Reverse Learning: Five Practices for Learning Ability

As a former top scorer in the provincial college entrance examination, the author of this book has a painful personal realization: most of the study habits we cultivate through school education do not meet the needs of actual work. Based on many years of experience in guiding managers to learn, and combined with the latest learning scientific research results, the author proposes five practices for adults to improve their learning ability: reverse learning, answer-reference thinking, focus, patterned learning, and deep transfer. (1) Reverse learning: The primary task of adult learning is not to add new knowledge, but to remove wrong and outdated old knowledge. (2) Reference answer way of thinking: What we learn is not the standard answer, but the reference answer. (3) Focus: Learning knowledge is not about having more knowledge, but about focusing. (4) Pattern-based learning: Novices only see fragments, while experts see patterns. (5) Deep transfer: draw inferences from one example and apply the extracted patterns to new situations. The author provides a simple and practical learning tool for deep transfer - the four-question learning method, which includes four questions: What did I hear? What did I think of? What have I become? Where do I use it?