Reading notes: "How to read a book"

Reading notes: "How to read a book"

The 2012 annual goal is to read 12 books, after reading 11 books more and more feel the book is the best way to improve the mind, but also regrets that they have read it technology books more, and other aspects of the book too little. "How to read a book" was originally the 12th book of the 2012, but the book is too thick, read more in front of the feeling, the following chapters read feel the author is a bit wordy, reading notes have not been sorted out, intermittent reading and reading while finishing the process encountered the "Don't tell me you will take notes" this book, found that the original How to read books, how to write reading notes also have related books, write reading notes do not have to be too wedded to form, the key is to sort out the next action can be taken, into action, just what GTD said next action!

The first edition of this book is 1940, 1972 comprehensive revision, did not expect half a century ago someone wrote a guide to read, read a lot of books also do not know to divide into several levels of reading, also did not think of reading should be fast slow is slow.

The French scholar, 300 years ago, said: "Read too fast or too slow to get nothing."

The book is divided into four, and the reading of the 4 levels are basically corresponding, the first introduction to the level of reading, and detailed description of the first two levels of basic reading and review reading , the second is a detailed introduction of reading the third level of reading, The third chapter introduces the methods of reading different readings, and the fourth one is about reading the highest-level subjects .

The first reading level chapter one the vitality and art of reading

People who read readers refer to those who are still accustomed to absorbing a great deal of information from written words to improve their understanding of the world today. The author mentions in an age when the computer has not been popularized that "the modern media is holding up our comprehension with overwhelming information", then look at now, all kinds of information is overwhelming, people drown in the sea of information, it may really be a kind of digital pollution, it is rare to find quiet time to think. The relationship between the author and the reader is like the relationship between the pitcher and the Catcher in baseball, the good pitcher knows how to "control the ball", uses the article to convey the information accurately, and the reader is more likely to catch the ball, of course, some of the author's articles are not very well understood, because sometimes they do not know what to say.

The definition of reading art : This is a process by which the mind works, in addition to some of the words in the reading, not false any foreign aid, to self-help to enhance the ego.

The art of reading includes all the techniques of non-assisted self-discovery learning: Keen observation, sensitive and reliable memory, imaginary space, and, of course, well-trained analysis and ability to think.

The purpose of reading is divided into three types, one for recreation, one for information, and one for improving understanding. The last one is reading, but it should be called the learning process, where learning refers to understanding more things, rather than remembering more information.

Montaigne said: "The ignorance of beginners is not to learn, and the ignorance of scholars lies in learning."

Chapter II Levels of Reading

Reading is divided into 4 levels:

1) basic reading Elementary Reading: This level is to understand the literal meaning of the book, this is only the primary school to master the reading skills.

2) View reading inspectional Reading: also known as skimming or pre-reading. is to read a book in a short period of time and master the focus of the book.

3) Analysis reading analytical Reading: For a meaningful book, read and read it all, as Francis Bacon said, "some books are to be tasted, some are to be eaten alive, and only a few books are to be chewed and digested." Analytical reading is a book that chews and digests.

4) theme reading syntopical Reading: It can also be called comparative reading. To read some of the relevant books, to find out the points in each book related to a topic, and to analyze the similarities and differences of opinion, it feels a bit like the process of literature review prior to writing a graduate thesis.

Chapter three reading the first level: basic reading

This stage was completed during primary school, and the ability to read the basic reading was achieved through the four stages of the reading preparation stage, the literacy phase, the establishment of vocabulary, refinement and promotion. Most of the basic reading stage is next to the teacher's guidance.

After the notes were written here, I just saw the article "Don't Tell me you'll take notes" by Eiichiro, a section on how to write reading notes. If you want to make the book information work, you should focus on how to utilize it. The use of this is referred to as "the application of book content to work". The method of Eiichiro is to sift out "what to do" from the contents of a book immediately after reading it in a notebook. This is the Action book review, which is the same as the plan. Also happens to be the collection of GTD, and then the process of organizing into action. The original process of reading is a rich GTD system in the process of Inbox, as for the notes of the recording method, how all the line. List by article, illustrations, mind map also does not matter, it is important to use.

The value of reading is learning.

So the back of the reading notes are changed to organize the action.

The second level of reading in the fourth chapter: viewing reading

There are two ways of doing this:

1) Systematic skimming

is to look at the title, look at the table of contents, look at the index (which I have not noticed before), see the publisher's introduction, to find relevant chapters read, casually turn to read a few pages.

2. Read it again quickly

For some of the more difficult books, read through first, do not understand the place does not pause, has been read.

A quick reading technique: combine the thumb with the index finger and middle finger, and use this "pointer" to move along a line of words, faster than your eyes feel. Force your eyes to follow the movements of the hand, and once your eyes can move with your hands, you will be able to read those words, and then slowly increase the movement of the quick.

The fifth chapter how to make a self-demanded reader

Four questions to ask when reading a book:

1) What is the main talk of this book?

2) What did the author spend a lot of space talking about? What's the word?

3) Does this book make sense? Where does it make sense?

4) What does this book have to do with me?

The third level of reading: Analysis reading the classification of a book in the sixth chapter

Directly see the third article, found that the author divides the book into: Practical books, imaginative literature, history books, science or mathematics, philosophical books, social science.

Seventh Chapter perspective a book

Analysis of the first stage of reading: Find out the rules of what a book is talking about

Rule 1: Classify books

Rule 2: Use the shortest text to explain what the whole book is talking about.

Rule 3: List the outline of the book, and think of the most appropriate mind map.

Rule 4: Find the problem that the author wants to solve.

The eighth chapter and the author find common meanings

Chapters eighth and Nineth explain the second stage of reading: The rules of the content of a book

Rule 5: Find a keyword or glossary and reach a consensus with the author.

The Nineth chapter judges the author's purport

Rule 6: Find out the gist of the author. The translation of the sense of the subject is a bit inaccurate, and it may be more appropriate for the proposition to translate into "propositions", which the author expresses in the judgment of something, and insists on this or that fact that the full text will have multiple propositions.

Rule 7: "Know what the author's argument is, find the relevant sentence from the content, and then re-structure it". After reading this paragraph of the original book, it is difficult to understand what the author is saying, and it feels like finding arguments to support these propositions .

Rule 8: Match rule 4 to find out the author's answer. Determine what issues the author has solved and what is unresolved. Then judge what the author knows about his unresolved problems.

The tenth chapter is a fair judgement of a book

Analysis of the third stage of reading: the rule of commenting on a book, like communicating knowledge.

A. General rules of wisdom etiquette

Rule 9: Unless you have completed the outline structure, you can also interpret the whole book, otherwise you should not criticize it easily.

Rule 10: Don't be competitive, not argue.

Rule 11: Before you say a comment, you have to be able to tell the difference between a real knowledge and a personal point of view.

The 11th chapter makes the same or opposes the author

B. Special criteria for critical views

Rule 12: Insufficient knowledge of the author.

Rule 13: Prove the author's knowledge error.

Rule 14: Prove that the author is illogical.

Rule 15: Proof of the author's analysis and justification is incomplete.

The third way to read different readings

The 13th chapter to the 14th chapter is about reading practical, imaginative literature, story/drama/poetry, history books, science or mathematics, philosophical books, social sciences, these different reading methods, according to some chapters taught in this book to slow reading, some chapters to fast read the idea, this article quickly read, in reading a book, then turn over the corresponding chapter.

The fourth reading of the final goal 20th chapter reading the fourth level: theme Reading

It feels like a literature review before a graduate thesis, a book that is closely related to the subject of his research, and can be used in this way.

21st Chapter Reading and the growth of the mind

If the purpose of your reading is to become a better reader, you cannot touch any book or article to read.

If you will spend the rest of your life on an uninhabited island, with 10 books to accompany, of course, no ipad, no wireless internet on the island, which 10 books will I choose?

The question is a bit hard to answer. Bible? 1000 Math puzzles? Ai Daquan? 1000-game chess spectrum?

Reading notes: "How to read a book"