The so-called Daniel refers to two aspects: knowledge and thinking. Knowledge includes quantity and quality; The depth and breadth of thinking.
In this way, there are four types of people. You can first see which type you are?
The first category is people who have a great deal of knowledge and are good at thinking.
After years of learning and thinking, such people have a lot of knowledge, high quality and strong thinking ability, and will naturally become experts and experts in a field and industry!
The second kind is people who can only think without a lot of knowledge.
Such a person will usually become a small range of experts (such as the "wise man" in your village). If everyone in the environment has little knowledge, this person will become a powerful person in this area because he is good at observation, analysis and reasoning. However, in the environment of the Internet, this situation is rare, because the cost of acquiring information and knowledge is too low. If people only grasp some information and personal reasoning, their reasoning results may be wrong. The most extreme is the kind of people who become "civil subjects". Due to the limitation of their knowledge background, it is useless for them to like "research" any more.
The third category is people who have neither knowledge nor thinking.
People who have little knowledge and are too lazy to use their heads are generally happy, but they are not within the scope of our discussion today.
The fourth kind is people who only have knowledge but can't think.
Such people are often called "nerds". In the Internet environment, there are many people who have stored a lot of explicit knowledge in their brains, but they seldom practice. They have little knowledge of situational knowledge and strategic knowledge, and they can't work and walk. Therefore, in the end, those who can truly become experts and experts must be strong in both aspects. What needs to be made clear is that the quantity and quality of knowledge and the three levels of thinking are far superior to ordinary people. Here is a brief description.
knowledge
No matter who is the best in any field, he has enough knowledge. He has done and accumulated experience for those you have not done. He has seen those you have not met and thought about for a long time.
The quality of his knowledge is much higher than yours. Through learning, practice and deep thinking, the knowledge in his mind has been highly systematized and abstracted. Maybe he can describe the whole field only with your keyword.
Each industry will also have its own basic skills. In the long practice, he is as familiar with these skills as a cook.
These knowledge and skills are not just for you to read two or three books and listen to a few videos. They need to be accumulated and practiced for a long time, at least 3-5 years without interruption and perseverance.
In his speech at the opening ceremony of the new semester for graduate students of Tsinghua University, Shi Yi, a famous scientist and vice president of Tsinghua University, recognized that he had achieved something. The first thing he mentioned was "the dedication of time":
"Don't think you can play smart. There is no free dinner in the world, which is an eternal truth.
So sometimes I am disgusted that some people say that my success is purely an opportunity, which must be nonsense.
Of course, this is usually said for modesty now, but such modesty will mislead many students. I don't believe that any successful scientist has not made great efforts. "
Cow scientists are like this, and so are experts in any field. There is no way to become an expert in 21 days. If you don't want to work hard, the immortals can't do it!
thinking
The first is the hierarchy of the way of thinking: what you think determines your goals and patterns.
For example, if you only think about how to do repetitive work or how to earn money to buy a school district house, the best result is a skilled craftsmanship or a jittery middle class.
Daniel will consider the development trend of the industry in the country and the world, and consider the strategy, resource integration, and what valuable problems are rather than solving them on the way up.
Therefore, if ordinary people want to become top experts, they should constantly improve the level of self thinking.
Tesla's Musk often talks about his "first principle". Compared with the "comparative thinking" often used by ordinary people, he believes that:
"We always tend to compare in our life - if someone else has done or is doing this, we will do it.
As a result, only small iterative development can be generated. The way of thinking of the "first principle" is to look at the world from the perspective of physics, that is to say, peel off the appearance of things layer by layer, see the essence inside, and then move up from the essence layer by layer. It takes a lot of brain power. "
Real experts
If a person only has a lot of knowledge (stored in the brain), he can only be regarded as a mobile hard disk. And those who have saved a lot of content on their computers can't even count as hard disks.
A person can be regarded as a craftsman at most if he has only mastered various skills. For knowledge workers, craftsman is not a good word. It may be a civilized expression of "skilled worker".
A person who only thinks but lacks knowledge and skills can only be regarded as a visionary. For example, those people who always want to prove "Goldbach conjecture"!
If you want to become a really powerful person and a real expert, you will know how to do it!
One is the accumulation of knowledge and skills training, the other is the continuous improvement of thinking ability.
However, the improvement in these two aspects does not come out of nowhere. They are the result of your efforts: in addition to continuous and effective learning, what is needed is arduous practice.
For those who are committed to achieving, if they really want to improve themselves faster, the secret may be:
Go to work, do difficult work, and solve complex problems!
