I am reborn and just want to concentrate on my studies

Yi Yang opened his eyes and when he woke up, it was already much brighter. He recalled the geography knowledge he read yesterday. The direct point of the sun is close to the Tropic of Cancer, and the day is longer than the night in the northern hemisphere. It is another summer with early morning light.

Jiang Lili's Martin guitar is placed in the corner of the room. Now, of course, he would not still be so stupid as to think that this piano was an off-brand. Jiang Lili said she wanted to give the guitar to him, but he refused. He repeatedly emphasized that it was for safekeeping and would be returned to her in the future... This was his last stubbornness.

Grandma continued to return to the countryside, and now he lived alone. After washing up, I changed into some sweatpants and went out for a morning run with my upper body naked.

After a full year of training, Yi Yang's figure is completely different from when he was reborn last year. His height has actually exceeded 1.8 meters, and he looks slender and tall. I often insist on doing sit-ups, push-ups and pull-ups. The muscles of the chest, abdomen and back are in shape, and they look well-proportioned and have obvious lines. But after all, it is body weight training and it is still in the development stage. It is difficult to train it to be very exaggerated. Muscles, but as far as ordinary people's aesthetics are concerned, this body shape is just right...

It's not like Yi Yang didn't know that going out for a run with his upper body naked was a little... inappropriate.

But fortunately, in this era, it is a small county and there is not so much emphasis on it. This is a common behavior, so it does not appear to be very ostentatious.

And going out like this, there might not be some mentality of wanting to show off.

I ran along the streets I usually run on. The sceneries were the same as last year, but after self-study observation, there seemed to be some subtle changes... A property somewhere has started to be sold, and several shops have changed owners. The familiar "Zhao Family" "Baozi" has opened two branches. The little girl who likes to skip rope that I often meet when running at the intersection next door seems to have grown taller...

Life is like this, little by little, inadvertent changes are taking place, and people are always passing through it in their busy schedule. When suddenly one day they discover a change in a certain detail, they look up again and look around, and are shocked to find... Changed appearance.

Being able to discover these subtle changes in these bits and pieces makes him feel comfortable and life is real.

While running, I continued to mutter English words. Memorizing words every day is a boring and painful thing. Yi Yang doesn't know how other people are, but he always has to fight against the enemy of forgetfulness. Fortunately, the junior high school vocabulary has been memorized very firmly, and he is now struggling with the high school vocabulary.

I have started memorizing the word lists from high school English textbooks.

Naturally, this is not because of his high IQ. After returning to this era and studying for a short period of time, I realized one thing. His IQ was not low, at least higher than the average, but it was definitely not top-notch. It might not even be as high as Luo Luoyue. But it doesn’t matter. Learning English has nothing to do with IQ to a large extent. Memorizing words step by step every day has nothing to do with thinking ability.

Memorizing vocabulary is easier said than done. But for any thing that seems painful and beneficial, there is actually a trick that is not a trick to persist in... This is what he realized by himself. This trick he calls quantifiable positive feedback.

What is quantifiable positive feedback?

He recalled the process of helping Zhang Bushou research a weight loss plan... If a fat man wants to lose 5 kilograms, he needs to consume close to 40,000 calories. If he wants to achieve this goal in fifty days, he needs to create close to 800 calories every day. The caloric deficit... is actually not difficult. Control your dietary caloric intake to a level slightly lower than your maximum metabolism, and run for more than forty minutes every day...

This is a quantification. As long as you strictly follow this quantified amount, you will eventually achieve your goal.

Of course, in reality, Zhang Bushou failed to achieve his wish. But that experience gave him an inspiration. This kind of quantification can also be used in learning. However, unlike weight loss, which can be calculated with a little knowledge of exercise physiology, quantitative goals require more learning. kind of experience.

Everyone is different.

For example, Yi Yang calculated that if he came into contact with a completely unfamiliar word, how many times would he cover the Chinese translation and recall the word in memory today? Memorize it completely...record the rules, and then slowly improve the specific rules with a little bit of practice...this way you will have a rough "quantification"

Such quantification is naturally impossible to guarantee that it will be effective for every word. Some words may be memorized halfway through, but some words may not be memorized after the entire process, but it does not matter. There are not many words of either type, and it is correct. At both ends of the distribution, stubborn words that cannot be remembered can be picked out and conquered individually, becoming the key to improving performance. With such memory, the learning process will not be aimless. Abstract knowledge will have concrete scales, and learning will make people feel at ease.

It's less painful.

After running around for a while, my body was sweating slightly, and I felt slightly satisfied with my body... I didn't care so much about my figure. With a strong body, no matter what I did, my energy seemed to be inexhaustible, and I couldn't sleep. It's very deep, and I probably have stronger resistance and immunity. Since last year, I haven't gotten sick even once.

Just as he was thinking this, a basin of water suddenly fell from the sky and poured solidly on his head.

A drowned rat in seconds.

There is no clothes on the upper body, but fortunately it is not boiling water. His first reaction was to look up to see what was going on. There was no one upstairs. The guy who poured water must have evacuated quickly. He didn't even know which floor the water was poured on.

The second reaction was to ask about the smell, worried that the water in this basin was unclean... Fortunately, there was nothing unusual, it was probably just pure water.

When people around him saw this scene, they also pointed upstairs. Yi Yang stood there looking up for a few seconds and sighed slightly. When encountering such a thing... he could only blame himself for his bad luck. Bar.

As a result, any good mood was naturally gone, and he ran back helplessly.

After washing up and changing clothes, I arrived at school ten minutes later than usual. On the section of trail in front of the school gate, I met Ning Zhixin, and she squatted there again to play with the cat.

Yi Yang walked over and said, "You don't tease the cat like this."

Ning Zhixin raised her head and glanced at him. In this gap, the kitten ran away. Seeing this, Ning Zhixin sighed helplessly and stood up.

"You seem to be a little later than usual today?"

"You're not the same yet."

Yi Yang is always among the first three to arrive in the classroom, while Ning Zhixin is usually among the first two.

The two of them walked together and chatted casually, such as did you do your homework yesterday, how did you do that question, and other topics. They were not particularly nutritious, but they could pass the time.

Then Yi Yang said casually: "I'm very unlucky today. I got poured into a basin of water while running..."

Ning Zhixin's eyes widened slightly and her steps paused slightly.

Yi Yang looked away, "What's wrong with you?"

"No...nothing."

"Ha... just laugh if you think it's funny."

"Uh...this, isn't it funny?"

"Yeah."

"Then...then do you know who threw the water?"

"Oh... I'm not sure about this. The person who splashed the water ran away after splashing it."

"oh……"

"Quite wicked."

"..."

Having already reached the school gate, Yi Yang smiled and said again: "If I catch you..."

Ning Zhixin squeezed the strap of her backpack tightly, "Huh? Just what..."

"Well...if it's a man, give him a beating."

"Where's the woman?"

"It's not appropriate to beat him up. Just beat him up and cry."

"Crying?!"

"Ha, just kidding."

"..."

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I don't know if it was his illusion. Yi Yang felt that Ning Zhixin had been secretly peeping at him all morning. Of course, he didn't think that this was because the other party had a crush on him... After thinking about it, he thought it was probably his illusion. However, even if the other party really likes me, it is not a big surprise.

There is no need to make a fuss about other girls liking you, and there is no need to avoid it like a plague, as that would appear pretentious. What man, or person, doesn’t like to be admired? As long as he doesn't go too far like Ma Siyu did before and cause some trouble to himself, it's acceptable.

Being liked doesn't necessarily have results. For girls in junior high school, most of them are just wishful thinking. It will be fine after they get past this age. Appreciate the youthful ignorance of girls more from an adult perspective, otherwise it will appear a bit...immature. Of course, there is no stupid self-awareness of "playing with ambiguity" or "playing with other people's feelings". In his eyes, those little girls are still young.

Occasionally, I don't like these little girls around me.

After lunch, he took the homemade sleeping pillow to rest as usual. This masterpiece not only made Luo Luoyue envious at first, but also caused a small fluctuation among other people in the class. However, as he has used it for a semester, it is no longer as eye-catching as it was at the beginning.

But not long after he lay down, he was poked lightly.

Yi Yang looked back and saw Zhou Zhou standing there timidly: "Yi Yang... I want to disturb you."

"Um?"

"Your pillow...where did you buy it?"

"I made this myself."

"Hmm...can you sell it to me?"

Yi Yang thought for a while, shook his head, and said with a smile: "This...can't do it."

Zhou Zhou showed a disappointed expression and said, "Alas..."

Yi Yang thought for a while and said, "Let's do it. I'll make one for you when I have free time."

Zhou Zhou suddenly saw stars in his eyes: "Really? That... that's great!"

Zhou Zhou retreated, and Yi Yang suddenly felt a resentful gaze. When he turned around, it was Luo Luoyue staring at him.

Yi Yang coughed lightly: "What?"

Luo Luoyue pointed to the sleeping pillow: "I want it too."

"Uh...just enough for one."

The last time I made this pillow for sleeping on my stomach, I could barely make another one out of the materials I used. Since Zhou Zhou has been promised, there is naturally no extra material.

Luo Luoyue pursed her lips, turned around, took out her pillow, and buried her head on it... The more she thought about it, the sadder she became. She lay down for a while and turned around. Yi Yang had already fallen asleep, and she sighed quietly. He turned around and lay down, continued to think about things, and finally fell asleep...

Then, I got a stiff neck again.

…

I expressed my deepest sympathy to Luo Luoyue for having a stiff neck again, but I still couldn't help but find it funny afterwards... He was really a child.

However, this incident suddenly gave him a small inspiration.

He vaguely remembered what his deceased father said: "Where there are complaints, there is money to be made."

The pillow for sleeping on your stomach is not something particularly technical. It has a simple structure and does not have any patents, but... there is none in this era!

Recently, I was reading an extracurricular book about business to relieve my boredom, and I gradually started to build my own business thinking.

In Yiyang's view, doing business is nothing more than two things: products and channels.

If you create something that doesn't exist, as long as there is a market, you can make money by selling it. There is definitely a market. As long as the price is not too excessive, students and office workers who need to study during the afternoon will be willing to pay a little money for this little thing.

It is not very difficult to make this product. To put it simply, it is a pillow with a special shape...A pillow is just stuffing with a little bit of fabric. It's just that this special shape is more troublesome to make, but it's not difficult to design. In the future, he has seen many types of sleeping pillows, so he can solve it by following the same pattern.

Filling and pillow tops are even simpler and can be purchased directly from some merchants.

The two troublesome parts of making this tummy sleeper pillow are the support and sewing. To achieve that special shape, it is best to have a frame of solid material to provide enough support so that people can lie on it without pressing their arms. The problem of the support is solved. The fabric and filling are combined to form a truly perfect sleeping pillow. At low cost, it is difficult to use standardized equipment. It takes so long to sew by hand... which involves hiring workers.

Although there are many practical difficulties, it is not difficult to achieve.

The more I think about it, the more I find something interesting... While thinking about doing this, of course reading cannot affect it. But the purpose of studying is to change your life. If you can make a little money without affecting your studies, it's not impossible to try.

As his cognitive ability improved, Yi Yang also learned that many successful people who were admitted to prestigious universities actually began to show some outstanding talents besides studying at a very young age. Some people are in business, some are in organizational skills, and some are in learning and research skills... So far, it seems that they are pretty good in that aspect, but he is not sure which aspect he has greater talent in.

Maybe now is a small opportunity.

In order not to let this kind of thing affect his studies, he planned to wait until the final exam was over before trying again. It's just a preliminary idea at the moment, and there will definitely be a lot of trouble in actual operation. Maybe a certain link is found to be unworkable, and it is not necessarily given up.

While he was thinking this, Zhao Qiang came over and called him: "Yi Yang, there is a girl outside looking for you!"

"girl?"

Yi Yang looked towards the door and was slightly startled...

Zhao Yue'e had an anxious expression on her face.