Whether at home, at school or at work, we all spend time improving ourselves.

In order to achieve the goal, there is a wind of punching cards around us:

This seems to be a good idea:

I don't know that this kind of punching is just wasting my time and energy, depriving myself of concentration and deep thinking ability.

There is a psychological mechanism behind it-just take the time to complete the task, and it doesn't matter whether you learn well or not.

As we all know, the "WeChat Campaign" allows you to display the daily walking steps on the leaderboard.

It doesn't matter if you don't rank, once you rank, it will change.

Whether they love sports or not, people begin to flock to streets, parks and docks to exercise with open arms. Whether it is windy or rainy, they can't resist their enthusiasm.

At first glance, this is a good thing. The daily ranking stimulates people's enthusiasm for sports, which is not only conducive to fitness, but also conducive to social interaction.

But that's the problem. People's motivation for sports has changed:

The same is true for the punching activities of learning and growing up.

My friend Xiaomei has such confusion: "I have set up five punching plans for my study and stick to them every day." However, once a punch plan is interrupted, I want to throw it aside and don't want to continue. "

What he cares about is the complete punching record, not the complete learning process.

And for learning, what does it matter to interrupt occasionally?

What's more, when the alarm clock rings at 5 o'clock in the morning, I will punch a card in the morning group and then go back to sleep;

Someone opened the book, took a photo, and then sent the photo to a circle of friends, indicating that he had read the book today;

What's more, the original goal of learning English was to communicate with foreigners, but after a long time, the goal was to recite 20 words every day, so I finished it mechanically every day, ticked it, but forgot what I learned, and then I fell into the situation of learning for the sake of learning.

There is a good saying:

All punching in is to make excuses for yourself, so as not to fall into painful study.

Simply relying on punching cards will not only transfer the motivation of action, but also reduce the efficiency of action.

If something is delayed, I always miss it and look forward to an early end; Once this is done, the motivation to do it will immediately tend to zero.

I have this mentality when I do the punching task for myself:

This is the characteristic of punching mentality:

If you can't learn, just pretend;

If you learn it, stop it immediately.

Therefore, just learning with the mentality of punching in, there is little ability to think deeply. After all, driven by the task mentality, people are concerned about the completion and have no greater enthusiasm for the task itself.

It is difficult for modern people to get happiness, mostly because of this fast pace and anxiety, but in this state, life is so boring that it can't make us enjoy the process, and it will only make our body and mind nervous, anxious, numb and divided.

In A Brief History of Today, yuval Harari said:

In other words, the essential meaning of individual life lies in the unity of body and mind, realizing the real life process, which includes Zen, philosophical thinking, and the state of unity and concentration of body and mind.

These have nothing to do with punching, ranking, and whether others know it or not. They just learn to perceive content and dig deep into knowledge.

Actually, I have no objection to punching in. Punching in is also a good tool in many cases. It can really boost our continuous action and form the inertia of action, but we must not rely entirely on punching, otherwise it is easy to fall into the cognitive trap of punching.

You should know that punching in is only an accessory to learning activities.

So how to do it?

One way is to use records instead of punching in.

After each study, you only take action records and don't punch in.

Record the learning process, so that you can not only see your own learning track, but also facilitate the resumption of classes every week and month.

Although it looks the same as punching in, there is no task pressure of punching in, so you can focus on learning itself instead of completing the task.

I use this method myself. After the task of listening to the book every day is completed, I will record the contents of the book, as well as my feelings and mind map after listening to the book.

By recording these, you can clearly know what you have accomplished and what you have learned, not just the psychological state of completing the task.

As long as we focus on the learning and growth activities themselves and experience the fun, we can maintain a strong learning motivation and change passive learning into active learning.

Punching and recording seem to have different names, but the difference is very subtle and needs to be understood carefully.

Another method is to set a lower limit instead of an upper limit.

Give yourself an example:

This strategy is suitable for any learning activity, and its wisdom lies in avoiding the mentality of stopping after the task is over. As long as you find it interesting, you can keep learning until it is difficult.

Because there is no specific upper limit, the initiative of the new strategy is much stronger than the punching mode, and the initiative is still sustainable.

In learning, it is most important to keep internal motivation.

It is more difficult to keep the motivation to study than to punch in.

As one writer wrote:

Don't let punching in ruin our lives. Learning is never an easy and happy thing. It is essential to know how to study.

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