On the watercress people asked about the usual is how to read, then summed up a few points.
How to read
- Read when there are light weight, some places fast, some places slow, specific where fast which slow I also can not get out of what law (see "How to read a book").
- To cite an example: I used to read books is the flow of the book, and now I will be a very careful look at the table of contents, directories often contain the highest level of knowledge structure, and then I will pick the most interesting part of the reading, if found to use the previous content to jump to the front to add. Generally speaking, the most interesting part after reading, the rest is not so urgent, big can easily take a look.
- In addition, the habit of reading and thinking helps to deepen the impression, to see the important place, to take notes, even if you do not look at their own notes, just write down can greatly deepen the thinking.
- Some books can be skimmed, because the meaning of the place is not a lot (but can not absolutely not read, because after all, there are some important things), such as "focus" I spent less than two hours to read, mainly to see some examples, the author's explanation I found no need to look at, with examples of their own can be analyzed, Without the author's explanation, the preconceptions can be more thoroughly analyzed. On the other hand, "social animals" took several days, because the speculative density is very high, it is worth careful analysis and even participate in the author's thinking.
Categories of Reading
- I generally divide the book into two categories, one of which is knowledge. A class is thinking. (Of course, there is a third category, which is entertainment, not discussion:-) ）
- Generally speaking, I prefer reading to develop thinking, such as "Are Your lights on?" "," Decision and judgment "," Don't Do normal fool "," How to Think straight about Psychology "," Mathematics and Conjecture "," Ask the right Questions "... Because the things in thinking are interdisciplinary, they can be used at any time. And, conversely, if the thinking is not cultivated well, learning things are easy to go wrong direction or less. Of course, the words come back, the light to look at the book, not to choose a door or a few fields of knowledge, but also thinking and not learning is dangerous. So the so-called "more inclined" refers to the temporal distribution.
- Time allocation aspect. Generally in the process of learning the knowledge of things to take time to read the book of thinking, while learning to think, so as to maximize the ability to exercise thinking. In addition, the thinking of the book, I think is to read the finer the better, read the process of thinking the deeper the better, must not view its roughly to understand. Understanding is only the first step, to achieve "like xx thinking", need to constantly reflect on themselves in the process of reading, but also need to stand in other places to learn other people's thinking way ("Put on other people's shoes"), so as to the most effective way of thinking of others into their own.
- Methodological aspects. (I now think,) the knowledge of things, in the learning method of the most important thing is to pay attention to two points: 1) view its essence. 2) view it in its approximate. In addition, only when the urgent need to use, it is necessary to pay attention to technical details. It is worth adding that I do not mean to look at the details. Some of the details are important, and 80% of the most important details tend to be mastered within 20% hours. Look for the rest of the time.
The habit of Reading
- Any point of time can be used for reading. For example, I walk to the cafeteria every day, usually 4-5 minutes on the way from the lab to the cafeteria, and I find that at least two pages can be read (and not a fiction book, but an informative book). Two or 200 pages of books will be read in 3 months each day. A bit of time together is a "long tail", think about how many of these 4-5 minutes a day, 3 months can read how many books. (There is a group on the watercress with "go everywhere with a book"). Reading in this way, after reading it, is like not spending any time at all.
- Once you stop, you don't know when to pick up and read again. So a "three days fishing, two days" people often to the end will become "all day long nets, never fight fishing." A thick book, as long as a day to see a little, always have to read the day, and can be counted out how long it takes to read. On the contrary, there is never the day to start.
The habit of Thinking
- Anything worth thinking about during reading can be thought of when any brain is free: brush your face, rest, walk, sleep, etc. I believe that once you become a habit, even when you are not aware of it, the unconscious level of thinking, accumulation of the use of others can not use a lot of time. In addition, deeper thinking about knowledge can greatly deepen memory.
- Thinking is definitely not a tiring thing, but a relaxing thing.
Original link: Reading and thinking http://mindhacks.cn/2008/04/08/reading-method/
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