Guo Qilin: Reading is a technical activity —— Reading the third section of Chapter 8 of The Awakening of Cognition.

Recently, Guo Qilin has been doing hot search and circling powder everywhere. He dropped out of junior high school and didn't become scum. He showed his super high IQ in Escape from the Chamber of Secrets. No matter arithmetic, geography, ancient poetry, he cracked them one by one, which led Zhang Wei to call out "it's a pity that you are an artist, you should be a scientist."

Tian Yu, an actor, commented on him as a young man of literature and art, especially accommodating and well-educated.

In the program "I am an Actor", Zhang Ziyi bluntly said: "Kirin, one day, I must cooperate with you. It doesn't matter to anyone, you are a good actor. "

There are many similar praises. Generally speaking, Guo Qilin is a new generation of young idols with a correct outlook on life, knowledge and culture.

As a second-generation star, Guo Qilin is still widely praised in the entertainment circle with sunspots everywhere. This is worth thinking about.

In a program, Degang Guo talked about his son Guo Qilin: "You can have no diploma, but you can't have no culture;" You don't have to go to school, but you must study. " Degang Guo also said: "My study is bigger than the theater, and I have all the books I can talk about."

Obviously, Guo Qilin's success is inseparable from his extensive reading of books.

Today we will talk about Zhou Ling's views on reading.

0 1. Reading can't be a whim.

We are all in this era of information explosion, and when we see other people's success in reading, we can't wait to pick up books and read them.

Soon, the gap came out. Some people are overjoyed when they buy books, but lack interest when they study. After a while, they feel sick when they see books.

Some people are ecstatic about buying books, and they are also enthusiastic about reading. One after another, they couldn't put it down. But after reading so many books, I haven't changed anything, even my brain is more confused!

Why is this?

Why can others succeed in reading, but we can't go on reading, or it's useless to read?

This involves two issues. One is why you study, the other is why you study.

Let's talk about why we study first. Seeing others succeed in reading, we also start reading, which is determined by emotions. Zhou Enlai, who is only 13 years old, said that "studying for the rise of China" is a rational decision after careful consideration and many times.

In other words, reading should be a rational choice to really love reading. Otherwise, it is easy to fall into useless "fake reading".

Reading is undoubtedly a good thing, but the key is what is reading for? Is it for entertainment or growth?

Maybe both, but when we study for growth, is the content of the book boring or interesting and practical? Depends on the content itself?

Zhou Ling believes that it depends on our attitude towards reading. About reading, it is easy for us to fall into a misunderstanding that we study to grow up, but in fact we study to read! So that others have succeeded in reading, and we have achieved nothing in reading.

Cheng Jia, a famous knowledge management researcher, mentioned in his book "Think hard" that we should learn to use "super-first-class learning methods" to learn. Among them, "super" refers to learning from the best in the industry, especially those who publish books.

There is no doubt that all the big coffees are successful, and their personal experience and practical experience are great wealth. When we don't have the conditions to communicate with them face to face, their books become the medium of communication and learning.

Imagine standing in front of the bookshelf, not rows of books, but rows of leading figures in various industries. We are about to communicate with one of the big coffees in the industry. The experience of this big coffee can help us learn some skills, perhaps time management, or breaking up, or managing money to get rich.

In the face of such a big coffee, what reason do we have to think he is disgusting and boring?

Where we can't reach, the big coffee has arrived; What we have never seen, big coffee has already experienced; What we can't imagine, the big coffees have foreseen. ...

By learning and communicating with the big coffees, we can use their wonderful perspectives to help us improve our ability to choose. Our fate is hidden in every choice, so reading can tell success, which begins with changing our cognition and choice.

02. Reading makes us think in high density.

There are bound to be problems in communicating with people. The difference is that big coffee will make us think independently.

The "one" in Cheng Jia's "super-first-class learning method" is "one by one" and "more than one, more than one".

This means that remembering is not equal to understanding, but understanding is not enough. You should know how to draw inferences and come up with three different application scenarios. Can you do it without thinking?

Obviously not.

People naturally like ease and comfort, which is determined by our emotional brain and instinctive brain. Think about this kind of energy-intensive behavior, most people resist it. Only people with long-term vision will actively and deliberately hone themselves and improve the density of thinking.

Charlie Munger once said, "There's not a smart person I've ever met who doesn't study every day, not one."

For example, Cheng Jia, the author of Study hard, pays great attention to reflection. He spends about two hours reflecting every morning and asks his employees to do the same. He said: the gap between people does not come from age, or even from experience, but from the ability to sum up, reflect and sublimate experience.

Editor-in-Chief Liu, the vice president of the book, extracted more concise but profound "three-column notes" through Cornell notes, namely content, sentiment and action. He said: "reading is to be moved by the heart, to be moved by the heart." Among them, action is divided into thinking action, reading action and practical action. Perception and action require thinking.

These giants have proved the benefits of thinking with practice. Reading can make us have high-density thinking. Reading can make our thinking confront the top ideas at any time, have a thorough and comprehensive understanding of a subject and be fully related to our own reality.

But reading is actually a technical activity, and poor skills will only make us get twice the result with half the effort.

Reading is a technical job.

As long as we can read, we can read when we pick up the book. But that doesn't mean everyone can read. The word "will" should be emphasized here. If everyone could read, there would be no book How to Read.

The first problem facing reading is choosing books. Ling Zhou thinks that choosing books is more important than reading.

We choose books to make ourselves grow, and we usually look at what books the big coffees read. Just as the teacher is always right in the eyes of students, the choice of books by big coffee is always right. This is actually understandable.

It's just that it made a mistake. In Wang Shimin's book Thinking Power: Efficient System Thinking, this mistake is attributed to ignoring the "implicit assumption of explicit problems". Big coffee people have read a lot of books, have rich life experience and formed their own cognitive system. We haven't reached this level yet, with less reading and experience, and our cognition can't keep up.

So follow the big coffee to choose a book, you may not understand it, or you may not be interested in reading, or even study for the sake of reading.

Before choosing books, we should ask ourselves: "What is the most urgent problem I need to solve now?" According to this question, choose the book whose difficulty, needs and interests best suit you.

After choosing a book, you should think clearly that reading is for change.

Some people may say, "Who doesn't study for change? Who doesn't know the truth that reading changes fate! "

Yes, everyone knows that. So, after reading a book, is the reading process over? If so, why do some people get more and more anxious after reading a room full of books?

The key is the word "change". Reading is only the beginning of the whole process.

In the process of reading, we will certainly encounter some sentences that make us feel "Wow, that makes sense". At this time, we need to think and practice. Then output your own things, maybe an article or form a habit.

Therefore, when reading a book, you don't need to completely remember the contents of the book. As long as there is an idea in the book, let us apply it to practice and change it in one sentence, the book will not be read in vain.

In other words, reading should aim at "change", just as Wang Shimin advocated utilitarian reading in the book "Good Reading". Change is the purpose of our study!

Knowing how to choose books and the purpose of reading, we even jumped out of the trap of reading. If you want to be advanced, you must know advanced reading methods.

In the process of reading, as long as we are not reading the first book in our lives, we can always think of sentences in another book or some scenes in our lives when reading a sentence. This is relevance. Once there is contact, be sure to write it down immediately!

Remember, now! Because knowledge is related, it shows that knowledge network is being formed or strengthened, so it is possible to create new knowledge, which is one of the core methods of learning.

The second skill of advanced reading is that reading and writing are not separated. It was while reading Cheng Jia's book Study hard that Zhou Ling was touched by Cheng Jia's Daily Reflection and began to write reflective articles. These reflective articles finally integrated the first book in his life!

It can be said that Zhou Ling practiced the phrase "success in reading" with practical actions.

Maybe now we can't be as eloquent as Dong Qing, as versatile as Guo Qilin and as agile as Charles Munger.

However, the best thing in the world still has a "but". We can choose a good book you need from now on, think while reading and use it in action.

The best time to plant trees is ten years ago and now. The same is true of reading. Read, from now on!