"If you are still watching the Yale open class every day,
Go to 3W coffee and listen to entrepreneurship lectures.
Zhihu's shell focuses on countless things.
36Kr must read every day.
Knowing Ma Yun's entrepreneurial history like the back of his hand,
Think about Zhang Xiaolong's products,
I like Luo Zhenyu better than Jobs,
Let's meet and talk about Internet thinking. ...
Then you should still squeeze the subway every day. "
How's it going? Do you feel stabbed? Look around us, how many people live this life-
Get up early every day, listen to hi class on the way to work, brush Zhihu in my spare time, go home from work to study micro-classes, listen to English before going to bed, and participate in club activities on weekends to share experiences. In the circle of friends, when punching in English, reading, writing, hand-drawing and attending training camps, they are all eager to change themselves. How many people have really changed since then?
"Study before you know enough" was originally a good thing. However, if this "lack of knowledge" experience is magnified into anxiety, I am afraid it will be bad.
How many people are immersed in the huge information flow every day, being pushed around and stumbling forward. I'm afraid of falling while running. This mental state is called "knowledge anxiety". For knowledge anxiety, a recent research report of 36Kr (well, I admit that I still squeeze the subway every day) defines it like this-
To put it bluntly, there is more and more information, but our ability to receive information has not improved. In addition, strong work pressure and fierce competition in the workplace, who knows what will happen in the future-the media is shouting that AI is about to replace people every day, which are all boosting factors to strengthen knowledge anxiety.
In fact, there is another very important reason, that is, the internet has presented those great gods naked to people. Everyone used to think they were good. Hello, I'm good, everyone. The sudden broadening of the field of vision makes people deeply realize the pain of "unexpected events happen in the sky, and people are doomed to misfortune." Moreover, these people are still accelerating their growth. You think anger is irritating and anxious, don't you?
As a result, a group of entrepreneurs in the field of knowledge, represented by Luo Zhenyu, set off an upsurge of knowledge payment with the psychological representation of knowledge anxiety. Teacher Luo shook his arm and shouted, come with me, I understand your knowledge anxiety! So the respondents gathered.
I didn't mean to belittle Mr. Luo by saying this. On the contrary, I am very grateful to him for turning knowledge into business, so that people with knowledge can live a decent and dignified life. Teacher Luo himself said that he was a businessman. Since you are a businessman, you must have your own business logic and a "killer" that evokes consumers' desire to buy. Knowledge anxiety is the potential logic of knowledge payment business.
The so-called knowledge payment is to use the information gap between creators and consumers to turn knowledge into products for sale. Observing the "get" App can obviously find this feature. Teacher Wan Weigang's column "Elite Day Class" and teacher Wu Jun's "Letter from Silicon Valley" are both typical examples of profiting from the information gap close to the information source.
In all fairness, "getting" belongs to the conscience quality in the field of knowledge payment. After all, most of the people invited by Luo Zhenyu are really at the forefront of knowledge. And countless other micro-courses and training camps just take advantage of the greed, anger and delusion of users' humanity.
Greedy, greedy for profits, seeing others jump from a third-tier town to a first-tier knowledge network celebrity with a written style, earning millions of dollars a year, so he fantasized about joining his training camp and growing rapidly. They always want to change their plans with the habit of being small and broad, doing little, 2 1 day, 14 days.
Anger, hatred for anger, seeing that people who may not be as good as themselves can live so well before, so I hate it, thinking every day that "no hero makes Vertical Son famous." Comparison is the root of all evil. When an opportunity to "grow" ahead of others arises, do it or not? Fuck it.
Idiot, ignorance is an idiot, you can't tell good from bad, you can't tell good from bad, you treat arsenic as honey and garbage as nutrition. I know that fast food is unhealthy, but I don't think the hamburger I eat is junk food, so I am crammed with knowledge puffiness, full of "golden thinking circle", "critical knowledge" and "cognitive upgrading", and my eyes are high and my feet are vain.
This is the bottom line of human nature, which is hard to change. This is the fundamental reason why many people are busy taking the "IQ tax" while shouting "I still have a hard time after listening to so many reasons".
Then, as countless individuals who have been taxed with IQ, is there any way to redeem themselves? Sure, but it's a "narrow door". I hope I can go through that narrow door with you.
Since we want to redeem ourselves, we must first understand what knowledge anxiety is. Why do we fall into knowledge anxiety?
As mentioned above, there are many reasons for knowledge anxiety. Work pressure, fierce competition and so on are all external causes. The gap between information quantity and acceptance ability is an internal factor, but it does not touch the essence of knowledge anxiety.
Why do these factors make us have knowledge anxiety? To understand this problem, we need to go back to the concept itself.
First, let's look at the concept of anxiety. To be clear, the anxiety we are talking about is not pathological anxiety, but a realistic anxiety, which is a normal emotional response of human beings to adapt to the external environment. According to Baidu Encyclopedia's explanation-
From this definition, knowledge anxiety means that we are challenged by massive information to our cognitive ability, so we will have uncontrollable powerlessness and corresponding emotional response to pressure.
It is enough to analyze it here, but I always feel that it is still explaining the phenomenon with phenomena. Why does massive information give us such an experience?
If we use the recently popular "first principle" (1) to analyze, we should ask-
What's going on in our brains?
When I read Cederhill's book Scarcity, I finally found the answer, that is-
Four simple words, but strong enough to explain.
Let's think about it. What is the feeling of knowledge anxiety? Knowledge anxiety is not for people with little knowledge. Many people who have been studying and learned a lot will also have knowledge anxiety.
I feel that what I have learned is always less than what I need, which is the most prominent manifestation of knowledge anxiety.
If you want to grow, you must keep learning. As long as you feel that you have less knowledge than you need, your brain is in a state of knowledge scarcity, and the most direct impact of scarcity is to make your brain bandwidth insufficient.
Bandwidth is originally a term in the communication industry, which refers to the data transmission ability of signal transmission. The book "Scarcity" is borrowed and gives such a definition-
In the face of overwhelming new information, many people will have this experience. The more you learn, the more you feel unable to learn and exhausted. As Cederhill pointed out, the poor are always poor, the busy people are always busy, and the lonely people are always lonely.
People who are trapped in their studies will always be trapped in their studies.
Because scarcity will continue further and aggravate scarcity. Why is this happening? Because scarce cognitive ability and executive control are the key abilities for us to effectively control ourselves. To put it bluntly, scarcity will make us stupid and impulsive.
Think about why you have to sign up for so many endless micro-courses, attend so many training camps that you can't finish, and have so many e-books that you can't finish for a lifetime. The thirst for knowledge is like a leaking cloth bag, and you will never be satisfied.
Many times, although I have been learning English, speaking and reading, I can't help but want to sign up when I see the writing training camp in 99 yuan. Yes, work requires writing skills, but your brain has no extra capacity! At this time, you may wonder if you need to learn another time management to solve the problem. Isn't it the opposite?
Writing here, a friend sent a link "After two and a half years of graduation, I only relied on the official WeChat account, and my monthly income increased by 20 times. How did he do it? "
She asked me, how did these people start from scratch?
I said, zero foundation is fine. Who doesn't learn from scratch? The key is how long it takes to change from zero foundation to thick foundation. Emphasizing zero foundation is actually taking advantage of human greed.
The publicity copy will tell you that "the methods and skills are the same, so even if you are zero-based, as long as you take the time to master these routines, you can make a brand-new account from scratch." But what I will never tell you is that the learning ability, industry platform and deliberate practice of successful people are the base of the iceberg, and routines are just the tip of the iceberg.
On the one hand, it is our inner insecurity, on the other hand, it is the overwhelming "temptation" of knowledge payment, which makes many people like Sisyphus roll the stone of knowledge in vain, endure the pain of compressed brain bandwidth, and strengthen the degree of knowledge anxiety.
What are the disadvantages of this state?
From now on, it will reduce your attention and study efficiency, because the anxious brain must be inefficient.
In the long run, the limited mentality brought by scarcity makes your eyes short-sighted and you can't see the longer-term future, so plan your own path of learning and growth.
Such as the golden thinking circle model.
The concept of golden thinking circle is not complicated, what-how-why, phenomenon-method-idea. Generally speaking, don't just look at the appearance, ask more why, and try to find the essence. That is what we often say, "Because of hard work, the fruit comes with fate."
But why do many people don't know how to use it in practice? Look around us, are there still few people who can't find a way out from their careers?
The golden thinking circle emphasizes that anyone who wants to go deep into the why level and can ask why must be a person with very strong cognitive ability. People with insufficient bandwidth can only pay attention to what extent, because they only see the burning eyebrows now.
Therefore, you don't have to know the golden thinking circle to use it well, but your brain needs to have enough bandwidth.
What is the fundamental difference between a novice and an expert in chess?
In 1960s, Herbert Simon and William Chase, psychologists and Nobel Prize winners of Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, found that there were 50,000 ~ 65,438+million information chunks in the long-term memory ② of chess masters, and they would capture 5 ~ 9 modules instead of 5 ~ 9 specific details when playing chess. On the other hand, novice players will focus on every specific step in the game.
Simon emphasized that by building different levels of information into information chunks, the master can break through the limit of memory. In fact, master chess players have greatly liberated their brains by forming interrelated information chunks, and used their brain bandwidth to judge the development trend of chess.
In the field of investment, Charles Munger, as a partner of Buffett, is regarded as a god. He assisted Buffett with his unique investment wisdom, which made Berkshire Hathaway have magical achievements.
Anyone who knows a little about Charles Munger knows that he is an investor known for his erudition. Contrary to our imagination that investors should be good at economics, Charles Munger's knowledge field spans major human disciplines.
There is a book devoted to the analysis of Charles Munger's investment philosophy-The Wisdom of Charles Munger. The subtitle of this book is "Grille Theory of Investment". "Grille" is an image metaphor put forward by Charles Munger, and it is a mode of thinking in different knowledge fields and disciplines.
This book elaborates Charles Munger's extensive participation in physics, biology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, literature, mathematics and other different disciplines. Moreover, Charles Munger not only learned the knowledge of these subjects, but also further integrated them, opened up the links between knowledge and formed a knowledge system serving investment.
When making investment decisions, Charles Munger will not keep a close eye on the stock market index like ordinary investors, but can make full use of his cognitive ability to make a longer-term investment plan.
Chess masters improve their chess skills through information chunks and their connections, while Charles Munger improves his decision-making power through his own unique knowledge system. The unique knowledge system in their brains (information chunk system is the knowledge system of chess masters) can help them filter information, so that they have a lot of thinking bandwidth and can focus on more important aspects.
In terms of scarcity, their brains have leisure.
Let your brain have a lot of leisure, and you can really make valuable choices. You know, choice is often more important than hard work.
The first two examples show that experts have judgment that ordinary people don't have, thanks to their powerful knowledge system as a support.
Back to the problem of knowledge anxiety, the solution is to give up unnecessary and unnecessary learning burden. But how do you judge which can be broken, which can be abandoned and which can be separated?
The biggest feature of people who have not formed a knowledge system is that the wind blows to both sides like a swing. You don't know which knowledge is useful to you and which is unnecessary, and you can't judge which knowledge is source knowledge and which is second-hand, so you can't make your own choice and judgment, so you can only be led by the nose by the propaganda copy.
So, in order to give your brain bandwidth, you need-
Have a more scientific and reasonable knowledge system and the ability to dynamically upgrade and flexibly expand the knowledge system.
With such a knowledge system, the brain can free up more bandwidth to pay attention to more important problems. When you deal with all kinds of problems in an orderly way, your brain will be in a better running state, and you will have more leisure to improve your knowledge system, thus forming positive feedback repeatedly.
This can well explain why, as the most successful investor in the world, Charles Munger still has a lot of time to study every day, while most ordinary office workers are too busy to work overtime.
0 1. Knowledge anxiety is rooted in the "greed, anger and delusion" of human nature, from which all your troubles come.
02. The root of knowledge anxiety is the "insufficient bandwidth" of the brain, not the lack of learning and learning well.
03. To release the brain bandwidth, you need to have leisure, and a scientific and reasonable knowledge system is the foundation of leisure.
As for how to build a scientific and reasonable knowledge system, the following article takes its time.
Precautions:
The way of thinking of "first principles" is to look at the world from the perspective of physics, that is, to peel off the appearance of things layer by layer, see the essence inside, and then go up from the essence layer by layer.
② Long-term memory refers to the memory stored for more than one minute, which can last for many years or even for life. Its information is stored in an organized state.
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This is the fifth article in the research series of knowledge management in Hexi and Dongxi. If you are interested, please like it and continue to pay attention!
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