Reflections on the leap-forward growth of reading

Are you going through such a dilemma? Life repeats day after day, and the young passion is slowly smoothed away by the trivial things of life, and the previous dreams are not mentioned. I am getting used to my present life. I haven't changed, I don't want to change, I dare not!

No one should be confined to his past living environment. We should try to break through, and the process of this breakthrough depends on the transfer of thinking, that is, our ability to change our thinking.

Can you imagine a musician who has become a minor celebrity suddenly changing his mind to study medicine and really becoming an excellent doctor in a few years? A child who dropped out of school at the age of 9 became the dean of a college at the age of 25. You may think it is impossible. When you want to do what you dream of, you will doubt your ability and be afraid that you can't do it. But in fact, you will find that if you are really willing to try and work hard, there is nothing you can't learn. So the book "Growing Up by Leap" tells us that the core idea is that everyone can be thoroughly remoulded, and everyone can grow into a person you never imagined before.

First of all, we must understand that the present era is a constantly changing era. It is normal to change jobs frequently, and there is no iron rice bowl. What we need to do is to have a lifelong learning attitude, accept and embrace changes, and constantly improve our ability to cope with risks. However, this era also has the advantage that it is easier to acquire knowledge than before, such as various professional websites, free online courses and so on. You can find the best teacher at a low cost, even for free. This is a change brought by the environment. Your skills can form many small blocks of knowledge. You can learn each knowledge block slowly, and finally you can acquire a new skill, so the threshold for learning new skills is getting lower and lower.

So let's say, how can we realize this kind of thinking change? There is a very important underlying logic, which is to turn the useless past into an advantage. In short, besides your job, let your hobby be your advantage in the future. For example, there is such a person who likes ancient coins when he was young, but he is busy with his work. He should study them as a hobby. After he gradually became an executive of a big company, he had more time to do what he liked. Now he has published a book and monograph on ancient coins. Later, it was said that this monograph was still in a high academic position and became an expert in the study of ancient coins. This is called "turning a useless past into an advantage".

We also need to know something called unconventional learning. That is, outside the school, individuals learn spontaneously according to their own interests or personal plans.

Nowadays, non-traditional learning methods have become more and more possible. Because now you can go to Tsinghua through the Internet and a large number of open online courses, and you can brush all the classes in Tsinghua every night. What is the goal of education? The goal of education is not to use that diploma as a stepping stone at all. It is good to have a diploma as a stepping stone to enterprise recruitment, but it is not easy to use. It's not easy to come back with the best stepping stone, and I was turned away. What's the use? But on the other hand, if you don't have a diploma, you can do it. You are excellent, and you know everything I told you. This is the core. So non-traditional learning has become a big trend. The core of education is not selection, which is what Confucius said: "Education has no class." Therefore, this kind of non-traditional learning will surely sweep the world in the future.

Some countries are based on non-traditional learning, such as Singapore. This book has a chapter devoted to Singapore. Why is its economy so large? So competitive? Singapore has a principle called building π-type talents. We used to say that we are T-type talents. T-type talent means that you have a good basic knowledge and a wide range of knowledge, but you have an advantage. This is called T-type talent.

But Singapore thinks that T-type talents are not enough, and you must build π-type talents. What is π-type talent? Same as T, but with one more leg, two skills and two skills deep enough. These two skills are called the first skill and the second skill. Please note that the first skill is related to work, and the second skill is related to passion. This is called "π-type talent", and everyone's π-shaped legs need to be changed.

Now there is a very popular word, Uka era, VUCA. These four letters represent four characteristics: instability, uncertainty, complexity and fuzziness. At present, the world belongs to Uka, which is unstable, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. In the past, he told us that there was a trade union, and you could do this job until you retired, and your son could take over. Great, it was stable and certain at that time.

In the era of VUCA, the most important learning attitude is lifelong learning attitude. Your legs must constantly evolve. You must always have the first skill related to work and the second skill related to passion. In a few days, your second skill may become your first skill. Then, you should cultivate the passion for the next step, and then your life can be iterated. You should never think that you are the only expert in doing something. This is called "the incompetence of a gentleman". Just don't fix yourself in the same way, you can be someone else.

Well, the next chapter involves everyone. What should you do when your career is stagnant? Everyone is particularly middle-aged. Many of us are middle-aged, and those born after 80s are middle-aged. What should we do now?

The first thing you have to do is to stop carefully. Many of us don't respond to stop, that is, your work has stopped, but you feel good. Don't you think the salary is paid every month? The salary is stable every month. This stability will kill you.

Because if you want to be stable in this life, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. So you should have an offensive attitude, and you should constantly enrich yourself, so you should be alert to stopping. This is the first suggestion. Next, you should be able to build a network to find the right position. Participate in various high-end exchanges. You said that the law has nothing to do with me, just know a few lawyers; Medicine has nothing to do with me. I should attend more doctor's parties and listen to doctors chat. I especially like chatting with doctors, which is completely different from us ordinary people.

Another is to learn to ignore selectively. There are many opportunities, and although there are many exchanges, we can't cover everything. You can't think of any one as an opportunity. I also want to learn this and that. You still have to think carefully. Then if you want to do well, you need to be modest and open-minded. Then the next thing to do is to immerse yourself in it, get the experience of flow in it, and study it all day. Only in this way can you quickly become an expert in this field.

The next chapter is called opening your middle-aged opportunities. You see, we used to talk about midlife crisis. Speaking of middle age, we are followed by a crisis, but it is not. The author says that middle age brings opportunities. Why? That is, after you reach middle age, you have a stable job and a habitual lifestyle, which basically solves the problem of food and clothing. At this time, you may be able to free your hands and think about your own fun. Just like the executive who studied ancient coins mentioned above, he never thought that ancient coins could become a thing before middle age. Until he bought a house and his family was stable. At this time, he felt that I couldn't give up this fun, and then he began to study his ancient coins. That's the truth. So sometimes interference is not a bad thing. You are different from others, and your ideas are different from those of young people because you have many different backgrounds. This is what I call a middle-aged opportunity.

Then many opportunities come from a sudden inspiration. It is that many people want to study where opportunities come from. Opportunity is actually what I said earlier. It's complicated. Uka, you don't know where it came from, but what are you going to do? Have a general direction, then socialize widely, find a lot of information, go to the past and save the future, and then find the thing that works here. We should be able to learn two skills, which are passion-oriented and then work-oriented.

Then let's talk about specific methods. One of the most important ways is to know the importance of large-scale open online courses, large-scale open online courses, large-scale open online courses. A large-scale open online course is what we call online education. You know that our past education was completely centered on educators, so what do the educated want from educators? I just want to be recognized and get a diploma, but in fact, you should know that the change of massive open online courses is that the providers of education become insignificant, and you don't have to please me at all. What am I? I just put this course here and charge you a lecture fee, one course 10 yuan or 20 yuan. It's cheap, and then you can listen to it as many times as you want and take it as many times as you want until you pass.

Then why am I sure you won't cheat? I don't care, because you cheated. It doesn't matter to me that you are willing to cheat. If you cheat, go out and lie to yourself. We should believe that the future society will look at ability, not diploma, so I can only give you a proof that you have taken this course. I'm not saying that everyone who has taken this course is very good, because countless people have taken this course. This is the idea of a large number of open online courses.

So when this method comes out, you will find that a large number of people have changed their fate through mu class, and curtain classes can also join clubs. Students are all over the world, and everyone communicates here. There is a huge community to learn from each other, including free MBA courses. Who will arrange the rhythm of the course? You can arrange it yourself. Massive open online courses have a very important concept called encouraging browsing. Failure is no longer a shame, that is, when we heard about failure, dropping out of school and being punished in the past, you listened to these words and he was afraid that you would not study hard. But with things like massively open online courses, you can browse. You said I was suddenly interested in archaeology, so don't worry about failing the exam. You don't have to do it, just browse it yourself. If you feel interested after browsing, try to take an exam. It doesn't matter if you haven't passed the exam. This is not a stain. Don't think it's a stain to say that you haven't passed many courses, do you? Encourage browsing and encourage you to dabble extensively. This is the future online education.

What we want is skills. Therefore, the core of education is long skills, which is what we call massive open online course learning. You know yourself best, so you can improve yourself in a targeted way. Instead of following the rhythm given to you by the school, you should learn what others have learned. These are two different things. Then it expands and reshapes itself. The most important thing is that it brings new socialization, which transcends regions and national boundaries.

Learning is a very enjoyable thing, but don't indulge, don't completely indulge in learning. You are looking for balance. What is balance? I think what China people say best is the unity of knowledge and action. You should use what you have learned and find feedback in practice, and then you will know if I can learn something else, so that you can choose a better one to learn. Therefore, applying what you have learned and combining knowledge with practice will balance the troubles caused by a large number of massive learning resources. This is what we call the process of how to make good use of network resources to complete your transformation and your thinking transformation.

The book ends with a story about horses. This horse has a bad temper, and no one can tame it. Later, the horse owner met a horse trainer. He said, first of all, you should not try to correct it. You should first establish respect and trust with it. You should start to build feelings with this horse slowly, read its body language, and then give it enough feedback when it does the right thing. Because people's habit is to always want to correct its mistakes and always want to pull it back when it is wrong. Can't pull it back. You can only give it more rewards when it does it right, and then train slowly. It took more than half a year for the horse and its owner to establish a very deep affection and behave appropriately. When they do great things, they will come and show you. She can understand what the horse is saying.

Why did she use this spike story in her last article? Even a horse can complete the transformation of thinking. It is such a well-trained horse that has developed such stubborn and bad behaviors and finally can become docile and cooperative.

Therefore, every one of us, including the people around us, should know that no matter how old you are, no matter how middle-aged or even old, I don't live according to the inertia stipulated by people in the past, but I want to live with passion. I want to find my next skill, and then let me constantly change my mind and iterate. More importantly, you must believe that leap-forward growth is certain.

So, finally, you might as well think about it. What is your second skill? If so, write it down. If not, write down: What is your second skill?

Whew, it's finally finished! I like a book very much. I hope it will help you. Especially the π-type talents mentioned in the book are really inspiring and the best choice to spread the risks in life!