How to Quickly Get Started with a Subject

Event of the Week

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Thought of the Week

Nowadays, there are so many ways to obtain information. There are a lot of books, videos and audio materials on the Internet. People publish professional knowledge materials in various ways. As long as you are willing, you can even learn calculus knowledge through Pornhub. However, when you are faced with piles of materials and limited time, it is difficult to start for a while. Librarians who are accompanied by books every day will not become scholars with five carts of learning. Only those who are motivated can master knowledge quickly. Paradoxically, motivated people are often busy with affairs and cannot arrange a whole period of time to study. Rich people in ancient times often spent money to hire people to read for themselves, which is also the origin of “scholars”. Acquiring knowledge by listening to books is inefficient, and “scholars” often carry private goods. Learning is ultimately a personal matter and needs to be completed independently. For people with tight time, it is necessary to establish a set of methods for quickly getting started with knowledge.

In the modern education system, below high school is basic education, and above university is professional education. Unfortunately, the method of university professors teaching professional knowledge is the same as that of primary schools. Professional course teachers often start from the first page of professional books, and teaching a textbook page by page is considered to complete the teaching of a professional knowledge. One reads from the text, and the other swallows it whole, with little effect.

The constituent particles of a subject are professional terms. Similar professional terms form paragraphs and chapters, and paragraphs and chapters are sorted to form a knowledge system. To get started with a subject, you should also learn terms first, then chapters, and then form a knowledge system.

Terms are the unique vocabulary of a subject. Associated professional terms appear in an article in a concentrated manner. This article is a professional article. Professional articles are collected into a volume, which is a professional book. Reading a book from beginning to end in the order of page numbers cannot master a subject, because professional terms are distributed in every corner of the book, and it is difficult to associate terms with each other by reading in order. Why do you often fail to understand a professional book when you first come into contact with it, but master it after reading it again? Of course, it is not because you remember it after reading it once more, but because the brain mastered the terms the first time, and the brain associated the terms into a knowledge network the second time. In the past, our channels for acquiring knowledge were limited. Often there was only one book. It was difficult to master professional terms first and then master a subject. Therefore, a book had to be read repeatedly to master knowledge. Now there are abundant ways to acquire knowledge, and it is very convenient to learn from point to surface.

In the stage of learning professional terms, do not seek deep understanding, just understand. You can quickly master these terms by watching industry information, listening to audio, and even reading professional term dictionaries. Through about 10 hours of concentrated attention, you can quickly master the high-frequency professional terms in this industry, and have a general understanding of development trends, academic leaders, and classic works.

After completing the popularization of professional terms, you can choose professional books to start reading. At this time, the book is like a net, and professional terms are knots. Our purpose is to find a position for each professional term, and use conjunctions, adverbs, and adjectives to embellish professional terms on the same net.

When you have this net in your mind, if you don’t organize it, this net is collapsed and chaotic. At this time, you can use mind maps to sort out the context of this professional knowledge, so that the key points are clear. After intensive training, store this net in the brain.

The process from knowledge points to forming a net, and then to clear key points to form a context is not easy, but once this process is completed, even if knowledge is updated, there is no need to start from scratch. You only need to add new terms to the correct position of the knowledge net.

Learning through this simple method, you can complete the introduction of knowledge in 50 hours, and be competent for tasks such as investment auxiliary decision-making, industry development trend judgment, and true and false viewpoint screening. But it is far from reaching the expert level. If you want to reach the expert level, you also need high-intensity deliberate training. Usually people think that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become an industry expert. However, for the 10,000-hour rule, we must also have a clear understanding. Talent is natural. For the vast majority of people, even after 10,000 hours of training, we cannot beat Su Bingtian in the 100-meter race.

Market of the Week

Period: 2021-12-27———2022-01-02

Review of this week: All major sectors fell this week. The top three wind industry gains were power generation equipment, packaging, and agriculture; the top three declines were alcohol, airports, and highways. The top three wind concept gains were traditional Chinese medicine, pharmaceutical commerce, and salt lake lithium extraction; the top three declines were FAW Car, three-child policy, and e-cigarettes.

Market (%)	Index	This Week	1 Week Ago	2 Weeks Ago	3 Weeks Ago
SSE Composite Index	3639.78	0.6	-0.39	-0.96	2.15
SZSE Component Index	14857.35	1	-2.08	-1.61	2.19
GEM Index	3322.67	0.78	-6.18	-0.94	2.01
STAR 50	1398.19	2.9	-2.88	-2.55	2.13
Hang Seng Index	23397.67	0.88	0.13	-3.18	0.96
HSCEI	1095.65	0.85	1.27	-0.43	0.9
Hang Seng HK Chinese	3899.58	-0.2	1.58	-0.63	1.81
Dow Jones	36338.3	1.08	1.65	-0.8	4.02
Nasdaq	15644.97	-0.05	3.19	-1.58	3.61
S&P 500	4766.18	0.85	2.28	-1.03	3.83

Market (CNY, Billion)	This Week	1 Week Ago	2 Weeks Ago	3 Weeks Ago
Shanghai Stock Connect	67.96	11.2	69.53	300.67
Shenzhen Stock Connect	78.73	-23.41	45.14	187.67
Hong Kong Stock Connect	-17.11	133.21	174.92	144.11

Position

Code	Name	Dynamic
F001475	E Fund National Defense and Military Industry	Flat
F110005	E Fund Active Growth Hybrid	Flat
F003834	China Asset Energy Innovation	Flat
F161725	China Merchants CSI Liquor	Flat
F002083	Xinhua Xin Power Flexible Allocation Hybrid A	Flat
F519704	BOCOM Advanced Manufacturing Hybrid	Flat
LKCO	Luokung Technology	Flat
SH.603716	Saili Medical	Flat
SH.000889	Zhongjia Bochuang	Flat
SOS	OpenDao	New