Do you want to become a programmer with the ability to study efficiently for a long time?

Some people say that to become an expert in a certain field of knowledge, you need to spend at least 10,000 hours of study.

But Josh Kaufman overturned these concepts and proposed that it only takes 20 hours to master a new knowledge and skill.

Ten Thousand Hours is a concept that can easily cause fear, but 20 hours makes people feel much more comfortable and easy to practice.

If we get through the discomfort and frustration of the beginner stage within the first 20 hours, we can easily step into a new field.

20 hours = 2 sleeping nights = 1 week of total entertainment time, sounds really good .

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#Clear learning barriers

Lower the threshold before action

Scott Young 12 Within a month, he self-study completed all 33 courses in the legendary MIT computer science curriculum, from linear algebra to computational theory. According to his pace, it only takes about 1.5 weeks to complete a course.

About his learning method, time management expert Warfalcon’s evaluation:

1. Study 10 hours a day, 10 I have to take the exam once every day or so and pass

# This learning efficiency is very high, not to mention repeating it 33 times.

It is not difficult to concentrate for a short time when learning a new knowledge.

But after a period of time, if you cannot relax well, it will reach a bottleneck in about two or three months. The ability to understand and the mental state cannot continue, and this bottleneck will appear repeatedly

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Just like when taking the postgraduate entrance examination, many people can persevere in the first few months, but cannot persevere after June or August.

Repeat about three times and you will reach a critical point. After this, it will be easy to continue.

2. Deliberate practice does not have the concept of “education through entertainment”

A famous violinist once said that if you practice your fingers, you can practice all day; but if you practice your brain, you can practice for two hours a day.

Experts can practice for up to 1 to 1.5 hours each time, and up to 4 to 5 hours per day. No one could stand more.

General female fans may think that stars like Beckham are cute. What they may not know is that few players can perform at the intensity of Beckham's training. Because it's too bitter.

Combined with our goal of learning a new skill in 20 hours, we can draw a conclusion:

When learning a new knowledge, short It’s not hard to focus

on time. Master’s practice (commonly known as deliberate practice) can take up to 1 to 1.5 hours each time, and up to 4 to 5 hours per day. No one could stand more.

Personally, I can arrange efficient study time for about eight hours a day, which is feasible. Make sure you make good use of eight hours of productive time.

3. Before all actions begin, you need to establish a sense of ritual

People will use the sense of ritual to give themselves a strong sense of self-suggestion. In order to ensure that the efficient time is used efficiently, I treat every study session like a college entrance examination.

Think back, what will you prepare in advance for the college entrance examination?

Material

: Before formal learning, I will talk about the items I can use lined up on the table. In case you need something temporarily, you have to look around in a hurry.

Spirit

: The night before, I had thought about studying efficiently the next day. So I will sleep peacefully and recharge myself for the next day.

Time

: For example, eight o'clock is my official study time, and I will make sure to get there before eight o'clock. Sit on a chair and adjust to the most comfortable learning posture, make basic preparations, and lower the threshold before taking action.

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##Dismantling the quantitative goals

The more detailed the better

Every new knowledge or skill has its most critical foundation Part, you can improve efficiently by focusing on this part.

The "PDCA" cycle principle (P-Plan, D-Do, C-Check, A-Action) is used here.

That is, before starting every action, a target plan must be drawn up and then executed

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Check key points in the process and final results, correct deviations, and standardize results. And determine new goals and formulate plans for the next round.

All execution actions have such a "loop".

For example, when you study professional textbooks and read them for the first time, what do you read?

1. Look at the table of contents: know which section of this chapter is the focus and what problem this section is probably used to solve;

2. Read the exercises at the end of the chapter and circle the terms: this term is basically the knowledge point of this chapter;

3. Use the terms to mark concepts and terms in the book Explanation: If you do not understand some terms, please use the Internet to search for terminology explanations;

4. After understanding the terms, use the terms to understand the charts, examples, and cases in the book.

Keep a firm grasp of the examples, cases, and charts in the book. Because the examples talk about specific situations and the charts are visual. Cases talk about specific applications, which are much easier to understand than text descriptions.

Therefore, as long as we understand the cases and charts with the minimum amount of text, we will achieve an understanding of knowledge.

Then let’s look at the example questions to understand the knowledge application scenarios.

After that, we will do the questions repeatedly to master the knowledge points.

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##Energy burst period

The more efficient the use, the better

Everyone’s high-energy learning time period may be different, but I want to emphasize that One word "expected".

Observe your long-term activity status. I expect my energy burst to occur between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., and between 6:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., a total of eight and a half hours.

So, I will make a lot of extra preparations for these eight hours.

For example, taking a nap at noon is necessary work; around 5:40 pm, I may squint for a while, which is also necessary work; listening to my favorite music with awesome headphones during breaks is necessary work; personal hobbies, push-ups are also necessary work, etc.

In short, they are all prepared to ensure the efficient use of these eight and a half hours.

Actually less than 8 and a half hours. Take a 10-minute break from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., a 20-minute break from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and a 20-minute break from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. So the pure study time is 7 hours and 40 minutes.

Because it mentioned taking a nap around 5:40 pm, and I wasn’t sleepy at that time. It is a nap taken in advance to prevent fatigue from studying for three and a half hours at night.

Resting and relaxing before fatigue sets in is the best way to relieve fatigue.

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##last for 20 hours

Overcoming the Frustration Barrier

##Learning effectively During the process, you will feel more or less frustrated and frustrated at the beginning; or you may have doubts about your intelligence and talent.

But what hinders our progress is actually not intellectual factors, but our physical energy and emotional energy

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1. Body energy

profound People who practice can spend up to 1 hour and 1.5 hours, which is very tiring. In other words, a lot of energy will be consumed.

Therefore, you need to replenish energy in time.

The two-hour efficient study period is divided into two sections, one section is about fifty minutes long, with a break in between. This is when you can replenish your energy.

2. Emotional energy

lift An example: a couple, both of them work hard at the company, but they often quarrel when they get home. Are they bad-tempered?

There is another couple who get off work very early. The couple often go shopping sweetly, are they good-tempered? What did you think when you found out that they were actually the same couple?

This is because working hard not only requires material energy, but the complicated work also consumes a lot of their emotional energy during the day.

Emotional energy also needs to be replenished
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There are usually examples like this: For example, I decided to run, and I was full of confidence to run for a month, but ended up slacking off within a few days. It's not that I'm tired, but that I feel emotionally tired and bored.

There is a way to solve emotional fatigue at this time: that is to relax.

Haruki Murakami has been running for decades. What I love most about him is that he ends his run when he feels good. That way he'll be looking forward to running the next day.

As time goes by, the main part of what we can remember about a thing is actually the feeling the thing leaves us with rather than the event itself.

Haruki Murakami ends with a moment full of joy. Running is naturally a "pleasurable" experience for him that can continue every other day. This is very wise.

Many writers who write long novels often use this method: for example, they take the initiative to stop writing when they reach the climax, because the climax emotion is very strong. By continuing to create the next day, it will be easier to regain the feeling and continue writing.

So please study for a while in the evening period, that is, after the last efficient study period. Just when you feel happy, you feel you have gained a lot, and you feel your learning is still efficient, interrupt your learning immediately.

Don’t think that studying like this is hard work. In fact, I do it with great pleasure.

With a strong sense of ritual, every day is like a pilgrimage.

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