How to set goals to improve your learning results?

At the beginning of every year, I believe everyone will set various flags for themselves for the new year. For example, improve your programming skills, learn to write, read 50 books, exercise once a week, etc.

At the end of the year, I took out the list I made at the beginning of the year and found that all the flags were upside down. Is this the case for most people? Anyway, fourth brother is like this, hehe.

Tell you a story.

There were three hunting dogs chasing a woodchuck, and the woodchuck got into a tree hole. This tree hole has only one exit. Suddenly, a rabbit emerged from the tree hole, ran quickly, and climbed up a big tree. The rabbit failed to stand firm on the tree and fell down, knocking out the three hunting dogs who were looking up. Finally, the rabbit escaped.

The story is over. After listening to it, do you have any questions?

Some people say: Rabbits can’t climb trees! Some people say: It is impossible for a rabbit to knock out three hunting dogs at the same time. All good questions. But, have you ever noticed: Where are the groundhogs?

The groundhog is your target.

We face complex environments, and over time, we often lose sight of our goals.

The problem is actually not with your own wishes, but with setting goals.

Teacher Tuobuhua mentioned in "How to Become an Efficient Learner" that a reasonable learning goal needs to meet at least four conditions:

1. There is a scene;
2. There is a distance;
3. There is a handhold;
4. There are stairs;

Let’s talk about these four conditions respectively:

There are scenarios

There are scenarios. This is easy to understand. That is, if we achieve the goal, we need somewhere to verify it; we have learned the same Something that can be used in at least one place.

Having scene verification means applying what we have learned, so that we can learn faster and master it more firmly.

For example, if we newly learn the Go language, if we don’t use it in the company and just learn it in private, we will definitely not have a deep grasp of it. If one day the company asks you to start developing business using Go language, then I am sure that your personal practice in this month will definitely gain more and knowledge points will be more solid than what you learned in the previous months.

In fact, everyone will have this experience more or less.

This is the value of the scene.

There is a distance

There is a distance, which means there must be a slight gap between your goals and your current situation.

For example, if your current annual income is 100W, and the income target you set for yourself in the new year is 101W, you can achieve this goal with a little effort, because the goal is too close to the current situation, and it is difficult to see the effect. You also lack the motivation to fight.

So a good goal should be at a certain distance from your current situation, and it can only be achieved by jumping.

Have a starting point

The so-called having a starting point means "there must be a starting point for implementation", that is, there must be a specific starting point Where to start.

Many people set goals without focusing on the details. For example, the goal is to read 50 books a year. But where to start? What kind of books do you read? How far have you read? There are no concrete plans. The high probability is that as time goes by, this goal will be lost.

So when setting a goal, you can at least clarify the following points:

1. Start and end time;
2. Specific execution action, for example, you say I want to read 50 books, this is an abstract action, and if You said you want to read for half an hour at noon every day. This is the specific action;
3. The number of actions performed, for example, reading 30 pages of books every day, can be quantified;
4. The degree of completion of an action needs to be clarified from the beginning. To what extent is this action truly completed? To avoid confusing yourself, for example, to what extent is it considered completed after reading a book and can I write reading notes? Or can you explain the concepts in the book clearly so that others can understand them?

These specific points are the "hands". Only when the "hands" are clear can all our strength and passion be released.

There are ladders

There are ladders, which are actually setting up ladder goals to achieve the ultimate goal.

When most of us set goals for ourselves, we especially like to set an ultimate goal for ourselves at the beginning, and then divide it evenly according to time. For example, if we plan to read 50 books this year, then it will probably Just read one book a week. In fact, this is unreasonable.

The process of achieving a good goal must have steps. For example, what is the first step and what is the second step? They must be different and progressive.

Let’s use reading as an analogy. I don’t have any experience or skills in reading at the beginning. It may be difficult to read one book every week; but if you can persist in reading, as your reading experience accumulates, you can read every week. After reading 2 to 3 books, and still mastering it well, you should timely raise the goals for the next stage at this time, so that you can achieve your goals step by step.

In this way, each level of the ladder is a new challenge, and different learning and training methods must be used to stimulate one's own spirit of exploration, instead of just repeating it every day like before. It's not learning, it's consuming your own willpower.

Now we know that a good goal should have four characteristics: scene, distance, grip, and ladder. Interested students may wish to try to set their own goals from these perspectives, or you can If you have any other good ideas, please leave a message to share!

"You have an apple, I have an apple, and we exchange each other, then you and I still have an apple each. But if you have a thought and I have a thought, We exchange with each other, then each of us will have two thoughts.”