Do we still need to read books when our lives are full of short videos?
At the end of 2020, the number of Internet users in China was 989 million, and there were 873 million online short video users. Brushing short videos has become a weapon for everyone to kill time, immersing in short videos for more than 1.5 hours a day. We can't help but wonder: there is everything in the short video, will reading be replaced?
Teacher Guo Ting, an expert in workplace learning, said: "No.
In a future visible to humanity book It is still the most important way to learn.”
Teacher Guo Ting believes that
Books are the most informative knowledge Carrier, reading is the most free way to learn.Among all the knowledge carriers of mankind at present, books are the carriers with the richest information load, the most systematic communication, and the most profound. Of all the mainstream ways of learning, reading is the most costly, direct, and undisturbed learning with knowledge creators.
Get a book,We can choose to read through from beginning to end, or flip through at will, read at any time, read, stop at any time, think. Without the audio and visual interference of the video, without the subjective color of others relaying, we talk directly to the original text and absorb rich nutrition.
We neglect "useless learning" that meets the needs of natural persons.
Man is the sum of social relations. The so-called social relationship is the role, and everyone has countless roles. We divide these roles into three categories: natural person, social person, and professional person. From the perspective of learning, the learning of social and professional people should be utilitarian, mothers read books on parent-child relationship for the better growth of children, and managers read management books to improve management skills. If you go to the bookstore, you will find that most of the most conspicuous places are two types of books, one is for children, various learning materials, and the other is for professionals to improve various vocational skills. These two books sold the highest.
This kind of purposeful reading, focusing on one side to dig deeper and learn, such a person will become a good craftsman. But when you reach a certain height, it is useless for you to still work hard in the same place. For example, Jia Dao, an excellent poet who specializes in the rhyming words of poetry and sentences, has left only a deliberate allusion, and has not left other poems passed down from generation to generation.
When we are teenagers, we will read a lot of useless books because of curiosity, curiosity, hobbies and other reasons, but after entering the society and the workplace, most people will no longer read useless books. Teacher Guo Ting said: "I recommend 'Alive', which can neither improve professional skills nor bring direct money, but it may allow you to take your understanding of life to a higher level and have a new understanding of China's history over the past 70 or 80 years." If you don't read with a "useful" purpose, you may be of great use; but when you read with a purpose, it will certainly not be of great use.
Useless books nourish our lives and make us spiritual, active and creative.
A nation that believes that "there is a house of gold in the book, and there is a beauty in the book" cannot make major pioneering scientific progress for mankind.
Not only are we moving away from useless books, but even reading is slowly moving away. There is a passage on the Internet that says that bookstores and libraries are the cleanest in the epidemic flow because no one goes. Although it is a paragraph, it also shows that reading is not popular in China today.
The online world is so rich that reading seems so thin. There are thousands of books,
There are only six ways to read: consulting, flipping through, extensive reading, intensive reading, studying, and practicing reading.Consulting: When we encounter knowledge that we do not understand or have forgotten, we need to consult a reference book or similar book.
Flip through: Flip through parts of a book according to your interests or needs.
Extensive reading: Reading roughly from top to end is one of the most commonly used ways to read.
Intensive reading: Read repeatedly, trying to understand the whole content, and even memorize part of the content. It is one of the most commonly used ways to read.
Study: Not only to read the book, but also to study the book. Teacher Guo Ting studied "Dream of the Red Chamber" during his college years, and the original work was less than one million words, but he read four or five million words of the research materials of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and his literary appreciation level was qualitatively improved.
Reading: Not reading for the sake of reading, but for the sake of practice, reading while practicing, and reading while practicing. Through the practice of reading the Pyramid Principle, Guo Ting's thinking and expression level has been raised to a new level.
"Of the five books I recommend, three are available for habituation, including Pyramid Principles, Critical Thinking, and How to Become an Expert. If these three books are only extensive reading or intensive reading, you will get very little things, it is better not to read, only by trying to practice according to the methods in the book, you will get a substantial improvement in the fields of thinking, expression, and learning. ”
What is the most lacking reading among professionals?
In our pursuit of practical professional learning, one of the most common phenomena is to attach importance to the learning of professional ability, but ignore the underlying thinking ability, cognitive ability, insight, imagination and logic ability, intermediate communication and cooperation ability, self-management ability, analysis and decomposition ability, expression ability and so on. These are also essential competencies to become an expert. Judging from the current situation of the ability of people in the workplace, what we should most supplement is not professional ability, but the ability of the bottom and the middle.
Teacher Guo Ting believes: "If you want to become a first-class expert in a certain field, you should learn to make full use of books and learn and progress from reading. ”
Teacher Guo Ting summarized three reading methods for growth and advancement:
The first stage, from a little white to a rookie: rigid learning, according to the content, form, and method of the book. When Huawei asked IBM to do consultation, it put forward the slogan of "first rigid, then solidified, and then optimized";
The second stage, from ordinary people to masters: intensive reading, extensive reading, study, just like bees, absorbing the strengths of all families;
The third stage, from master to god: jump out of the role of a professional person, think of yourself as a natural person, meet personal preferences, and read your favorite books.
Reading is the ladder of human progress, and it is also the best way for professionals to improve their abilities. We can't walk thousands of miles, but we can read thousands of books.
Finally, thanks to Mr. Guo Ting's sharing, the prize of this issue of the "CEO to Book Friends" activity is the book in Mr. Guo Ting's personal book list.
"CEO to Book Friends" in the name of sharing, empower new knowledge, and grow together. 02.22-02.27Prespective Economist APP participate in the sharing >comment on the "doctrine" activity, and the CEO will give away a good book!
Reading the wisdom of the times, the spirit of enterprise, and the forward-looking Economist APP launched the "CEO to Book Friends" series of activities, which hopes to take reading as the link, with the attitude of "sharing knowledge, growing together" and the way of connection, linking major scholars, entrepreneurs, and knowledge elites to participate and promote together, so that more people who are eager for knowledge and disseminate knowledge can establish contact, and jointly build knowledge sharing and growth activities to advocate lifelong learning for the whole people.