Interesting things often happen in this world, which makes many people excited, confused or angry. Most people just vent their emotions in the comments on news websites. If you have read books on this subject, you may point out:
First, it's nothing. I know something better/worse/stranger than this.
Second, the so-called expert opinion belongs to the X school, which is controversial in academic circles. In fact, they are out of date.
Third, I estimate that this matter will develop in the direction of XXX.
If you read enough, you will get a more rare experience: feeling the progress of human knowledge. You will find a problem in this book, but a few years later, someone wrote another book, citing stronger evidence and changing the whole conclusion. Sometimes you will agree with this new conclusion, and sometimes you will object.
A good book needs to be read twice.
We should read good books twice, and the most important purpose is for these experiences, inspirations and connections. For a book about an unfamiliar field, when we read it for the first time, we often fall into the author's mind. All the bandwidth of our brain is used to understand the author's ideas, and there is no more room to generate other ideas.
"Humor is the embodiment of excess wisdom", and ideas will only emerge when there is excess bandwidth. Only by watching it for the second time can you express your opinions calmly. The first reading is to sink in, and the second reading is to jump out.
3. Is mind mapping useful for taking notes?
I have read many mediocre notes, some of which are just like the outline, central idea and general idea of paragraphs given by primary school students. Many people on the Internet take reading notes by drawing "mind maps", which is of little significance. And it's really useless to take notes with mind maps. 4. Paper books and e-books
People usually think that reading paper books is better than reading e-books. In fact, even if we see good articles on the Internet, we sometimes like to print them down and study them carefully. The key point is that the physical words printed on paper seem to stimulate the brain nerves more and let us read with a more positive attitude. Read slowly, the effect is good. It may be because it is more beautiful, it may be because it feels more solemn and formal when held in your hand, or it may be because the high cost of paper causes the illusion that the value of words is also high. Most people read paper books slower than e-books.
5. How to practice fast reading?
There are many things in the world that are more important than reading. Between doing things and reading, doing things takes precedence. But reading is the best way to accumulate knowledge quickly besides practice.
Intensive reading requires slow reading, but we know that many famous scholars read fast. Why? This is martial arts. They read fast, because for them, the new things in ordinary books are very limited.
Cowen is a "famous" economist, but perhaps more famous is his reading speed! How many books can he read in one night? Anyone who has witnessed his reading will feel a special awe: the speed of turning pages is very fast, and the speed at which he reads a page is almost the speed at which others read a title.
You may think that you haven't read anything, but I have been reading his blog all day, and I can say responsibly that he really knows the key points of every book he has read.
What is Kevin's secret? He wrote a special article to answer this question. He said that if you read more books, you will find that many things are related. The point is that you have read many books before. You must have started reading a long time ago. In this way, when you read the new book in front of you, you can predict what the author is saying to a considerable extent.
Maybe you know the ending of a story at the beginning, or maybe you already know a lot of theories and don't have to listen to the author. You can quickly skip a lot of basic content and go straight to the author's new point of view. You can find something new at a glance and get to the point.