Chapter 146 Strong Self-Awareness

"Huh... the wind is really strong today."

With a book in one hand and a cake in the other, Wu Bin breathed out a breath of air and tightened his scarf as he walked to school.

On the eighth day of the lunar new year, at six o'clock in the morning, when most students were still dreaming in bed, the senior high school students in Xiazhong were already braving the severe cold and rushing to school.

But Xia Zhong is already quite conscientious. Most of the other high school seniors have already received the call from the school on the fifth day of junior high school.

Wu Bin strolled into the classroom of Class 3, greeted the students who had already arrived in the classroom one by one, and sat down in his seat.

Taking out the books and pencil case and putting them on the table, Wu Bin looked at the students around him who were immersed in studying and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

‘Sure enough, sitting in the classroom feels the best. ’

…

"Hey, Peking University student, long time no see."

Wu Bin was reading a book when he heard Gu Fan's greeting.

When he raised his head and wanted to reply, he almost couldn't help but laugh out loud, "What's wrong with your hair? Let me tell you first. Even if you plan to fail the exam and become a monk, monks now also need a college diploma."

Gu Fan first gave Wu Bin a middle finger, then touched his forehead and said, "My ambition is to shave my hair, do you understand?"

"I think you are more like Shi Lezhi."

As soon as Gu Fan finished speaking, Xu Hao, who had just entered the classroom, fired a precise attack at him.

After also giving Xu Hao the middle finger, Gu Fan put down his schoolbag and sat in his seat.

"What are you planning to do? Are you going to major in beauty and hairdressing?" After Wu Bin finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to touch Gu Fan's skin, and finally commented, "It feels okay."

Gu Fan knocked Wu Bin's hand off, took out a stack of papers from his schoolbag, slapped it on the desk, and shouted with great force: "I want to take the exam for Jiaotong University!"

"..."

After a period of strange silence, Xu Hao twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "It must be Shi Lezhi."

"Tch, whatever you say." Gu Fan expressed disdain.

Wu Bin glanced at Gu Fan with some surprise, then moved the pile of papers he took out from his schoolbag over, and picked up the first full math paper and started reading.

Seeing Wu Bin suddenly checking his paper, Gu Fan was a little nervous for a moment and didn't know where to put his hands.

Seeing this, Xu Hao stopped complaining and sat back in his seat.

Time passed slowly. After the morning reading and the first class, Wu Bin suddenly spoke after reading the last paper.

"It seems that you had a very fulfilling winter vacation in this low-end version."

"No, I'm almost catching up with you...half of your level." Gu Fan smiled, showing two rows of big white teeth.

"Yeah, I can tell."

Wu Bin did not pour cold water on Gu Fan because he could see Gu Fan's efforts from this stack of papers.

This stack of papers is the same as the one Wu Bin made at Pei Jiamin's house before. It is the set of papers that the top students in class three need to discuss and write.

It was of course impossible for Gu Fan to finish papers of this level by himself, but Wu Bin could see from the papers that Gu Fan really worked hard to finish them.

For example, although he got several big questions wrong, the main reason was because he used wrong formulas to violently solve the problems. But it was these violent problem-solving processes that made Wu Bin seem to see what he had racked his brains to do. Gu Fan was the one who asked these questions.

Hearing that his efforts were recognized by Wu Bin, Gu Fan also smiled happily. After all, only he himself knew how hard he worked during this extremely short winter vacation.

"What stimulated you?" Wu Bin asked.

"Why are you so irritated? Didn't I work hard enough last semester?" Gu Fan expressed dissatisfaction.

As someone who has been tutoring him, Wu Bin certainly knows how different the two efforts are. If the difficult questions on these papers were replaced by Gu Fan in the first half of the semester, then he would definitely put them aside after reading the questions, and then either ask Wu Bin would either listen to the teacher's explanation on how to solve this problem, and he would never take the initiative to think about how to solve this problem on his own.

And this is precisely the biggest gap between students with good grades and students with average grades.

In Wu Bin's own words, Gu Fan now has a strong sense of self!

The so-called strong self-awareness requires the following three conditions.

1. Know exactly what you are doing now.

2. Know your purpose clearly.

3. Know your status clearly.

This may sound easy, but it is actually very difficult to maintain this state at all times.

For example, why do students who listen to the same teacher and have the same basic knowledge have some students who understand it immediately after listening to it, while others have to go through a lot of after-class practice to reach the same level?

That's because most people will unconsciously enter a state of chaos when learning knowledge they don't know.

Just imagine, your teacher is teaching you new knowledge above, and you are taking notes carefully below, and want to write your notes neatly and beautifully.

In this case, part of your mind has been put on writing notes, and the other part of your mind is on listening clearly what the teacher is saying and which knowledge point he has covered.

As for whether what the teacher said makes sense, the internal logic of this question, and the relationship between the various parts, you may not have the awareness to figure it out at all.

Because subconsciously you think that you just learned it and it is impossible to understand it at once.

At this time, you will have a more obvious characteristic.

That is, the teacher tells you a few knowledge points, and you subconsciously say "um" and "oh", write a little, and follow the teacher's ideas.

In fact, this does not feel like you are learning at all. You are simply receiving and outputting information, just like a computer.

But the biggest difference between humans and machines and other lower creatures is that humans will internally process, summarize, and understand the information they receive, and then come up with their own ideas and judgments, and have a grasp and understanding of this acceptance process. Monitoring is the embodiment of self-awareness.

And now Gu Fan, at least when it comes to solving problems, has begun to have a good start in thinking for himself. The rest depends on how long he can maintain this state.

Realizing that Gu Fan didn't seem to want to answer his own questions, Wu Bin didn't ask any more questions. He returned all the papers to him and said, "I will help you with the questions you got wrong during lunch break."

"Well, thank you."

However, things went against expectations. As soon as the lunch break started, Chen Fang came over and called Wu Bin out, saying that the principal was looking for him.

He came to the door of the principal's office and knocked on the door. Just like before, the principal came to open the door in person and welcomed Wu Bin in.

"Sit down, classmate Wu Bin." The principal walked to the sofa and sat down first before saying to Wu Bin.

"Thank you, principal." Wu Bin nodded and sat down, then asked, "What do you want from me?"

"The sample magazine of my last interview with you has come out, just in time for the start of school. Take a look." The principal said, pushing a copy of the Shanghai Municipal Education Newspaper on the coffee table in front of Wu Bin.