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A few years ago, I especially liked listening to a podcast called The Future of Work. In the program, podcaster Jacob Morgan will interview senior leaders of different major companies in the United States and leaders in different fields to discuss some topics about future work. One of the topics must be the impact of artificial intelligence on future work and what needs to be done in the future. skill.

Although many people are worried that the development of artificial intelligence will lead to a large number of unemployed, almost all interviewers are positive about artificial intelligence. They think that artificial intelligence actually makes people become more like “people” because they What is taken away is the work that can be machined, which allows people to focus on the work that can really take advantage of the “human”, such as the work that requires creativity, most of which has not yet been created.

The opinion of a guest is more interesting. He believes that not the machine has to take away the work of the people, but the other way, the people have taken away the work of the machine. We just put these things that belong to them. Work back to the machine.

At the end of the show, Jacobs always asked the interviewees to give their students some advice on self-development. Among the suggestions, the most I heard was “Find your passion.”

Why do everyone emphasize the role of passion? I think this is probably because, only with passion, we will live like “people”, not machines, in order to exert our full potential as human beings.

The question is, where are our passions going?

If you go to any kindergarten, you will definitely see something precious: excitement and vitality. No matter what they do, the children are full of enthusiasm and motivation, because they are very curious, they want to figure out this fresh sideWhat the world is like. This is in stark contrast to the typical middle school class: the middle school students are sitting bored in the classroom, passively listening to the teacher and telling those who don’t know why they want to learn.

Why is this happening? After listening to the next story, we may have an answer.

Reverse story from “bad student” to Xueba

“A moment’s talks” has once held a lecture on the theme of “future education”, and invited several experts in the field of education to discuss the opportunities and challenges of current education. I was very impressed by a speech. The speaker was Li Ruoqi, the former tennis team captain of Stanford University. Although the whole speech was only a short ten minutes, it gave me great touch and inspiration, because it made me see what a really good education should look like.

Li Ruoqi was born in Guangdong. In kindergarten, she was regarded as a “children who would not have a future in the future because of naughty and active movements.” In the teacher’s opinion, those who are obedient and embarrassed will be more successful in the future.

After Li Ruoqi’s mother knew that she did not stand on the teacher’s side, she chose to transfer her, but after changing a kindergarten, Li Ruoqi was still regarded as “a bad boy who would affect other children”. The teacher’s attention. Later, my mother simply took her to California.

After arriving in California, Li Ruoqi felt that this place is a paradise, because the children here not only do not have much homework, but also have a lot of time to do what they like. It was at that time that Li Ruoqi first came into contact with tennis and fell in love with playing tennis.

In addition, Li Ruoqi also experienced a completely different teaching method. What impressed her the most is that there is a semester, the teacher has set a task: ask everyone to create a product, one can make their life better. product.

After getting this task, Li Ruoqi began to think about what to do. At that time, there was something that made her particularly distressed. That is, she couldn’t reach a lot of balls when she played tennis. (At the time, she was only 9 years old.) She thought that if she could create a longer tennis racket, then she would Wherever the ball hits, she can get it, so that her life can be better.

After everyone had a product idea, the teacher didn’t let everyone start doing it right away, but said to them: “Your ideas are very good, but you still don’t know anything about inventions before you make products. You must first know what the invention is, and learn about the great inventions and inventors in human history.”

So, the teacher brought the whole class to the library, telling everyone how to do research, write a report, and ask that only after the report has been passed can they make their own products.

Li Ruoqi especially wanted to make her own products, so she quickly finished the research report. Then, she spent a few days going to the old furniture store to find tools for renovating tennis rackets.The material, and ultimately succeeded in making a tempo that was twice as long as the original tennis racket.

After the product was made, the teacher made a new request: Only the sample is not working, you must also prove that your product can really be used to get credits. Therefore, Li Ruoqi took the friends to the stadium to demonstrate that the tennis racket is indeed able to play, and can really help himself to get a farther ball.

Li Ruoqi said that this experience gave her a very profound influence, and she learned how to follow her own interests and curiosity to take the initiative to learn.

At the age of 12, Li Ruoqi’s parents found her very talented in tennis and she loved tennis especially. The problem is that traditional schools do not support her to spend the time to practice the ball.

At this time, Li Ruoqi’s parents made a bold decision to let her drop out of school and then follow the distance education to learn. Since then, Li Ruoqi has been separated from traditional education, and at the same time as self-study, he began to play in the world.

When talking about this experience, Li Ruoqi said with particular pride: “At the time, although I was not as good at age as the mastery of classroom knowledge, my ability to survive and solve problems was definitely better than them. Because I know how to exchange currency in a strange country, how to communicate with people of different languages, how to find a place to live, how to arrange their own study, how to arrange a game. These experiences have taught me a lot, for me, the whole world is me. Classroom.”

However, how did she finally get to Stanford University after she left the traditional education?

The original 18-year-old Li Ruoqi was noticed by Stanford’s tennis coach when he was playing the youth US Open. After the game, the coach found her and asked her to consider applying for Stanford, because Stanford’s tennis team is the best in the United States.

When Li Ruoqi told this message to his friends, everyone joked: How can someone who has never been to school go to Stanford? Despite this, Li Ruoqi still has confidence in herself, and she also wants to join Stanford’s tennis women’s team, so she began to spend a lot of energy on the application.

In the process of applying, she gradually realized that Stanford really valued and wanted, but it was not a so-called “study tyrant”, but a person who could concentrate on one thing and achieve it at the top level. . It was because of this experience that she was finally admitted to Stanford and also received a sports scholarship.

After entering Stanford, Li Ruoqi was elected as the captain of the tennis women’s team, leading the team to win the national championship many times. What’s more, under the high pressure of guaranteeing tennis training and competition, she only repaired in 4 and a half years. Completed all undergraduate and graduate programs.

Who said that only good grades are smart?

After listening to Li Ruoqi telling her own story, I am especially happy for her. Imagine if her parents did not bring her to the United States, if her parents did notThere is a unique talent to encourage and support her to pursue her, then her life may be completely different.

However, what makes me even more emotional is that a child who was once thought by the teacher that “there will be no future in the future” and that has hardly read a book at school can be successfully admitted to the top universities in the world. It is said to subvert the traditional concept that “only children with good grades are smart and will have a future.”

But have you ever thought about how this kind of deeply rooted concept first came from?

In fact, the emergence and popularity of this concept has its own background. It can be said to be the product of the rise of modern mass education. The mass education system we have seen so far has not been developed since ancient times, but developed in modern times, that is, in the 18th and 19th centuries. It emerged in essence to cater to the economic interests of the era dominated by the industrial revolutions of Europe and the United States. Math, science and language skills are the foundation of the work of the industrial age.

In China, modern mass education developed later, only began in the 1950s, and at that time China was in the era of rebuilding the country, and it was in urgent need of professionals in various fields, especially engineers, so that science and engineering at that time It is the most respected. Everyone believes that “learning mathematics and physics is not afraid of going all over the world.”

It is for these reasons that mathematics, science, and language skills have always been at the top of the discipline hierarchy, followed by the humanities, and the least important is art. In this environment, intelligence is interpreted as an ability to integrate language skills and mathematical logic capabilities, and all educational systems rely on standardized tests to rank students. The embodiment of the level of people’s pros and cons.

However, as the times continue to advance, more and more educators have discovered that this educational system represents a very narrow sense of intelligence that overestimates certain kinds of talents and abilities. For example, mathematical and logical abilities, neglecting other types of talent, and other equally important things.

At the same time, with the in-depth study of psychologists, new intelligent theories began to appear, the most representative of which is the multi-intelligence theory put forward by Harvard professor Howard Gardner in the 1980s. Gardner pointed out that Intelligence emphasizes the ability of individuals to solve practical problems and the ability to produce and create effective products that society needs.

According to the theory of multiple intelligences, each of us has eight relatively independent intelligences, namely language intelligence, mathematical logic intelligence, spatial intelligence, body motion intelligence, music intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, self-awareness intelligence, and nature. Cognitive intelligence, each person has a different combination of intelligent advantages – different people have different degrees of superiority in different intelligences. It is this combination of different degrees that makes each individual’s intelligence unique.

That is, this world isThere are no “unwise” children, because each person’s combination of intelligent advantages is different. The so-called “unwise” children just don’t have outstanding mathematical logic intelligence or voice intelligence. There must be other things in them. Undiscovered intellectual advantages, and they can fully develop their own ways to find their own way in the world.

The past learning education based on narrow intelligence concept actually marginalized children who did not have the advantage of mathematical logic intelligence. It only favored those who are good at classroom learning and exams, but sacrificed those test scores. A lesser but more talented student in other fields.

Tenius, Competence and Achievements

Speaking of this, I would like to explain another question: Is there any talent in childhood, when you grow up, you must rely on it to eat, or can you rely on it to eat? The reason why I want to say this is because many parents are unwilling to let their children develop talents in a certain field. They are worried that there is no future in the future, or the road to future development is too narrow.

To answer this question, it is necessary to understand the differences and connections between aptitudes, abilities, and achievements.

Many people tend to confuse talent and ability and think that they are similar concepts, but it is not. Talent represents a natural and primitive potential that you have when you are born. The ability is developed from the day after tomorrow. It often needs to be learned through a lot of study and practice.

Having a unique talent in a field means that you will be very interested in it, and will learn faster and master better than most people, but you still need to invest a lot of time to learn and practice. In order to transform this talent into a specific talent. For example, a person who is good at mathematics is not necessarily a mathematician; a person who is good at painting is not necessarily a painter.

In turn, not having a unique talent in a particular field doesn’t mean you can’t have the talent. As long as you know how to learn and are willing to work hard, you can also master it. It is nothing more than having to spend more time and effort than those who are talented.

So, what is the relationship between ability and achievement, and is it possible for someone with the ability to achieve something? Of course not, because having a certain ability only means that you can accomplish certain specific tasks, but who wants to have a life achievement, the ability is not enough, you must also turn this ability into a valuable result. .

To be honest, this transformation is not easy, because it can be achieved by one or more specific abilities, but by relying on more comprehensive capabilities—the ability to understand and think about problems, plans, and Executive ability, self-motivating ability, ability to learn quickly and reflect from experience, deepThe ability to work, creativity, and so on. In short, it requires us to have a spirit that can continue to actively explore and act toward a certain goal in our hearts.

American psychologist Lewis M. Terman wrote in his “Genetic Study of Genius”: “Excellent achievements require more than just high levels of intelligence… Personality Factors are the determinants of achievement, especially the perseverance, self-confidence, and personality traits that are not trapped in inferiority. Page ”

After understanding this, and then returning to the question just asked, we will find that there is not such a strong connection between talent development and “what to do in the future” and “will there be achievements in the future.” There is no connection between the work that many people are doing now and the profession at university.

At this time, you may ask: In this case, is it necessary to discover and find your talent? The answer is, it is necessary, because in my opinion, the meaning of finding talent is not to get the answer of “what I want to do in the future”, but to cultivate the indispensable personality traits behind the achievements of excellence. – Perseverance and confidence.

Why do you say that? Because talent gives a person more than just potential. What’s more important is a strong natural passion. This kind of enthusiasm will make you willingly invest a lot of time, which will push you to move toward greater challenges and will make you brave. In the face of failure, even if you encounter big setbacks, you will never back down.

This kind of experience and experience is extremely valuable to anyone, because it will bring positive self-belief, and a confident person, no matter what, as long as the matter is true If you want to do it, you will do your best to make it successful.

Have you ever thought about why Li Ruoqi can complete all the courses of Stanford undergraduate and postgraduate students in four and a half years in the case of hardly reading a book at school? The reason is that in the process of following her talents, she has developed the underlying ability and spirit needed to achieve any goal.

Passion is the most important capital

In the past two years, I have been thinking about a question, what is the future talent? I used to think that learning ability, problem-solving ability and creativity are the key to future talents. With learning ability, we can continue to update ourselves according to the needs of the times. With the ability to solve problems and creativity, we will Ability to translate your knowledge and skills into something of value.

But after listening to the story of Li Ruoqi, I have a different answer. I think that what the real society needs in the future is people with passion, curiosity and self-confidence.

Of course, I am not saying that the above abilities are not important, they are also very important, but if there is no passion, curiosity and self-confidenceSupport, these capabilities are hard to really develop.

In terms of learning ability, the human brain is actually born with a strong ability to learn. Learning can be said to be the brain’s instinct, but the problem is that this ability is only in the case of a strong internal drive, such as Driven by passion and curiosity, we can fully play it out.

In fact, many times children have poor academic performance, not because they are not mentally active or their ability to learn is not strong, but because they are not interested, they do not know why they should learn these things. Similarly, many times we are unable to keep one thing going, not because we can’t learn, but because we don’t have the passion and motivation.

Talk about the ability to solve problems. The ability to solve problems is not a single ability. It actually combines thinking, learning, and creativity. The development of these abilities depends on curiosity and self-confidence: you must have problems in your head. And you have to believe that you have the ability to solve this problem, you will think and then follow your own thinking to study and learn, and when you have enough thought and knowledge to accumulate, you can make full use of your creativity and give Give an answer or a solution.

When it comes to this, I have to praise the teacher who made Li Ruoqi create the product, because I found that he knows how to use the child’s own interests and curiosity to guide them step by step, study, and then practice and create. In the process, the children not only gained a sense of fun and accomplishment, but also learned how to make their life better through thinking and action.

I think this is what education should look like. What the school teaches us should not be some fragmented knowledge, but should use the curiosity we have born, and then focus on the problem and guide us in thinking about the problem and finding the answer in the right way.

Know that remembering a whole lot of knowledge doesn’t make much sense, because it can be found online at any time. What really matters is how to understand the world we live in, and On the basis of understanding the rules, learn to make judgments and make choices to make your life better.

Unfortunately, education should have helped us to protect this curiosity, but in fact the opposite is true. The education system has killed too many students’ talents, enthusiasm and curiosity. This has to be said to be a huge irony. Our current problems and confusions, such as not knowing what we like, lack of autonomy, lack of sense of meaning, etc., are largely related to this passive, cramming, and performance-centered approach to education.

Now, in the face of a faster and more uncertain future, many people are beginning to emphasize the importance of lifelong learning, but I think that it is more urgent than this question, how should it be? Make yourself a passionate, curiosity, and productVery confident people, because only in this way, we will have the power of self-motivation, and it will be possible to develop strong learning ability, problem-solving ability, and creativity, so that we can continue to self-evolve with the pace of the times.

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