Nedochitannye book - is the norm. Stop blaming yourself for them

A Life / by admin / December 19, 2019

We've learned that you need to study the book from cover to cover, so for once bought and nedochitanny bestseller feel terrible guilt. But still we continue to go and see the bookshop, arranging home the whole collection.

And if fiction for understanding better to read in full, due to the non-nedochitannoy fikshen-book experience just not worth it. The main thing - to identify and internalize the right.

Why do not we finish the book

We live in a society dominated by knowledge. We are surrounded by a huge amount of diverse information. So overwhelming that difficult for us to grasp even a small part of it.

To disassemble the whole array of information and turn it to their advantage, the company is constantly coming up with how to efficiently search for desired data. They appear in different media and in different formats. And people still faces a very heavy volume knowledgeWhich are available to him. All this information boom makes us not only to read more, and to do it differently.

Surely none knigoman would not mind the old-fashioned dive into the world of fiction. But if you read business books in the same way, they can be boring and irrelevant. We are closing their half, read excerpts, and some did not proceed at all - and are experiencing now

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guilt. But nedochitannyh books there's nothing wrong.

Why do not need to blame yourself for unread books

The main thing - not the number of books read, and the amount of knowledge that you can get from them. If you learn to isolate the main and cut unnecessary unread books will no longer appear dead weight.

Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco has collected more than 30 000 books. Collection Thomas Jefferson had more than 6000 titles and was the largest library in the country. And Bill Gates from all the rooms in his house most of all loves huge library area of 195 square meters.

And they are unlikely to read all books entirely.

Most successful entrepreneurs reads only 20-40% of the purchased books. Many people read more than 10 books at a time.

I think I started to read half the books that I have, and finished about a third of what started it. The result is a finish 1-2 books a week.
Patrick Collison, Stripe founder, billionaire

To read as efficiently as possible, follow the example of successful people: to select and read the books they use special life hacking.

How to read the maximum benefit

1. Think of the book as an experiment

Emerson Spatz, serial entrepreneur and investor, read thousands of books. He believes that the purchase of the book - it's an experiment.

Indeed, you need to spend some amount of money and little time. But instead of one of the books can turn your a life.

And the more such experiments you spend, the higher the probability of success. Yes, most likely, you will have to choose, buy and explore dozens of books to find a really useful. But a successful experimenter is willing to put up with some losses.

Every time a purchased book is utter nonsense, you still get a step closer to the one that can change your life.

2. Practice reading fractal

All books are accompanied by metadata - this interview with authors, book presentations, abstracts, reviews, quotes, the first and last chapters. And often they are just as valuable as the whole book. And that's why.

They are free of charge. You can pre-evaluate an unlimited number of books. Consequently, every experiment with the purchase of an instance will have a greater chance of success.
You get access to the information in different formats - in the form of texts, audio and video - and you can fit it into your life as you wish. For example, you can see an interview with the author on the way to work or listen to an audiobook excerpt during cleaning.
The short version of the book mainly contains the key ideas.

The book - a brief collection of the best ideas of the author, and its metadata - a condensed version. Therefore, such a reading can be called fractal. Fractal - the figure, each piece of which is similar to the other and the shape itself as a whole.

Perhaps, in our time more efficiently read non-fikshen-book namely the method of fractal than from cover to cover. It is easier to determine, should immerse their heads and what are the most important in any work.

2-3 read the annotation to the book. They can be found on the Internet. Almost any book you will find several options for a summary, which often contain the most important information - 20% of those ideas that create 80% of the cost. We remind you that we are talking only about the genre of non-fikshen.
Listen to an interview with the author. The interviewer is working for you by asking relevant questions, carefully selected on the result of reading the book.
See performances of the author (in the TED format or lectures at the university). When the author has to accommodate a 200-page book in 20-minute lecture, he shares only the most important ideas and examples.
Read all reviews on the book useful. Not only positive but also negative.

Read the first and last chapters - they can be found in «Google Book" and sample for free. They usually contain the most valuable information. It is also worth paying attention to the first and last paragraphs of each chapter, because there is, as a rule, it sets out the basic idea.

3. Let unread books remind us how much you do not know yet

We always think we know a lot more than in fact. We are surrounded by constant reminders of what we have achieved, but we forget how this is not enough.

Compare all the knowledge that mankind could get, and what we have now - is like comparing the universe and the little grain of sand. Therefore, the value of intellectual self-criticism. It is able to give a realistic picture of ourselves and our place in the world, and it's inspiring to learn more.

Nassim Taleb, a successful investor and best-selling author, is a collection of unread books antibibliotekoy. The more you learn, the more it becomes this collection. She is living proof of how much remained outside of your mind. So it is a huge home library - is a tool for understanding, not to create the image.

4. Discard the good books in favor of the great

At any time, you have to read the book, which is out of all the books in the world suits you best. But as soon as you find something more interesting or important, you should immediately postpone it... Any other algorithm will certainly lead to the fact that you will gradually begin to read the worst.
Patrick Collison, Stripe founder, billionaire

In other words, do what you have been taught exactly the opposite. Instead of the solemn promise to finish each book for which you take, allow yourself to just remove it - but only if you find something better.

Just do not overdo it, abandoning the good books, simply because they saw more eye-catching headline.

How to understand, not too quickly you jump from one book to another? This is where the help fractal reading. If the passage from a book you do not see the right information, we can hardly to read it entirely.

5. Remember: each book - one time

Books, read at the right time, perceived not only consciously but also unconsciously. So, that's when they are the most effective.

The most important book on the shelf that you have not read. Even if you have a promising instance, may not yet time to start it. It can come in a year, maybe 10. But when the book gets in your eyes at the right time, you will immediately become interested in it and take off the shelf.
Eben Pagan, a successful American businessman

The ability to put the book is very valuable. Because it is important to read it at the right time, when the issues raised in it, will be genuinely interesting. Here's one more reason to appreciate paper books - you always see clearly, what can go.

6. Read books like magazines

Opening the magazine, we do not feel any guilt, selectively reading a page or flipping through it for five minutes. We flick through it to find the most interesting and relevant articles and then to plunge into thoughtful reading. "The log" reading books effectively for several reasons:

Helps you find important - something that should be studied in depth.
It helps to slow down, to extract the maximum information from the order in which we go.
Easier to read and make us consistently.

Entrepreneur Naval Ravikant noticed that many of the most valuable books - are the sources that make up the base for the other, written later. He believes that the age-old problem has long been solved and these decisions are likely at times better than new. After all, for years they experienced a great number of people.

However Ravikant notes that the primary sources is difficult to read. We are used to receiving information in small portions and excerpts from blogs and social networks. Therefore, the book can be read as well - flip through uninteresting, start from the middle and finish - and not feel any guilt.

Be literate reader and read not read the book, and the knowledge that you have learned.