How often do you read books? Most people read about 1,000 books in their lifetime, but there are those who don't read them at all. Statistics say that only 55% of Russians and 51% of Ukrainians read at least 1 book in 2017. An interesting fact: according to the results of a survey in the Russian Federation, it turned out that people from the villages read the most (on average 6-7 books), and the least (on average 5 books) are residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The person who reads can be seen from a mile away. He is comprehensively developed and smart, while being an excellent conversationalist. In life, such people are much easier to cope with difficulties and achieve their goals.
Finally, almost all successful individuals devote a significant portion of their time to reading. Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Pavel Durov - they all read from 50 books a year and encourage people to do this in their public speaking and interview. But are books really as useful as people think they are?
“Knowledge is power,” they tell each of us from early childhood, but this statement is not entirely correct. Knowledge is only potential power which is worthless until put into practice. This fact explains the fact that out of millions of book lovers, only a few manage to achieve any significant heights. Unused knowledge is useless, and only actions bring results.
However, the books provide more than just a collection of facts. There are several types of reading.
The usefulness of search and browsing reading is limited to getting the right data quickly. Studying and introductory reading in this regard is much more productive. A person not only receives dry facts, but also engages the analytical and creative parts of the brain.
These changes are possible only with studying and introductory reading, when the reader plunges into a kind of trance, remaining alone with his mind. Such mental condition most often occurs when a person has been reading something very interesting for some time. External world disappears and is replaced by vivid images, created by the imagination based on what they read. This means that the brain is focused only on the book and is actively developing, involving both hemispheres.
Based on this, it is difficult to divide books into "useful" and "useless". Indeed, in themselves they are only a clot of information, and personal growth occurs mainly due to the reading process itself. Thus, when studying fiction the right, creative hemisphere of the brain will work and learn more actively, and the non-artistic - the left, analytical.
1. Set a goal. The benefit of reading will be maximum only if it has a clear purpose. For example, if you urgently need to find important information, it makes sense to use a viewing or introductory reading method, and study a useful fragment in more depth. If with the help of a book you hope to learn something in detail, the study method will do.
2. Choose a good book. Read everything - bad idea. Choose only high-quality literature. Read reviews and reviews, carefully review the content. Do not start reading until you are sure that the book contains exactly what you are looking for.
3. Read in short sessions. Read "in one gulp" is remembered poorly. If you are going to read a book in a study or introductory way (in its entirety), divide the process into several days or even weeks. Non-fiction is best read in the morning, when the brain is alert and open to new knowledge, while fiction is more suitable for evening sessions.
4. Write down what you read. When reading specialized literature, write down the most important theses. So you will remember them much better and will be able to quickly find them if necessary.
5. Give up perfectionism. Do not read simply because it is "a pity to quit." If the book was useless for you, there is no point in it. Leave her alone and do the really necessary literature. It doesn't matter how much you read if you don't remember and learn anything.
6. Read regularly. Accustom yourself to daily reading and soon you will notice how your life will begin to change in better side. You will become more confident, smarter, witty, more sociable, and difficulties will life path stop scaring you.
Just imagine that you can learn absolutely any skill, communicate with great people who died millennia ago, learn almost any fact known to mankind. Whatever your question, the answer is in the books, as many hundreds of people have asked it before you. In a word, in the battle on the life fronts of the book - the best weapon. Arm yourself!
A person striving for success and regularly working on his own development constantly needs new knowledge and the necessary information, which can be obtained using the Internet, trainings, seminars, and, of course, from books. Books are the most accessible source of knowledge and useful information, however, this does not mean that reading them is an easy task. You need to know how to read books the right way! This article will give the basic rules for reading books.
If reading a certain book seems useless, boring and uninteresting to you, should you keep reading? Why waste time on something that you do not need now and may never be useful? In order to read books correctly, it is important to be able to choose them.
The choice of a book should be approached in the same way as buying an expensive thing, because it is your future experience and a wealth of knowledge on which your movement to success directly depends. Having learned choose the right books, you will save money and time and find really worthwhile information.
It is correct to read those books that correspond to your goals, which can help solve the tasks you are facing (we are talking about specialized literature that helps to improve your skills as an employee, books on self-development and general educational books, which include works of domestic and foreign classics). Therefore, before downloading hundreds of e-books or go to the bookstore for the next bestseller, ask yourself - What do you want to know or what skills do you want to acquire? One of the main rules of reading books is to choose a book that suits your needs and goal setting!
You can sort through the endless variety of books and choose those that you need to read, based on your professional and life goals, using the Internet.
Choose a few authors who have established themselves, have a reputation, authority and practical experience in learning and using the knowledge you need. Check out their biographies, visit social media sites for reading enthusiasts, read reviews from readers and critics. Pay special attention to the content and description of the book (it can be indicated both on the cover and on the spread), find out if it suits you and if it contains the information you need.
After reading a few paragraphs from the book, you will understand whether this publication is interesting, whether the material is presented in a complex or accessible language. The book should be read with ease, because texts that are realized only in deep understanding are not interesting to read.
It is also important to decide which author you want to read foreign or Russian. For example, economic skills are more known to Western authors, and they understand this better than ours. However, this can not be said about all authors and not about all books.
How to read books correctly? Read actively! In the process of reading, it is useful to underline, highlight, comment on and write out the most significant and significant parts of the text. By highlighting important information for yourself, you are better learn and memorize material, do not let yourself relax and keep your mind focused on the right material, and not just run your eyes through the text. Of course, the active reading method does not apply to reading fiction, which you read just to relax. Active reading is more suitable for special and professional literature.
As a rule, when reading books, you can use mind mapping. They will help to structure the information that needs to be clearly understood and remembered for a long time.
To better understand what you read, Mortimer Adler, author of How to Read Books. A guide to reading great works, advises you to follow three rules for reading books:
Undoubtedly, reading books is good for the professional, intellectual and moral development of a person, but reading can also be dangerous. So, for example, if you read more than you have time to understand and comprehend your own thoughts, they are replaced by the thoughts of the authors of the works that you read. , suggests moderation - to make it clear that you are not just reacting to quotes and thoughts of others, but also producing something of your own.
Another important book reading rule- ask yourself more often about how this or that advice can be useful to you and how you can use it in your life.
It happens that after reading one book on self-development, a person begins to voraciously read another. In most cases, the efficiency of such reading is zero. Since the information received is not used, it is forgotten over time, because a large flow of information (knowledge) simply does not have time to fit in the mind. Therefore, after reading the book in its entirety, do not rush to download or buy another one, but rather draw up an action plan for development based on the knowledge gained. Apply the acquired knowledge in practice. Good book- this is not a tabloid novel that is read in one day, but a gift of fate that you need to skillfully translate into practice.
Remember, not everything you read may necessarily be applicable to your situation and to you personally. The author only describes your point of view, and you don't have to stick to all the new ideas like God's commandments. Throw away the useless and take the useful.
If you come across unknown expressions, phrases or words, do not be lazy, find out their meaning and interpretation. Also, do not be lazy to look at links and notes, sometimes there is quite interesting, and most importantly, useful information.
It is not right to read books on different subjects interspersed, it is better to study books that complement each other or consider the same problems, but from a different angle (discussing with each other). This allows you to better understand the book you read and consider the subject from all sides.
Use a bookmark. Of course, you can do without it: bend the corner of the page, leave a mark with a pencil, or turn the book over at the desired spread. But it's much easier to buy or make a bookmark with your own hands, especially since you won't ruin the book.
If you liked the book, and you learned a lot of useful information, then share your joy with others - leave a review about the book in in social networks, write a full review on your blog, make a list best quotes, recommend the book to friends and acquaintances. So you will not only help someone gain valuable and unique knowledge, but you yourself will once again sum up the reading of the book and sort out the information learned while reading.
Summarize. Correlate reading books with your goals and objectives, read thoughtfully and slowly, analyze what you read and apply knowledge in practice and this work will not be in vain!!! - way to unique knowledge which leads a person forward and provides opportunities for improving life, professional and personal self-improvement.
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I keep extracting necessary information from Burke Hedges' Read and Get Rich. This topic will be of interest to anyone who loves to read. Those who do not love, I invite. The effectiveness of reading any book depends on how you work with it. Therefore, today we will talk about how to read books correctly, extracting from them only information that is valuable to us.
It's better to read it once and fully understand the message of the book than to read it and forget it, isn't it? After all, we read in order to expand our horizons and learn something, and not “for show”. It’s not enough just to read, you also need to get the maximum of useful information from the literary publications with which you plan to work. Reading a book means working with it.
What does it mean to "read correctly"? Imagine, you read, you read, you read it, and then bam, and after a month you forgot everything you read about. Well, maybe not everything, you still remember something, but, nevertheless, you missed a lot of important details that the author emphasized. By the way, if there are problems with memory, then you can.
The art of reading is the ability to catch an important message in the general flow of information.
In order not to re-read the book in the second or third round in search of these details, it is better to learn to read it correctly once - so that you read it once, pull out all the most delicious from it and close it once and for all with peace of mind. Those who like to savor the same books 100500 times, this is hardly the case.
To increase the depth of understanding books read To become an effective reader, one must master the three steps of effective reading.
Let's look at each step separately and delve into their essence.
Simply put, this preview books. It's like getting to know a movie by watching its video trailer.
I'll give you an example. Imagine that you are buying a house. You wouldn't buy it just by looking at pictures on the internet, would you? I do not think. In any case, you will want to get acquainted with the big picture: personally look into each room, take a walk around the courtyard and the surrounding area, chat with neighbors, compare prices for similar dwellings in the area.
It's the same with books. Picking up a book for the first time, get acquainted with its “big picture”. This is what will be called "rough" reading. So that you do not think, do not wonder where to start, I give you a few tips that will make this task easier for you.
This is how a rough reading of each book that you pick up is done. Personally, I spend, on average, 10 minutes of my time on this, depending on how voluminous the book is. At first glance, it may seem to you that all this is nonsense and you can do without all these preludes. But this is only at first glance.
I confess that I also considered draft reading unnecessary until I tried it in practice. Reading like this is great for capturing the essence of the author's message, as well as increasing your understanding and comprehension of what you read.
Friends, this is only the first step of the Three Steps effective reading system. There are 2 more to go. See you in the next article, in which I will cover Step 2, called Active Reading (already covered). See you.
Some books are easy enough to try, others you want to swallow in one fell swoop, and there are those that take a long time to chew and digest.
Francis Bacon
What could be easier, right?
Yes, indeed, if you read just for fun, just to kill time, then that's pretty much what happens. But if you want to take something useful out of this lesson, you want to gain knowledge and new experience, it's not that simple. And that's why.
In 1940, Mortimer Adler wrote a work entitled “How to read books. Great Reading Guide" which is now considered a classic. Today we will try to very briefly get acquainted with some of his provisions, expressed about 75 years ago, but not losing their relevance to our time.
This study found that there are four different ways reading.
Next, we will dwell in more detail on the second and third types of reading as the most relevant and useful skills. Because elementary reading is probably already familiar to you, since you are reading these lines, and research reading is a rather specific kind of activity that will interest a few. With analytical and inspection reading, the picture is completely different: many people need it, but far from all people know it. So what do you need to do to take your reading skill from elementary to the next level?
As mentioned above, this type of reading is applicable in a number of situations. For example, in a store you need to quickly assess the feasibility of buying a particular book, quickly understand the essence of a voluminous report, be aware of the latest developments in your field of interest, and so on. In any case, you will be required to deep dive to text, and quickly capture and evaluate the information you need. To do this, you need to do the following.
This advice seems obvious, but so many people neglect it, immediately moving on to the content. But everyone knows that the author always gives great value the title and cover design, often putting into them the main meaning (or a hint of it) of the entire book. If you manage to guess this message, then much will become clear even before the first lines of the text.
This is especially true of business and popular science literature. Here you can immediately go to the ending to find out the main conclusions, and only then, if they interest you, proceed to get acquainted with their proof.
If you pick up a book on the Web, then it will not be difficult for you to get acquainted with the opinions of other readers. Although these comments should be taken with a certain amount of skepticism, since sometimes they are dictated by selfish motives to increase sales or, conversely, "drown" the author. But you can still find book sites that publish reviews of real people.
Thus, by following these simple steps, you can easily form a preliminary opinion about almost any book. This skill will help you choose really worthwhile materials and cut off unnecessary ballast in literally 5-10 minutes, which will save you years of life.
It should be noted that not every book deserves to be read in this way. This way of reading should only be used when you really want to get the most out of your reading. If you are unable to apply analytical method reading, no book - even the most useful and necessary - can give you everything that the author puts in it. Let's see how to get the most out of what we read.
A simple inquiry into the identity of the author can do much to clarify the motives and characteristics of his work. Agree that the book is about ways to achieve financial success will inspire much more credibility if it was written by a practicing entrepreneur, and not a ruined loser. Or, for example, a novel about the war will be read in a completely different way if the author's biography contains the corresponding episodes.
Before diving into the depths of the text, set aside some time for the brief introduction described in the previous section. Do not miss the opportunity to get information from the analysis of the title, content, preface and so on.
Read the entire book to the end, but try not to drag out the process too much. Adler calls this “surface reading,” which is when you get to know the contents of a book without going into too much detail. This means that if you come across a difficult or incomprehensible passage, then do not immediately try to deal with it, but simply make a note and continue reading. When you finish the book, you need to return to your bookmarks and pay maximum attention to all the controversial and incomprehensible points. Attract additional sources, re-read some places again, but as a result, you should not have dark places in the material being studied.
After completing the book (and analytical reading is work), write a short report reflecting your main impressions and knowledge. It is best if you compose it in the form of answers to the following simple questions. Ideally, if you do it in writing.
Yes, such a rigorous approach to reading does not contribute to the rapid absorption of literature and, perhaps, may seem too tedious. But on the other hand, you can definitely be sure that every book in your life will leave its mark and you will get the most out of every hour spent with a book in your hands.
Reading is not only a fascinating activity, but also a certain obligation of a person. Thanks to the ability to read, a person receives maximum information in his life - he determines the format of the store, the composition of the product, learns about the diagnosis, and much more.
The question of how to learn to read quickly is considered in childhood, however, for an adult, this skill or familiarization with it turns out to be important. Next, we will consider ways to quickly read, because reading quickly means more time and learning.
The speed reading technique is called speed reading. Why is it necessary in principle? The fact is that a person acquires new knowledge only under the condition of visible perception.
More than 95% of the information entering the human brain is provided by the ability to see.
At the same time, reading is no exception. important information necessary to achieve its purpose.
Imagine the situation: you are in trouble of a legal nature, and only brochures with Criminal, Tax, Labor or Civil Codes RF. In which book to look for the information you are interested in is unknown, and the time to solve the problem is limited. How to act in such a situation?
In this case, the untrained brain will not find the right answer to the questions, and if it does, it will not be able to perceive it properly. As a result, the problems that have arisen will only get worse.
Experts say that a person who not only reads a lot, but owns the technique of speed reading:
Such statements are not groundless - for this, specialists from various systems have conducted numerous studies. They came to the conclusion that it is possible to get a decent education in life only with the help of a large number of books read.
An educated person can always find a job to their liking and with good material support. Successful man strives for self-improvement, which is also achieved by reading certain updated literature.
You can get the necessary information only from newspapers or other sources that you need not just to read, but to read quickly. People with speed reading skills learn new things faster.
Not always even special exercises in speed reading help to achieve the desired result. There are certain reasons why the speed reading technique is "useless". These include:
The explanation of a complex and unknown word in the text should be done by the parents if the child reads and asks a question. Otherwise, please contact explanatory dictionary or the internet.
Teaching speed reading should begin with the study of the main points in technology. These fundamentals include the following:
These are just the main points that will help you master speed reading at home. Next, you should study the subtleties in the methodology.
In fact, speed reading is a complex of numerous techniques that are used to master a skill.
Methods are divided into groups - intended for children or adults. If we talk about adults, we can distinguish the following methods of mastering speed reading:
There is another interesting method on how to read books quickly. The method is simply called: "Storm Method". It is used by scouts when they need to understand and assimilate a large amount of information. The method is to use a book of scientific literature.
The volume of the book is at least 100 pages. The technique consists in preliminary preparation of the pages - it is necessary to draw a vertical line with a pencil strictly in the middle on each page.
The presented technique is trained by an individual, but anyone can master it.
You can also read special books on speed reading - these are the works of numerous specialists who offer various methods and ways to improve reading speed. Everyone will find for themselves the most interesting option which will help more.
It is not enough to know how to learn speed reading, it is necessary to perceive quickly read information, which is not easy to achieve.
Firstly, you just need to learn how to extract useful information from the read text. This helps to perceive the meaning of what is read much faster.
Secondly, it is important to use the clarified information in practice - in this case, a person begins to use speed reading to his advantage. Similar actions and foundations are compared with the study foreign languages- if there is no practice, memorized words will quickly be forgotten.
The following rules are distinguished on how to learn to read quickly and remember what you read:
Speed reading for children also exists, and the technique should be used immediately, as soon as the baby is ready to learn the skill. In the future, this will help to quickly and easily perceive the information received at school.
A child should be taught to read only after a full and independent analysis of his condition. The child is ready for learning if the following points are present:
More useful information here.
It turns out that teaching a child to read and teaching him the method of speed reading is possible only if there are no developmental problems. Do not start training at early age, if the baby is not interested in this, the work will not bring proper results, and training can generally “stand up”.
To instill in the child speed reading skills ( it is not recommended to fully teach this technique at preschool age), follow these steps:
Determine which technique is easier for him - and use it at first. As speed reading develops, change methods with more complex options.
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