Read through Zeng Guofan's "Four Learning" and walk out of the road of efficient progress

Zeng Guofan wrote in his letter to his family: "I saw the younger generation of my family. They were physically exhausted and didn't make any progress in studying. I used to think that learning four things would inspire the younger generation: read quickly at first, and it would be too awkward not to read much; Old books should be familiar, but they are easy to forget without memorizing; When it comes to learning Chinese characters, it should be normal. Bad writing is like having no clothes on your body and no firewood on the mountain. Speaking of writing, you should think about it. If you can't do it well, you can talk like a mute, and even a lame horse can't do it. All four are indispensable. "

This is Zeng Guofan's heartfelt words to his sons and nephews after everything. The wisdom of deep learning among them deserves our reflection. How do we keep a good study state?

Reading for speed, reading more to increase knowledge.

"It's advisable to read books quickly, but if you read too much, you will be ignorant", that is, you should pay attention to the speed of reading unread books and browse quickly. If you don't read too many books, you will appear ignorant. Indeed, everyone's time is limited, 24 hours a day, except for work, daily life and time consumption, not much time will be spent on reading every day. However, in the era of knowledge explosion, there are so many books. What shall we do? That is to browse quickly, have a look first, and increase our knowledge. Otherwise, you can't talk to people about short topics in parents.

In addition, after the first quick browse, you will face two situations. One is that you don't think the book you read is meaningful, so just read it once. For example, fantasy and time travel novels are deeply loved by young people and are not worthy of in-depth study, so put down and read other books; There is another situation, after browsing, I feel that the book in my hand is very meaningful and touching, but I can't remember it very deeply after simply reading it. What should I do?

Familiar with old books, deep reading will increase your knowledge.

For those books with depth, connotation and value, you have to read them intensively and even recite them, otherwise, "if you don't recite them, you will easily forget them." There are too many books in the library, but there are not too many good books suitable for you, so it is good to read one. Recite more, only when the words on the paper become memories in your mind, that is your own knowledge.

Classic books can't be read through once or twice. Some books, 10 years ago and now, will have different feelings in different periods. After all, reading is also looking at yourself. There will be too many people and things in 10 years, and it is natural that you will feel very different after reading it. I have read Sun Tzu's Art of War for more than 20 years, and I will see different knowledge every time.

Practice writing persistently, and be good at writing to enhance your charm.

Many times, I think reading and writing are integrated. When reading, I have to write and draw, otherwise, what I think and understand will become a thing of the past at any time. However, with all kinds of electronic products entering our lives, it is inevitable that our writing function will gradually deteriorate.

Nowadays, many people only sign when writing. Just practice signing repeatedly. All kinds of signatures are also "dragon and phoenix dances", which most people can't understand.

I always think that writing should be a basic way for us to learn Chinese characters and Chinese. No matter how advanced technology is, we China people can't forget or lose our own calligraphy.

Chinese characters are profound and profound, and some charms are never noticed by simply tapping on the keyboard.

People in China should pick up the written Chinese characters and pass them on. Chinese characters are the root of our China culture!

Think hard about writing and be good at writing to improve your ability.

Every time you read a book, experience an event, or even meet someone, you will have some heartfelt thoughts. Writing is to organize and record these feelings and ideas in an orderly way.

"If you don't do well, you talk like a mute, and even a lame horse can't." This sentence may not have much experience for most people in their daily lives. However, once you get the opportunity to report your work and sort out the situation, you will feel that you can't write a composition. As Zeng Guofan said, you obviously think a lot, but you can't write it on paper, so it's difficult to "speak" your inner voice.

Writing is a rare ability. Strong writing skills, organizational skills and logical skills are needed. What crawled out of that pile of "written materials" is not simple, and it is bound to experience many dark moments in life, such as staying up late and scratching your head.

Thinking hard means thinking deeply, never staying on the surface, but grasping the root of things, problems and human nature, and will inevitably write a good article.

The last sentence is very important. It tells us that we can't just focus on one of the four aspects: speed reading, familiar reading, frequent writing and hard thinking, but complement each other and go hand in hand. Only in this way can we really learn something and succeed.