Book collector
Have you ever had such an experience?
Or, finally finishing a book! What is the book about? Uh…
I had this kind of confusion for a long time! As a result, I’ve become a book collector – buying far more books than I finish!
A book a day? !
There are quite a few netizens who say they read more than 200 books a year, or one book a day. I envy them how they do it?
At first, I felt that I was too slow in reading, reading word by word, forgetting the front when I saw the back. And the previous words are very similar, abandon the most familiar, behind all do not remember ~ so I specifically read some speed reading information, such as what “ten lines” and so on. I tried it and it didn’t work. Reading is to gain knowledge (except for recreational books, I am not interested in recreational books, automatic exclusion ~), although it improves the speed of turning books, but:
The higher the concentration required, the easier the fatigue, the shorter the duration. As a result, actual results have not improved much
Does not have much help to the harvest knowledge, is still read behind forget the front
The purpose of Reading
After the failure of speed reading, I thought, what is the purpose of reading books?
Learn professional field knowledge (depth)
Broaden one’s horizon
Generally speaking, I read to gain knowledge and integrate it into my own knowledge architecture for my own use!
Since it is to harvest knowledge, the speed of reading is not the main problem, the main problem is how to quickly absorb the knowledge of the book into their own brains!
How to gain knowledge quickly?
learning
Based on the above questions, I collected and read books on how to read! Here are four books that have helped me:
You don’t know how to read, and you want to succeed
Lever reading
How to read a book
How to ask questions: Critical Thinking
Why read it word by word?
Let’s start with the first two books, which have a similar approach:
Read a lot of similar books in a specific field
If similar ideas or knowledge are mentioned in the book, focus on it
Disadvantage is to compare cost of money ~
I didn’t use this method! I mention these two books because they made me reflect: why do I read every word?
There are two main reasons:
This is what I read in school. (No wonder I became less and less interested in learning.)
Books cost money, and every word is worth it
Programmer born, typical programmer thinking, love to die for details
But in fact, the more detail, the lower the harvest!
Reading is a process of thinking
Among the big gains were “How to Read a Book” and “How to Ask Questions: Critical Thinking.” One teaches how to read, and one teaches how to think!
How to Read a Book mentions four ways to read:
Basic reading
Examine the reading
Analysis of the reading
Readings on the subject
Penny-pinching reading is really at the basic reading level, which is about learning the basics – like literacy!
How to Ask Questions: Critical Thinking shows you how to find out what authors have to say, and how to support them!
From these two books, summed up their own reading process!
Reading tools
Let me start with my reading tools:
Paper books
Kindle Paper White
Mobile phone/tablet
Paper books
My favorite books are paper books, but there are several problems:
Don’t carry: Versus cell phones and Kindles
Unable to facilitate electronic: the knowledge points in the book need to be manually knocked into the computer to sort out
Expensive: Compared with other equipment, the price is relatively expensive
In contrast, the advantages are:
Rapid positioning
Does not affect reading speed or style: speed, slow or skip
Ink: Personal preference
Kindle
I’ve known about Kindle for a long time, and I didn’t sell it until Kindle Paper White came out. Paper books are better without backlights!
Kindle’s fatal flaw is that it turns pages too slowly! Hard to speed read and skip!
The advantages are:
Easy to carry: versus paper books and ipads
It feels great naked!
Eye protection: This is an advertisement! I bought the Kindle for my bad eyes! Later collect data discovery: no data can prove electronic screen than ink screen more hurt eyes! Myopic reason is to see near content time is too long, the eye did not get rest be caused by, do not concern with what screen! Even paper books!
Disadvantages:
Flip slow
Fragile screen: with a poor handle, not afraid of screen broken! Struggle ~
Mobile phone/tablet
Mobile phones and ipads have similar advantages and disadvantages. The difference is that mobile phones are easy to carry, but the screen is too small! The iPad screen is big, but not easy to carry!
The disadvantages of both are:
Too many apps can distract you from reading
Advantages are:
Resources more
Reading method
For now, I prefer paper books! The main combination of analytical reading and critical thinking to read! I think we can combine that with tomato time –25 minutes in blocks!
The main method is to ask questions and guess!
First read the title, the book on the back of the guide! Then guess what the book is about. What do you hope to get from it?
Then read the preface, the summary at the end of the book, some books have summary information on the back! See if it’s about the same as your guess! If so, read on. If not, what is it about? Is it what you want? If not, I will not read ~
Then read the table of contents to see how the book is structured! A book with a clear table of contents is, for the most part, a good book, and a book with an unclear table of contents is, for the most part, not a good book! Determine the description of the book from the catalog!
Read in order. Guess what the chapter is about from the table of contents. What do you need to know from the chapter? Then read the chapter to make sure you guessed correctly! As well as finding out what you need to know, look at the author’s opinions or experience and evidence! Have you been convinced? Or do you have a different idea! Make sure your problem is solved, and this chapter can be over!
After reading a chapter, organize it! Then go on to the next chapter!
After reading the book, review the contents of the arrangement! Sum up the harvest!
This method is best done in a continuous period of time! Like a weekend afternoon! Of course, there is no problem with time separation, but you need to recall the process! The whole time will be longer than the continuous time!
Through this method, I read a book of more than 200 pages, basically controlled within 3 hours! And the effect is much better than the word stingy way!
practice
Take the beauty of Data: A Book to Learn Visual Design (275 pages) for example:
Through the title and shelf guide, you can see how the book is about data visualization! Guesswork should be a book about how to present data in the form of charts (bar charts, pie charts, line charts), big data direction!
If you look at descriptions like the introduction, you can see that the book is not limited to presenting data as charts, but as graphs!
Then look at the table of contents, which is divided into seven chapters
· What is the data
· What is visual design
· Components for visual design
· Process of data visualization
· Visual user experience
· User experience supplement
· Introduction of visual tools
And then in chapter one, what is the data? First of all, what do you think the data is now? I think data is an abstraction of our real world! Then I started reading and realized that the author’s opinion was very similar to mine – data describes the real world! In addition to solving this problem, the author also explains the uncertainty of the data and the background information on which the data depends!
Repeat the above process
Conclusion: The purpose of visualization is to understand data! Data is the core, visualization is the means. In order to better display the data, you need to use appropriate visualization tools!
conclusion
Li Xiaolai once said: “study, study and study again”! First study is a verb, second study is a noun, third study is a verb! It means first learn how to learn, then learn! I used to hate this change of words to say the same meaning, in fact, that is to say, “do not mistakenly cut wood workers”! Now come to think of it, in this age of rapid consumption, vernacular is more appropriate than idiom!
Far off, the above method is an individual summary for their own reading method! In general, I fit the total (whole) -sub (detail) -total (summary) structure, someone might fit the total (detail) -total (whole) structure! You need to find your own way – learn to read and read again!