Recently, when I browse Zhihu, I am often invited to answer questions like this: NOW I feel so confused and anxious, and I always feel that I am going to be eliminated by the society. I often browse some technical communities, subscribe to public accounts and read blogs, but when I see many technologies, I feel that I am not good at them. What am I supposed to do? Yes, in the age of fragmented learning, people are more anxious than ever. Is that true of you?
Whether you have this kind of situation or not, whether you are anxious or not, anyway, as me personally, I see a lot of things, if not, I will unconsciously fall into anxiety, then how to change this state? There is a method that is very effective, which is: can’t solve the problem, solve the problem of the person? So if you can’t deal with your anxiety, deal with what makes you anxious. What do you mean? Don’t look at everything.
After entering the era of knowledge sharing dividend in the past two years, knowledge sharing has become popular and many people have started to share knowledge. Therefore, many people have started to subscribe to columns and public accounts, etc., looking at everyone’s sharing, many people feel that what others say is very reasonable, why didn’t I think of it? There are a lot of things that I feel I can’t share, and I even feel more and more, so that I have a more sober understanding of my ignorance. So, the more I read, the more anxious, the more confused, where should I go?
why
The cause of this situation, I do not know if you have thought about? Do you think about your anxiety without thinking about what’s causing it, just because you’re ignorant? Not really. I think the reasons are as follows:
Too fragmented
How can I put it? With the coming of the knowledge sharing boom, more and more people come to the knowledge sharing, and since the media age, the rapid spread of mobile Internet, many people saw these knowledge, confusion, even measures of hand, foot and no subscriptions, always want to feel these share with its own technology, professional and related work, subscription, can help to me.
Here’s an example: Programmer, a programmer engaged in Android development, only currently engaged in application layer development, he also often read some of the underlying technical blogs and columns, public accounts, etc., but also subscribed to the Java background development of public accounts, blogs, and even subscribed to some Python, Go, artificial intelligence columns, Do you think you can read this without getting anxious? Can you learn it? It is estimated that you can see it in your spare time, but you can’t learn it, which will cause anxiety.
These knowledge, east, west, with their work seems to be connected, can help, but the actual relationship may not be much, so much knowledge, let you feel not to come over, see the person who shares good, will feel: the somebody else how so fierce?
Excessive desires
People, you have to learn to be content. Don’t look at the bowl, thinking about the pot, you can be responsible for their own current acres of good farming. To put it bluntly, it is excessive desire, always thinking of one step in place, quick money, feeling know more valuable. I think the real value is depth, not breadth. Of course you have depth and breadth that would be great. The premise is to do a good job of depth first, and then to think about the problem of breadth. What’s causing you anxiety right now is not getting the depth right, not being focused, but also thinking about breadth. In the end, depth is not, breadth is brag. So unsubscribe from miscellaneous columns and subscriptions that cause you anxiety, and subscribe only to blogs, columns, accounts, etc. that are related to your technology, your work, and your depth.
All heart and no action
A lot of anxious people, basically have one thing in common, that is: only anxiety, not action. You see the knowledge, do not learn, do not have the hand, can not anxiety? The reason is obvious. I won’t say much. Anxious and lazy. You have time to grieve, so you might as well do something about it.
In fact, all the reasons for anxiety can be summed up in a word: the more you see, the more you know your ignorance, and do not take action. National in the era of fragments of knowledge sharing in our country, the biggest conflict is not the end of the 19th report, socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new era, social principal contradictions of our country has been converted to the good life is people’s increasing needs and inadequate development imbalance between the contradictions, but in an era of information overload, The principal contradiction in our country is that our actions cannot keep up with our desires, our abilities cannot keep up with the development of technology and the explosion of knowledge.
How to view the fragmentation of reading
First of all, I don’t think fragmented reading is learning. I think the current fragmented reading is at best a pastime and entertainment after leisure. This is something we need to keep in perspective. The more you read, the more you’re likely to know. You can show off your breadth of knowledge in conversations with colleagues and friends, which can be summed up in two words: brag or show off. Yes, fragmented reading allows you to brag and show off.
Secondly, you can understand and know some knowledge points only through fragmented reading. Just knowing, rather than having mastered it yourself, learning is actually a systematic project. Fragmented learning, seen a little bit here and there, can not be said to be useless, but because the public does not have the ability to connect, so that you can not fully master and control it. So in the use of time, may still be at a loss, this will only increase their anxiety. So, I suggest that when you study something, you’d better read. The book is a series and system of engineering, and see the blog and column, the public number are scattered points, points may be a surface, but the messy point combination is the wrong system “surface”, which is very dangerous. Reading is active learning, and watching videos, subscription and other recommended learning is passive learning, passive is better than active, more active is better.
Finally, I suggest that we should correctly treat the fragmentation of reading and subscribe, learning is a systematic project, at present we have a lot of people begin to do technology, public technology to share, but at the time of reading and watching, everybody don’t produce some anxiety, and don’t feel someone who is very severe, not necessarily, maybe not you, there are specializing in, everyone have their own advantages and ability. Programmers can be divided into many kinds, each with many directions and specialties, and that’s all. They all have their own areas of expertise. It is suggested that we subscribe to work closely with their own, the depth of their own columns, blogs and so on, look less to improve the breadth of some. After deep first wide, believe oneself depth is good completely no problem, breadth is added value, depth is core value.
Does this analysis make you feel better? So ah, anxiety, don’t worry, don’t have what knowledge panic, clearly is knowledge overload, we attack in one direction is easy to succeed, rather than all-round, full stack.
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