How to maintain self-study ability during college?
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The easiest thing to lose in college is not the dream, not the struggle, but the ability of self-study.
Recently, people often ask me:
If you don't take the postgraduate entrance examination, why do you go to the library every day?
Well, I am teaching myself software.
What's the use of teaching by yourself if the self-taught teacher doesn't teach?
Then, I left with a puzzled expression.
Really, many people lose their self-study ability or have no self-study consciousness when they go to college.
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I feel that I have no learning ability. If I go back to the third year of high school, this kind of problem will be killed in minutes.
Recently, roommates always complain that it is too difficult to study for postgraduate entrance examination. With almost no study in the first three years of college, it's almost useless to learn so many things by yourself suddenly.
Yes, undergraduate education is too simple compared with high school. Because of this, we gradually lost the good habit of self-study in those days. After finishing the homework assigned by the teacher, we gave ourselves various cookers, three-year college entrance examination and five-year simulation, various videos, and a bunch of extracurricular tutoring books. Every knowledge point should be thoroughly understood several times for fear of missing anything.
In college, previewing before class and finishing homework after class have become extravagant hopes, let alone self-study. We feel guilty after reading too many books. Gradually, we unconsciously lost the self-study ability accumulated in high school.
But when you step into the society, you realize that self-study ability is so important. It is the best weapon to widen the gap with peers a few years after graduation.
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Looking back on the first three years of college, I have been studying this matter conscientiously. Whether it is management or physics, I will go to the library to find relevant books and exercises to strengthen myself after class.
So, here, I want to talk about how to maintain self-study ability in college. Note that it is not cultivated or formed, because you already have the ability of self-study in high school.
Just, save it for college. Don't lose it.
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So, how can we maintain the self-study ability during college?
① Keep good study habits.
This is the most basic premise, don't be influenced by people around you, neglect your studies and indulge in games and play all day.
Preview before class, review after class, finish the homework assigned by the teacher independently, and continue these study habits. I believe it won't take too much time. On the contrary, as long as you persist, your self-study ability will not be easily lost.
(2) treat every subject equally.
In college, many subjects look really simple, just like management, but when they are really learned, they are a deep knowledge, and what we have learned is only superficial. You can try to find some materials and improve your reading after class.
Don't go back and forth after class. It is very helpful for you to understand a subject by reading a school textbook casually and reading more auxiliary materials. Maybe you can use it in the future and keep the habit of self-study. You can kill two birds with one stone.
③ Learn to find relevant information.
This is the most important thing, just like in the past, in order to learn English well, you went to the bookstore to buy various teaching AIDS and downloaded listening materials online, which is the embodiment of self-learning ability.
Universities don't ask you to buy all kinds of textbooks like high school, but only ask you to go to the library to find some related books after class. For example, after taking a course in marketing, you can go and see Philip. Kotler's book Marketing has deepened your understanding of marketing.
The ability to find information is also the most important part of self-study ability.
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In fact, it is not difficult to maintain the ability of self-study for four years. What is difficult is to persist day after day without external interference.
When you still maintain the habit and ability of self-study after graduation, you can widen the gap with your peers and form your own competitiveness within a few years.
We have always had the ability to learn by ourselves, but don't lose it, or you will find it difficult to get it back when you need it, because not learning has become a part of life, and at that time, you will be very difficult.
Compared with ordinary people, awesome people are not because they know more than you, but because they learn faster than you and their learning ability is better than you.