10. “Never Thought” by Wan Weigang

preface

The title of the book is probably the direct reason why it is not popular, personally think it is a failure to attract attention. The book is a collection of the author’s blogs, so the content is dense and disorganized. Although some of the content is of good quality, the author’s words on the cover of the book, “look at the world through the eyes of science and engineering”, are not reflected in the actual contents of the book.

Personal assessment

3 stars out of 5. The first half of the story is good, which tells about the impetuousness of modern society and a relatively unique view of “the antidote to success”, but the second half is no different from ordinary blogs and magazines from the personal point of view, I recommend you to skip it directly.

Read the first half through the “Antidote to Success” section in more detail. The last big chapter doesn’t need to be read.

In addition, this book involves: ** “Willpower”/” How to Read a Book “/” Deliberate Practice “** and other books can be directly found related books to read, the relevant chapters are basically a brief reading notes, skimping can be.

Here is also a personal reading note (hey hey) :

Willpower reading notes

How to Read a Book reading notes

Key chapters and summaries:

The following is an outline of the book and my personal opinions. In the outline section, I will discuss the key content according to my own opinion:

  • Abnormal thinking (thinking)

    • Rational calculation replaces perceptual thinking

    • People waste time thinking and choosing

    • Knowing how to choose is essential to success

  • The Pursuit of Truth (skimming)

    • One of the joys of scientific research is being changed.

    • Honest people argue and eventually agree.

  • Conspiracy Theory (Skimming)

    • Conspiracy theories are constantly looking for a reason and a purpose

    • Not everything can be classified as conspiracy theories, but they do exist

  • Efficient Ways to “surf” (Think)

    • Information classification, different levels of information with the corresponding reading speed

    • Active/passive Internet: the content is divided into good and bad three levels, the content is divided into casual reading, skimming and fine

  • Density of thought and counterattack of the cow (think)

    • Mind density = time to create/time to read

    • A great person doesn’t have to take more steps, he takes each step in the right place.

  • Notebook is power (Intensive reading)

    • Notes = self-opinion + evaluation + new ideas

    • Reading Notes > Mind Mapping > Scribing (author thinks mind mapping is useless)

  • Practice 10,000 hours to become a genius? (intensive reading)

    • Four core steps of deliberate practice
      • “Practice area” practice
      • Break your practice into small chunks and repeat them over and over again
      • Effective feedback during practice
      • High concentration
    • What you do in your comfort zone is called life. What you do in your study zone is called practice

  • Self-summary of deliberate practice :(unrelated to the book)

    • Premise: A challenging goal that can be achieved in stages
    • Execution: Make a plan and give feedback all the time
    • Status: Stay focused and practice a lot
    • Output: Output results, next stage goals

  • Intensive reading (most valuable key chapters)

    • See below

Contents summary

Intensive study (key points) :

Strong reading is the most helpful point of this book for individuals, before the specific description of this node in the book to make a note of the content:

  • Read a book twice. Read it normally the first time, stopping to think about it from time to time and recording the “surprises” in your reading notes. The second time, start with the trunk and sort out the details
  • The best books are reserved for the “study zone,” and set aside full chunks of time to read them. It also shows that most books can be read in pieces and in daily life.
  • The author’s strong reading (key)
    • Clear chapter context
    • Take away the bright spot
    • Write ideas and comments
    • Links to past memories (Reading reinforcement)
  • The real highlights should be filled with surprises rather than the author’s generalities
  • Reading is a process of getting in and out

Strong reading, in my opinion, is an extension of deliberate practice. At the beginning of the book, you only need to read a good book twice. You don’t need to read a third time, because reading a good book once is impossible to fully absorb, and reading twice is just right for you to fully absorb. This also shows that a book is a good book if you are interested in reading it a second time. It also shows that most books only need to be read once before they can be thrown away.

Powerful to study the second point is that in the study area, part a lot of kinds of books, but also is to burn the brain does not the same as the effect of the book to the person, such as in the novel the author may set various unexpected behind the stage to let readers, but this kind of thinking itself has no value, because he will have any real influence to the real individual (more rich imagination? .

Powerful to study the third point is to find window instead of looking for a summary sentence, personal habits, also early late but gradually changed to highlight a sentence content, to find a place to let oneself “surprised” at the same time, a can let you resonate with, for example, the simplest is to let you come back to want to see it again is worth you to record and review.

Finally, reading to be objective is very rare, in the process of immersion in reading we are easy to be biased by the author, so we have to use their own values and world view to measure the author’s view of whether they agree with, so that strong reading is a process of falling into the author’s world and then out of this world.

Abnormal thinking

Is there really abnormal thinking?

Is the first chapter, the author expounds his view of the world, and the author view things of a kind of values, in the midst of books with the concept of criticism about the school of arts living to look at the world as well as the difference between science students see the world, for example, in the above excessive thinking the school of arts living can research the character’s psychological and social environment, while the school of science living logic analysis and certification

Really don’t understand why did the author emphasize science and liberal arts, never exist fixed thinking in my personal point of view, such as the school of arts living memory is good, the school of science living is good at calculation, it has no essential difference, that is long-term choice results in a inertial thinking, with the control of habit, is personal to own a kind of “identity” to prove that, It is a kind of thinking trap of label and characterization. Personally, I think it is an undesirable idea.

Deliberate practice

“Deliberate Practice” is a very famous book, I have seen this in more than one book, but the original book is a little verbose, whereas deliberate practice uses a lot of space in the book to discuss this issue, and extends a lot of things, like what is the role of the teacher, The people who are willing to practice 10,000 hours are very few people and so on.

Why deliberate practice so hard to promote, the biggest problem is that there is no feedback, no feedback can be wrong even more dangerous than practice, because there is no feedback means there is no reward, we don’t know how much he is improving, there was no way to know your growth, and no growth efforts are doomed to give up, so I must find a way to find a way to give their feedback.

Can give their best feedback method is the simplest way is to record, and not with a, but the details to the record of every hour and every minutes, this can not only help themselves out of the comfort zone, and give yourself a challenge task can let oneself progress is also a deliberate practice ring, kill two birds with one stone, why not?

Finally, luck is part of success, so there’s no need to practice? If hypnotized by anti-success books, most likely you will, but anti-success studies are part of success studies, so why not practice them deliberately?

The density of thinking

Intensity = time needed to prepare the book/time needed to read the book

The density of thinking is also the content of personal interest in the book. From the calculation of the density of thinking, we can know that the density of thinking in books must be higher than that in web articles and blogs. Personally, the answer is yes, although it takes a lot of time to blog, but certainly not as much time as a book, a book is not a person’s wisdom essence, can be published as a book content must be carefully selected, even if in your opinion is a “bad book”.

Thinking density is also a good way to test the quality of a book, if you can read a content quickly and without pause, then his “denominator” is very large, and the “molecule” is very large, then the book to the end is a “high” input, “low” output of the book, naturally no value.

Of course, the density of thinking must not be too many words, take “The Little Prince” for example, can condense the philosophy of life into a story, so that everyone can read and learn the content of the book is very rare, such books are destined to be good books.

However, modern people feel tired even reading an article, how many people can calm down to read a book? Once the density of thinking is higher, it becomes a mistake instead?

Notebook is power

Laptop now people more is used to record the “surprise” point of reading, and some strong technical and specialized, the content of the individual also is in the storage of the various software was very admire to continuously record personal essence in the notes before people, there is, of course, is one of the few modern people, because of the developed network gave us good space of stored information, Also are more likely to let yourself get to share knowledge, notebook is power, but it is not suitable for the era of fast rhythm, in the “poor dad and rich dad” mentioned the word is very important: “don’t ask us to learn too much content in modern society, but to let us learn faster than others”, study well, we have to learn fast and at the same time to win.

Of course, it is not to reject notebooks completely, but what is notebook good for? I think it’s a good place to keep a small bag to remember urgent and important things and “highlights” like the ones above.

conclusion

The synopsis does not mention all the key chapters, but what I consider to be “surprises”. A book can see one or two points worth learning, such as the strong reading mentioned in this book is the core of my opinion that this book is worth reading, this book is not for me to read in vain, because I remember too much but will forget faster.

Write in the last

Finally I want to say is a book or don’t become a blog chowder, because it lost the soul of a book, a string of a story, if I could be like TV series, because I don’t have to remember that episode finished with it directly to forget, but as a book, I don’t think the author seriously book what it means, even if the book score is not low.