When it comes to concentration, we must first figure out what is concentration?
The modern Chinese dictionary explains focus: concentrate on attention, mental attention, mental concentration.
Qing Chen Tingzhuo "Bai Yu Zhai words" Volume VIII: "Covering the military is expensive, not expensive, the essence of some focus, more is scattered and undisciplined.
Zuo Shi "February" four: "He turned up a very difficult song, his eyes focused on the sheet music."
Its close synonyms are: bury one's head in the sand, dutifully, meditatively, subliminally, devotedly, single-mindedly, attentively, intently.
The English translation is: concentrate one's attention on; be absorbed in; devote one's mind to
In traditional Chinese culture, the spirit of concentration has always been advocated and promoted. As early as 2000 years ago, Xunzi in ? A piebald steed cannot take ten steps; an incompetent horse can take ten steps without giving up its work. If you persevere, a rotten tree will not break; if you persevere, a golden stone can be skeletonized. The earthworm has no claws and teeth, sinews and bones of the strong, up to eat the earth, down to drink the Yellow Springs, with a heart of one. Crab six kneeling and two chelates, non-snake and eel cave can not be hosted, with the heart of the manic also."
Historically, whether in China or the West, from ancient times to the present, but all those who have made great achievements are examples of concentration. A lot of great people because of too much focus and even made a joke of the story was passed on to the world as a good story, such as the Eastern Jin Dynasty great calligrapher Wang Xizhi mistakenly ink as garlic dipped in food, Dong Zhongshu three years do not peep at the garden, the monk Jia Dao because of the ancient poetry impulse officials, Chen Jingrun focus on thinking about math problems so that hit the tree, Newton pocket watch as eggs boiled and eaten, Archimedes bathhouse bathing inspiration flashed naked running to the street, Madame Curie when she was a child to read the stool was withdrawn without knowing, and so on. Was withdrawn, etc., the contemporary world's richest man Warren Buffett, Bill Gates is also a typical representative of the super focus. The reason why these characters can make a great achievement in the world and their ability to focus is inseparable.
Second, focus on the level of classification
From the focus of the object, you can distinguish between the broad and narrow two perspectives, the narrow focus is to focus on a specific time to do things, such as Madame Curie reading, Wang Xizhi writing calligraphy, the monk Jadao put forward the ancient poems out of the state of concentration, the broad focus on a specific area of concentration, such as Edison focus on the study of light bulbs, Steve Jobs focuses on Apple's cell phone, Bill Gates focuses on computers, Warren Buffett focuses on investment and other specific fields. From this, we can see that the modern Chinese dictionary on the interpretation of focus belongs to the narrow interpretation.
According to the length of time and focus on the object is also different, in order to learn to walk through the life time management system as an example, you can do as shown in the diagram:
? From the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign famous quotations and aphorisms about concentration, more emphasis is placed on the broad sense of concentration.
Su Shi, one of the eight greats of the Tang and Song dynasties, said: "The book is as rich as the sea, and there are all kinds of goods. There is the energy, can not both take all, but get what they want to seek. Therefore, I wish scholars every time to make a single-minded pursuit.Pu Songling, a novelist of the Qing dynasty, said: "Sex obsessed, then its Zhi condensation; therefore, the book obsessed with the text must work, art obsessed with the technology must be good. --The world's dropouts and no success, are self-proclaimed not stupid people.
Zheng Banqiao, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, also said: "Reading is not seeking more, not more. The only thing that can be far more than fine, futile and futile rotten ear." The British philosopher Bacon said: "Reading is not to be wrestled with, and the heart wants to specialize not to be mixed."
Lu Xun said, "A person does not specialize in doing things, so get a little bit, that get a little bit, both to do translation, but also to do novels, but also to do criticism, and also to do poetry, which is how to get it right?"
American writer Mark Twain said, "? The human mind is marvelous. If one concentrates on one cause, then one is bound to do something that will surprise him."
The German poet Goethe said: "The wise man will put aside all the requirements of distraction, and only concentrate on learning a subject, learning a subject to learn it well".
The German thinker Marx said: 'Between studies, one must break through a little somewhere'.
The French writer Romain Rolland said: "Instead of spending much time and energy to chisel many shallow wells, it is better to spend the same amount of time and energy to chisel a deep well". Zou Taofen pointed out: "omnipotent people are really nothing, nothing is not specialized in experts is really nothing special ......."
Steve Jobs, former president of Apple, said: " People think that focus is to say YES to the things they are focusing on. People think that focus means saying YES to what you're focused on, but on the contrary, focus means saying NO to hundreds of good ideas because we have to pick and choose carefully. That's my secret - focus and simplicity. Simplicity is harder than complexity: you have to go to great lengths to make your ideas simpler and your products simpler. But doing so is rewarding in the end, because once you've achieved your goal, you can shake the mountain.
These insights are actually the secret summaries of their own growth experiences.
The following quotes belong to the narrower sense of focus:
? German poet Der said, "One cannot ride two horses; if one rides this one, one must lose the other."
The book "The Illustrated Tomato Work Method" says: "One pair of feet cannot do two dances at the same time. "In other words, "Do one thing at a time. "
A modern approach to time management: the Tomato Work Method, focus on the present moment for 25 minutes.
The opposite of focus is unfocused, always trying to be knowledgeable. There is a metaphor in Xunzi: "The flying squirrel has five abilities, but cannot become a skill." The flying squirrel is a small flying squirrel, a bit like a squirrel, it can fly, but can't fly to the roof; it can climb, but can't climb to the top of the tree; it can swim, but can't cross the small ditch; it can run, but can't catch up with the people walking; and it can hide, but can't cover the body. It has five skills, but none of them are held, sadly. This is typical of unfocusedness.
Third, how to do focused learning
Focus needs a clear direction. We often hear people say that choosing the direction is more important than the effort. When you have clarified the direction of your efforts, and figured out what you really want, you have to focus your concentration continuously on a clear direction of effort. For example, my current direction of effort is to walk in life, I focus on the focus is to walk in life to teach every point, every idea, every method, every habit, when I have a clear direction, I know what I really want, I will not follow the others to follow the current, the Department of the shallow to learn a variety of things, it will only be a waste of my precious time. Precious time. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots.
Nowadays, a lot of students in Walking Life are blindly greedy for learning, switching between multiple fields of study at the same time, such as time management, eloquent speech, book reading, financial management, organizing, and so on, as if they want to learn all the skills at once. The coach realized that blind greed for learning is the biggest taboo in learning, is a kind of foolish learning behavior, so the coach earnestly advised that we must focus on, in the 100-day journey only learn to stroll through the life time management course, suspend all other learning. According to Stanford University's Law of Learning Consumption study and subconscious brain research, focusing on only one area of learning at a time has the best and fastest results. The first thing you need to do is to focus on learning and to be able to utilize the subconscious implicit learning function of the brain.
There is a famous saying that life is no longer about how many things you do, but about doing the most important things. It's also known as the famous rule of two or eight.
Focusing requires a lot of repetitive learning on a consistent basis.
Success is equal to the repetition of simple things, and the repetition of things done by heart and consistently. "Attentive" and "continuous" is the hard truth, simple repetition can not create the ultimate, the achievement of the world champion; water dripping stone, three feet of ice is not a day's cold; two and a half years of parent-child classical recitation adhere to, so that the 6-year-old son easily realize the independent reading, son Dasi English nearly half a year of breakthrough learning, the son unconsciously will say a lot of English sentences. These are all because of the power of persistence.
The Robin Hood Memory Curve tells us that our brains will forget what we have learned as the learning time passes, which requires constant repetition of what we have learned. Repeated repetition and constant modification and improvement is the basis for us to really be able to master the theoretical knowledge.
When I was studying the Chinese classics, my teacher asked us to read the I Ching a hundred times or listen to a certain audio 100 times, the idea being that when a book is read a hundred times, its meaning emerges. At first, I thought it was simply impossible, how can a book be read a hundred times, this is just an exaggeration. But after I really listened to the words and did what I was told, I realized that the effect is really much more rewarding than if you just read it once or twice. When an audio is listened to many times by you, you can really grasp every point made inside the audio and connect the dots. If you just listen to it once or twice and then stop listening to it, according to the law of forgetfulness of the brain, you will soon forget this knowledge. As the saying goes, the meaning of a book comes to you after reading it a hundred times. If you listen to a book a hundred times, you may be able to memorize the content of the audio, even if you can't recite the whole text word for word, but you can basically listen to the last sentence of each sentence in the audio and you will be able to understand the next sentence. If you read a book a hundred times, you can basically read it aloud and easily respond to it. My child and I read the Xiaojing a hundred times, and when we got to 60 times, my child was basically able to recite the whole text proficiently.
To get the most out of learning, it is important to do a lot of repetitive and deliberate learning in the "learning zone", and to get effective feedback from a good coach.
Focus requires deliberate repetition.
In repetition, we need not just repetition, but deliberate repetition. Learning is divided into 3 zones:
The first is the comfort zone, which is the part that has been skillfully mastered;
The second is the learning zone, which is the part that has not been mastered and needs to be deliberately practiced next to break through and improve;
The third is the panic zone, which is the area of fear.
If you always stay in the comfort zone to learn, there will be no progress, but if you enter the panic zone too quickly, the willingness to learn will be suppressed, so only in the learning zone, those who are not skilled enough, and often make mistakes, you can deliberately practice.
For example, the retired Kobe, a reporter interviewed him: Why are you successful?
He said: I know the sun at 4 o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles. Kobe woke up at 4:00 a.m. every morning to practice his basketball skills, he practiced shooting 1,000 shots every morning, and he went to basketball practice the morning after he retired. His story likewise shows that success really doesn't come easy because it takes consistent, repetitive, and deliberate practice.
It takes focus and consistency to gain a lot of experience. The key factor that determines the level of greatness and the level of average is not just those 10,000 hours, but how you use those 10,000 hours. Some people may only spend 1,000 hours on something, but the level of deliberate practice is much higher. So actually "genius" comes from deliberate practice, which determines whether we are great or not, not average.
Focusing also requires rethinking. In the process of deliberate practice, we summarize the real-time review to find out what we did well, what we did not do well, and how we can improve to do better. That is to say, to look up the road, deliberate practice is buried pulling the car, real-time review is to look up the road, the organic combination of the two, and ultimately lead to success.
Focused on the guidance of a good coach like a tiger with wings.
Deliberate practice means that we always practice where we are not skilled, where we often make mistakes, and repeat a lot. If you also get feedback from a coach in the process, someone to coach you to keep improving and avoiding all sorts of minefields that's fantastic!
So many competitive sports, whether it's a single competitive event like playing tennis or a group game like playing soccer, come with a coach behind them.
The Walking Life time management program has the guidance of an excellent time management mentor, Coach God's Karma. The coach is a mirror so that every trainer can get continuous feedback from him.
The last quote from Warren Buffett as a closing, with the gentleman **** encouragement: Don't get in your own way! (You do not get in your own way, do not self-limitations) The tortoise and the hare race story, the tortoise finally won, not because it is fast, but because it is focused, shielded from interference. Many failures are not because of others, but because you hinder yourself.