Not long ago, I started practicing a lot of dismantling of information, and I have gained a lot lately, and I am constantly checking and upgrading my cognitive operating system, and I can't stop being happy.

In the past, I liked to say that I had recently read a book, discovered a point of view, and learned some new knowledge, but now I've become more rigorous, and for the first time I saw a point of view, news, hotspots, articles, books, other people told me that others recommended that I just call it input information.

It is said that now is the era of big data, is the era of knowledge explosion, we take out the cell phone can be anytime, anywhere access to information, and most of them are information, not effective knowledge, we often think that everywhere is knowledge, so we are busy constantly passive acceptance of knowledge, by a variety of information to wash our brains.

If we don't develop critical thinking skills, then, in the context of this information deluge, we are likely to be led by the nose all the time, and eventually get lost in the forest of information.

Through the development of critical thinking skills, and deliberate practice - continuous writing, I find that I have gradually been able to better cope with the explosion of information, for which is information, which is good knowledge, which is bad knowledge, I can slowly through their own existing process of operation, step by step screening, and selective I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.

At the same time, it also means that I have upgraded one of my cognitive function modules - the ability to filter information, perhaps now it is not powerful enough, but it has been able to filter a large portion of the information that does not have substance, and also know that after the selection of the information, you can be transformed through which methods, this is a great progress.

And when I am convinced that information needs to be filtered and then critically processed, and transformed and absorbed, and then practically applied after the test, I will really accept a good concept, a good method, put into their own thinking toolkit to constantly use.

So, I no longer collect information, but timely disassembly. I no longer turn a blind eye to information, but face information, whether it is a movie or book can be used as input information. No longer pretend to see that you think you know, do not know is not know, such as to know, we must think about whether to go through the analysis process to accept or discard.

In other words, when I find a good article, a good movie, a good book, or a good recommendation from someone else, I ask myself to dismantle it right away. After disassembling, I have to choose to discard or transform, and I have learned to knead the information and know how to take the essence and remove the dross.

At the same time, through continuous active thinking, dismantling and judgment, I have improved my ability to filter, decode, analyze and recombine, and express my output.

However, when I started to dismantle information at the beginning, I faced a lot of difficulties, and the biggest resistance was to break up the categorization of past concepts and start over, which was very slow at first and easy to be impatient.

During this period, I always remind myself to be patient, patient, patient, and then patient, and finally slowly finish. I found that before doing anything, I tell myself that I will definitely meet difficulties, and keep patience, is a very effective way, because patience allows me to keep a calm mind, not immediately change, know the cycle of change, so that instead of wasting more time.

And I stick to this process in which I learned not only patience, but also many other things.

1. I've learned to face the deluge of information with equanimity.

The mind becomes more calm, the face of the flood of information is not, all to dismantle, because, everyone's daily time and energy are limited, so, to filter, but, for not in time to see the dismantling of the, will not be chagrined, because I believe that the real good things, and not a lot of them, will always be in the place, just to see whether we can meet, and really use it.

2. I learned to live with the problem***.

In the face of the disassembled information, sometimes you can't analyze it, you can't apply it, maybe because you don't have enough experience, or the whole world hasn't found a better way yet, so I'll record such problems, instead of trying to solve them all right away, and then look for a solution later.

3. I learned to keep reflecting.

The process of disassembling information is the process of forcing the brain to keep thinking, I keep training my brain to not be so slack, so that I will find that a lot of my own problems, the original has always existed there, only that, in the past, I always chose to ignore it, to avoid it.

Finally, the early stages of learning any new method can feel like a step back in my abilities, but once I'm really on my way, the breakthroughs are much bigger than before.

It's also true that I used a lot of dumb methods, stepped on a lot of potholes, and wasted some time and energy. But I think it was worth it because, later on, I will meet more difficulties and progress, so I think it's not scary to take a detour, the most important thing is to know that you have been walking.

In the process of walking, I gained more patience, increased the frequency of reflection every day, re-opened my writing ability, improved the ability to think independently, learned to get along with the problem, learned to accept the imperfect self.

Many people misunderstand that the gain must be income maximization, the error is zero, really did the people, know that in the long run, failure is the norm, pay is the norm, but if you harvest a new ability, the value itself is more than very much loss. As long as the gains and losses subtract positively, it's worth it.

Continuous practice is really a process of continuous failure, continuous correction, and continuous re-entry, and it's really not easy at all.

Go for it, and good night.

Continuing to practice starts with accomplishing one thing every day.