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Learn to be independent and brave like pirates of the Caribbean. This is what James Bach told us in Learning to Be a Pirate of the Caribbean.

James Bach grew from a high school dropout to a technical manager of Apple and an internationally renowned software testing expert. All this stems from his self-education method.

What is the biggest failure of our education? In my opinion, self-education skills will never be taught in school.

In this ever-changing information age, obeying the rules means that it is easy to fall into the life of a loser.

In the long-term standardized school education, knowledge-oriented teaching is divided into disciplines, and teachers pay attention to cultivating students' awe of knowledge learning.

Even after graduation, what we did in school is still solidified in our minds and becomes a fixed way of learning and thinking.

It is often difficult for us to start learning a new field, because there is no teacher to teach and no fixed teaching materials and answers to recite.

You can't measure your learning level according to the traditional model. Without exam results, we will feel panic.

So many people seek psychological comfort from textual research. In fact, there are still many people who can't find jobs with many certificates. Because the mode of textual research is still a traditional knowledge-based learning evaluation method.

The ultimate direction of traditional knowledge-based learning mode is the degree of knowledge memory.

That dogmatic knowledge memorization, the transformation rate of ability is really too low.

There's a joke-

What? A monthly salary of 3000 yuan is like hiring a migrant worker? It's more like hiring a college student.

To tell the truth, compared with the practical ability and hard-working spirit of migrant workers in their respective fields, many college students are really useless except knowing a little book knowledge.

This is closely related to passive learning style.

In teaching practice, many students are used to asking me to give the answer directly, even unwilling to do it.

The ability to collect, analyze and integrate information is extremely low, let alone transform and output it.

This is why many students seem to be studying hard, but they have no ability to adapt to society.

Because they are used to making Beijing roast duck stuffing, and people need to feed ready-made feed into their mouths.

Learn to plunder knowledge like pirates of the Caribbean instead of plowing an acre of land like a yeoman.

Especially in the adult stage, it is not the amount of knowledge that a learned person remembers, but who can acquire knowledge faster and better and turn it into practical ability at work.

After work, all knowledge that cannot be transformed into ability is a dead dogma. No one will tell you what to learn and what not to learn. The initiative in learning is in your hands.

However, faced with such initiative, many people often choose to give up and follow others more comfortably.

There is a doctor in the unit, and once the leader arranged a job for him. He said he was not in his field of study, no.

However, his research field is really too small. If you want to have a good class in your unit, you must expand it.

Communicating with him, he said that both master's and doctoral theses were done in the direction specified by the tutor, and they were written step by step with the tutor's topic.

When he really started working, no one told him what to study and what to do, and some of them were confused.

Although he has read a doctor's degree, in fact, he is still in a relatively low-level state in his studies.

If you don't engage in related research full-time, you won't be able to use it.

The most important thing in the doctoral stage is to accumulate and exercise the learning and research ideas and methods with their own unique advantages.

Why can most people only be spectators next to the winners?

Don't think you can't learn? Don't feel smart enough? In fact, in this world, no one is much more stupid than anyone else.

Ask yourself first, have you devoted all your time and passion to self-education and self-growth?

When you brush your circle of friends, visit Taobao and watch Weibo videos, the great gods are constantly learning according to the self-education plan.

You have never experienced the state of devotion, and you have never felt the flow of your heart. How can you talk about success?

Peng Xiaoliu, a great god, is an efficient activist who decides his own learning path.

After reading a lot of dry goods articles, in fact, if his practice is summarized in one sentence-

Apply what you have learned quickly, and improve while learning.

Don't learn anything useless to the current goal, read the same kind of books together, only choose the part you need, quickly decompose the knowledge in the book and turn it into your own use.

This is also the idea that Teacher Zhao Zhou has been advocating in the "book tearing gang". Take out the knowledge you need in the book, so that you can draw inferences from others and don't have to cover everything.

So what did James Bach do? He summed up his success as four secrets:

Specifically, he summarized the 1 1 elements of the pirate learning method-

If you have the basic knowledge of learning theory, you should be able to get to the topic when you see 1 1 above.

If you don't understand, you might as well find the original book to read.

In addition, James Bach attaches great importance to the "peripheral wisdom principle" and "alternation principle" of learning.

The principle of peripheral wisdom tells us that no learning is useless, and learning other than purposeful learning may often bring innovative thinking.

The principle of alternation requires that no matter what you learn, you should cross, for example, theoretical reading and practical operation can be parallel. In this way, the brain can stay awake by switching between different learning frequencies.

In fact, we have read these learning methods and principles in many places, including the world's experience articles and study guide books. However, there is still a somersault cloud between knowing methods and principles and actual implementation.

Some people practice, no matter how fast or slow, they are on the road to success.

Some people always kick down the ladder, and if you look at the method all over again and don't practice it, it will be zero.

I hope you can write down these methods and practice hard to create your own world in this world where there is no fixed answer.

PS: Recently, I am also trying to change my formal channel learning mode, trying to alternate and mix and match, hoping to expand my horizons, build my own knowledge framework, maintain higher input efficiency, and provide newer and better sources of materials for writing.