- Why do you want to read?
Today I’m also going to think about these slightly more ultimate questions, why do you need to read? Of course, you know I’m not talking about schooling, but reading done by your own initiative.
The purpose of reading can be broadly divided into two kinds: one is to gain knowledge; the other is to gain enjoyment. The textbooks we grew up with, the various tools in bookstores, all the scientific works, history, culture, etc., etc. all provide knowledge. Thinking does not arise out of thin air, they always have to have a stage and a base where it happens, it is not realistic to want to be in the air. And enjoyment is actually a very personal feeling, some people are keen to read detective novels, some people like love stories, some people like science fiction, some people will feel satisfied reading history books. Of course, these two are not strictly separated, they often exist in our reading at the same time.
Do not think that the acquisition of knowledge is boring, you read science fiction and detective novels when also in the acquisition of relevant knowledge, even if not a complete understanding of science and technology, murderer skills, but read more, there will always be an understanding and judgment of the good and bad of this type of literature, which is actually knowledge and experience. Enjoyment is not necessarily low, as mentioned earlier, reading a tragic novel will be moved, will be satisfied, figure out a technical problem, is also a kind of enjoyment.
We often say that reading will change people’s temperament, will inculcate people’s cultivation, will make you become deep, the books you read will slowly penetrate into your life, these words are of course good, but this is actually added value, is the gift of reading, you can not guarantee that you can get, and can not guarantee when to get, it is a bit mysterious, so more sought after, but it is not negotiable.
Calvino said, “It is useless to read the classics out of duty or reverence; we should only read them for the love of them alone. “That alone.
- How to read a book?
How to Read a Book” is a book that teaches you how to read a book. If you have some doubts about the way to read a book, you can read it. In this book, the author divides reading into four levels: basic reading, review reading, analytical reading and thematic reading.
The so-called basic reading in short is to understand the literal meaning of the lower level of reading. And review reading, is to distinguish a book is worth reading the process, we can usually be carried out by the following points.
1 first look at the title page, preface, subtitle, etc.
2 Study the table of contents page
3 look at the index
4About the author
5 Pick a few chapters that seem relevant to the topic and read them
6 Turn the book over and read a few passages.
In fact, this process we often do when buying a book in the bookstore, through these means, to determine whether to buy, now, to determine whether it is worth reading, is not difficult.
Find out the book to read, the next level is “analytical reading”. Analytical reading is the most common method we use to learn knowledge, but it is also a step that is easily omitted because we find it difficult. The author devotes significant space to the process of analytical reading, which is divided into the following three stages.
First, understanding the scope; what is the book talking about? Identify the topic, categorize it; narrate the whole book in a small paragraph; list the key chapters and explain how they make up the structure of the book; identify the questions the author is asking.
Second, understand the content; how did the author write it? Interpret the key words used by the author and agree with the author; catch the author’s main idea from the key sentences; identify the author’s argument and re-frame the causes and consequences to understand the claims; determine which issues are addressed and which are not?
Third, evaluate the reflection. But do not mention comments until you have read and understood; do not be competitive or argumentative.
The final level of reading is called thematic reading or comparative reading. To do thematic reading, you need to go through the previous levels and methods repeatedly, reviewing and analyzing, and you have to find many different books or materials and read a lot. It is no longer about reading one book after another, but about reading relevant chapters with questions to find out what you want to study. At this point you are no longer reading a book for the sake of reading a book, you are reading to solve a problem and to satisfy your curiosity.
The premise of the approach to reading talked about here is active. You have to take the initiative to figure out a book, figure out a problem, if you do not have this initial intention, then read the book as much as you want, but progress is always done in the process of a problem a problem, is not it?
In addition, different books have different methods, literature books naturally can not be as much as the above to read, find the right way to read the right book, with the gentleman to encourage.
- fast reading is necessary? How to read fast?
Some people read quickly, a glance at ten lines, some people are very slow, word by word, and even have to read out. This is their respective reading habits, it does not matter, but reading and knowledge linked, and efficiency first is the main theme of this era, reading too slow, others do not say, they will be embarrassed and feel pressure.
But is the speed of reading really that important? Of course not. I thought in the various discussions of reading, speed is the least important. You read fast per unit of time, it may be a piece of skill, but reading is not a limited time competition, it is a lifelong thing.
But if you really want to read fast, there are some ways to do it. That is: catch the focus. First read the foreword, preface, afterword, know what the book about; focus on the study of the table of contents, figure out the framework of the book; turn, turn, turn, not a look at ten lines also a few lines to see, to feel confused or important part of the mark; back to organize those parts you marked.
- What if I forget the book after reading it?
My answer is, if you forget it, forget it. People are not machines. Where can they download, install and run like a computer? It is true that there are some people who have a superb memory, remember more than others, others faster, but if you do not have such a gift, there is no need to be sad and blame yourself, after all, we are all the same.
The pleasure of books in the process of reading, it is difficult to speak with outsiders; the energy after reading, even you can not always sum up. But reading and not reading is ultimately different, even if you can not remember the name of the author, the title of the book, can not remember the plot story, can not remember the laws of one, two, three, four of the organization, at least you have had such an experience. Travel is also the same, to go around to see, not necessarily to bring you direct change, the important thing is your experience. You had the experience.
All in all, don’t take forgetting as a burden, but you can’t let yourself swallow it whole either; focused and selective reading is necessary; take notes in order to be able to read it again later; remember some key words, in this information age, it is also a good way to be able to search out by this later; don’t be afraid to reread.
- How to take notes?
What is the best way to take notes? This is the question everyone is asking. But I want to ask a question before that, why do you want to take notes?
In the past, reading, taking notes is not conscious, people are doing, they also do, but did not think about taking notes is used for what, you must have met a lot of the kind of notes made extremely serious, dense writing full of several books, but the final grade is not good students, obviously, they will not do notes. Rather than saying they can’t take notes, it’s better to say they haven’t thought about why they’re taking notes. The only way to make what you write down useful instead of rotting in a drawer one by one is to know what you are writing them down for.
Notes are also means to help you understand what you are not familiar with, such as making a structure of knowledge, making a mind map, making a character relationship diagram; the second is to help you find something later that you can’t rely on for memory, such as what someone did in a certain year, a good sentence, a paragraph to impress you.
The second kind of note taking is to build your own database, an external hard drive. All your notes are input data, but remember that input data is not the purpose, the purpose is to find it when you use it. That is, the point of a note is when it is looked over again and seen again and called up again, not when it is written down. So don’t obsess about how to take notes, but think more about how to use them. If you you don’t have to build any database and won’t revisit the book you’ve read, then the notes are irrelevant and it will rather spoil your reading pleasure.
If you want to do it, there is this need to move to the next step: how to do it. How to do it? There are thousands of ways to do it, just find the one that you use smoothly. This is a passage copied from nowhere for your reference.
Doing reading journals, is to do it. The journal can be divided into four categories: (a) transcription memo. (b) to make a summary, section. (c) record their own experience. Zhang Zai said: “If there is an open mind, even if the journal. Not then also plug the carry on. “(d) reference books, integration, as a systematic work.
- no time to read how to do?
This is really not a matter. The time is there, you can either use it for reading or for something else. If you don’t have time to read, maybe one, you really don’t have time, except for eating, sleeping and working, there is no free time; maybe two, outside of sleeping, eating and working, you have social activities, movies to watch, meetings to attend, and so on and so forth that you think are more important than reading.
If you’re in possibility one, then I’m sorry, no solution. Maybe it’s time to consider a new job. If it’s possibility two, it’s also a no-brainer because reading is not high on your list of options, and it’s not okay to spend your time elsewhere while complaining about not having time to read.
The tricky way, see the stitches, where to go to bring the book to where, and away from the phone.
- The more you read, the more confused you are, what should you do?
Congratulations, confused on the right. Reading can solve the problem, but at the same time will bring more problems, knowledge is endless, where the confusion, where to start to solve, but certainly at the end there are more problems. Relax, get used to it, confusion is a good thing. Determine not to move is terrible.
- reading the contempt chain, how to break?
Now you still read Guo Jingming Annie Baby is certainly despised, you have to read Nabokov Calvino. You also read Yu Qiuyu is certainly despised, you have to read Naipaul, Ike. Read network novels of course will be pure literature despised, read The Japanese reasoning can not see the domestic reasoning, read the original foreign language can not see read the translation. The chain of contempt is everywhere, you stand on the bridge to despise others, others stand upstairs to despise you, are the same.
The key is to find the right book for you.
- book list is useful?
Book list certainly useful, in you do not have enough experience, do not know where to start, a high-quality book list is undoubtedly a good helper. Book lists are like maps, telling you that there are treasures hidden here and here and here, and you may be able to check them out. But that’s just it, the book list is always a reference, it’s impossible to really follow someone else’s list of books to read without fail.
Book list to broaden the horizon is much more useful, a good book list is to expand your reading map. So more than reading is also doing some collection of book lists for your reference.
- reading literature books are necessary?
It depends on you. If you think it’s necessary, it’s necessary, if you think it’s not necessary, it’s not necessary. Really.
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