How to improve your reading ability?

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Today I want to share my own reading experience, these experience even I spend money to study, coupled with their own practice summed up, please have patience, word read, I believe it will be a great help to your life in the future.

In my last article, "My 2016" Year-end summary, "I mentioned: I have been working for more than 5 years, the only thing not to give up is to insist on reading. Enough to see the impact of reading on me, I have always believed that reading is the only thing that may not be of much help in the short term, but it will certainly have a huge impact on you in the long run.

Here I first elaborated a premise, this article mentions the reading, does not mean you brush the microblog, looks at each big portal website The news sex reading, also does not refer to you to read the novel, the poem and so on entertaining reading, but refers to the knowledge reading , for example some successful study books, the technical blog, Some of the public number of original professional articles of reading, such as can be used to acquire knowledge, and then change the reading of life.

Undoubtedly, reading is one of the most important ways of acquiring knowledge in our time.

However, we all know the importance of reading, but many people, even most people, lack the most basic reading ability. Just think of:

1. Are you going to read an article and just read a headline and finish it?

2. Or, read an article and read it quickly, or even read it and skip it.

3. Or, read a lot of articles, even read it carefully, but after reading, it is finished, no then ...

including myself in the public to find a phenomenon, this year I published a lot of original articles, each time there are readers message asked some questions, and many of these questions are clear and explicit in the article, for this part of the people's problems I usually directly choose to ignore, The essence of the problem is that they lack the most basic reading ability.

and reading ability is very important, far from saying that our technology circle, everyone the same basis, query the same official API documents, search through search engines to the same technical blog, read the same technical books, but probably due to different reading ability, the understanding and absorbed knowledge is completely different, After the growth gap has been opened, of course, there are many factors that lead to the gap, but reading ability is definitely one of the most important factors.

Before a reader's message asked me a question such as: "Colombia, I have a certain foundation in school, ready to self-study XX programming, ask Colombia is to read the document to learn good, or to watch video learning good?" 」

My reply is: Make every effort to read the document to learn.

Here by the way to make a more detailed supplement and explanation. Undoubtedly, the advantage of watching video learning is obvious, follow the video learning, some hands-on teaching you, the threshold is relatively low, if you are a beginner, watching video learning words no problem, but once you have started, I am strongly not recommended you watch video to learn.

First of all, watching video is inefficient, usually a knowledge point to read an article may take a few minutes to finish, and watching the video will probably take 30 minutes to complete, because the video is faced with all people, at the speed of the request, and the instructor's remuneration is partly based on the length of the charge, So some lecturers are likely to deliberately procrastinate, lengthen the length of the time, of course, this is only a small part, only that there are such factors. For the learning stage of the people, time is the most valuable, should do everything possible to save time, improve efficiency. In fact, this is not the most critical, only so recommend everyone to read the document learning, the most critical is because the document learning to really improve your reading ability, but you in the process of learning unconsciously exercise their ability to read, and this reading ability in your work will play a great role.

So to speak, in the actual work, 90% of problems can be solved by Google, and what you do is from the vast search results through your reading ability to solve your problem. And this ability, if you are always watching video is unable to exercise, because follow the video learning, you just follow the teacher's thinking to do, you do not read the kind of independent thinking of document learning, knowledge summary ability, imagine you in the actual work encountered problems, can not expect to go online search video, and then go to watch study, Hope to solve your problem from the video?

This is why I again, again, refused a lot of online education platform video recording invitations, and has been the love of writing articles, I want to do, that is, the so-called "give people to fish rather than grant people to the fishing."

Therefore, I very much hope that many readers can have the most basic reading ability, unfortunately, many people, including the previous I, have mistakenly recognized their ability to read.

I have always thought that my reading ability is very good, because all my abilities, including programming, management, product, business and so on are all self-taught, and the main channel of self-study is to read, no one taught me or have a substantive guidance to me. However, in the second half of 16 I learned a reading skill in a paid subscription column (not to mention it, lest it be considered an advertisement), and I realized that the simplest and most practical reading skill was the most basic and powerful skill in reading.

This skill is: A word not bad reading , say again, a word is not bad reading.

So to speak, for reading, I've never done a word of reading before. After realizing this, I spent nearly half a year to practice, and afterwards, I had to admit, it changed a lot for me and it had a profound effect on me.

From the beginning of the year concerned about my readers should have such an experience, that is, this half of the time, my writing ability has greatly improved. Although there is no good literary talent, but as a programmer, my ability to express writing is very good. It all thanks to my practice of the word reading, when you can do a word not bad reading, it means you can think like the author of this article, because the author of this article is word, carefully tapping out, only a word not bad reading, you can stand in the author's perspective, understand each of the words, The meaning behind each sentence can profoundly understand the value that the whole article conveys.

Some people may have asked again? Now that there is so much information, how can I read a word?

This is the most important thing, and now the information is really many, but the information you really valuable is very few, when you can do not bad reading, you will find ways to filter the information, such as you will choose from a bunch of public numbers are really valuable to you to make reservations, such as you no longer crazy pursuit of the number of books to buy, But the pursuit of buying a book is to read a book, encountered particularly good books, and even need a word to read repeatedly.

The reason many people read an article, some people feel very valuable, some people feel general, chicken soup only, before you read, has decided that this is a chicken soup, brainwashing, then this article will certainly not have any value to you, you certainly will not spend time to read this article carefully, and can let you sink into the heart, A word is not bad to read the article, how much will certainly have the value to you. Some people always look forward to see some of the so-called "dry", see some other categories of articles think chicken soup, spicy chicken, I now tell you, the real dry food is actually your own learning ability, you said I chicken soup, but in a sense, all the success of the study are Chicken soup, popular Li Huilai teachers of the article and methodology, Luo's thinking content is brainwashed, but learning to learn, subscribe to some of the so-called brainwashed people are many, some even some of the more successful entrepreneurs in our eyes, executives, all kinds of professional people.

Of course, if it is just reading, it is far from acquiring knowledge. the real acquisition of knowledge is through reading, in-depth thinking and practice. For example, how does the methodology described in an article apply to my work? For example, read a article about the business of my life what is the inspiration? For example, if you read a technical blog, do you really have to run and verify it yourself? So, a word is not bad reading is not a means, but a skill, in-depth thinking and practice is the most effective means of acquiring knowledge, however, if you do not have a word not bad reading, I think, you are very difficult to carry out the real meaning of deep thinking and practice.

So, from now on, start again from 2017, please sift out the most valuable information for you, and strive to do a word not bad reading, believe me, you will be like discovering the new World general surprise, persist, all of your growth only need to give time on the line.

PS: The previous article has a lot of readers to ask me to pay a subscription to which columns, I said, my paid subscription involves more areas, there are business, management, methodology, investment, products, etc., suitable for me is not necessarily suitable for you, and different stages of demand is not the same, for example, I now need to learn some management knowledge, However, as a beginner, I think your greatest energy should be spent on your current job, to improve the existing skills, first of all to pursue their own depth, you will have the opportunity to broaden their width, and you will naturally know what you need to widen the width.

So I'm not going to share the column I subscribed to, but I will occasionally share some of the common, useful things that I paid to learn and summarize, in a sense my paid subscription is already a screening, and through my own digestion, study, practice, summary, I think the most valuable things to share is a deeper screening, this sharing in addition to you have value, to me itself is a learning, summary, progress process, I hope we 2017 can progress together.

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How to improve your reading ability?