How can I read efficiently? I read it and forget it. It feels like I didn't read it.

The ancient emperors' favorite books were historical books, and Qianlong was one of them.

Ordinary people like to keep looking back at what happened when reading history books. Gan Long is not. When reading history books, he always stops at the key plot and thinks about how to solve it if he handles it. Only when he has a solution will he see how people handled it at that time.

In this process of constant exercise, Qianlong's ability to handle political affairs is getting stronger and stronger.

In fact, our study is the same. We can't be secretaries without learning and using them. The key is that we can't really change our actions and let ourselves apply what we have learned.

Therefore, if you want to learn efficiently, the key core is only one word-use.

Then, when we get a book, what should we do to help us grasp the essence of the book and apply what we have learned most efficiently?

On this issue, I recommend you to read it out of context.

The so-called "broken preparation and judgment" reading method is actually a method of dividing a reading into four steps.

When we get a book, the first thing is to solve the problem, that is, to understand what the whole book is about. Before reading a book, many people actually only know the title of the book and don't know what the main content of the book is. In this way, reading is like crossing the river by feeling the stones, and there is no direction at all. However, if we can master the core of the book in five minutes, we can greatly improve our learning efficiency.

What the hell should I do?

In fact, the method is very simple. We only need to study four parts carefully, namely cover, table of contents, preface and ending.

Generally speaking, the author and publishing society sort out the key issues of the book in the cover and preface. Reading this chapter will let you know a lot about the content of the book.

The table of contents is the ideological background of this book. After you have a general understanding of the core issues of this book, you can quickly grasp the author's ideological context by reading the table of contents carefully, thus giving a comprehensive explanation of how the author analyzes this issue.

The same is true at the end. Many authors have the habit of summarizing at the end, and usually emphasize their most concerned issues repeatedly. After reading it, you can remember or end it, and once again understand what the author is most concerned about.

After reading these four parts, you will have a general understanding of the contents of the book. Let's finish the problem.

Preparation problem

When we understand the theme of the book, can we start reading?

No, we should spend ten minutes thinking about a problem before reading. That is, if we encounter this problem, how will we solve it?

For example, in the book How to Read a Book Effectively, the author puts forward the reading method of taking notes. Then what you need to do at this time is not to rush to see how the author takes notes. Instead, we should think about the following questions:

Am I taking reading notes?

If so, how can I take reading notes? What are your experiences and doubts?

If not, why don't I take reading notes?

When you have a general understanding of your own reading notes, we have completed the second step-preparing questions.

study

When you have your own ideas, let's take a look at the catalogue. At this time, you will find that there are many things you may have known before, but you don't need to read them anymore. What really needs you to spend time studying is actually only a small part, and this part is what we need to spend time doing.

Specific research methods, in fact, everyone has their own habits. However, from my experience, the most important point is how I can use this method to improve my current problems.

judge

When we have completed the first few steps, we have a full understanding of the core issues of this book and its connection with our own lives. But our reading work is not finished yet, and we need the last step-judgment.

The so-called judgment is to think about whether the methods in the book are really suitable for us. What's good about him? What are the disadvantages? Make a simple evaluation.

After completing these four steps, we will have a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of a book.

This reading method is very suitable for us to learn some practical books, but it may not be so suitable for some literary or fictional books.

And it should be noted that the completion of these four steps only means that you have a basic understanding of this book, which does not mean that you will stop reading it in the future. If you encounter similar problems in the future, you need to turn over the book and rethink it to see if there will be new ideas. Only in this way can reading be improved continuously.