Some people love reading, but they suffer from the lack of efficient reading methods, which results in very low efficiency in reading a book. Below I have compiled 10 methods and techniques for efficient reading for your reference.
1. Comprehensive reading method
Unexpectedly, the comprehensive reading method is to read every book once. Usually people who are just starting out do this and don’t know what to read. Okay, just pick up whatever you want and read it. If you also encounter such a situation, you might as well be like Uncle Qiuye and read several relatively structured and systematic introductory classic books about the framework and business of a certain field. The methodology is there.
2. Picture reading method
Picture reading method means using mind maps to extract the framework from the book. Picture reading method can not only activate the left brain, but also use it to refine abstract concepts. The logical thinking ability also activates your right brain, giving full play to your visual expression and presentation abilities when drawing mind maps.
3. Reading backwards: How to read "Ecclesiastes"
"Ecclesiastes" means that the author seems to be very professional, a big celebrity, or the point of view he puts forward is very famous, but in fact there are Biased book. Reading these books can speak against the author's point of view. But it’s best to learn some critical thinking methods before reading. Only when you look can you see the conflicts and which logics are wrong.
4. Target Reading Method
Some students always wonder if they cannot concentrate when reading. You might as well try the targeted reading method. For example, when reading the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", you read some chapter fragments of Zhao Yun, and then select some fragments of Zhang Fei. In this targeted reading, you read a book, and the book It naturally becomes convex.
5. From thick to thin
Read some professional books, you can use dismemberment and synthesis methods. The book becomes thicker: Before reading a book, you will feel that the book is so thick. During the reading process, if you conduct an in-depth discussion of each chapter and section, add annotations and supplementary references on each page. material, it will feel thicker.
The book becomes thinner: When we have a thorough understanding of the content of the book, grasp the main points of the book, and grasp the spiritual essence of the book, we will feel that the book has become thinner. The more thoroughly you understand, the more thin you feel. This is a process that every scientist must go through. In this way, it is not that the knowledge learned becomes less, but that the knowledge is digested. Young students must learn to digest when reading.
6. Personal Observation
Chinese people are very patient in reading "The Analects". They know every sentence and even ponder it over and over again some days to verify it in actual actions. This is actually the correct reading of the scriptures. But foreigners can't do this when reading "The Analects of Confucius", and they can't bear it.
7. Immersion Method
When reading, you should pay attention to taste, and the key to experiencing the taste is to find your favorite author and immerse yourself in it.
For example, Su Dongpo claimed to be the reincarnation of Zhuangzi or Tao Yuanming, and Yuan Zhonglang was called the reincarnation of Su Dongpo. George Eliot said that when she first read Rousseau, she felt like she had received an electric shock. Nietzsche felt the same way about Schopenhauer.
8. Association method
In the process of learning, we must develop the habit of association. Association can connect knowledge, compile a large network, and form a knowledge system.
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle pointed out more than 2,000 years ago: Only by constantly starting your thinking from an existing point, or from the similarities, similarities, or similarities of known things. Only by starting from the opposite point can we gain a new perspective on things, and only then can the world move forward. Associative thinking is a thinking method that associates the image of one thing with the image of another thing in the mind and explores the similarities or similar patterns between them.
9. The only way to read
Concentrate on reading only one book for a period of time. This is how Zeng Guofan, a politician in the Qing Dynasty, studied reading: "There are hundreds of schools of thought, and you may want to read them, but you should read a collection of books written by one person, and do not read here and there." This method of reading is most suitable for those who want to practice basic skills well. A scholar who has laid a solid foundation in academic research.
10. Wave Gradual Method
Read one book at a time, but do not insist on finishing it in one go. You can read it again after a while. "Selected Works of Zhaoming" was read by Mao Zedong when he was in school, in the 1950s, in the 1960s, and several times in the 1970s. You might as well take this approach when you don't have enough time, or when you are reading some "difficult" tomes.