Reading a book is very different from understanding the meaning in it. Imagine if someone asked you to tell him your favorite book. How would you describe it? Do you remember the main content of that book? Do you remember what effect that book had on you? . .
People's memory is always limited for books that live a long life. If you want to have a solid harvest after reading every book, and even turn the knowledge in the book into your own wisdom, you need to write reading notes skillfully and form a long-term habit. Knowing doesn't mean really having it. It seems that I know the knowledge in the book, but when it comes to using it, I can't start. As stated in How to Read a Book, reading is an art, please read actively. That is, reading with a purpose, in order to improve their understanding and reading.
How to read can not only get information, but also understand its meaning more comprehensively? Japanese writer: The book How to Read a Book Effectively summarizes a set of super-practical reading notes, including how to choose books, buy books and use reading records to turn the learned knowledge into practical and sustainable wisdom, so as to truly achieve "a solid gain after reading every book".
In this book, the author introduces his original "unified" information sorting skills and note reading methods in detail with his own reading examples in simple and easy-to-understand language. The five steps from book selection, book purchase, reading, recording to retrieval and rereading help us to eliminate the trouble of "reading amnesia" and easily achieve the following unusual goals:
Chapter 1 Managing Reading Life with Notes
Chapter II Book Purchase by Name Based on Book Purchase List
Chapter III Using Notes to Turn Books Read into Spiritual Wealth
The fourth chapter is to improve yourself by rereading your notes.
Chapter 5 19 Skills of Enriching Reading Experience
26 practical stationery with reading notes.
The book selection here contains two meanings, one is what kind of books you usually choose to read, and the other is what kind of books you choose to buy. In the part of choosing books, I mainly talk about the former, and the latter combines buying books.
In fact, choosing a good book is as important as choosing an object. Some people have read 100 books all their lives, and they are considered experts and scholars. Some people may read 100 books a year, which is nothing. The so-called smell of Taoism has successively, and the industry has specialized. The same is true of choosing books.
So how to choose books? The author provides some ideas and methods.
This is the motivation of reading, but also a personal interest. A person will spend time and energy on things he is interested in, become more and more resistant to things he is bored with, become more and more lazy in action, and then give up studying soon. Interest and desire to read a book generally come from the following aspects:
This is a little "halo effect", not because of the book itself, but because celebrities and scholars are reading it and unconsciously want to join in the fun.
For example, some celebrity reading lists listed on the Internet and books involved in book reviews written by a Daniel often have good books recommended. In addition, WeChat WeChat official account and websites for learning and personal growth will also have many good books to recommend. These are all recommended by online media.
Reading a good book is to be able to analyze and discuss a problem in detail and then put forward a relatively reasonable method. Sometimes in life and work, we encounter an unsolvable problem, not a lack of ability, but a lack of knowledge. If you supplement this knowledge accordingly, the situation will naturally improve.
Everyone has their own concerns and knowledge fields. If you want to know more about them, then choosing classic works on related topics can improve your ideological cognition by several dimensions.
The cost of reading = the money cost of buying books+the time cost of reading, which is gone forever and cannot be regenerated, so the most important cost of reading lies in the time cost.
There is a saying that "reading a bad book is a waste of time reading a good book", but this ignores the long-term influence of bad books on people's thinking and concepts, which every reader needs to control carefully. After all, good ideas can produce positive actions, and positive actions will bring good results. On the contrary, wrong ideas will constantly create troubles and difficulties in life, thus reminding people to adjust and correct.
Due to the limitation of reading and knowledge, this question may be difficult for most beginners to answer, but answering this question can make people clear the key points of reading and increase their enthusiasm for reading. If a person can answer "what he wants, what he needs", naturally his actions will be clear and specific, and he will not spend too much time and energy.
"Make a reading list → go to the bookstore to confirm → buy", and follow these steps to buy books, which can not only help you find the book you really want to read and recognize your real reading needs, but also make yourself clearly aware of "why do you want to read this book", so that reading is no longer casual reading, but active reading.
Reason one: cultivate the consciousness of purposeful reading.
Make a reading list-confirm it at the bookstore-buy it, and follow these steps to start with the book. You should realize why you want to read this book. Write this action on the list and you can confirm the purpose of your study this time.
Reason 2: Grasp the initiative of choosing books through records.
Reading lists can help you find the books you really want to read. The fundamental reason why we buy books that we don't read at all is impulse buying. If you want to avoid being too impulsive, you must carefully confirm whether I really want to see it. When you list this book, your brain will consciously judge whether this book is really what you need at the moment. Therefore, the book purchase list is not just a "shopping memo", but a corrective device to promote subjective book purchase.
Reason 3: See your real reading needs while listing constantly.
In How to Read a Book Effectively, the importance of purchasing a book list and the know-how of making a book list are emphatically introduced to us. By sorting out and summarizing these contents, I think we should pay attention to the following three points in the process of buying books:
First, find the books listed in the list.
Secondly, judge whether to buy after seeing the real thing.
Finally, eliminate the books that you don't need to read now, and only choose the books that you really want to read and need to read.
Therefore, the book bought in the physical store will leave a deeper impression on yourself, deepen the impression on the book, and naturally deepen the memory of the contents in the book.
Under normal circumstances, people who are good at reading will buy books they already know online and books they don't know in physical stores. Why?
You want to buy a book whose contents you already know, because it has a special effect on you. But if you don't know the content of the book, you will get hot only according to the title and theme, and you will easily regret buying it online. Going to a physical store to see if it is worth buying and then buying can make your book purchase more meaningful.
Books are an intangible wealth. We record the books we are interested in by taking notes and arrange them into a book list, which can help us find the books we want quickly and effectively, and avoid wasting resources by buying books that we don't want to read for a while.
The list of books gives you an intangible wealth.
1. Title
2. Name of the author
3. Name of publishing house
(1) table method. Make a simple table and list the books you are interested in according to your favorite format.
(2) Online book list. With the popularity of smart phones, we can use our digital products to sort out the list of books online and delete the parts that are not suitable for us at any time.
(3) Collect data in daily life. We can get the list of books we want to read by communicating with people and watching TV.
Go to school with questions:
When you study on the premise of thinking output, the quality of thinking input will also improve. At this time, your reading purpose is no longer "just finished reading", but "writing reading notes"
How to effectively read a book, there are some practical methods, after my own processing, into the following points:
Since you will choose this book to read, there must be something worth learning. Maybe a sentence touched your heartstrings, or maybe you learned some knowledge theory from it.
Some of the contents written by the author in the book will inspire you, and may also be different from your point of view. Then, you can write comments next to these contents and make comments. After browsing for a day, you may have new ideas, which is the harvest.
In the process of reading, you can use some symbols to mark what you don't understand. After reading the whole book, you can read the materials and answer questions by yourself, and write your own understanding beside it, which will deepen your reading impression.
Only by doing these two points well can we finally achieve the effect of flexible application. Moreover, in flexible application, the confrontation between viewpoints will expand thinking to a new dimension. We are not limited to a single point of view and care about its correctness. Then there are emotional changes, and some knowledge or opinions will become objective after a long time.
Compared with the verbosity and professionalism of reading a book, how to read a book effectively is simpler and more practical, which is more suitable for beginners who love reading. Effective reading is not the same as fast reading, speed is only the way, and effectiveness is the result.
From now on, carefully select every book you want to read, then carefully study, take notes and write reading notes, and try to learn from the books you read, and turn the knowledge in the books into wisdom and apply it to your real life. This way of reading, if you stick to it, will not change your destiny so far away.
As any Yong Cheng teacher often says, "Slow is fast, take your time and keep doing it", and you will find that growth is very different.