Establish closed-loop thinking and increase efficiency by N times

Closed-loop thinking can be said to be a small skill or a habit. But whether it is a habit or a skill, it needs to be practiced. ?

In the past two years, I first used closed-loop thinking in fragmented time, such as waiting for the bus, taking the subway, or waiting in line. I took out my mobile phone and collected articles on WeChat that I had not finished reading. , take out the video and watch it, it only takes a few minutes. After watching it, take 1 minute to summarize, what did this article just say? What points were mentioned? List one, two, and three yourself. What inspirations can you get? How will it help with subsequent behavior? Rather than seeing it and ending it. Don't look at this simple 1-minute closed-loop summary. In fact, the effect is still very significant. For example, when I was learning Tarot, after listening to the story of the Fool's Journey, I would retell it in my own language, so that I would be very familiar with the 22 big cards, and I would immediately remember which cards were before and after, without having to memorize them by rote. Hard to carry.

Common closed-loop practices include the following:

1 Summary? As mentioned just now, recall the main content. Just like when I was studying in the past, after class, I would recall the knowledge points in each class, which would save a lot of time for review at home.

2 Share? Share the good articles you see with others, and talk to others about why they are good, to help you deepen your understanding. It is recommended to reserve a few people who can share articles at any time. I have about three or four. Every time I see something interesting, I can send it to them and discuss it on WeChat for a while. Because everyone has their own opinions, so you can expand own thinking. If you just share it to your circle of friends, there is actually no feedback in many cases.

3 Notes? Now I will take notes no matter what class I listen to. Although it is very convenient to listen to lectures on Get, Qianliao, and Lizhi, because they are audio, the listening speed is very fast, and there is no time to take notes on the road. At this time, it is recommended to use the first point first and spend 1 minute to summarize in a closed loop. After returning home, if you feel that these classes are particularly useful, find a whole block of time to take notes. The notes are mainly to sort out the knowledge points so that they can be easily found later.

For example, I spent two hours this month taking notes on the "Fun Credit Card Course" and "The Insurance Course Everyone Needs", which are the knowledge points and key points of each class. Because the original text and audio are retained, many places that are not used now are written down as points, so that the original materials can be found and studied carefully later.

4 Practice? No matter what you hear, learn or see, if it inspires you, it is best to practice it immediately. For example, after listening to the credit card class, I immediately sold a few food cards and useless cards; after understanding the importance of the interest-free period of credit cards, I suddenly felt that it was not cost-effective to put a lot of money in Yu'e Bao, so I spent two weeks to make inventory. I used some funds to buy different financial products (it is a bit tiring for a newbie in financial management to do this). After listening to the insurance class, I first asked the confinement nanny if the company had bought insurance for the confinement nanny, because if the other party did not buy it, I planned to buy a third-party liability insurance, so that something happened to the confinement nanny during the three months she was in my house. Even if the child is slightly injured, the child will be protected; after the child is born in the second half of the year, first apply for the street social security, children's medical, and accident insurance for the child. Next year, depending on the situation, we will pay attention to and purchase several other important insurances separately. In addition, because I realized the importance of family financial management, I purchased some other financial management courses.

5 Output? The output here can be writing articles, sharing what you have learned and thought, and exercising your thinking through writing; it can also be giving lessons to others. When you have systematically studied certain knowledge and can apply it freely, you might as well open a small class and teach it to those in need. This is also a popular approach nowadays. In addition, you can refer to my other article "This efficient and interesting learning technique is called "directly"", which mentioned the case where Lao Luo recruited a Japanese teacher who did not understand Japanese to teach Japanese classes to newcomers. She used The method is "teaching as learning". If you study with the purpose of teaching others in the future, the learning process will become very different. It can be said to be a perfect closed loop.

Closed-loop thinking actually helps everyone establish a kind of thinking awareness. Just like in the beginning, we will only use Baidu to search. After the search awareness is established, we know that we can also use commands, Weibo, Sogou, WeChat, Zhihu, you can also use specialized academic websites, industry vertical websites... The door to the new world will be opened at once, and the efficiency of study, work and life will be greatly improved.