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mentality  心态

refinement   精炼

exponentially  以指数方式……

 

After the knowledge, comes action. You have to apply what you've learned. This stage is where most people fall into a trap. They want to know everything before they take any sort of action. That's the wrong mentality to have because by doing so, you effectively block yourself from the most important stage of learning, that is refinement. The stage of refinement is where the majority of learning occurs because refinement acts as a filter to guide you to the knowledge you need to get again from books, tapes, videos, people, etc., to further your learning experience. This puts you back to the second stage, education which then leads to the third stage-application, which leads again to the fourth stage, refinement and on and on and on. This cycle is where the majority of learning takes place. After the action is taken, they want to learn how to do more so the refinement is showing them what they need to know and they go back to learning, applying what they've learned, refining, in essence, loop themselves from educate to apply to refine and as they do so, the knowledge plus experience starts compounding on one another until their learning starts to grow exponentially. The refinement stage is very important because that will determine whether or not you really learn because anybody can learn something and apply it, but few will go the extra mile and get caught up in the cycle of learn to apply to refine. Again, people who are knowledgeable about a subject can help you in the refinement stage because you can ask exactly the questions you need and they can respond accordingly to give you the exact knowledge you request. That's something books, tapes, and videos cannot do because those are one-sided conversations. You can further capitalize on asking people by leveraging those relationships to ask for introductions to other people who are knowledgeable about the subject as well.
知识学习之后就是行动了。你必须将所学知识加以应用。大多数人都会掉入这个阶段所设的陷阱里。在采取任何行动之前，他们想弄清所有事。这是错误的心态，因为这么做，你就把自己完全封闭起来，达不到学习最重要的阶段——精炼阶段。大部分学习都有精炼的阶段，因为精炼就像一个过滤器，帮助你学习你又要从书籍、磁带、视频、人们等渠道学习的知识，来增进学习经验。这让你回到了第二阶段——教育，然后引你进入第三阶段——应用，再领你进入第四阶段——精炼，如此循环往复。这个循环过程正是学习主要产生之地。采取行动后，人们想要学习如何学得更多，因此精炼阶段向他们展示他们需要学习什么。他们继续学习、运用所学知识、提炼知识，本质上，从教育，到运用，再到精炼将他们自身环环相扣，当他们这么做时，知识和经验开始结合，直到学习开始以指数形式生长。精炼阶段十分重要，因为它会决定你是否真的学习。由于每个人都会学到一些东西，并运用它们，但很少人会付出更多努力，继续在这个循环中学习、运用、精炼。再一次，精通某一学科的人可以在精炼阶段帮助你，因为你可以对你想知道的问题进行提问，他们会给出相应回答，教会你想学的知识。这是像书籍、磁带、视频不能做到的，因为它们都是片面的谈话。你可以利用那些关系，进一步地向那些人提问，通过他们认识同样精通该学科的其他人。