Nanjing Xinzhi immigrants

Learn to Read says: "The difficulty of reading never lies in what you can remember, but in whether you can use complex ideas and concepts freely." Analogy reading is a systematic reading method, which can help us internalize what we read and make reading really change our lives.

The writer Li Jiongyan introduced three principles of analogical reading in Learn to Read, which can help us understand analogical reading correctly and learn to use it.

Principle 1. Use familiar things to compare unfamiliar things.

In real life, we know new things according to our own knowledge level and practical experience. We can also use this method in reading.

How can we read when the content we read is so different from our real life that we don't even have professional knowledge in related fields?

Nature is to compare unfamiliar things with familiar things.

Learning to read takes a lot of space to explain how to make analogies when we encounter something difficult to understand. Taking The Revenge of the Prince as an example, how does Li Can Jiong understand these obscure words?

The prince wrote: "In order not to plunder the people excessively, to protect himself and not to bear the name of extortion, the monarch should not mind the despicable reputation, because this is one of the evil virtues that he can continue to maintain his rule." Either you are already a monarch or you are taking the throne. In the former case, your generosity is harmful; In the latter case, it is really necessary. In addition, when the monarch spends money, if the money he spends is his own, he must save it; If it is someone else's, don't miss any opportunity to show generosity. "

Li Jiongyan said that this writing is difficult to understand, and we can understand it in connection with the deeds of emperors in the history of China. When Tang Gaozu Tang Gaozu started his army at the end of Sui Dynasty, no matter who defected to him, he could be awarded an official title, even if you were a 90-year-old man. Why did Ethan do this? Because the world is not his yet, he won't be bad as an official. It can also win people's hearts and unite all forces that can be United. Everyone thinks that following him has great benefits, that is, we often say "being generous with other people's money." "

By learning the analogy of word recognition, I thoroughly understood the meaning of the prince. Comparing familiar and unfamiliar things can eliminate our strangeness and increase the depth and breadth of understanding.

2. For complex things, we should simplify concepts, emphasize similarities and hide differences. Starting from this aspect, we can lower the threshold of our understanding.

People naturally like to be close to what they are familiar with and resist strange and complicated things. But we may encounter new things every day. What should we do?

Learning to read says that it is easier to stimulate our interest by finding similarities from two different things and finding familiar concepts and thoughts from complex things.

For example, in real life, many people can't understand the financial reports and various terms of listed companies, such as price-earnings ratio. This is explained in economics: the ratio of stock price to earnings per share. You still don't understand, do you? We can make an analogy. You have an old hen who can lay an egg every day for 1 yuan. Suppose an old hen lays 200 eggs a year, then the income of each chicken is 200 yuan money. Now someone bids 1000 yuan. Then we apply the formula, and the price-earnings ratio of the old hen is 5. We understand the old hen as a stock, and then we understand the meaning.

Third, visualize useful abstract concepts.

When we come across an abstract concept, we can concretize every step of the abstract concept, so it will be much easier to understand. Or, we think the goal is too ambitious, and we can refine every step of it so that the goal is no longer far away from us.

Li Jiongyan is a writer who is very good at reasoning. He took Musk's "Mars Plan" as an example.

As we all know, Musk claimed to take people to Mars before 2050, and predicted that there would be 100 million people living on Mars after 100. Everyone thinks this is nonsense, saying that he is bragging. However, Musk slowly broke free from the cocoon. He analyzed that the main difficulty of his "Mars program" is that the technology is not developed enough. The most urgent need for developing science and technology is a large amount of funds. He further elaborated on how to reduce costs and raise funds. Finally, he estimated that it would cost 500,000 dollars for everyone to go to Mars. On 20 18, Space Exploration Technology Company successfully launched the Falcon heavy rocket with Musk's private sports car. It can be said that Musk has achieved great success and gained countless real money.

Therefore, when we encounter complex problems, we must first learn to dissect abstract concepts, refine them step by step, and then divide them into countless small concepts. From these concepts, we can find some similarities with our own knowledge points, hide differences, reduce our fear of learning, improve our interest, and finally contact some familiar things, so that we can easily understand these profound, complex and unfamiliar knowledge.

Every day, human society is exploring new fields of knowledge, new lifestyles and new ideas of thinking, and inevitably comes into contact with new things. These three principles, learn to read by analogy, make you fearless in the face of new knowledge, bravely face the unknown world and give you a wonderful future.