As a trainer, I deeply feel that I am in this "skilled and unskilled" state these days. This feeling is very bad, but fortunately, I know there are still many things I don't know.
In order to break through myself this year, I jumped out of the original industry. However, after two classes in a new industry, I found that the course content and the course form I talked about are repeating the past, and the classroom effect is definitely not ideal. This is the result of "proficiency".
Just like a foreign coach, he said that when he coached in China, he found that China players would be willing to do a skill after mastering it. For example, if a basketball player is accurate in shooting, he will always practice shooting, and the three-pointer will become more and more accurate. However, once he played, his skills were completely useless, and he seemed to be a different person.
What is the reason? Because he likes the comfortable way, not the challenging way. As long as someone shakes in front of him, all his long-range skills will immediately fail and fall into a state of panic.
For example, when you were at school, you must have some classmates. They seem to study hard and spend more time and energy on their studies. However, they are actually lazy, because they used to do unchallenged exercises and read books they have memorized. This kind of students are showing themselves and others a sign of hard work, but in fact they are secretly lazy.
How can I break through this "proficiency"? -From "single cycle learning" to "double cycle learning"
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"Single-cycle learning" means that you have gradually formed a cognitive framework, and then you will look for various evidences and theories to enrich this cognitive framework and enrich your knowledge. Once you encounter a problem, you can have a keen grasp of the problem and immediately identify the immediate problem with your existing way of thinking, so as to seek a solution.
However, "single cycle learning" has a problem: on the one hand, it gives you guidance, on the other hand, it also imprisons your thinking. The final result will be: "with a hammer in hand, everything is a nail."
Just as doctors treat everyone as a patient, it is difficult to deal with people, especially psychologists, who may be very difficult to get along with-once you are in front of him, he will treat you as a patient and look at everything in front of him with familiar eyes.
"Double-loop learning" means that on the one hand, we should constantly strengthen our cognitive model under the existing cognitive model; On the other hand, we should weaken or even reduce the existing cognitive model.
This reminds us that when we improve our cognition, we must open a gap in the cognitive model instead of becoming a lively dreamer.
In order to realize "double-loop learning", we must cross these four obstacles:
The first level: based on facts.
Many of our discussions are not based on facts, not on keeping an open mind and vision, but on a few special cases. The conclusion reached in this way has been lost in the first obstacle.
The second obstacle: being guided by bold assumptions.
The bold idea is to break through the original cognitive framework and think about the problem from another framework.
The third level: after making bold assumptions, we must use logic to verify them.
You can't let your mind be completely kidnapped by fantasy and narcissism, but use logic to verify it.
The fourth level: draw an insight and draw a conclusion from the insight.
Many times we don't keep our love for insight, but accept cliches, correct nonsense and so on. So we can't gain insight.
May all of us not be confused by "incompetent skills", and constantly leap from "single-cycle learning" to "double-cycle learning" to achieve a real cognitive upgrade.
Thank you: Wu Bofan from Get? Cognitive methodology "column