Make full use of spare time to study.
Suppose you get off work at 5: 30. If the arrangement is reasonable, you can start your "No Disturbance Time" at 6: 30 at the earliest and 7: 00 at the latest. You can sleep at 1 1 at night, and you can use it for at least 4 hours. This time can be used to do anything you want, such as study, part-time job, exercise and so on. According to the above arrangement, you can calculate for yourself how much more time you have than others each year. Even if you get off work late, you should have two hours of free time every day. Make good use of these two hours, and the effect will be good in the long run. Of course, if you want to squeeze out these hours every day, you still need to make some adjustments.
First of all, we should integrate the fragmented time into large blocks of time. Mainly from two aspects: living and eating.
If you rent a house, try to be close to the place where you work, which will save you a lot of time and energy. Think about it. After working during the day, I am as tired as a dog. If you squeeze for an hour or two after work, you will become a dead dog when you get home, and you will have no energy to do other things at all.
You said you could use the time on the road? Yes, but because of driving or crowded cars, the efficiency will be much lower and the forms will be limited (basically only listening). These times are fragmented and can be used, but they are only suitable for obtaining information.
So, if the rented house is far away from the company, don't save the rent and move. In order to save the time spent on transportation, I changed my house. The rent has doubled, the area is much smaller and the environment is much worse, but believe me, it's all worth it.
In terms of food, if the ability improvement does not include cooking, it is better to solve it outside. Usually, as long as you choose a restaurant with fast service and guaranteed hygiene, it will take half an hour at most. But for the sake of health, we still have to choose some better restaurants. After all, the follow-up things can only wait until we are well! Of course, if you are a good cook, you can still cook by yourself, so that your nutrition is guaranteed. Of course, you may need to spend some time cooking, so you can choose according to your actual situation.
Since we squeezed out our spare time, we began to study.
How to learn
To say that learning is actually very simple, it is six words: "learn more, do more and think more."
Learn more
We have been learning since we were born, but many people have lost the will to learn when they are adults, and they have stopped at a certain level forever, and they can never see the wider world, so those who are willing to continue learning and will learn at the same time are undoubtedly happy. There are many ways to learn, and there are two most effective ones. One is to consult others, and the other is to study.
Consulting others is the most direct way. You can constantly question, think and learn in the process of communication. This is the most efficient way to learn. Colleagues, teachers, bosses, peers and all those who are better than us can be the targets of consultation. The experience value of communicating with cattle people is the same as that of opening and hanging, so if there is such an opportunity, everyone must make good use of it.
One advantage of reading is that the scope is particularly wide. The process of reading is also a process of exchanging ideas with the author. Although the efficiency is not as high as speaking, the advantage is that there are many people who can communicate. Just open a few books and you can communicate with masters of different times, races, viewpoints and fields at the same time. Only reading can bring you this experience.
Besides these two kinds, there are many other ways of learning, such as attending classes or reading various articles. In short, everyone can learn under any circumstances as long as they have the heart.
Do more
Through study, we can master a lot of theoretical knowledge, but the combination of theory and practice is valuable. Guiding practice with theory will not only make practice more efficient, but also make theory more profound and thorough. Speaking of improving ability, what should we do?
Do more high-value transactions and abandon those low-value transactions: a simple way to judge the value of a transaction is to look at how much mechanical repetitive labor there is, because the gold content of creative labor is always the highest. Another way is to see if it can directly bring obvious benefits. Generally speaking, the more direct, the higher the gold content of the transaction, and of course the higher the difficulty.
Try to be "lazy" when doing it: theory, a powerful weapon, can help us do things smarter, so don't make silly efforts and use the theoretical knowledge you have learned to improve efficiency.
Do something new: sometimes, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of repetitive work. At this time, you can consider doing something creative, so that you can not only find more ways to solve the problem, but also make yourself not bored.
Doing well: In fact, it is the professionalism emphasized by Kenichi Ohmae. If you can make do with everything, it will be a waste of time and your ability will not be improved.
Think more.
Learning without thinking is useless. Only by thinking more and thinking independently can we effectively apply theory to practice. Thinking is actually very interesting and addictive, especially when you know a lot of thinking methods and use various methods and tools to analyze a problem. At this time, you will not only have a sense of accomplishment in solving problems, but also have a sense of intellectual superiority.