First, what is the ability to summarize in one sentence!
The ability to summarize in one sentence means that when you listen to other people's speeches or read a book or an article, you can express your core ideas in one sentence through your own summary.
Dear students, when you see this explanation, don't be in a hurry to despise and question the seniors. You think this sentence is very simple, and you don't need redundant explanations from seniors. However, the seniors wrote it for a purpose.
First, seniors have made a mistake: they often despise familiar concepts and think they know their meanings, but in fact, seniors just have an illusion of knowing. I think some of you will have the same situation.
How do you know if you really understand a concept or just know an illusion? The senior has an idea: if you are asked to explain a concept in your own words, see if you can explain it clearly. If not, then your so-called knowing and understanding is an illusion. Therefore, I suggest that students should develop the awareness of deeply understanding and excavating a concept, and even develop the ability to define an unfamiliar thing.
Second, there is a kind of thinking called golden thinking circle, which is the framework for seniors to write this article. I hope students can learn this kind of thinking and consciously think about it when they encounter something.
What is the golden thinking circle? Simply put, when you encounter a problem that needs thinking, think from three angles: what, how and why! The first part of this paper is what part of the golden thinking circle is.
Simple, right? Yes, it's simple! In fact, the simpler the thinking, the more universal the application value, but the easier it is to be despised and ignored by us. (About the golden thinking circle, it will be introduced later.)
Let's go back to the ability to sum up in one sentence. Let's use an example to illustrate the ability to summarize in one sentence. For example, when I shared it the day before yesterday, my senior recommended three books to you. It is based on this book that seniors really attach importance to the ability to summarize in one sentence and study and apply it in depth. When explaining the second rule of "analytical reading" reading method in this book, the author suggests that we summarize the whole book in one sentence so as to have an overall understanding of a book.
The seniors then applied this sentence to how to read a book itself and summed it up in one sentence: How to read a book, let's ask four questions and answer them, and become an active reader. In reading, we can use three methods to understand a book to the maximum extent: investigation reading, analysis reading and theme reading.
Let's take the principle of the golden pagoda as an example. This is a book with 300 pages and about 290,000 words. The seniors think that one sentence of this book can be summarized into four words: Unite and pass! Of course, these four words are the result of extracting keywords for the convenience of memory. You may not understand them at once. Senior gives you an extension: conclusion first, up and down, classification and grouping, logical progression.
Let's take the book Learning to Ask Questions as an example. The senior's summary is: when we objectively think about a book, a speech and an article we read, we must ask ten questions to find out the logical fallacy in the author's reasoning.
About a word summary, the senior wants to tell you two things:
First, a sentence is a general term, either true or a sentence. Don't go to extremes. Especially in a book, there are so many contents that it can't be completely summarized in a dozen words. It may take 100-200 words. But the principle is to be as concise as possible, so that it is convenient for you to remember.
Second, the summary of a sentence does not require you to make a very comprehensive, complete and perfect summary at one time, just grasp the core of the book or article.
Of course, the application scope of the ability summarized in one sentence is not limited to reading books, it is suitable for any occasion of receiving and expressing information. For example, daily study, answering questions for postgraduate entrance examination, various interviews, and reporting to leaders at work. Limited to space, seniors will not give examples here. I think the above example is enough to give you a preliminary understanding of this.
Second, why is the ability to summarize in one sentence important?
Imagine a situation: if you report the topic of your graduation thesis to your tutor and happen to meet him or her in the corridor, your tutor tells you that he or she is going on a business trip and gives you 2 minutes to finish the report in the elevator. What should you say at this time? This is the famous elevator, which can also be used in work scenes and venture capital scenes. Senior students often face similar scenes at work. At this time, the ability to summarize in one sentence is very important.
I remember that after sharing last Saturday, the seniors consulted many students' feedback in person or on WeChat. When they find a problem, some students can't express their views in concise language.
The consequences are as follows: some students and seniors who express orally don't understand the core points of your feedback well; Some students who express themselves in words should read your feedback several times and finally summarize the main points themselves. This is not to say that these students are not good at summarizing, but that you are not aware of doing so.
There is a saying in your heart: consciousness is very important! Realize that it is important to express your opinion in one sentence at any time and place-whether it is written or oral.
If your written expression is not refined, it is likely that readers will not be able to grasp your core idea from beginning to end, so as to achieve the same effect after reading it.
If your oral expression is not refined, you may be at a disadvantage in PK with others in graduation defense and postgraduate interview; At work, you may lose a good interview opportunity and a good promotion opportunity.
The ability to summarize in one sentence is also a good way to solve the limited memory capacity of the brain.
The senior once had a puzzle. After reading a book, he always wants to keep the whole book in his mind so that he can say it at any time. However, in fact, this is extremely unrealistic. The more so, the more seniors find themselves reading a book within a few days, and the book is completely forgotten. However, if a book is summarized in one sentence, the amount of information will be reduced, but if you grasp the core, you will gain something. This is the truth that seniors realized that "less is more". The more I want to remember, the more I can't remember anything. Doing the opposite will gain something, and it is easier to bring confidence to yourself.
Therefore, the ability to express opinions in one sentence is very important. This is a very important real life survival skill. I hope all students will start exercising consciously from today. You have a natural environmental advantage, because you have to learn a lot every day, which is a very good opportunity.
Third, how to exercise the ability to summarize in one sentence
On how to train the ability of summarizing in one sentence. Senior students think it is necessary to consider the amount of information, such as a conversation, an article, a speech and a book. Their amount of information is different. The greater the amount of information, the higher the energy and ability to summarize the needs in one sentence. But, on the whole, there are still ways to help you solve it. That is to find a keyword (a sentence) or a key sentence (a book or an article).
As soon as I said this, many students immediately understood, because you are actually doing this intentionally or unintentionally in your daily study. Besides, it's not difficult for you.
However, seniors suggest that you raise the unconscious keyword search behavior to a conscious level. In other words, in any information exchange, you immediately think that I need a sentence to grasp the main idea, and I should consciously look for keywords (sentences).
In written language, there are some skills to find out key words or sentences.
First, the way to find sentence keywords.
Here is mainly to divide the sentence components, find out the subject, predicate and object of the sentence, and ignore these modifiers. This is something that students are familiar with. We should have learned this part in high school, and this method will actually be used in English reading. In fact, in Chinese and English, this method is interlinked, and students will consciously experience it carefully in the future.
Second, find the key sentences of an article or a book.
There are two ways to find out the key sentences in a book or an article. Some authors mark all the key sentences in bold for the convenience of readers, such as how to read a book.
But most books don't do this. At this time, you need to find it yourself. But with so much content in a book, how to find out the key sentences more effectively? That is: distinguish between facts and opinions. It is to filter the examples and factual information in a book or an article and find the rest information. Fact information often occupies most of the contents of a book. Filter them out and you'll be much more relaxed.
In this regard, students must practice more. Over time, practice makes perfect.
Finally, the senior concluded that what we are talking about today is the ability to summarize in one sentence. Then this article of senior students can be summed up in one sentence: we should consciously use keyword method or key syntax to grasp the core of an article, a book and a speech, so that we can get straight to the point and deal with it easily when talking, studying, interviewing for a job and reporting on our work.