Chapter 395： Deep Learning and Deep Work

Chapter 395 Deep Learning and Deep Work

In this year when I lived apart from Mochizuki.

Ning Youguang did feel a bit exhausted, but he also achieved remarkable results.

In addition to the publication of "Loving You Is Loving Yourself", she has 9 papers accepted.

This makes her professor title expected to be mentioned in the near future.

Regarding the achievements she got, apart from the people who are close to her, her students are the most amazed and happy for her.

Of course, when the students were happy with her grades.

They were still curious—

"Mr. Ning, you are so busy at work, how can you still have time to do so many things?"

Taking advantage of the gap in class, a student asked.

Ning Youguang said, “This is due to the habit of deep work I cultivated to become methodical.”

"The habit of deep work?" Some students were curious, "Can the teacher share with us?"

"Yes, Mr. Ning, you can teach us. We don't want to be as good as you. At least let us not be overwhelmed with our homework and study."

"Teacher, please share."

looked at the studious faces under the stage.

"Yes, there is nothing to share." Ning Youguang put down the remote control in his hand.

"The New York Times columnist once said, 'The great creative mind thinks like an artist, but works like an accountant.' Before making this statement, he surveyed many of the famous thinkers we know of throughout history, such as Great thinkers like Carroll and Darwin, he found that they all had regular routines and habits, not because they were mavericks, but because the success of their work depended on the ability to continuously enter deep states. So, I have since A set of rules has been explored from such information, that is, in daily life, we should get used to making ourselves focus, so that we can enter a deep state more easily and maintain it for a longer time.” She said, “If you are interested, you can Going to check the routines and habits of the daily lives of the great thinkers, writers, and artists in history may be enlightening."

Some classmates laughed and said, "Teacher, please share your routine and habits with us first, which is more motivating and meaningful for us."

Ning smiled brightly, and generously wrote down his daily routine and habits on the blackboard.

"I get up at 4:30 every morning to write, and I will go out to exercise for half an hour at 6:30. After exercising, I will eat breakfast. After breakfast, it looks like 7:30 or 8:00, and I will start my day's work. I work until noon. After lunch, I will rest for about half an hour. I will not sleep for a long time. If I sleep too long, I will easily become drowsy. When I wake up, I will make a pot of tea for myself. When I drink tea, my brain will become calm and relaxed. , After drinking tea, the afternoon work begins again."

"It feels so hard to do."

At the same time when the students were tongue-tied, they thought for a while and found that they could not do it at all.

"Teacher, can you do your school work step by step like this, as well as writing and writing papers? But don't these all require inspiration?"

"In everyone's cognition, there is a very common understanding that creative work depends on inspiration - refers to those ideas and ideas that come from nowhere to make you have a flash of inspiration, and then you have a good idea... But My experience tells me that when writing, if you don’t take action, you just want to wait for inspiration to act. Only by focusing on writing can you get more inspiration." Ning Youguang said with a smile, "I don't know if you have had such an experience. When you start to do some things, you will feel so difficult and have no clue. I don't know where to start, but it's easy to do."

"Yes." Many students in the audience answered.

Ning Youguang nodded, "That's it, focusing on writing itself is a good way to get inspiration, so inspiration doesn't need to wait for an opportunity to make us have a flash of inspiration, if we are habitually waiting for inspiration to come. When you start writing or working later, your achievement may be significantly reduced.”

Then, she added, "I'm also not denying that inspiration may suddenly fall into your mind when you're not doing anything, it's just that this kind of thing is a random probability event, if we have a very urgent plan to complete , this method is not suitable.”

"After having good habits and planning?" Some students asked, "What should I do?"

"My habits have specific rules and procedures to ensure that my actions are structured, like once I start working, I don't use any internet, I don't look at my phone, I don't go online, and I don't do anything else. Yes, and I’m used to checking the amount of text I’m producing every half an hour, as well as being aware of whether I’m focusing on my work at all times, so as to maintain continuous focus.”

"What if we don't have this kind of structure?" Another student asked.

"Then you need to always be aware of what you should and shouldn't do during deep work and study, and you need to constantly evaluate whether your concentration is enough. These are all unnecessary waste of willpower." Ning Youguang Say.

"Teacher, I don't think my concentration is very good." A classmate said, "I find that I am often distracted when studying and doing things. Is it the type of me who can't get into deep learning and deep work? people?"

"This may be because you haven't been trained in this area since you were a child." Ning Youguang said, "The concentration of each of us can be trained."

"How to train?"

"My last answer is one that can help you train your concentration."

"Teacher you said that we should always be aware of what we should and should not do right now in deep learning or work?"

"right."

Many of the students wrote and wrote hard in the audience, taking notes seriously.

See students interested in how to get into deep work and deep learning.

Ning Youguang organized the language a little bit, and then made it more specific.

"After you have found a good habit that will help you enter deep learning and work, you also need to understand that the habit you develop needs to ensure that your brain can receive the necessary support to ensure that the brain operates at a high level of depth."

"For example, I know some people who make themselves a pot of tea before work and study, some writers who go to their favorite coffee shop to write, and some freelancers who like to change into comfortable pajamas before work," she said. These are all ways to make sure they're getting enough to keep themselves energized, or include light activities like walking to help keep the brain awake. Similar support also includes environmental factors like I give myself before work in addition to In addition to making a pot of tea and going to the bathroom when I’m not inspired, I also like to clean my study and empty my desk before writing, which keeps my energy consumption to a minimum.”

Ning Youguang turned around and wrote a few words "systematized" on the blackboard.

“Everyone has limited time and energy, and if you want to maximize your own success, you need to support your efforts to get into deep work, but at the same time, be skillful and systematic so you don’t waste your mind. The energy to remind myself what needs to be done at all times. These are some of the skills I have come up with to help me get into deep work and study.”

Then, she raised her hand and tapped the blackboard lightly.

"Remember, no matter what habits and methods, you need to practice and act on your own to be effective. The ultimate goal of learning is to be able to use it, and to use it can become your own, otherwise it doesn't matter how good the methods you have learned are. , The plan is so good, if you don't act, it's useless."

"I assure you that once you develop the right habits of work and study, it will have a profound impact on your life. Deep learning and deep work are big events that deserve serious attention from each of you. Individuals have to learn how to get their brains into a state of concentration, so that you can start to create really meaningful things, otherwise, in this impetuous era, it is easy for you to fall into superficial work and hard work, and in a short time you and the surrounding Those who are accustomed to deep learning and deep work cannot see the difference, over time, the gap between your abilities and each other's core competitiveness will definitely become more and more obvious."

I saw the more serious expressions of the students under the stage.

Ning Youguang added, "I used to focus on lagging indicators, such as the number of papers published per year, however, these goals have little impact on my daily behavior, because I don't know what to do in the short-term that can immediately affect the long-term indicators. Immediate and considerable changes were made. When I made a deep work and study plan for myself, all of a sudden these indicators were related to my daily life. I would record the items and time of my deep work every day on the daily punch card app. "

"Daily check-in app?" Some students noticed this.

"Yes, this allows me to correlate the deep work hours I have accumulated on an instinctive level with real results. Another benefit of using my phone to record punches every day is that it helps me calibrate the deep work I need to complete each result. The expectation of time, which motivates me to carve out more time each week for deep work and study.”

"Teacher, but I think your way of motivating yourself is just making yourself more tired." Some lazy classmates feel very tired just listening to what Ning Youguang said, let alone asking them to act. .

Ning Yuguang certainly understands these thoughts of the students. 1314

This chapter refers to how to use every bit of brain power effectively in "Deep Work" by American author Carl Newport.

For the little angels who need to engage in creative work, I think it is quite effective, and I will share it with everyone.

The little angel in need can go to the bookstore to find it~

(end of this chapter)