10 rules of effective reading
Books / / December 19, 2019
How to effectively read a book? How do you know that the book deserves your attention? As a long time to remember what to read? editor service Smart Reading, Which collected sammari books non-fiction, shares with us tips on how to read effectively.
1. list of books
Most people experience the books a strange mixture of greed and apathy. We love to buy books, they hoard on shelvesBut not always read. Voluminous list of unread discourages.
Do not buy the book for future use. You just need one or two. All the rest will wait in the wings in the list to read. And try to buy less expensive illustrated editions - it's a nice gift, but not himself.
2. Rule 50 pages
Life is too short to spend it on uninteresting book.
Try to quickly weed out the boring and useless. It's enough to read the first 50 pages of the book. If she entice over 50 pages, it will not disappoint to the last. - if not, c'est la vie.
Try not to give a bad book a second chance. Every year around you published hundreds of thousands of new and exciting.
3. Who writes and what
Before reading familiarize yourself with the book: read about the author and the book, study the content. So you ask the right direction for your reading.
In addition, before the reading, ask yourself what you want to know about the book, what problems it will help you decide? This will help in the reading time to cling to the topics that are useful for you.
4. alternate formats
On the books of the world is large converged. In today's world lacks formats: articles, audio books and podcasts, Infographic and longridy, digests and mailings.
If the book you seem long and boring, so the way it is. Switch to other formats, felt for his.
5. Read with a pencil
Never read a book without a pencil. If you can not make a note or highlight a quote, reading is useless.
The book - it's just a mountain of verbal ore, from which you need to get a grain of sense. If you can not separate the rock from the gold nuggets, then why read?
Boldly underlines, highlight, write notes in their own thoughts and ideas. Turn the book into something more than a stack of hemmed paper. After such a meaningful reading a book is truly yours.
6. Not less than 30 pages a day
All people have their reading rhythm. "Marathon" is read by the month, by pinching off edition of the crumb. "Sprinters" run through the whole book in a couple of days. However, there is a simple and universal formula reading. It helps to read and finish to the end before you leave the interest and strength.
Try to read at least an hour a day and at least 30 pages a day. So you can take a book a week. It is 60 books a year - a great result!
7. mix genres
Everyone has a favorite genres. However, if too much to delve into the mystery novels and business books, there will come a glut. Even great books to please stop.
In this case it is useful to change the genre. Stir books like cocktail ingredients. After non-fiction read the volume of Russian classics. After it - a fantasy, and then a book on the negotiations.
The ability to alternate between literary genres - this is a great way to tone and develop your reader's outlook.
8. Write about read
If you are reading effectively, then you will accumulate quotes, passages and thoughts about the read. This is valuable information, this book concentrates. It is a pity to keep it in the trunk.
Start your book blog. Write a review of what they read, share quotations. Post your reading list, scold bad publications and praise good. To this end, suitable even Facebook, no special writers' skills will be required.
So you will have a place to store quotes and passages, and at your friends - a couple of reasons to love you even more.
9. Re-read notes
Get into the habit of rereading his book notes. If you "perezhmote" book a few pages, you will have enough time to half an hour too much of their book stocks.
Knowledge like a repetition. So the key ideas will always be at a distance from the hands of their practical application.
10. Presentation on the read
Not to forget to read the book, you tell your friends about it.
Smart Reading Many customers conduct internal workshops in which staff members share book-finds and tell stories. It can be carried out similar workshops among their friends or even family members.
So, if you write a small sammari on our advice, we get the following:
- Do not hoard books, read them daily for a minimum of 30 pages.
- Judge a book by the first 50 pages.
- Feel free to try different genres and alternative formats.
- Be sure to write out quotes and take notes.
- Share them in the blog and make presentations to colleagues and friends.