【Question】1: Teacher, in the second lecture of the series, it was mentioned that one should cultivate the habit of being quick, as procrastination leads to accumulated problems and disinclination to act. I have pondered that sometimes my actions are slow, not because I am unwilling. Previously, I was misguided by the erroneous teaching: Slow work yields fine results, and I am somewhat slow in reaction. I understand that acting quickly requires grasping the key points, but some pivotal points still require much deliberation, and some problems take a long time to think through. Is this normal?

Answer: That is an interesting matter. I say: Be quick! But one cannot be quick. Then, why cannot one be quick? Today, I will explain to everyone why one cannot be quick. Many people do not lack the desire to be quick, but the ability. Remember: Any task done slowly will cause discomfort. Has everyone noticed that when a task is done with dawdling and procrastination, ugh! For example, some people take two hours to cook a small amount of food. I tell you, they cannot possibly enjoy cooking. What is meant by slow work yields fine results? Go to a chef's kitchen, and you will see that the chef's movements are very swift. How did that come about? I will explain it to you in a moment. It is that the slower one is, the more uncomfortable one becomes; we must accept this.

Whether you look in a kitchen or on a construction site, the movements of a skilled craftsman are a kind of enjoyment. I do not know if you have experienced this. The craftsman works with a swish, swish sound. Look at the plasterer applying mud, making it look so beautiful! Has everyone noticed that if a task is done correctly, it must be quick; if done incorrectly, it must be slow. It is absolutely not the case that slow is good. If done correctly, it will certainly be quick. Alright, let us continue to explain how it becomes quick.

Let me tell you about taking action. Taking action is active learning. How does it become quick? Let me explain. I have experience in this. My mother makes dumplings very quickly. When I was young, I observed how my mother made them. Did I make them? No, I did not. But I observed how my mother made dumplings, and it was all imprinted in my mind. What were the key points of her movements? Once I grasped the key points, oh, she does it this way. When I start to make them, I will be quick. Why? I first pondered what the method was. I did not mean that I wrapped one that fell apart, and then I wrapped another that fell apart; no. I watched how others did it. Then I pondered and pondered; not just wrapping and wrapping with all my might, that is useless! It cannot possibly be quick. Why? Because the understanding is not clear. Is it not so? Now you understand.

More observation leads to quickness. I must also tell you that quickness and slowness are a fallacy. Doing it right is certainly quick; doing it slowly certainly means doing it wrong. After being slow, people say: This is normal. Is it normal? It is not normal. Why are some people always very busy and have no time? They do everything slowly, doing it wrong. A person with no time is doing it wrong; a person who works very hard is doing it wrong. Do you understand? A person who is very dilatory in doing things is doing it wrong. The problem lies in the attitude; the attitude is incorrect. They do not say: Oh, I did not get it right. If I did not get it right, what does it look like when it is right? We must ponder what it looks like when it is right. Now, the attitude must be adjusted, and you will quickly and continuously seek the right method. Once you find the right method, will you not be quick?

Why is my output very high? Because the average person cannot catch up; the average person serving as a pastor cannot catch up. I do many things, quickly and well. Why? I know that learning must have a system. I am not like some people who are dilatory because they have not established a system. The word system is very important. Without a system, it is chaotic, so they always struggle with their tasks. Sometimes, it is not that they do not want to do it, but that they are slow. They put all their effort into doing it, not into thinking about how to do it right. Does everyone understand what I am saying? You put all your effort into doing and doing, and you do it wrong as soon as you do it. Being skilled at doing it wrong makes it difficult not to do it wrong.

If you do not put effort into figuring things out, how can you be quick? You have not put effort into making things right. First, you have a problem with your attitude; you think it is just like that. So you keep practicing, becoming very skilled at being slow, slow at everything. Therefore, what must we solve? Oh, I am doing it wrong; what does it look like when it is right? This sentence must be imprinted in your mind! For example, if a child is still doing homework late at night, they are doing it wrong. Do you understand? Then tomorrow they do it again until late at night, exhausted and miserable. They do not think about why they have to do it until midnight. The top students finish their homework after school; they go home and then toil until late at night, how tiring! Very tiring. I think the question this sister asked is very good. First, adjust your attitude; oh, I did not get it right. Why do I have to repeat myself? If it does not enter your mind, I have to repeat myself.

Second, I put my effort into getting it right. There is a child here, quite mischievous, but he learned one thing from me. After correcting his incorrect learning method, he finished his homework after school and became a top student. After a while, he relapsed and went back to his old ways. Is that not strange? Therefore, I want to put my effort into understanding and getting it right. Do not rush to do it; doing it wrong is meaningless. Is it not so? Now you have thought it through. Some people say: Teacher, I am not yet skilled. I say: Enough, enough, stop becoming more skilled. You are already very skilled at doing it wrong; you are very skilled at doing things wrong. Stop becoming more skilled!

How many people are foolish, desperately doing things the wrong way, thinking that doing a lot will make them smarter and faster? If they become more and more skilled at doing it wrong, it will become increasingly worse. These children among us must adjust. How to adjust? One method, one sentence: Change the habit of listening in class to the habit of reading oneself. For example, what will be taught tomorrow? Read it tonight. You say: I have not finished yesterday's homework. Do not write it, do not hand it in, it does not matter. First, reverse it.

Then, what will the teacher teach tomorrow? If you read it and do not understand, then what? You do not understand because you did not understand the previous things. What do you do now? Do not care. Let the teacher teach whatever they want. Quickly make up for it from the roots. Starting from the beginning, if you can understand this, the start is correct. You read and understand this. Then you can also understand the second page, the third page, the fourth page, which is what will be taught tomorrow. If you read up to the fifteenth page, and you understood the fourth page, do not worry. It does not matter if others are progressing quickly. We just do it right. Then learn, learn, learn, and find that the teacher is not as fast as you, because there is not much to it; you just thought it was a lot. This is the first point: learn from the roots.

Why are some children ruined by school? They are made to listen in class all day, not allowed to read anything else. If they do not understand one lesson, they also do not understand the next lesson. They study for ten years, understanding nothing. This is very ruinous. I also wonder why education is like this? These children must start to reverse from the beginning. It does not matter if you sleep in class; read and learn yourself at night. This is called active learning. Listening in class and not understanding, and then having to listen again, listen again, is useless. Some people say: Teacher, give me the recording so I can listen again. Useless; this is not how to do it. So, if a teacher spends three class periods on the content of one lesson, what if the content of one lesson took half a class period? Would you not be more capable? Would you not have more time? Use the remaining half of the class to do homework and finish it. Simple, is it not?

How to read each lesson? First, figure out what it is doing. Many children have no idea what they are doing, and then they just do it, doing it confusedly. Do you understand? They do not know what they are supposed to do. Actually, it is not that the children are stupid; their learning attitude is generally good. It is just that the people at home keep asking if they have done their homework. They do it in a daze, and no one cares about getting things right. The parents did not get it right, the school did not get it right, the child did not get it right. They muddle through for 12 years and still have to go to high school. So, what to do with each lesson? First, figure out what it is talking about, what it wants to do, what it wants to say, then see how it says it, then see what key points it teaches, and then clarify those concepts.

Are there any young children among us? Can the young children say whether they have understood what I am saying? It does not matter if you have not understood. Another day, I can take your content and teach you by hand. You will learn as soon as you learn it. This is how top students come about. Top students are learned, not listened into existence. Does everyone know that I do not like listening in class? I actually find it quite painful. One thing is that I have always wanted to abolish preaching, but I have not been able to do it. I have been unable to find a good way. Can Bible study be turned into something active? I am diligently giving everyone a demonstration. It is not about letting everyone listen; listening and listening makes one a listening expert, but one must read the Word of God.

【Question】2: Teacher, how do you maintain the enthusiasm for learning? Sometimes when learning, one gets tired. What should one do if one cannot maintain enthusiasm?

Answer: What is this enthusiasm for learning? When learning, one finds the essence. When one finds the essence, one becomes very excited. Do you understand? If a person learns and does not find the essence and then just dawdles, then the enthusiasm is lost. For example, playing football. As people play, they find the feeling, find the essence of the matter. Wow, it is very exhilarating! Very comfortable! They are willing to play. Like me, I can never find the feeling of playing football, so I have no enthusiasm. Do you understand? I am not a person without enthusiasm, but I really have no enthusiasm for playing football. When I play football, it is good enough that I do not kick myself; I can never kick the ball.

【Question】3: Teacher, I am now teaching my son to count from 0 to 120, and I gave him a few questions. I have found that he cannot grasp the pattern of counting. I feel that he has not yet caught on. His learning lacks method. He relies entirely on guessing and spouting nonsense. He also speaks nonsense when learning Spanish and is very stubborn, not correcting his mistakes. I think my method may still have problems. Do you have any tips?

Answer: The trick to counting is to first let the child know what 1 is. You say: That's very simple; 1 is 1. Then each time you add one, it is one more 1. 2 is two 1s, and 3 is three 1s. So, when teaching the child to count, do not go from 0 to 120; first go from 0 to 9, then you will find that if you go from 10 to 19, then 20 to 29, he will gradually find the pattern. Is it not so? Once he finds the pattern, oh! He understands. Bang! If you give him 0 to 120, the child will be dumbfounded, just like teaching many people confuses them. Learn slowly.

【Question】4: Teacher, I am going to take the primary accounting exam in May. I can learn something by following video lessons, but when actively reading and studying three-color notes, I often cannot concentrate, and my mind goes blank.

Answer: This is a bad learning method; it is very inefficient. Do you understand? It is not that you should not listen, but those who lecture do not build a framework and just start lecturing, but you like this method. When actively reading and studying, you see those points that others have summarized in the three-color notes. You go back to the book and clarify each concept; it is even easier than attending class. When you attend class, like watching videos, you think you have learned something, but you have not actually learned anything. If you had learned something, you would not be in this state.

【Question】5: Teacher, is active learning about constantly pondering and improving methods in the process of doing?

Answer: Active learning is actively using your brain to think. Studying oneself is called pondering, not pondering methods, but pondering what these are talking about after the method is right. Do you understand? Ponder what it is talking about, then how it is talking about it. All books are written with a concept, explaining this concept. If it is good, it will also talk a little about how to apply this concept. Many people do not know how books are written.

【Question】6: Teacher, I feel uncomfortable and unwilling to take action when I encounter difficult tasks.

Answer: Laziness. What to do? The eyes are lazy, but the hands are diligent. Start doing it, then ponder how to do it, then do it. After doing it, you see that it is not done correctly, come back and ponder it again, adjust it, and form a habit.

【Question】7: Teacher, how to actively learn, summarize, and organize?

Answer: How to actively learn? After finishing something, think if there is a better way? Do it again. For example, when I do something, at first I spend an hour washing the toilet; then I adjust the method, and it takes half an hour; then I adjust the method, and it takes fifteen minutes; then I adjust the method, and it takes five minutes; then I adjust it again, and it takes even faster, two minutes.

Our Q&A session ends here today. May God bless everyone!