Teacher Luo Zhenyu’s "Lifelong Learning" borrows a point of view from Wang Shuo, editor-in-chief of "Caixin": be a nomad of knowledge.
What does it mean?
That is to say, our generation’s attitude towards knowledge cannot be the same as in the farming era, where we just build a piece of land and plant and harvest in spring and autumn for generations. And like the nomads, they migrate wherever the soil is fertile and the grass is beautiful, and they can't stop for the rest of their lives.
The learning environment of our generation is changing
Everyone has different levels of learning anxiety, and it is constantly deepening and changing rapidly. When I was a child, I was worried about my unsatisfactory test scores, fear of not getting into a good university, and whether I could find a good job after graduation...
The essence of these anxieties is to make a living, which is very low-level. of anxiety.
With the development of society, the anxiety of "making a living" is turning into a problem of survival.
In fact, learning anxiety is a common phenomenon for living creatures, not just for humans. For example, the most primitive single-cell organisms have cell membrane surfaces covered with receptors that are used to collect environmental information. This is the need for culture for single-cell organisms.
It can be seen that human beings have a long history of anxiety about learning.
The more complex the environment, the stronger the anxiety. If a person's ability to perceive information about the social environment decreases, the original way of survival cannot be maintained.
Some people say that our social stratification has become more and more serious and social classes have been solidified. Teacher Luo Zhenyu’s point of view is that it has solidified, but it has not solidified either.
The key difference is whether you have knowledge and whether you can complete cognitive upgrades.
If the poor can realize cognitive upgrade, class solidification will not exist. For example, the British female writer J.K. Rowling, the author of "Harry Potter", a single mother, successfully promoted to the British writer through writing The richest man.
Therefore, knowledge can help people complete class crossing. In this era of knowledge explosion, the anxiety of learning is even more urgent.
So, how should our generation learn? How to relieve anxiety?
Teacher Luo Zhenyu gave five suggestions, namely:
Personality
Learning from people is more efficient than learning from books. Knowledge is an extremely complex subject. The knowledge network actually exists in the brains of talented people, and it is constantly iterating.
Being with great people is the best way to reduce the overall burden of knowledge
Concepts
It is to learn efficiently by constantly collecting new concepts .
The world itself is very complex, how can it be turned into knowledge? It is to settle into concepts one by one. When understanding a new subject, first understand the concepts.
Sewing
It means taking a needle to sew a stitch and combining the knowledge. How to sew? It's very simple, express it once, such as writing a reading note.
Fragmentation
The production process of knowledge itself is fragmented. For modern adults, the fragmented learning method is the most realistic and easiest to achieve. Fragmented learning is easier Get started and get to work.
Goal
There are two kinds of people in the world: the first kind of person, there are three words in his world called stance, feeling and opinion; the second kind of person, his world There are also three words in it, called goals, methods and actions.
Opinion is a very uncertain thing. Knowledge is scattered in the mind and is dangling there. But once it has goals, methods and actions, everything will be integrated. .
Finally, Teacher Luo mentioned that one eye dies and two eyes live, which is the importance of crossing boundaries.
The most exciting knowledge innovations in this era mostly occur in the middle of multiple fields. This is an era of great integration of knowledge. We must learn to spend 20% of our time understanding 80% of the knowledge in a new field. , and then quickly move to the next field.
This is what I understand as knowledge nomads.