Ning Youguang did feel a little exhausted, but he also achieved great results.
In addition to publishing "Loving You Is Loving Myself", she also has 9 accepted papers.
This makes it possible for her professorship title to be raised in the near future.
Regarding the results she has obtained, apart from those close to her, her students are the most amazed and happy for her.
Of course, while her students were happy with her achievements, they were also curious——
"Teacher Ning, you are so busy at work, how come you still have time to do so many things?"
Taking advantage of a break in class, a student asked.
Ning Youguang said, “This is attributed to my cultivating the habit of working deeply and methodically.”
"The habit of deep work?" Some students were curious, "Can the teacher share it with us?"
"Yes, Teacher Ning, please teach us. We don't want to be as awesome as you. At least let us stop worrying about our homework and study."
"Teacher, teacher, please share."
Looking at the faces in the audience who can’t wait to know.
Ning Youguang said, "Okay, there's nothing we can't share."
She put down the remote control in her hand.
"The New York Times columnist once said something that I really agree with. He said, 'Great creative minds think like artists and work like accountants.' At the same time, he also investigated many famous people in history that we know.
Thinkers, such as great thinkers such as Carlo and Darwin, all have regular routines and habits. This is not because they are unique, but precisely because the success of their work depends on the ability to continuously enter a deep state. Therefore, I start from this category.
A set of rules was found in the information, that is, in daily life, we should get used to making ourselves focused, and in this process, we should also allow ourselves to enter a deep state more easily and maintain it for a longer time." She said,
"If you are interested, you can check out the daily routines and habits of the great thinkers, writers, and artists in history."
Some students laughed and said, "Teacher, please share your daily routine and habits with us first. This will be more inspiring and useful for me to learn from."
Ning Youguang smiled and generously wrote his daily schedule and habits on the blackboard.
"I get up at 4:30 every morning to write. When I write at 6:30, I go out to exercise for half an hour. After the exercise, I have breakfast. After breakfast, around 7:30 or 8:00, I start my day's work.
After working until noon, I will rest for about half an hour after lunch. I will not sleep for a long time. If I sleep for too long, I will become drowsy. When I wake up, I will make myself a pot of tea. When drinking tea, my brain will become calm and relaxed.
, after drinking tea, the afternoon work started again."
"It feels so difficult to do."
The students were a little intimidated by Ning Youguang's daily schedule.
"Teacher, can you follow this step-by-step approach to school work? Can you do the same to writing and writing papers? But don't these all require inspiration?"
"In everyone's perception, there is a very common understanding that creative work relies on inspiration-it refers to those creative ideas and ideas that come from nowhere and make you have a flash of inspiration, and then your ideas will flow... But
My experience tells me that when writing, if you don’t take action and just wait for inspiration before taking action, it will not make rapid progress in writing. In my experience, give yourself a fixed amount of time every day to
Only when you focus on writing can you get more inspiration." Ning Youguang said with a smile, "I don't know if you have ever had such an experience. When you start to do some things, you will find it difficult and have no clue.
I don’t know where to start, but I’ll get used to it as I go along.”
"Yes." Many students in the audience answered.
Ning Youguang nodded, "That's it. Focusing on writing itself is a good way to get inspiration. Therefore, inspiration does not need to wait for an opportunity for its inspiration to appear. If we are used to waiting for inspiration to come,
After you start writing or working, your achievements may be significantly reduced."
Then, she added, "I'm not denying that inspiration may suddenly fall into your mind when you are doing nothing. It's just that this kind of thing is a random probability event. If we have a strong plan to complete,
, this method is not appropriate.”
"What happens after we have good habits and plans?" Some students asked, "What should we do?"
“My habits will have specific rules and procedures to ensure that my actions are structured. For example, once I start working, I will not use any network, I will not look at my mobile phone, I will not surf the Internet, and I will not do anything else.
, and I am used to checking the number of words I produce every half an hour, and always being aware of whether I am concentrating on my work, so as to maintain continuous concentration."
"What should we do if we don't have this kind of structure?" Another student asked.
"Then you need to always be aware of what you should and should not do during in-depth work and study, and you need to constantly evaluate whether the depth of your work is sufficient. These are unnecessary wastes of willpower." Ning Youguang
explain.
"Teacher, I feel that my concentration is not very good." A classmate said, "I find that I am often distracted when studying and doing things. Am I the type who cannot enter deep learning and deep work?
people?"
"This may be because you haven't had any training in this area since you were a child." Ning Youguang said, "The concentration of each of us can be trained."
"How to train?"
"My last answer is one that can help you train your concentration."
"Teacher, you said that we should always be aware of ourselves during in-depth study or work, so that our consciousness can clearly know what we should and should not do at the moment?"
"right."
Many students were writing furiously in the audience and taking notes carefully.
Meet students interested in how to get into deep work and deep learning.
"After you find good habits that help you enter deep learning and work, you also need to understand that the habits you develop need to ensure that your brain can receive the necessary support to ensure that the brain operates at a high level of depth."
Ning Youguang added, "For example, I know that some people will make themselves a pot of tea before writing and studying, some writers will go to their favorite coffee shop to work, and some freelancers like to put on comfortable clothes before working.
pajamas, these are ways to make sure they get enough to keep themselves energized, or include light activities such as walking to help keep the brain awake. Similar support also includes environmental factors, such as what I do before work.
In addition to making myself a pot of tea and going to the bathroom to take a shower when I’m not inspired, I also like to clean the study room and clear the desk before writing, which will minimize my energy consumption.”
Ning Youguang turned around and wrote the words "systematization" on the blackboard.
"Everyone's time and energy are limited. To maximize one's success, one needs to provide support for one's efforts to enter deep work. At the same time, one must also pay attention to skills and systematization, so that everyone does not waste their mental energy.
Energy to remind myself of what I need to do at all times. The above are some of the techniques I have summed up to help me get into deep work habits."
Then, she raised her hand and tapped the blackboard lightly, "Remember, no matter what habits you have, you need to practice and act on your own. Good habits and methods are yours to use, otherwise no matter what you hear,
No matter how good the method is, no matter how good the plan is, if you don’t take action, it will all belong to others.”
"I assure you that once you develop correct good habits about work and study, the impact on your life will be extremely profound. Deep learning and deep work are both major events and deserve to be taken seriously by each of us.
Everyone must learn how to put their brains into a state of concentration, so that you can start to create truly meaningful things. Otherwise, in this impetuous era, you can easily fall into superficial work and hard work. For a period of time, you and those who
People who are accustomed to deep learning and deep work cannot see the difference. As time goes by, the gap between your abilities and core competitiveness will definitely become more and more obvious."
I saw the expressions of the students in the audience becoming more and more serious as they listened, as well as the obvious fear on the faces of some students.
Ning Youguang added, “I used to often focus on lagging indicators, such as the number of papers published each year. However, these goals had little impact on my daily behavior because I didn’t know what I could do in the short term that would immediately affect the long-term indicators.
It produces immediate and considerable changes. When I make a deep work and study plan for myself, suddenly these indicators are related to my daily life. An extra hour of deep work time can be immediately displayed on the daily check-in app on my mobile phone.
superior."
"Daily check-in app?" Some students noticed this.
"Yes, I will record the items, time and efficiency of my daily deep work on the daily clock-in app. This can correlate the deep work hours I accumulated from the instinctive level with the real results, and use my mobile phone to record the clock-in time.
One benefit is that it helps me calibrate my personal expectations for the amount of deep work time required to complete each outcome, which motivates me to carve out more time for deep work every week.”
"Teacher, I think your way of motivating yourself is too tiring for me." Some students who are accustomed to laziness feel very tired just listening to what Ning Youguang said, let alone asking them to take action.
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Of course Ning Youguang understands these thoughts of the students.1314
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This chapter refers to American writer Carl Newport's "Deep Work" on how to effectively use every bit of brainpower.
For little angels who need to engage in creative work, I think it is quite effective, so I would like to share it with you.
Little angels in need often go to bookstores to find them~