The author | Jiang Jianming Alibaba advanced wireless development experts

* * takeaway: As the growth rate of the number of ** elites continues to accelerate, many people start to feel anxious, and I also feel anxious. I know that it is not easy to get rid of anxiety. I want to write the cognition and method of getting rid of anxiety to share with more people, and make the “Technical Person Growth Series” to share with more people face to face. They are “Completing your Own Cognitive Upgrade,” “Ways to Grow Yourself,” and “Learning to Cultivate Yourself or Others.” This is the first of a fast growing series, “Completing your Own Cognitive Upgrade,” which is long but worth a close read.

How to read this article?

Find a regular uninterrupted time to read carefully
Read one paragraph at a time in fragmented time

The most important thing is to read exactly every word, and then stop to extract the thinking way you think is right from the text with critical thinking, and then associate and transfer the thinking way to yourself, and internalize it into your own cognition after practice, which is a very successful reading.

Start to understand cognitive escalation

The first time: I read about cognitive upgrading in the article and thought that cognitive upgrading was brainwashing and chicken soup. I didn’t give a shit about it. Everyone knows the truth, and most people still live the same life without any difference.

The second time: I heard about the cognitive upgrade from the conference room. A living person stood there and talked about the cognitive upgrade. He thought the cognitive upgrade was somewhat interesting and began to understand the cognitive upgrade slowly, but still did not understand the value of the cognitive upgrade.

Third: cognitive awareness to upgrade from practice, find the “chicken soup who all understand, but I still have not good life”, there is another version “with the tool of delicious chicken soup, soup spoon, can make good in this life”, the most simple to start is starting time management cognitive upgrade, feel the power of cognitive upgrade. Since I changed my thinking mode of time management, I gradually became self-disciplined and thoughtful, and the compound interest gradually increased. I felt the value of cognitive upgrade, but I still couldn’t define the cognitive upgrade.

Defined for the fourth time: from the TA cognitive upgrade, began to have cognitive upgrade PPT to team, to upgrade share cognition, found a part of people’s behavior, work, think in slowly change, such as the change of students, the future will exceed their expectations, to become more outstanding, at this point I think I can more clearly define cognitive upgrade.

My definition of cognitive upgrading: cognitive upgrading is connecting, connecting excellent ways of thinking, connecting the shortest path to solve problems, connecting all excellent methods. For example, time management is immediately connected to “finding uninterrupted time to invest in yourself,” execution is immediately connected to “figure it out and then do it one step at a time,” and habit change is immediately connected to “getting multiple choice questions right when the trigger happens to move on to the next action.” Through cognitive change, we can stimulate ourselves to think and change our behavior, thus affecting our judgment and improving our ability. To be exact, cognitive upgrade subverts our thinking habits and enables us to think beyond instinct, get rid of old intuitions and experiences, and establish new intuitions and experiences.

Below 10 topics of cognitive share are singled out from my cognitive upgrade library I think the most important part of cognitive, for helping me and change is very big, I believe that also has value to others, avenue to Jane, adhere to the 10 simple cognitive will greatly enhance our growth, and with the evolution of self at the same time, Will constantly upgrade and enrich their cognitive base, and constantly improve their cognitive upgrading ability.

1. Thinking brain and reflex brain

Listening to the wonderful speech spirit will not only enjoy instant and instant gratification, more important is there are always a few key words to stimulate our nervous, let we produce instant memory, make further thinking, this is also why I love to listen to people speaking, don’t want to listen to him to start a business the wonderful story, but because he is revealed in the content of the speech of wisdom, His transcendent vision and systematic logic always inspire people to listen to his speeches. The wisdom and vision revealed in all these speeches are not immediately thought of on the stage, but finally abstracted out from numerous thoughts in the audience. The stage speech is reflection, the stage preparation is logic is thinking, the so-called stage one minute, the stage 10 years of work, reflection and thinking is what relationship? Start the first cognition: thinking brain and reflecting brain.

In his book slow Thinking, Teo Compnoli, a professor at Insead business School, divides the brain into reflex, intuitive and storage brains. To put it simply: Think brain management, reflect brain management intuition, store brain management memory, intuition depends on habit, react with intuition, fast, but not necessarily correct; Thinking brain manages sex, reason relies on logic, slow but more correct.

Some scientists have found through research that 5% of a person’s daily behavior is non-habitual, driven by the logic of the thinking brain, and 95% is habitual, driven by the intuition of the reflective brain. It is always 95% of the reflective brain (habit), not 5% of the thinking brain (logic) that determines our life. Thinking back on your day, are most of your judgments and opinions based on intuition and habit? When do you use your thinking brain? When we are alone, we tend to use our thinking brain more, while in a multi-person conversation scene, we can only rely on intuition and reflection to make a fast impression on others, while good and bad impressions are often established in the conversation scene. It is imagined that the reflected views or behaviors are very important to us.

Take swimming, for example. The moment you’re in the water, you enter mindfulness (mindfulness: Have a purpose, conscious, attention and perceive all the present), the brain’s instruction and hands on the movements of the brain and standardized action instructions, hands and feet do standardized instructions, in the process of the brain have been looking at and detect the movements of hands and feet, judgment and adjustment at the same time, it is a process of logical thinking and intensive training, The process of logical thinking is reinforced into a process of reflection. Once learned, no further thinking is required and swimming becomes natural.

It is the same for learning and growth. Using the concept of mindfulness, I would like to pay attention to and be aware of everything in learning, especially the logical thinking process in the input and output process. I recommend doing two things well:

Focus on input: read and listen verbatim

Made no difference to listen to in the process of reading, made no difference, we will continue to deep understanding of the author the logic behind the words and language, will have their own logic thinking, produces the logic and the view of collision, your logic and the logic of the difference and author have in common, that is a key way for the training of logical thinking repeatedly, the lack of this step, The result is the result of China’s spoon-feeding education, most of the time know the result but not the principle.

Focus on output: make PPT regularly to share

Regularly do PPT to share, this is no substitute in the process of reading and studying way of training high quality logic, is a higher requirement of logic abstract training, through output detection quality, to learn and grow at the same time the number of training, the logic of the book becomes intuitionistic reflection, enriches own 95% area of structured knowledge effectively.

So for us, if we want to have no anxiety, if we want to have a solid life, if we want to turn extensive reading into a fine logic training, if we want to turn 95% of the low quality habit reflex into a high quality habit reflex after logic, the training process will be painful, but once we train it into intuition, it will become very natural.

Key points: The so-called intuitive reflex is to improve the accuracy of one’s intuition from the narrow 5% to the broad 95% by practicing a lot of logic.

Step 2 Get used to it

It takes a lot of time to train the 95% of low quality habits into logical high quality habits. However, for us in the era of mobile Internet, electronic devices have brought great convenience to human life and travel. At the same time, human beings have become so dependent on them that they never leave us, even when we go to the toilet for just a few minutes, our mobile phones will never leave us.

Mobile phone has become a way of life, a way of habit, it is our habit to keep our eyes away from the phone, because mobile phone has produced very big changes and fixed down, spare time to play mobile phone, to accompany the family to play mobile phone, refrain from sleeping to play mobile phone, our life therefore less learning, less reading, less communication, less company.

I, too, have been stuck in a digital cage for a long time, unable to change this pattern. It’s hard to change because once we get into habit mode, brain activity drops dramatically, we no longer participate in decision-making, and we go into hibernation, where our habits rule our behavior. What I find most interesting about this modern lifestyle is more time to browse information, less time to think and ponder for myself, more time to focus on things that don’t work, and less time to focus on personal growth.

When their awareness to heavy use of mobile phone to browse and entertainment after a bad habit, produced naturally want to change the idea, that is to say, if you can have a kind of effective method to change habits, help you change the habit of heavy use of mobile phones, means that every day can save a lot of time, save a lot of attention, The time and attention saved can be focused on the more important iteration of the ability to grow. Fortunately, my second cognitive upgrade came when the familiar entered my cognitive system.

The key to my perception of habit is to put it another way: “Change the habit of playing with mobile phone, replace it with another sentence, and make study a habitual way of life”. When we ask others or ourselves to change our habits, there will be pressure. The key lies in the word “change”, which is imperative and gives people a kind of psychological hint of involuntary resistance. But it seems natural that if you make learning routine, you will feel less burdened.

After cognitive change, whether learning and reading can become a normal thing depends on whether one can be aware of emergencies and adjust one’s behavior in these emergencies. Learning and reading can become routine if they can be brushed aside or dealt with later when unexpected situations arise, such as ineffective social interactions. Notice that this is the most critical conscious entry point for habit change, between letting go of ineffective behavior and initiating learning and reading, and just making a behavioral change can change the habit.

Everyone knows that substitution can change, but why is it so hard? The key is whether this point of consciousness can become a trigger response, that is, whether the changed consciousness can pop up to warn you when a trigger condition occurs.

First of all, we need to understand the mechanism of habit generation. Habit is not created in a vacuum, he has antecedents and consequences. Antecedents are the end of the previous thing (trigger conditions), and consequences are some extra rewards for the behavior after the end of the previous thing. For example, after taking a shower at home after work in the evening, we will certainly start the next thing we are most accustomed to, such as staring at the mobile phone to watch the drama or reading gossip. When the most accustomed thing is over, the brain will produce timely spiritual enjoyment, the content is very rich and wonderful. In the short term it’s a pleasure, in the long term it’s a disaster, because it doesn’t help us much in the future, but it consumes a lot of our time. What’s more, the accumulation of information from watching TV shows or binge-watching gossip can only be discussed after dinner, or not at all.

Once you understand the mechanism by which a habit is created, changing it is easy. Every time a trigger occurs, a multiple-choice question pops up: Do something ineffective or learn? Repeatedly reinforce yourself in this way to get multiple choice questions right. Over time, the right behavior is trained enough to become a natural habit. So change habits, is when trigger conditions occur, let yourself do the right choice, break the old habit circuit, establish a new habit circuit. Believe this sentence “elite elite, is the continuous positive behavior habits of the drive”.

Highlight: Changing a habit is making yourself do the right choice when the trigger occurs to move on to the next action.

3. (CNI) Time Management: The 38 theory

In my second cognition “Accustomed to”, I mentioned that the way to form a habit is to make yourself do a correct multiple choice question when the trigger condition occurs, so as to break the old habit circuit and establish a new habit circuit. In other words, when you do multiple choice, you get time for learning and thinking, which is part of time management, to squeeze time out of existing tasks. But this should not be the only part of the time spent on learning. We need to systematically recognize time management.

There are two kinds of people do not do time management in the world, one is not time management, the other is not time management, both subjective reasons, and objective reasons. The objective reason is that the work is too busy, it is really difficult to have time for study; The subjective reason is that there is time to do other things, but not time to study and think. No matter what kind of person they are, their deep inner need for time management is always there, they just haven’t found a good way to manage time, and finally give up.

There is demand, there is supply, there are a lot of time management books, time management methods, time management software can be found on the market. But have you ever had this experience, I have, many methods, such as time management four quadrant, tomato clock, time planning, after a period of persistence, or back to the original state, what is the reason? I think the bottom line is that it’s too complicated to change our consensus and build a sense of time management in one sentence.

For example, most of the time, we will adopt the way of planning to manage time, and do what we can at any time. However, human beings are not machines, and there will always be accidents, which cannot be carried out step by step according to the process. The plan will always be disrupted, and once disrupted, it may be completely chaotic. In order to maintain the operation of the plan as scheduled, it will bring a great burden to myself. The burden comes from the management of the plan consumes a lot of energy, and each plan may not be completed as expected. After a long time, giving up is the best choice.

Of course these time management techniques or tomato clocks certainly work, but complex things don’t work for me, and probably don’t work for many people either, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many people who know there are many time management techniques, but still feel anxious about time management because it’s hard to implement. I had to find simple ways to adapt myself quickly and without becoming a burden. The recognition of time management was my third cognitive upgrade, the “38” theory of time management.

38 theory of time management: Everyone has a fair 24 hours a day, the first eight hours for sleep, the second eight hours for work, the third eight hours for free, but the difference between people is mainly determined by the third eight hours, the third eight hours for consumption, trading or investment makes a huge difference in life. To understand the difference between life and death, use free time after work as an example to explain spending, trading, and investing:

In my spare time after work, I spend it on consumption, such as news, Douyin and Moments of friends. I enjoy myself in time, but do not grow up. My money remains the same and my position remains the same.
Free time from work, used for trading, pick up extra money, earn some hard money, produce money, did not produce growth, no more money, but the position is still the original position;
In my spare time after work, I invest my money and reputation. I believe in the cognition of “go slow and grow the fastest”. I continue to invest in multi-dimensional learning to accumulate my ability and gain growth.

After reading the explanation of consumption, trade and investment, the importance of making multiple choice questions in “Accustomed” is to do the right multiple choice questions is actually investment, investment in their own growth, investment in their own learning, the difference in life is not because of investment in their own and become different? But investing takes time, and how?

“Find uninterrupted time.” Compounding only happens when you find uninterrupted time to invest in your growth. If you want to save some time from work, want to squeeze a little time to learn from the weekend, this is called the bluffs overlooking growth, did not continue, I believe that learning must be the daily obligatory course, must is a single arch, perserve, with constant input, there is also a constant output, continuous precipitation, at a crucial moment output ability to solve problems, to gain recognition.

Share with me how to find the time to not be bothered to invest in their growth, because of the nature of the work each person is different, find don’t be disturbed is not the same as the length of time, this industry, such as programmers work overtime a lot, such as my time in the company with an average of 11-12 hours, even in this case, or can be found in the work don’t be disturbed, What’s more, you don’t have friends who work 12 hours! My undisturbed time:

Before going to bed: home in the evening before going to bed, this period of time everyone has, here can take out at least 40 minutes to study, it is recommended that you must go to bed before 11:30, in order to get up early to prepare;
Get up early: Here it is important to say that, if ACCORDING to my sleep habit of getting up at 8 o ‘clock before, this time is estimated to be not enough, so the enterprising people can make some changes, is to shorten the sleep time, for example, the original 8 o ‘clock to 6 o ‘clock, believe yourself, young people sleep 6 to 7 hours is enough; This will produce 1~1.5 hours of learning time, usually which have such a long time for learning ah;
Before the morning meeting: this is suitable for people close to the company. Before the morning meeting, they should come to the company early and find 30 minutes for learning. This kind of short time learning is mainly used to learn fast food knowledge.

The above schedule will make me tired to a certain extent. However, I will give up watching the news at noon and catch up on sleep at my workstation, which will not affect my daily energy. Besides, as I grow up, I will feel more and more fulfilled, and my mental state will be better than before.

Focus: Time management is about finding uninterrupted time to invest in your growth.

4. NI) Most important asset: attention

Very, very important for us, there are 3 sample of wealth, is money, time and attention, in which money was among those 3 I don’t think the most important, instead of non-food attention and time is more important, can money didn’t ability to earn back through ascension, and it is 100% can earn back, time and attention is a one-off consumption, with no, While the next day is filled with new time and attention, know that life moves on and that the time and attention wasted in the past is a one-time consumption.

In the cognitive upgrade of time management, we have the cognitive “find uninterrupted time to invest in yourself”. In this section, we use our second precious wealth, attention, for cognitive upgrading, so that their attention can be used in the time not to be disturbed to invest in their own growth road, time is a container, attention is a weapon, well matched, growth can be expected.

Start by asking yourself two questions:

Remember what you saw yesterday, last week, last month?
Differentiate further: What is growth? What are you talking about or not even getting a chance to talk about?

Good question itself is good answer, to recall the past in the third eight hours of free time, attention to use in what place, is for investment or for consumption, if aware of attention on the consumption in the past, so hurry up to focus on their investment grow on your own, if you haven’t realized that suggested that made no difference to read “time management”, And then figuring out whether to invest your time, or to consume it, has enormous life significance.

From ask yourself two questions now way of life, in life there are many plausible phenomenon of life, is actually a huge pit, is someone else in our attention into harvest flow creates commercial value, but we actually enjoy it, because we like puzzling, like to go with the flow, love to do you are doing, We spend a lot of time on it every day, but we get very little growth because we consume time, we consume attention, instead of investing time in growth.

We think that by doing what everyone else is doing, we find a sense of belonging, a sense of security, but in fact, the real sense of security, the sense of achievement, the sense of belonging comes from self-growth, self-precipitation. For us living in the age of information explosion, it is very difficult to make good use of our attention. There are traps and temptations everywhere, which reduce our thinking and make it easy for us to obtain the finished product. The result is that we know a lot on the surface, but in fact we understand very little.

For these pits, it’s not recommended that you give up 100%. For human beings, as social species, we still need to connect to the outside world, to have conversations with people around us, but we need to adjust our attention, from what might be 100% of our attention to 28 or 37, depending on how much we control ourselves, Invest most of your attention in your own growth, reduce your circle of friends, and cut back on news and entertainment.

Let’s solve a puzzle: “Why is your attention particularly good when watching movies, but you can’t concentrate when doing business?”

First of all, accept the fact that it’s medically called attention deficit disorder, and almost everyone has it, because getting things done is boring, difficult, uncomfortable, and you can’t concentrate, and it’s normal to escape!

Get yourself a notebook or Evernote and write down important points as you read. It’s difficult at first, but as you keep going, you’ll find that your thinking will get deeper and your concentration will get longer and longer. Or practice verbatim reading. In the process of practice, verbatim reading will make you understand the logical relationship of the content more carefully, so as to improve your attention.

Once the perception of attention and time management is combined, we can say with excitement: “By investing our attention in our own growth during uninterrupted time, we can make a difference in our lives and meet a better self in the future.”

Focus: Increased attention is focused on a target task until it produces the desired result.

5. Take the result means: execution

Executive ability and self-discipline appear very frequently in our work and life, because they are the two key words we must have to grow or accomplish things, but for a long time, there was a lot of doubt about improving executive ability. At the same time, in the work scene, the boss may ask for many times to improve the executive ability, which is abstract and concrete. However, there is usually no method or cognition for improving the executive ability only. This is a common phenomenon that cannot improve the executive ability.

The causes of this phenomenon, because of our cognitive easily accept predecessors summary idea, because too sensible, so readily accepted, then will be like a ball, the idea to others again, but the lack of forming point method of transmission link, namely you hear see, most of the time just as a result, the lack of the input of the process, I see the success of others, but I don’t see how others succeed.

I also often push myself to improve my executive ability, but after a while, I give up. Then I realize one thing: every human body has at least multiple roles. From a cognitive perspective, there are two roles. The other is consumers, who consume their time and attention and pay little attention to their own growth. We’ve been playing these two roles our whole lives, playing each other’s game, where the growers win and the consumers win and stay where they are. , however, tend to win consumers, as consumers in the consumption of time and attention to brush, watching the news entertainment circle of friends, do you are doing, find a sense of belonging, a sense of security, the brain can get timely rewards immediately, the brain is to control our thinking and behavior, once consumers occupy the brain, is in control of our daily thinking and behavior.

To improve executive ability, first of all, make yourself an investor, invest in your own growth, and invest in the right things. At this time, it makes sense to recognize executive ability. My understanding of executive ability is: “think clearly, and then do it step by step”. At the same time, when improving executive power, we also need self-discipline, through self-discipline to make the executive power sustained, we should believe that continuous investment in our own growth can achieve the compound interest effect of “slow, the fastest growth”. Such as:

Most of the time, we know, or have been reminded, or required, the need to improve executive power and self-discipline, but do not know the behavior guidance method of executive power, now have the behavior guidance method behind executive power: “Figure it out and then do it step by step”. At this time, we need to have critical thinking. Through practice, we need to “figure it out and then do it step by step” and internalize it into our own cognition and methods to guide our life.

Highlight: Execution is figuring it out and doing it step by step.

6. Noble

Ali’s cultural environment, technological environment and growth environment are very helpful for personal growth. Therefore, Ali often says that we should learn to be grateful for being in the best era and environment, for the people around us, and for the people who help and change us.

What I have experienced in the past few years and the people I have met have greatly helped and changed me. Most of the time, it seems to be fate. When things like challenges, confusion and grievance come up, someone happens to be by your side. I’m really lucky to have people around me who help me see things and see myself in the end. Gradually, I came to believe that all problems come from myself and that making myself better is the root of all problems. Therefore, I put the noble person as a cognitive upgrade in my own cognitive database, so that more people or their families can also establish the noble person’s way of thinking.

But a lot of times we feel that there is a lack of important people around us, or there are important people but they are too far away from us. There are four aspects to this cognition:

First, they are not confident, do not believe that they can influence others, resulting in the lack of active communication, long-term communication, continuity and habit of communication is not established;
Second, the problem of their own mentality, if their own mentality is not positive enough, no noble people dare to enter your thinking space, because the values do not match, it is difficult to form a cognitive consensus;
The third reason is the workplace. In many cases, your boss may be your VIP, but because of the workplace, because of the superior and subordinate, due to face, due to work, I dare not communicate more and consult more.
Four is the nobleman came and went, nobleman to help you change, help you progress, but they do not work hard, holding the mentality and methods of the past work in the workplace wandering around the world, progress is not obvious, denied his value and significance as a nobleman.

If you happen to have such a noble person, you should know how to cherish him. The main way to cherish him is to repay him with growth, because your growth can help him in the future. At the same time the need to establish effective communication at ordinary times, let people really get to know you first, in determining the noble can help you, affect you, you should be bold to take some challenging things, even if injustice, stress, meet with failure, to believe in you at this time is the real you, you of the ceiling, this is your bottlenecks, with the help of a noble help you improve ability, The next time the same thing comes, I will be able to handle it easily. The training opportunity of this ability is very few, and Ali often said that it is very suitable for people to learn by borrowing things. It doesn’t matter if things fail, but people should become, people’s ability should be improved.

Said one my own experiences, from independent since I was a child, I did a lot of farm work, primary school began to live on campus, 16 made two months child labor is building the home at the end of high school insisted on the field soil, university work-study programs, because of independence is very strong, very little initiative to ask for help, and accept parents since childhood education: to ask for help to trouble others. It is not my parents’ fault, but China’s culture of gratitude. It is because I feel burdened to repay others when I get help, so I teach my children not to bother others at will. In the long run, the character is affected by this, the more people do not ask for help, the more introverted, the more introverted the more people do not ask for help, and his human communication is less, less input, less collision of views, thinking is less, the character of introversion is so gradually developed.

But after years of experience and change, I suddenly realized that asking for help doesn’t mean bothering others. If you ask for help as a humble behavior, then with beggars do not have what distinction, look for help as a deal, a deal has a “huge significance”, when you turn, people are willing to help you, because he had seen the value of you, this helped him to determine their value (he has the ability to help you), or you can help him in the future. Everyone has experienced that in the moment you help others, you get the most important reward: you have the ability to help others, and in the process of helping others, you discover what you may need to do more in the future. Helping others is not about winning or losing, but a process of common progress. In the process of helping others, we can consolidate our knowledge and find out the deviation in our understanding.

Dignitaries should hold tightly, through the establishment of a relationship with dignitaries, their observation, feedback, two-way communication, dialogue, counseling, etc., can help themselves from the interactive information to generate their own thinking, behavior and ideas, these thoughts, behaviors and ideas will affect themselves, improve themselves.

Self-stability: To strengthen the container of self, to be able to accommodate the criticism and emotion of the other party when challenged, responsible and wronged.

Self-flexibility: After tolerating the emotions of the other party, we can adjust our state in time, because we believe that all problems come from ourselves and that making ourselves better is the root of solving all problems.

Self boundary: When you adjust your state, your perspective changes, your ability improves, and your boundary gradually expands.

Ego power: The sense of accomplishment that comes with expanding your boundaries makes your ego power even stronger.

Self-organization: The ability to regroup when a person feels like falling apart under pressure or is overwhelmed and disintegrates.

Delimit key point: noble person is the person that can accompany you to output high quality continuously.

7. The meeting

“Output forces input” many people have heard, but what input methods, and the effect is better, most of the time we really did not seriously thought about. The reason for this phenomenon is that the commonly used inputs in our subconscious are reading, thinking and feedback, so we often pay little attention to or even ignore other high-quality input methods. At this point, you quietly think about the input effect in the process of discussion? I’m sure I’ll have an answer. And my cognitive input the best effect in the process of “discussion”, because the discussion can stimulate the brain to react quickly, like CPU overclocking, at the same time, it can gain better input from the other side of the question and answer, this is like two people in the simulation of machine learning, constantly optimize the discussion result, by means of positive feedback to calculate the optimal solution.

In the actual work, people generally have a bad view of the meeting. The meeting in people’s eyes is like this: there are too many meetings, the meeting is very inefficient, the same content is repeatedly held several times, and I am a very small coordinator but have to attend the meeting for 2 hours.

And I watched a lot of meetings, a lot of people, the vast majority of people are meeting open computer, busy with his own keyboard, especially our programmers, although the meeting code could boost project development progress, but in the discussion, a sharing environment let oneself very focus on writing code is very difficult, at the same time I made a statistics, in the team Statistics for a month you meeting, probably every fortnight meetings invest time in 10% ~ 15% on average, that is to say double week 1 day to 1.5 days of the meeting time, from the point of consumption meeting, meeting affairs does not necessarily have greatly enhance the efficiency of, rather than paying attention to focus on one thing all the time, the efficiency may be higher.

So when attending some meetings I try not to take the computer, your brain is in a state of thinking, can receive the information in the meeting, training their own point of view of output ability, train their own summarizing ability, team has also asked classmates in the absence of urgent things, try to close the computer, let his attention to listen to other people discuss, share and listen to others Then think on your own, summarize and refine your ideas. Of course, you can also participate in the discussion and become the protagonist.

More is not necessarily a bad thing, but can be a place where you train your thinking, generalization, and logical expression. For example, in machine learning, a large amount of data is fed to the machine for model training, and the results of training are applied and verified. If the results are not good, the whole process is a process of continuous reinforcement training with positive feedback. The same is true when I come back to the meeting. I will continuously verify whether my opinions are correct or not through listening and discussing. I will listen and discuss again and verify my logic and opinions through positive feedback again and again.

It’s also important to know who you’re going to be at the meeting, or how you switch roles in the process. I usually participate in three roles:

As a participant, listen carefully, quickly refine the logic you want to express, and then participate in the discussion;
As a listener, listen carefully, input carefully, in the brain to organize ideas, organization logic;
As a interrupter, you find that some meetings really don’t need to continue, so, out of kindness, give the meeting a focus or end the meeting.

Highlight: Participating in a meeting is simulating machine learning, using positive feedback to refine your logic and ideas.

8. Get out of your comfort zone

Why do I feel that after reading so many books, working for so many years and writing so much code, I have basically stopped making progress after making obvious progress at the beginning? I think it’s because in comfort zone for too long, reading more, write more code, may be in a comfortable way to work and life, this kind of comfortable way has not been a lot of people have realized that, while waiting for the back reflection found did many things, see a lot of books, but growth expectations and the reality.

So we started thinking, what’s going wrong? It’s human nature to do what’s easy and do what’s hard. We’re used to doing what’s easy, but when we do what’s hard, we fall back into our comfort zone. Back in the past, I seem to be like this, suddenly feel full of energy to learn a lot of things, after a period of time back to the original position.

Look around the people you know, not a few years, growth is very obvious. Just like the rapid evolution and progress of human beings, it is because we have mastered the wisdom, and this wisdom comes from the discovery and summary of the experience of our predecessors. For example, the comfort zone. Psychologists have divided the type of learning we are likely to face into three zones: the comfort zone, the learning zone and the fear zone. It’s too easy, you stay too long, you want to jump out. Panic zone is too difficult, and it is too difficult to bring fear. For example, when Liang Ning talks about empathy in product thinking, fear will constrain and generate motivation, depending on whether the safety boundary is violated. If the challenge cannot be overcome, fear will constrain and retreat to the comfort zone.

So jumping out of your comfort zone, not just into your panic zone, but into the learning zone in between, where you reach a balance between difficulty and ability, to quote Mihaly. In his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csikszonmihalyi notes that to achieve flow at work, the challenges of the job must be balanced with your skills. If the challenges of the job are far below your skills, you will find your job boring. If the challenges of the job are far beyond your skills, you may feel anxious.

Need to make the difficulty and skills match, when you accept the challenge you still don’t know what to do, but the highest level of skill and a little bit trying to break through again, can you just solve this problem, flow experience, this is a wonderful feeling, you forgot time immersed in work flow, and may even forget his own existence.

Only by jumping out of the comfort zone and entering the learning zone, where difficulties and abilities are relatively balanced, can we grow up quickly. However, after entering the learning zone, we also need supporting learning methods to gradually exercise ourselves. Many people have their own learning methods.

Focus: Getting out of your comfort zone is getting into your learning zone, balancing challenges and skills to achieve flow.

9. Career planning

I have a different understanding of career planning. I think most people do not need to do career planning. Only those who have dreams and have very good basic personal qualities need career planning, and they will continue to work for a goal for many years until the goal is realized. Most people do not need career planning, because most of the time, the career planning we make is just a dream, although there is still a dream, but most of the time it is just realized by others, if it happens to be realized by oneself because of luck, it may be a misunderstanding, because of lack of ability, It takes more effort and sweat to move into a new position or role than someone who’s already prepared.

In the past, I was asked by some non-Ali people, how should I do career planning? After communication, I found that many people tend to put career planning on a certain post or role when making career planning. For example, they focus on the role of manager, manager ability, or architect, but how they got there, how they got there, what they did behind the scenes, what methods they used, and what skills they developed are all at a loss. Indeed, career planning is very difficult because it is an imagination space for the future. Whether this imagination space can be realized is inseparable from the current work and the degree of effort.

After the chat, I have been reflecting on what I should do if I do career planning. After continuous searching, I found my own answer. I think career planning is not a certain position or role, but the improvement of working ability. According to the ability required by their own post, the workplace needs the ability, and then use expert thinking, multidimensional perspective to focus on breaking 3-4 abilities, holding 120% of the effort to get the result, or even beyond the expected result, the thing is done, the ability is recognized, the so-called role, the job is just the result of nature. But the number of people who can actually do that is rare, and since they are rare, being rare is your opportunity.

Key points: the so-called career planning is to improve work ability.

10. Time for space

Time for space, there is another cognitive saying: “Slow, persistent, the fastest growth.” No matter what kind of saying it is, it is telling us that growth cannot be rushed for success or quick success and immediate benefits. Instead, we should constantly invest in ourselves in the uninterrupted time every day, confirm our shortcomings in growth through continuous output, and make up for the shortcomings cycle. By pushing yourself to the point of growth, and then crossing that point, you can immediately experience your own change, your own growth.

Once we experience growth, we will summarize the growth process of the previous period of time, summarize our best practices for growth abstractly, practice again, and push ourselves to the next critical point of growth, and then cross over again. In this cycle, we slowly improve our diverse abilities and cross-border abilities. All these abilities will be improved in the future, when the opportunity comes, because we have enough ability to control him, what we need to do at this time is to hold 120% efforts to do things successfully, things succeed, the ability also has, the space will naturally have, and it will be recognized.

The so-called time for space is that when we can’t see clearly what the future will be like, we can focus on the present and do what we need to do for growth.

Key points: the so-called time for space, is slow, persistent, the fastest growth.

conclusion

Although cognitive upgrade is chicken soup, delicious but not easy to digest, while by learning to improve their cognitive, they need to have critical thinking, their recognition of cognition, through their own practice, precipitation out their own best practices, let oneself have the ability to self evolution and form their own cognitive system, it is root growth. The above 10 cognitive upgrades are summed up in one sentence to complete the self-cognitive upgrade:

The so-called intuitive reflex is to improve the accuracy of one’s intuition from the narrow 5% to the broad 95% through repeated training of logic.
Getting used to is doing the right multiple choice questions before moving on to the next action.
Time management is finding uninterrupted time to invest in yourself.
Attention is focusing on a target until it produces the desired result.
The so-called executive power is to let oneself think clearly first, and then go on step by step;
The so-called noble, is able to continue to accompany you to output high-quality content;
The so-called conference is the simulation of machine learning ideas, through participation in the discussion to get positive feedback to verify their views;
Getting out of your comfort zone means getting out of your comfort zone first and then into your learning zone, balancing the challenge and ability to achieve flow experience.
The so-called career planning, is to improve the ability of work needs;
The so-called time for space, is slow, persistent, the fastest growth;

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