It’s the beginning of the year again, and it’s time to share a book list. I don’t know when it became fashionable to oppose utilitarian reading. But isn’t the most original purpose of books to pass on knowledge and record information? ! The purpose of reading is to entertain, gain knowledge and collect information. These three purposes make the state of reading develop and change. When we read for utilitarian purposes, to obtain knowledge and collect information, it will involve reading speed and reading efficiency, which requires us to learn to be suitable for utilitarian purposes. How to read.
The reason why I suggest that you learn how to read before reading is very simple. Sharpen your sword and chop wood before you lose time. You read 1 book per month and absorb 20%. Others read 2 books per month. For books, 40% is absorbed. This amount is considerable in one year. As time goes by, the gap becomes wider and wider. There are many things that cost nothing if you do them. If you don’t do them, it will take a long time and the cost will be high if you make up for it later.
Today we will first share a batch of books that can effectively improve reading skills. I will arrange them in my recommended reading order according to the difficulty of the books, the necessity of reading.
1. "High-Efficiency Reading"
The author Junichi Harajiri summarizes 5 reading skills, reading physical improvement skills - timeline of stimulation and habits, addictive reading skills - following Book romance and opportunity management, reading environment skills - excitement for knowledge × environment setting × stimulation of physical bookstores, speed reading skills - the mutual pursuit of "hypothesis" and "verification", and "analogy reading" skills to speed up understanding.
The methods on reading speed and vertical reading are worth learning and practicing, and have obvious effects on acquiring knowledge in a single field.
2. "How to Read a Book Effectively: A Super Practical Note-Reading Method"
The author Nobuyuki Okuno is a Japanese reading note-taking expert. This book is very thin and mainly talks about taking notes. Various methods and techniques for taking notes while reading. The reason I recommend this book is "How to Read a Book Effectively: A Super Practical Note-taking Method" introduces many stationery and note-taking methods suitable for taking notes, and even primary school students can benefit from it.
3. "Practical Reading Guide: Transforming Read Knowledge into Abilities"
The author, Toshiyuki Oiwa, is a teaching lecturer, a teacher who specializes in teaching learning methods. The book mainly shares speed reading skills, note-taking skills, internalization of knowledge through mind mapping, and putting knowledge into practice. Use output to force input, and form a reading and thinking mode through reading, supplementing your own knowledge system, and output, which is conducive to quickly absorbing knowledge and growing.
4. "Communication Bible: Comprehensive Communication Skills in Listening, Listening, Reading and Writing (Revised 5th Edition)"
The author Nicky Stanton proposed that different contents should be carried out at different speeds Reading faster and saving time in obtaining information are the most important purposes of improving reading speed. While taking into account reading speed, we must also improve reading efficiency, that is, improve understanding of what is being read. Use visual breadth exercises and the SQ3R reading method to improve reading speed and reading efficiency.
5. "How to Read a Book"
I made a list of books to read, but in the end I couldn't get around this old book, but because it was thick and not interesting, I didn't read it. It may be difficult for people with basic skills to read, so I ranked this book last. If you have the foundation of the previous books, I believe you will gain a lot from reading this book.
I recently started a writing class to teach lecture writing. Many people signed up after seeing the fee of 6,000 yuan per manuscript. But the first thing I did after participating was to complain that the course app was not easy to use. Many students hope to change it to audio and video to make it more interesting and facilitate students' learning. In fact, I deliberately used an all-text course, and even deliberately hid the names of the materials I wanted to receive in the course content. The fees for lecture manuscripts are high, why? There are three difficulties: reading, delivery, and speaking. To write a lecture manuscript, you must first read the book. You will have trouble reading a course material of more than 80,000 words. After signing the contract, you must read 3 books and produce 3 manuscripts every month. Each book can range from tens of thousands of words to hundreds of thousands of words. What should you do? ! Delivery and colloquialism are actually the process of collecting information and then expressing it. If you can’t even find the name of the information, how can we talk about delivery? If there is no accumulation of materials, there is no need to talk about colloquialism.
The most commonly used saying about the uselessness of reading is "You have read so many books, but you can't live a good life."
"The most direct reason for this situation is that the purpose of reading and the method of reading are not clear, and the knowledge learned cannot be internalized into one's own knowledge system and applied in practice. This is why today I use output and force input, and use the knowledge I read The reason why the books that turn into abilities are highlighted in the front is when you say goodbye to blind reading, which is when the benefits of reading begin.