Although I don't advocate remembering all the books I have read, if a book doesn't have any influence on you after reading and leaves no trace in your life, then the books I have read are really just "read".
In How to Read a Book Effectively, a note reading method is introduced, which can not only enhance the memory of the book content, but also deepen the understanding of the book content. By taking notes, we can establish a dialogue with books, so that every book we read will have a solid harvest.
The author connects the whole process of reading with a note from five aspects: book selection, book purchase, reading, recording and flexible use. A notebook dedicated to reading records all the contents of reading.
1, book selection
In the book selection stage, we should pay attention to the usual accumulation. The method provided by the author is to record the usual feelings by taking notes at random, so as to provide a basis for choosing books in the future.
This method is a bit like the "book of inspiration" I have always mentioned. We always have moments of inspiration for generate. If we don't record them in time, some good ideas will easily be fleeting.
The same is true of reading. I usually see some interesting information and think maybe I can read some related books. At this time, I should record this idea in time.
For example, some time ago, I was very interested in the topic of "efficient life", so I wrote the sentence "reading books related to efficiency" in my inspiration book. Later, when I made a list of books this month, I made a list of books related to efficiency. This will also turn ideas into actions.
If you read other people's book review notes or books recommended by people you appreciate, you should record them in time and write down relevant information, so that when you buy books, you will be more targeted.
2. Buying Books In order to save time in buying books and buy books that we really want to read, we can make a list of books and follow the picture when buying books.
This will also make it easier for us to see our reading needs, such as which direction most of the books you list belong to, indicating that you are interested in this direction. This is also very helpful for finding and discovering your own interests.
The author's method is to take the book list to the physical bookstore to buy books, and only those books that they know exactly what to write will go online to buy them.
For us, most books are bought online now. With the book purchase list, we don't have to worry about placing temporary orders when it is double 1 1 and double 12.
As it turns out, the chances of buying books back because of collecting orders will be relatively reduced.
3. Reading In order to avoid the habit of not writing and not reading, the author advocates reading with peace of mind while reading, and marks those pages that feel valuable by folding corners.
After reading the book, read the corner page again. If the sound is still loud, fold the other corner. In this way, when taking notes in the next step, you only need to record underlined sentences on the pages folded at two corners.
Step 4 record
This step is to record the sentences that are important to you in the book and write down your feelings at the same time. To record excerpts from this book, for example, the method is as follows:
Write down the date, title, author and publishing house at the beginning, and mark the excerpts with "○" and personal experiences with "∞".
A key point of this process is to extract the sentences that really make you sing, and deepen your memory of the original text in the book through the process of writing. At the same time, after writing down my own experience, I also deepened my understanding.
5, flexible use
The process of flexible use is repeated reading. By reading your reading notes, sort out the ideas of the whole book and turn it into your own knowledge.
Of course, at this time, we have reached the stage of what is usually called "output", and published our own gains in articles, or organized a micro-sharing, or even developed a set of courses after reading the themes of several books to form our own knowledge system.
This kind of output will make the read book reach the state of being used. The last reading notes are the accumulation of materials in our writing and the source of inspiration. Those personal experiences expressed through abstract sentences can be understood as fragments of thinking, and the final output process is a process of fragment assembly. Finally, a complete "work" is presented to others.
Compared with aimless reading, this reading method, which focuses on writing reading notes, will gain more, and at the same time, it will be deeply impressed by the contents of the book. I will never feel that I have nothing after reading it. At least this real reading note is evidence that you have read a book. This is the conversation between you and the book. When you open it, you will remember the scene when you were reading. Naturally, it is easier to internalize the knowledge in the book into your own thoughts.
When reading this book, I was surprised to find that the "extraction+perception" method I have been using has such a function. I just didn't systematize the whole reading process.
The author puts all the information of book selection in a notebook and adopts the method of "information unification", so all the information related to reading can be found in this notebook. This is really an extreme application of "reading notes".
In today's society, with the rapid development of information and the pursuit of speed in everything, various methods of speed reading and skimming emerge one after another. People are less and less willing to sit down and read a book carefully, and even less are recorded by hand.
As Li Xiaolai said, what we lack now is the ability to read word for word. Some classic books are worth reading again.
If you don't want to just "read" the book you have read, try the method in this book, prepare a notebook specially for reading, and record a most sincere conversation with the book by writing down your personal experience.
I believe this way of reading will definitely solve the problem that you can't remember, because books have left traces in your life.
Pay attention to personal growth and efficiency improvement.