University is only the best carving period of life, and the accumulation of these four years will be your secret weapon to enter the workplace in the future.
You will find that what you have created, what opportunities you have to face. And four years in college, the following four things are worth your time and energy to carve.
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The first point is reading. You should dabble in different fields as much as possible. It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you can understand as much as you can, but this feeling will stay. At a certain time, you will understand some of them. Personally, paper books are the best. Why not read e-books? I just want you to read paper books. Just read more.
The key to reading is to use value feedback to truly turn the books you have read into your own, thus constantly stimulating you to continue reading, as follows:
1. After reading a book, sort out the contents of the book and form a mind map (the author's thoughts and the essence of the book). This process has deepened your memory and understanding of the book again.
2. From this huge mind map, find out 20 things that can guide your current life, study and work, and then express them in human language. This is your harvest after reading this book, which is the guiding value of the contents of the book to you at present.
Be a commentator and convey the contents of the book to others in your own language, so that they can understand the book and help them improve (teaching is the best way to learn).
Reading and writing should be similar to washing your face and brushing your teeth. They are inseparable from each other. You should get into the habit of recording and outputting a text version after reading.
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The second point is to pay attention to all kinds of chores. All the attention should have an attitude of asking questions in the end, and you can ask many directions, the simplest of which is Baidu. For example, if you see an article about a party in a circle of friends, it is very interesting, but I will find out what is going on. I will take a look at it every time I see a new related article, so I know more about this topic and talk to you next time. The result of this habit is that I am good at chatting, and many people will think that I know a lot, which is actually formed from this habit.
Paying attention to chores will help you improve your knowledge structure and system, help you master more information, and enable you to judge some facts independently instead of becoming a vassal of other people's views.
You should cultivate the habit of finding answers with questions, always keep a strong curiosity about housework and ask more why. The process of finding the answer is the process of perfecting the knowledge system, the most efficient learning method, and purposeful and directional learning.
You should try to find answers as much as possible, for example, reading is a way (books are the most important way, because the system and information are also the most primitive), and you can also find answers to questions through Baidu, Zhihu, Fenan, Douban, Netease Cloud Course and WeChat, without any restrictions. In the process of solving problems, the more ways involved, to some extent, it shows that you are more attentive.
In general, this process will last for a long time, because you will find that there are too many things you don't understand, and you have to solve them one by one. This is a good thing. The process of continuous literacy is painful and full of pleasure. By pursuing chores, your knowledge will be wider and wider, and more importantly, your critical and realistic spirit will be cultivated.
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Third, study more. There are many ways to learn more. In addition to the above reading and chores, there is another way called experience. I like to travel to different places, but I don't take pictures at scenic spots. Most of the time, I just feel the city. The more cities I have been to, the more experience I have.
On the one hand, you should constantly experience in unknown fields, expose yourself to more diverse faces (resources) and circles (platforms), and understand the ideas of people in different circles, which will help you to diversify your thinking. You can participate in various online and offline salons and activities through Internet channels, such as Luo You Wang Ba Class, Fan Deng Reading Club, Open Book Club and various Internet communities. If you have access to international public welfare projects, it will greatly inspire you to broaden your horizons and choose the angle of doing things.
You know, the purpose of contact is to open your eyes and get what you want. When you get it, you will start to contact the next circle. You should avoid being a "mixed circle" guy and constantly upgrade the quality of the circle. The premise of upgrading is that you can deserve it. Although it is utilitarian to say so, so what? Your theme is growth.
On the other hand, you should learn from the excellent people around you, but will you really learn? What have you learned from excellent people? How do you study? How did you find their excellence? I don't know if you have thought about this series of questions. If your answer is that they are very capable, very good, with outstanding skills and so on. I'm sure you haven't thought about it yourself, but it's such a macro feeling that it's destined to be you.
In fact, if you dissect excellent people, you will find that they have too many basic qualities (abilities), such as keen and meticulous observation, endless curiosity, empathy, high self-control, persistent writing and reading habits, and unique way of thinking. These are the key points of your study.
So the question is, how can we find these things? The core is only one thing: ask more why, don't look at appearances, ask yourself why. Why do others do it, why do they do it, what do others say, why do they say it, and what do they think. Learn the reasons behind why, so that you can learn from the best.
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The fourth point is tossing and turning. Many things, what you see and what you do, are two different things. Even if you don't do it, it doesn't matter, but at least you know how to do it In college, the cost of doing things is the lowest. You can try "poor travel", you can try to participate in public welfare projects, you can try mobile internet entrepreneurship, and you can also try challenging things, such as manager visits, industry research interviews, group trips, short-term cycling, and so on.
Maybe you will ask, why bother? I'll tell you a real experience of my own.
20 16, I initiated a project-Youth Publishing Plan. Participants are interesting people from all walks of life at home and abroad: tourists, Malaysian Chinese, students from famous universities at home and abroad (Tsinghua, Fudan, Moscow University, Birmingham University, Harvard Master of Education, etc.). ), Hong Kong "gap year" non-profit organizations, media people, entrepreneurs and their senior teams, these are all me. Yes, but it's difficult.
Because of this experience, I thought consciously for the first time. What is the significance of college students participating in various social practice activities and various learning platforms? Perhaps it is to give college students an opportunity to actively link different strangers and do all kinds of things.
Therefore, the biggest advantage of tossing is that you will get an opportunity to do many things, and you can link more groups and understand their stories.
For you, this will make you break through the previous inherent cognition, change some of your views and attitudes imperceptibly, and let you know that there are no natural correctness and absolute political correctness in this world, and you can accept other people's different views and their derived ways of thinking.
There was a popular saying in the circle of friends that "the biggest lie in the world is that you can't do it", but through tossing, you will find many aspects of yourself and know that you can do many things. When you graduate, you will naturally not be obsessed with what you are doing, because you have enough experience and you know what you will do to give full play to your greatest advantage.
Finally, to borrow a sentence from the spirit of New Oriental: "You should use the standards of cattle people to demand yourself, keep moving forward among them and narrow the distance with them. When you think you can be one of them, you can become a real cow. "
And the above four things will make you slowly close to the cattle people at the beginning of college.