Written by Wang Xiaolan
Today I read "Understanding a Book, Fan Deng's Reading Method" by Fan Deng. For three hours, I soaked in the book and was very excited after reading it, because this book opened a door to scientific reading.
The author of this book, Fan Deng, is a well-known speaker. He founded "Fan Deng Reading" and has more than 22 million registered members. He holds a master's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University and a doctorate from Beijing Normal University. He is a debate competition champion and a former CCTV host. This book introduces his own reading methods in detail and also displays hand-drawn mind maps, allowing readers to more intuitively understand the methods described in his book.
1. The Dunning-Kruger effect, getting out of the complacent reading
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that refers to the tendency of people who lack ability to People who draw wrong conclusions based on their ill-considered decisions are unable to correctly recognize their own shortcomings. When it comes to reading, many people fall into the Dunning-Kruger effect, especially those who only read useful books. Such reading tends to make people become complacent.
When I was a student, I loved literary books, and all the books I read were literary, so I fell into the Dunning-Kruger effect. I remember one day I was in a bad mood and sat in the classroom, looking depressed. My deskmate thought something had happened at home and kept asking me what was wrong. The changes made me happy, but I remained silent and dazed alone. After repeated inquiries from my deskmate, I told her that I had just finished reading "Alive" and was still immersed in the sadness of the book.
Literature books nourish me spiritually, but they also make me more emotional. For this reason, I often immerse myself in the world in the book and feel sad secretly.
Yu Minhong told us in the book "My View on Growth" that we should read a lot of books of different types and subjects. He believes that only by connecting various knowledge systems, mathematics, literature, history, philosophy, biology Only by waiting can we open up the "two channels of Ren and Du" of our knowledge.
2. Wrong reading method is a stumbling block on the road to reading
In "Understanding a Book, Fan Deng Reading Method", the author lists some bad habits in the reading process. , such as "If you don't know the word, stop and look it up", "Look at your mobile phone while reading" and "Underline the key points while reading", etc.
Reflecting on my reading habits, these two problems are reflected in me. To this end, I conducted a survey among friends around me and found that many people have these two wrong reading methods. Wrong reading methods will interrupt our reading process, and reading intervals will break the fun and pleasure of reading. The most direct manifestation is that the reading speed is slow. It takes a long time to read a book without finishing it. I often read half of it and throw it aside, and I have no interest in picking it up anymore. In addition, I cannot remember the content of the book because I am constantly distracted during the reading process. It is often as if the chapter I just read has not been read before, and I have no impression at all, resulting in ineffective reading.
In addition, I often use a pen to underline when reading. I think this is to highlight the key points, but the reality is that this is also a wrong way of reading. In the book "Understanding Nature", it is said that highlighters, underlining and repeated reading are ineffective learning methods. This is a learning illusion caused by metacognition. The more familiar you are with a piece of text, the more fluently you can read it, which will create the illusion that you have mastered the content of what you are reading. This is why most people feel like they understand everything when they read a book, but once the book is closed, their minds are empty. Therefore, many people think that reading is useless because they cannot remember it. In fact, it is just because we use the wrong reading method. If we can review and summarize during the reading process, our memory will naturally be deepened.
So the wrong way of reading is a roadblock to reading. Changing wrong reading methods will improve our reading efficiency and experience the joy of reading.
3. The size of the comprehension pool determines the depth of reading
The author believes that the size of the comprehension pool determines how difficult the book can be read.
The accumulation of reading is a process from quantitative change to qualitative change. So what does the pool of understanding include? Fan Deng divided his pool into seven parts. They are economics, psychology, Chinese studies, management, logic, philosophy and life experience.
Biologist Julian Huxley once said that "life is nothing more than one connection after another", so we must have various models instead of looking at things in a single way of thinking.
Charlie Munger pointed out in "Poor Charlie's Almanac" that "You must know the important theories of important subjects and use them frequently - use them all, not just concentrate. Most people only use them Using the thinking model of a subject you have studied, such as economics, and trying to solve all problems with one method is a stupid way to deal with problems." So he uses multiple thinking models to conduct business analysis and evaluation.
Charlie Munger is known as the "walking library". He has been reading a large number of books in various fields for a long time. Therefore, his pool of understanding is like a vast ocean, so he can use diversified thinking models to do things. And we usually need to consciously expand our pool of understanding and make a single way of thinking more diverse.
The book "Deliberate Practice" makes us understand that "genius" is the product of training. As long as we use the correct method and train for a long time, we can all become "geniuses", but most of us don't. Even though I know the method, I am not persistent enough. "Understanding a Book, Fan Deng's Reading Method" provides us with scientific reading methods so that we can learn how to read.
We need to get out of the stubborn reading to avoid the Dunning-Kruger effect from working on us; in addition, we must learn to change those wrong reading methods to make reading more effective and interesting; and finally It is important that we broaden our pool of understanding so that we can read at a deeper level. "Understanding a Book, Fan Deng's Reading Method" opened the door to scientific reading for me, allowing me to better explore the sea of ??books and experience endless fun.