As you continue to learn, you may also have the experience of reading one book after another, browsing countless articles, and writing thick reading notes.
However, despite these efforts, you find that your abilities are not significantly improved at work.
You feel distressed and anxious about this. The ancients once said: "What you get on paper is shallow, and you never know that you have to bow to it." ”
The reason why reading books does not bring significant improvement is that your knowledge is still in the stage of collecting, and it has not yet been transformed into real ability through practice.
To solve this problem, you need to apply what you have learned in the real world. For example, if you're reading a book on communication skills, try to apply those skills to your interactions with colleagues. This way, you'll be able to turn what you've learned into practical skills that will take you to the next level in your work.
Wang Yu majored in film and television post-production during his college years, and his grades were excellent. His work has been praised by teachers and classmates many times, and he has also won several related awards. In addition, he started to undertake some scattered video production tasks online while he was in school, and received good feedback from customers.
However, after the work, the pride he had built up was completely shattered. When his completed work was submitted to the leader, the leader often completely repudiated his efforts with the sentence "Take it back and change it, it is not up to the level of commercial use".
He is usually very diligent, often looks up excellent works on the Internet, and reads a lot of books on related majors, but his professional ability has not been significantly improved, which makes him very troubled. In today's era of highly developed information and knowledge explosion, the cost of acquiring knowledge is getting lower and lower, but it is becoming more and more difficult to truly grasp knowledge and turn it into practical ability.
For example, after reading a book, although we may have a lot of feelings, when asked, "What is the book about?" What did it bring you? We are often unable to express our thoughts and feelings clearly, as if we can't talk about them.
Most of the time, the knowledge acquired by reading, watching videos, or audio courses is only superficial and superficial, and does not translate it into one's own knowledge, let alone knowledge into ability. This is because we simply consume these concepts or knowledge without consciously reconstructing them. It's like thinking of the infinitely intelligent human brain as a hard drive that can only be stored but not output.
In fact, the most outstanding aspect of the human brain lies in its ability to think logically. This ability to think helps us to understand, organize, reorganize, and transform the knowledge we have collected and stored into our own knowledge. On this basis, we can build our own knowledge system and finally translate it into concrete practical capabilities.
In order to realize the transformation from information to knowledge, and then let knowledge promote the ability to improve, it is necessary to practice. Practice is the only criterion for testing truth, and it gives us the opportunity to reconstruct knowledge and verify the authenticity of knowledge.
In practice, we not only deepen our understanding of knowledge, but also internalize it as our own. In practical application, we will integrate our personal feelings into the knowledge we have mastered, and this process is the deconstruction and reconstruction of knowledge to form a knowledge system with personal characteristics.
After many practices, the knowledge will be used by us, and our abilities will be improved unconsciously. So, how can this end goal be achieved?
(1) Active input
We are engaged in the act of knowledge input all the time, such as reading news, WeChat articles, film and television works every day, and even watching advertisements is also a way of knowledge input. However, the information obtained from these sources cannot be called knowledge entirely.
In order to acquire purer, high-quality knowledge, we need to take an active approach to it, such as actively reading books, attending training courses, listening to the radio or watching videos, etc. The advantage of this approach is that it can input knowledge in a complete system, which helps us to better absorb and organize knowledge.
(2) Deconstruction and understanding of knowledge
The input of knowledge is simple, but it is a very challenging task to deepen the deconstruction and understanding of knowledge. An important criterion is to be able to "draw inferences from others".
Take reading as an example to explain the deconstruction and understanding of knowledge: we all know that reading is divided into extensive reading and intensive reading. In the process of learning knowledge, some people only stay at the level of understanding concepts, while others are able to discover the more essential things behind the concepts, so as to gain more.
The process of going deep behind the knowledge is the deconstruction of knowledge. The most effective way to understand knowledge is to combine the knowledge learned with one's own experience and corroborate each other. This is like what Zen Buddhism says: "If a person drinks water, he knows whether he is warm or cold." ”
(3) Output
The process of output is to express and share the knowledge and information you have through writing and oral expression.
For example, a writer writing a novel is a common way to output. Output plays a crucial role in the transformation of knowledge into capability. As long as you can output, it means that you have integrated knowledge into your way of thinking.
Here are some commonly used output methods for reference:
After reading a good book, you can write a book review, share your book, and write "Reading Impressions of a Book of So-and-so";
The conventional output method after the trip is to take pictures, and organize them into text pictures and feelings to form "The Travelogue of a Certain Place";
After working in the company for a period of time, you can organize the commonly used document templates and output the "XX Document Template".
Remember, as you are constantly improving, you should always be mindful of putting what you have learned into practice and developing your abilities. In this way, you can become a person who is constantly improving.
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