Super top students: the most efficient learning method for top students

Chapter 8 Effective Use of Study Time (1)
Make good use of scattered time and increase the speed of work
There is no top student who does not know the great value of time, especially those top students who study efficiently, often regard time as "free" wealth, and are full of awe of time.Just because time is irreplaceable, if you waste or waste time at will, time will leave you.As a student, whoever can manage time efficiently and use time scientifically will be willing to serve time, and whoever can learn creatively will achieve academic success.

I often hear some students complain that I don’t have enough time every day, I don’t memorize the words that should be memorized, and I can’t finish the homework that should be done on time...

In fact, if you observe carefully, you can find that these students have a characteristic, that is, they ignore the scattered time.

Don't forget, those top students are also masters at taking advantage of their spare time.

The so-called scattered time refers to the time left after one thing is done, or the short time between two things.In our study and life, there are many pieces of time that are often not cherished by us and are wasted and wasted.

Specifically, fragmented time such as the few minutes before the opening of the movie, while waiting for the elevator, while waiting in line for the bus, on the way home by car...

In order to make full use of your spare time, you can listen to tapes while doing housework—of course, it is best to record your favorite texts, or you can think about the content of the exam while mopping the floor and cleaning the table.You can also carry some exquisite small books with you, and take them out to enjoy when you are shopping, taking the subway and other free time.

These seemingly inconspicuous bits and pieces of time, if you accumulate them and make good use of them, you will definitely gain a lot and improve your learning and work efficiency.

At all times and in all over the world, all accomplished scholars are wise men who are good at using fragmentary time.

Dong Yu, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was a person who used all his time to study.He once said: "I use the 'Sanyu' to study." When he couldn't go out to work on cloudy and rainy days, he used it to study. After a long period of time, he finally made great achievements.

A classmate who was admitted to Tongji University said: "Don't underestimate the fragmented time. If you persist in using it for a long time, you will benefit a lot. I remember that in the third year of high school, I used the 10 minutes before morning exercises every morning to recite English words. As a result, a vocabulary book of more than 100 pages for the college entrance examination forced me to memorize it, and I did not have any problems with vocabulary during the college entrance examination.”

In your daily study, you may not realize this at all, because these sporadic moments seem so small and unnoticeable at all.However, it is in these humble wastes that we are left far behind by those who are good at using time.

The literary master Mr. Lu Xun’s method of improving time efficiency lies in “I spend the time other people drink coffee on writing”.

The success of Zhu Kezhen, a famous Chinese meteorologist in meteorological research, has an important secret, that is, he is good at managing his scattered time.Zhu Kezhen was admitted to Harvard University in the United States to study meteorology when he was in his twenties. Due to language problems, he had difficulty listening to the lectures at first, and he could not understand many contents.

In order to overcome this obstacle, he began to study foreign languages ​​frantically in addition to intense study.Since he didn't have much time for learning foreign languages, he came up with a good way to use his scattered time to learn foreign languages. Since then, he can be seen reciting words during the study breaks and on the way to and from get out of class.He cleverly used every minute of his time to learn foreign languages. In less than one semester, he could communicate fluently with his classmates.This also laid a favorable foundation for his further study.

When studying at Harvard, Zhu Kezhen had a wide range of interests. He liked writing very much. He also had a deep interest in folk art, especially Chinese traditional art.It is precisely because he has dabbled extensively and studied in many aspects, so time is very important to him, and he almost regards time as life.In order to better save time and use every minute of his time, he pays more attention to the effective use of his scattered time for meteorological experiment research.

Indeed, if you want to make your study time more than others, you have to seize the scattered time that others don’t pay attention to: reciting vocabulary words while queuing up to buy food; silently recalling the poems you just memorized on the way home from self-study next night...

As the saying goes, "If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach thousands of miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you can't form rivers and seas."The accumulation of bit by bit of time will eventually bring you a huge fortune.

When we know the preciousness of fragmented time, we can record our daily activity time and find out which fragmentary time is wasted by you.

Be sure to use those odd moments positively from now on.If you have to take the bus for about 30 minutes to go to school every day, you can insist on listening to English on the road. Over time, your English listening skills will definitely improve a lot.Or, you only need to memorize two or three English words, a small poem or a formula theorem on your way to or from school. After one semester, you will be amazed at what you have achieved.

In addition, when you use these piecemeal time, you must have a positive attitude. Don't think "There are only 5 minutes left, and you can't do anything", but think "There are still 5 minutes, and you must make full use of it."

Concentrate on studying when it’s time to study, play when it’s time to play, seize all available fragmentary time, accumulate little into more, and spend every minute meaningfully, which is one of the secrets to improving learning efficiency.

Using sporadic time to study requires us to have awareness and initiative in this regard.Because sporadic time is generally relatively short, and it is easy for everyone to slip away inadvertently, so unless you realize its importance, it is difficult to make full use of it.

To use sporadic time, you need to have a certain plan. You can't "grab a handful of things here and a handful of things", and learn whatever you think of, otherwise the effect will not be good.For students, daily life and study are very regular, so sporadic time is also very regular.The use of these sporadic time must be planned well. You must know what to use for the sporadic time in the morning and noon, and what to do with the sporadic time in the afternoon and evening.

Only those who know how to cherish sporadic time will truly cherish time.Wasting time, like wasting money, starts with a small sum.Therefore, we have to be a person who is good at squeezing time, so that our available time will be much more than others, and naturally we are likely to achieve better results than others.

The secret of top students is to make good use of every minute
Do you think learning is a process of time accumulation?
In your usual study, do you pay attention to using every minute?
Think about it, do you have a good habit of using time well?
Regardless of whether your answer is yes or no, top students have a particularly strong sense of time, and they understand the value and significance of every minute.

Learning is a process of accumulation, and it is also a process of using time. If we are good at using every minute we can use, our learning will be improved unconsciously.

Regarding time, the famous writer Voltaire has such a classic sentence in his novel: "The longest is time, because it is endless; the shortest is time, because it is fleeting; in the eyes of those who wait, Time is the slowest; in the eyes of those who are having fun, time is the fastest; it can be expanded infinitely, and it can be divided infinitely; no one pays attention to it at the time, but regrets it later; without it, everything can be done No."

Maybe you don’t know that the famous fantasy novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” was written by the author Jules Verne during his voyage; Mozart, the great Austrian musician, even thought about composing music when he was getting a haircut. Record the new piece of music you conceived.

There is such a story, the protagonist of the story is an excellent speaker, this speaker is very fond of music besides speaking, especially the violin.However, because I was busy with speeches all day long, I didn't have time to go to a special school for professional training, so I had to practice hard by myself.

There is only one training method for this speaker, that is, he is very good at using every minute. No matter where he goes to give a speech, he always takes the violin with him.Whether it was while waiting for the plane or after the speech, whenever he had time, he would take out the violin and practice. In the end, the speaker also achieved great achievements in music.

This speaker’s good use of every minute has set an example for us. If students can make good use of every minute like this speaker, then their academic performance will be very good.

In an interview with Harvard alumni, Dr. Zhang Junni from Peking University, Li Jin from the United Nations Development Program and Ye Wenbin from the United States who is currently working for an international consulting company talked about their experience of studying and living at Harvard University and feel.

In addition to intense schoolwork, their extracurricular life is also quite rich.Zhang Junni "divides her time into sections". Apart from studying, she goes on outings, skis, plays bowling, organizes forums, chats with people, watches movies, plays, and participates in the "North Bridge Poetry Club"; Li Jin goes to nearby schools to do Volunteers, teaching mathematics to Haitian refugee children, left behind "experiences that are difficult to obtain elsewhere"; when Ye Wenbin was an undergraduate, a day was "1/4 classes, 1/4 self-study, 1/4 extracurricular activities, 1/4 sleep", he participated in many music-related activities.

From this point of view, these Harvard people are good at using their time reasonably.

As long as we are good at thinking with our brains, all the time can be used for learning.If we make good use of every minute of our time, our learning efficiency will be greatly improved, and we will no longer worry about the lack of learning time.

Study at the best time to make learning more efficient

Learning is something that everyone knows, but in the usual learning process, do you pay attention to learning at your best learning time?

Sometimes, you may be confused, when is the most efficient time to study in a day?

The time point with the highest learning efficiency is the best point of learning time we want to master.

In life, everyone's biological clock is not exactly the same, which also determines that everyone's living habits and study habits are different.

For example, some people are very energetic during the day, but immediately turn into a deflated ball when they get home. Regardless of the three sevens and twenty ones, they should climb into bed and have a good sleep first.Some people are used to staying up in the middle of the night, hiding under the covers and listening to music at night.Some people have this habit when they were in elementary school. This kind of people are veritable night owls. The more energetic they are at night, the more they look like sick cats during the day. This kind of biological clock is opposite to that of ordinary people. It is very common.

However, the living habits of most people are still similar, generally going to bed early and getting up early.

During the day, the most energetic time of a person varies from person to person, and sometimes the difference is huge, like two extremes of things. Most of these have a lot to do with the individual's biological clock, and we must arrange the most suitable time according to the biological clock. Learn and memorize at the most efficient time for yourself.

In the process of learning, we can all find out the best learning time point that allows us to achieve the highest efficiency according to our personal physiological characteristics, so as to help achieve the best learning effect.

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