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In the digital age, have you ever wondered if you browse through a huge amount of information every day, and your favorites are full of "useful" materials, but it is always difficult to find them at critical moments? Do you find that although you have read a lot of books and learned a lot of knowledge, very few of them can really be applied in real life?
The author, Shi Ruo, is an influential writing coach and knowledge management coach. Through his personal experience and numerous cases, he showed us the importance and practicality of knowledge management.
For example, Wang Xing, the founder of Meituan, discovered the importance of user evaluation in service selection by studying user psychology, so he added a user evaluation system to the Meituan platform. This move not only increased user engagement, but also strengthened the platform's reputation.
The American historian Daniel Boersteen points out that "the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of self-proclaimed knowledge." "This reminds us that the true value of knowledge lies in its ability to be used effectively.
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So, how do we do a good job of personal knowledge management? "The Wisdom of the Outer Brain" gives some practical advice:
- Build a personal knowledge base: Use software tools such as Obsidian to store and manage your knowledge materials. The book mentions that we need to establish a "knowledge grid management model", the essence of the model is: to make the fragmented information more systematic, to fragment the knowledge, but to be interrelated, the stars and the moon, to form a network. When you are in the process of knowledge management, these knowledge fragments will generate infinite permutations and combinations, and merge with each other to create and innovate knowledge.
- How to understand the knowledge grid? Let's take the "knowledge subnet" of organizing the wardrobe as an example, and we divide the wardrobe into three areas: winter clothing area, summer clothing area, and spring and autumn clothing area. These districts are equivalent to several "knowledge systems", and each area can be subdivided: underwear, socks, clothes, pants... Each of these subdivisions is equivalent to the smallest unit of "knowledge grid", and these tidying up rooms, making beds... Labels such as clothes and pants are "meta-knowledge".
- Regular sorting and review: The author recommends 4 efficient "tools": obsidian, flomo, siyuan, and anki. And it's important to review your knowledge base regularly, update outdated information, and remove content that is no longer needed.
- Applied Knowledge: Apply what you have learned to real-world problems and deepen your understanding and memory through practice. Use the "Seven Steps to Writing" to turn your notes into articles.
- Share and communicate: Share your knowledge with others, get feedback through communication, and further improve your knowledge system.
Through effective knowledge management, we can find the information we need faster, understand knowledge more deeply, and solve problems more efficiently. This not only helps us grow personally, but also helps us achieve better results in the workplace and in life.
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Zhang Quanling, a famous former CCTV host, said in a speech: "This era is changing too fast, you live in this era, but your inner values may still be in the last era, or even the last era, if you can't keep up with social changes, you won't even say hello when the times abandon you." ”
Therefore, we must continue to accumulate knowledge and update our knowledge system.
"The value of knowledge lies in the use of knowledge." This sentence is the core concept of "Wisdom Outer Brain", and it is also something that each of us should remember.
All learning should be based on who I am, who I become, and for whom. Only in this way can you focus on the goal to use knowledge, and be driven by the goal, and be motivated enough to transform knowledge into common sense to solve problems.