不看也罢
2011-01-25
读了5页英文,觉得不值得仔细看;继续读半本的中文,觉得没有必要一页一页看了(可以试试“十倍速影像阅读法”);然后我就去看看作者到底是个什么人。
找到答案了。
Geoffrey Colvin is the author of Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else (ISBN 9781591842248), co-author of Angel Customers and Demon Customers (ISBN 9781591840077), and a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune Magazine.(摘自wikipedia)
一个毫无名气的“高级编辑”,到目前只写了两本书,一本就是这本了,另一本是与人和写的《Angel Customers and Demon Customers》。
全书(至少一半),除了令人振奋的例子外,没有任何再深刻点的内容了。如果我们足够努力,再加上运气还不错,没有谁会混的很差。就是这个道理了。
有意思的事情在后面。我继续在网上搜索,找到了amazon上的书评。
“This book is substantially a suspicious rehash of a major peer reviewed article. Colvin and Gladwell Outliers: The Story of Success are chasing the same topic, incredibly within the same few months and referencing the same research. Albeit with different titles and stories.”
(来自http://www.amazon.com/review/R1ASFGWXZTXO73/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1591842247&nodeID=283155&tag=&linkCode=#wasThisHelpful)
原来这本书是另外一本书《Outliers》的广告书,而且这两本书的理论都只是来自一篇HBR(哈佛商业评论)上的文章“The Making of an Expert ”July 2007,而且作者把这篇文章中理论的三分之二给砍掉了。
下面有一位网友的戏谑很有意思。
“When you're trying to learn a new approach to living your life, six pages of concise prose is only a start. You have to reexamine all of the beliefs and habits you have adopted over your lifetime in light of the new ideas. Reading 224 pages of elaboration with examples and analysis from different perspectives is a very efficient way to spend several hours doing that. In fact it qualifies as "deliberate practice". Colvin does an excellent job of filling out 224 pages. ”
作者只不过是给我们找了很多内容丰富翔实有趣的例子来让我们度过了一个愉快的下午。
关于本书的理论,亚马逊的那位网友推荐了一本书“The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)”
如果没有时间,可以看看“用十年学会编程”这篇文章,虽然讲的是编程,同样采用了那个音乐教育的例子,里面的训练方式其实才是真正的“Delibrate Practice”。原文地址“http://norvig.com/21-days.html”中文地址“http://daiyuwen.freeshell.org/gb/misc/21-days-cn.html”
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说点题外话,美国人出了很多快速阅读的书籍,我想这和他们的社会有着必然联系。一方面,“美国现有2600万人是文盲或半文盲,成人中有22%的不会读书看报,有16%的不会写字”(http://www.56-china.com.cn/gjpd/gjpd-yw3m18.htm),另一方面,美国的那些能写字能发书的某些人,拼命地写书赚钱。要解决这个问题,只能要会阅读,而且会快速阅读(使用十倍速影像阅读法)了。