英语学习：5种方法让你更快学习

英语学习：5种方法让你更快学习

1. Method beats hours

1.方法比时间更重要

When it comes to learning something new, the method will

always beat the number of hours you put into something. This isn’t to say that the number of hours isn’t important, but you should choose which method will give you the best results.

当谈到学习新知识时，方法比投入的时间更重要。这不是说的投入的

时间不重要，但同时你应该选择哪种学习方法会给你的成果。

For example, let’s say two people were driving from Boston

to New York City. It doesn’t matter how skilled or committed the first driver is. If he’s driving a beat-up pickup truck and the second driver has a Ferrari, the first driver will lose.

例如，假设有两人开车从波士顿到纽约。如果第一个他开着破旧的皮

卡而第二个司机开着法拉利，那么不论第一个司机的技术如何娴熟，

他都无法更快到达。

Your method is the vehicle that will become the engine of

where you want to go. With anything you want to learn, there

will be dozens of available methods to follow, and “experts” to learn from. This means that you want to spend a lot of

time understanding who you’re learning from, what

credibility they have, and how it fits with your learning style.

你的方法便是车辆，是你达成目标的工具。对任何你想学习的东西，

就会有很多可选择的方法，能够向很多“专家”学习。这意味着你要

花很多时间了解你应该向谁学习，他们的可靠性有多高，以及这种学习方式与你的学习风格是否符合。

2. Apply the 80/20 rule

2. 适用80/20规则

You’ve probably heard of Pareto’s Law.

你可能已经听说过帕累托法则。

It is a concept developed by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto which explains that 80% of your desired outputs will come from only 20% of your inputs.

这个概念由意大利经济学家Vilfredo Pareto提出，他解释说，你想要输出的80%的内容基本来源于20%的输入。

While the exact ratio varies from situation to situation, you’ll find that：

虽然确切的比例因情况而异，但你会发现：

20% of people in your life will lead to 80% of your happiness

你生活中百分之20的人带给你百分之80的欢乐。

20% of your customers will drive 80% of your sales

百分之20的客户给你带来百分之八十的生意。

20% of your learning methods will lead to 80% of your results

百分之20的学习方法给你带来百分之80的结果。

When it comes to learn ing, it feels like there’s so much we don’t know, so it’s easy to jump around everywhere. This will only lead to wasted time. What you want to do is focus

on the one or two things that will drive the needle for what you want to achieve and double down on them.

当谈到学习，我们感觉有很多不知道的事情，所以很容易分散注意力。但这只会导致浪费时间。你想要做的是集中在一个或两个的事情上，

这样会更有效地完成目标并有可能加倍。

For example, if you’re learning Spanish to travel this summer, instead of learning how to write or read, you should learn how to speak Spanish. Or instead of trying to please a dissatisfied customer that’s only paying you $37/month, you should add 10 times more value to a customer that’s paying you $1,000/month.

例如，如果你为了今年夏天旅行而学习西班牙语，那就不是要学习如

何写或阅读，你应该学习如何讲西班牙语。或者，相比试图让一个只

支付你37美元/月的客户满意，你应该为愿意支付你1000美元/月的

客户增加10倍的付出。

3. Learn by doing

3.在实践中学习

Immersion is by far the best way to learn anything. And as research shows, it turns out that humans retain：

浸入式是迄今为止的学习方式。研究表明，事实证明这符合人类的习惯：

5% of what they learn when they’ve learned from a lecture.

通过听讲座，能够学到5%。

10% of what they learn when they’ve learned from reading.

通过阅读学习，能够学到10%。