching the average score, we should pay attention to the learning methods. Why? Because the effect is not so obvious after the average score, we must change the way and pay attention to the method, otherwise we will get stuck in the bottleneck period of this rising channel and suffer for a long time.

Another example.

A reading boy wants to improve his reading ability. What should he do in the first stage?

The answer is that the first stage should be reading on an empty stomach.

At first, don't ask anyone for a list of books, just look around. Find something you are interested in, and then start reading a lot until you can't stand it and feel sick.

If you didn't study enough in the past, then this stage is to make up for the lack of reading in the past.

Don't worry about reading bad books. In fact, reading bad books is a process that needs to be experienced. I will choose bad books when I meet them. Your ability to choose books is accumulated through constant reading.

The only thing you need to care about at this stage is whether you are reading or not.

Reading a lot in a short time will make your brain in a state of excitement and climax, because you have not been stimulated by knowledge so often before, so once you start reading a lot, you will find that many unexpected knowledge points have intruded into your brain, and your cognition and your three views will make you climax again and again.

My girlfriend didn't read much before she met me, but under the influence of me, she has become super fond of reading now. Last year, she read more books than me.

She said, I am very grateful for my influence on her. To be exact, I'm just an inducement. What is really useful to her must be the flashes of wisdom in the book. This is what really attracts her. Otherwise, no matter how I take her to into the pit, she can't get in, if the book is not a good thing.

Knowledge is sexy, books are good things, and you haven't read enough before, so do you want to read a lot to refresh your mind in the first stage?

Having said that, I want you to understand that whether it is the initial struggle for academic performance, the improvement of reading level or the improvement of work skills, the attitude at the beginning is still a bit intense, that is, efforts can squeeze the initial growth dividend.

Don't be afraid of the bottleneck, welcome it. The sooner you encounter the bottleneck, the sooner you can face the ability that really needs to be improved and overcome the problems that need to be overcome.

Overcoming the bottleneck is a systematic problem, which requires patience and a mentality of overcoming difficulties and hardships. What's our goal?

"Great people have strong learning ability and understanding ability, and they can learn and find solutions quickly."

In this question, the object that needs to be tackled to break through the bottleneck is rapid learning and understanding &; Mdash& ampmdash So how do you acquire the ability to learn quickly and improve your understanding?

If a classmate who often reads bestsellers asks me how to improve my understanding ability, I will give him the answer. Do you believe it or not?

Believe it or not.

A doctor of psychology told me that he basically doesn't read the best-selling books on the market now, which is not rigorous. Moreover, many books are only by-products of the translation and processing of foreign papers, and there is a serious time lag in these translations. Most importantly, the knowledge in bestsellers is too low for him, and the time cost of reading is too high.

This is the doctor's choice, but why do I also suggest that if you want to improve your understanding, go directly to the thesis?

The reason is also very simple. I find that the author will not consider the contents of the paper from the perspective of ordinary readers. They don't care if ordinary people can read it, they care about logic.

Reading such words will be difficult for many readers-therefore, if you can really read these papers that are "unfriendly" to understanding, you will certainly gain incredible reading comprehension ability unconsciously.

Please note that this article is optional. For example, if you want to learn time management, you should read academic papers related to time management ... but the core of them is the word "difficult".

Constantly raise your standards, keep doing things that make you puzzled, study and sharpen with the spirit of death, and your understanding will naturally improve.

In addition, the quick learning ability that the subject wants is essentially the same as the improvement of understanding ability. The so-called powerful people can find a solution through "quick learning".

In fact, those powerful people face the same thing, and they have a deeper and more thorough understanding, so that they can find the key where you can't find a solution. Of course, this learning ability is also the result of accumulation.

The first stage, through the accumulation of efforts, quickly consumed personal dividends and reached a bottleneck-this stage is the extensive accumulation of efforts.

The next step is to enter the next stage. This stage will accumulate the pertinence of rote memorization, which requires systematic learning. The key word of the second stage is targeted rote accumulation.

Take programming as an example. In the process of programming and developing an open source project, you only need to be able to use it at first, but after working for a period of time, you can't stop there. You should start reading the source code behind the open source project, because only the principle is there.

It must be very painful to read the source code at first, because I can't understand it.

But it's okay, damn it.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand once. Read it over and over again, and slowly you will begin to understand a little, and then you will certainly know more. You know the principle behind it and how to operate it, which will definitely make your work more and more handy.

For example, let's take the writing of official WeChat account-it's not appropriate for me, because even if I don't update it, there will still be fans coming from Zhihu. Tell me about others.

H wrote on the official WeChat account. At the beginning, his growth mode was to write articles and send them to various groups, throwing red envelopes to let everyone pay attention to forwarding, which made him get some attention. But this model cannot last long. If he wants the official WeChat account to really develop, he will ultimately rely on the self-dissemination of the article itself.

At this time, he needs to study how to write articles with the compound WeChat official account tonality. From each topic to the selection of materials to the arrangement of content, he needs to conduct targeted research. He needs to know what is the principle behind communication, which involves communication. He needs to understand what people's motives are every time they forward, which involves understanding human nature. He needs to know what kind of activities can improve user activity and increase fan stickiness, which involves marketing principles.

Real learning didn't begin until he met a bottleneck. Only then did he know what he urgently needed to learn.

Therefore, we say that if a person wants to make rapid progress, what can be accumulated in the first stage is vigorous behavior; If we want to make rapid progress in the second stage, we need to accumulate principles. Whoever can master more principles can break through the bottleneck of the second stage.

Finally, say, "How to change your thinking and work habits and get positive feedback?"

I suggest you focus on specific things, both thinking and work habits are reflected when we do specific things. "Black cats and white cats are good cats that can solve problems." Thinking and habits that can solve problems are good thinking and good habits-besides, isn't this the real purpose of doing concrete things well?

As for feedback, we attach importance to feedback, which is definitely needed, but we should also realize that feedback is presented in different ways at each stage of development.

In the first stage, feedback can obviously be presented in the effect of doing things.

I know an efficient learning method is project-based learning. For example, what do you want to accomplish, what do you want to make, and then think about how to achieve it and what knowledge and skills you need to learn. This kind of learning is often the fastest, the most obvious feedback and the most clear purpose. It's not common to decide what to learn first, then check what to learn, and finally find out step by step, depending on a lot.

In the second stage, what we want to accumulate is the cognition of the principle.

The feedback at this stage is not obvious, and it takes a long time, especially for most people. Because of this, most people were stuck in the first stage for a long time.

So how do you get from the first stage to the second stage?

With the initiative, some people, such as a friend of mine, will study the rules and recommendation mechanism of Zhihu when she is going to write an article in Zhihu, and then enter the meeting place. This kind of person is good at doing things. What they do, from the first stage to the second stage, is shorter than ordinary people.

Look at passive motivation, another kind, such as the family owes money to pay off debts, or the environment when they were young brings them a strong desire for something, such as money, they will have great pressure and motivation, and they are also very inspirational.

What about ordinary people?

What can ordinary people do? Ordinary people can only do this. Aren't most ordinary people like this?

But there are still some ordinary people who have survived, and those who have survived will be interpreted as unusual & mdash& ampmdash; but most "unusual" people have survived from the ordinary.

How did these people get through it? At this time, we are going to talk about the vocabulary of psychology &; Mdash& ampmdash delayed satisfaction.

The so-called delayed satisfaction is actually to adjust one's mentality. Don't let yourself rely too much on immediate feedback, but rely on deeper things such as rationality, cognition and belief. Buffett's long-term value investment, he optimistic about the long-term future development of a company. After buying the stock, he won't stare at it every day. If he stares at it every day, his heart may be unbearable.

So if you believe in something for a long time, then you will keep doing it, and its long-term will definitely bring returns.