Recently, I read Weinberg's The Road to Technical Leadership published in 1986,
An old book tells some simple but easily ignored truths,
Just like the first chapter, the author's level of playing pinball has been improved,
After a long time, I thought that my level was gradually improving every year, as shown in the following figure:
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In fact, it is often not. The process of capacity improvement is usually "plateau breakthrough",
Settle and think in the plateau period, break through after learning new methods,
People who are not good at thinking and summarizing will have a long plateau period, and people will always feel comfortable in the plateau period:
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And before the breakthrough, there will be a trough period, as shown in the "plateau trough breakthrough" model below,
To make a breakthrough, we must strive to break the current situation of ease, practice new ideas, new knowledge and new methods,
Before the new method matures, you will feel that it is not as good as before. This is the low point,
Always want to go back to the old ways, especially when comparing with others, you must hold:
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Of course, the actual data will not be as smooth as the above model. The figure below shows the data of the author's playing pinball level,
Because the author bought a pinball machine when he was young, which recorded all his achievements:
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The article is concise but meaningful, reproduced in Liang Fei's blog: http://javatar.iteye.com/blog/1517933

Last modification: May 3, 2018
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