reading skills

The books we usually buy are roughly divided into three types.

The first one is classic or textbook style.

The second book is a best seller.

The third kind is miscellaneous, maybe not classic, and it doesn't sell well. These books tend to focus on several key points, focusing on practice and experience.

The first kind of book, you must buy it, and you must hold it for a long time and read it many times.

The second bestseller can be read in large quantities, but purchased as appropriate.

Professional classics must be read as much as possible, but each of these classic books has a different focus, so it is not enough to read only one. You must read more books and cover all fields related to your major as much as possible.

The third kind of miscellaneous books related to various majors are bestsellers, which are widely read and quickly read, without long-term retention, and only extract the essence of notes. Because these books often have two characteristics: timeliness and practicality, it is conceivable that you can't find anything "new" in those "classic books". It is necessary to find and learn the third kind of books. But you don't have to read it carefully from beginning to end. Be sure to read quickly with questions and go to the book to find solutions to the problems that bother you in practice.

Such books often provide some effective guidance according to the author's personal practice, that is, the pursuit of "short, flat and fast". But this kind of book doesn't need to be kept for a long time. Only record the points that touch you the most and need to learn the most.

If you study efficiently,

The correct and effective reading strategy is: read classic books at least three times.

First reading: read the whole book quickly+know the content of the book.

At this time, I often just started working in a certain major, and my knowledge and experience in this major are extremely limited. So intensive reading is meaningless. If you can't connect words with practice, it will be difficult to understand and remember them thoroughly.

After reading it, you only need to have a general understanding of the contents of this book, and at most there are some opinions that impress you particularly.

As long as you can do it: if you encounter problems in the future, you can know that you can come to this book to find the answer. Enough!

Second reading: when the work requires, there may be a long time between the second reading and the first reading.

When you encounter specific difficulties in your work, or there is a big puzzle lingering in your mind, take this question and reopen this book to find the answer.

If you find the answer, you don't have to recite it. This knowledge has been automatically stored in your brain.

After repeated several times, the scattered parts of this book have been mastered by you, and the knowledge in these books will follow you in your future work, and you will gradually realize the meaning of the book in your work and projects.

The third reading: the bottleneck period of work

When you can't walk any further at work and feel that you have encountered a bottleneck, but you can't say the specific reason, it's time for you to start reading for the third time.

The basis of this reading is the reading experience before this book+the difficulties, problems, accumulated experience and my own understanding in practical work. When you combine these words with the words in the book, your professional knowledge level will improve to a higher level as a whole.

This is also an important watershed between ordinary workers and professionals: ordinary workers are often stupid and may have accumulated a lot of experience and skills, but they cannot reach a higher level in cognition; Professionals, on the basis of experience and skills, have a higher level of cognition and a higher vision in order to get a better judgment.

These are all the secrets of reading classic professional books correctly.

Generally speaking, when an author writes a book, he always wants to solve a new problem or put forward an opinion on an old problem that no one has ever seen. Through a book, he hopes to explain to you how he analyzed and studied and how he explored solutions.

When reading, if you can find the text of a book before reading, it is equivalent to "catching the thief and catching the king" and grasping the most important core contradiction of a book.

So how to refine the core argument of a book?

1. Look at the subtitle of a book.

The main title is often a big vocabulary or a highly concise advertising language, or even a text that the publishing house deliberately translated wrong for marketing. Subtitles are generally much more detailed and simple. The author's writing intention is often hidden here.

2, found in the preface or the first chapter:

Generally speaking, most authors will write a preface at the end of the book. The preface is generally not too long, but often every word is the essence, outlining the author's main ideas and his mental journey. Therefore, the preface is also the place where the author likes to reveal his "core point of view" most.

Sometimes the text of a book is not outside, but inside the content.

You can read the words that appear repeatedly in the book. For example, the biography of Franklin repeatedly said that "Franklin is a model of American middle class personality", which is actually the title of the book.

What's the use of finding a title?

First of all, combine the topic to see if your understanding of this book is correct. Secondly, when making reading notes, you must copy down the title of this book. You will find that when you know the title of a book, your reading ability will be greatly improved. Training yourself two or three books according to this will make amazing progress.