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Chapter 55 How to Read a Good Book

After choosing good and suitable books, how to read a book?
Reading books pay attention to grasping the key points

The main purpose of reading is to understand.It is necessary to establish a set of analysis system according to the theme, first observe a sentence with complete thoughts and paragraphs, then analyze the words that make up the sentence, and finally recognize the letters.That is to say, first find out the emphasis and purpose of the author's emphasis, and understand the structure of the book from the table of contents.Find a few important arguments and read them carefully.You can pretend to be a detective.To find clues such as themes and viewpoints in the book, one must be alert at all times in order to achieve the goal quickly.When reading a difficult book for the first time, it is best to read it in one breath, without stopping to think or check for what you don't understand.You can read it quickly, and when you read it for the second time, you can understand more and absorb more.Checking references too early not only doesn't help us, but hinders our reading.You must also be able to read at different speeds.You can also use your finger as a pointer, not only to train to increase reading speed, but also to promote greater concentration.

A very important principle of reading is active reading
Simple Rules for Active Reading Ask questions as you read, and must attempt to answer the questions yourself.With any book you read, you must ask questions that are also relevant to the point:

What is the book about in general?
What is the author detailing?
Is this book real?
What does this book have to do with me?
To be able to grasp the key points, point out the development of a series of ideas of the author, it is necessary to make all the ideas coherent in any case.

There is no other way to cultivate the habit, only to use continuous practice to form the habit of reading.Habits are second nature. Only by mastering the rules can we use them proficiently. Only by mastering the principles and continuous practice and application can we form habits.

Focused learning method is divided into three stages

The first stage finds the rules for the content of the book.

Classified according to the type and subject of the work.

Use the shortest possible text to describe the content of this book.

According to the context and sequence of content development, list the outline of each part one by one.

Identify the problem the author is trying to solve.

The second stage is the rules for interpreting the content of the work.

Find out the key words of the work, and fully understand the meaning of these words.

Find out the important sentences and grasp the author's main proposition from them.

Find interrelated sentences and organize them to understand the author's argument.

Identify the problems the author has solved and the ones he has not solved, and finally decide on the problems he cannot solve.

The third stage reviews the rules of a book.

General etiquette for making comments:
Before you fully understand the work, don't agree, disagree or have doubts arbitrarily.

Do not maliciously object or refute.

When criticizing a work, reasons or evidence for the criticism must be presented.

Special guidelines for critical views:
testify to the author's ignorance.

Allegation that the author conveyed false knowledge.

Testify against the author's illogical point of view.

Incompleteness of the author's analysis or explanation.

Explanatory books are mainly to convey knowledge, and only after thinking and grasping the key points, the rules drawn up can be understood at a glance.Wise behavior is based on knowledge.A theoretical book, telling the reader how things are.A practical book teaches readers how to do what they want to do and how to think about what must be done.What the theory wants to express is the truth of the matter and the content of the matter itself, rather than putting forward suggestions and methods to obtain better conclusions.The scope of philosophy books does not go beyond people's daily life experience.

Different kinds of knowledge must be read with appropriate attitude
It must be read with a perspective. To understand a book, the most important thing is to grasp the structure and the main points of the article.Every book worth reading has a complete structure, and each part is organized systematically.The more perfect the work, the more complete its structure.Every part that makes up the whole must be known, and there should be an organized connection between these parts.If there are parts that are not mere collections, but planned, orchestrated plots of complex combinations, one must try to find them.The plots in the world are very limited, and the quality of the story arrangement depends on how the author adds a coat to the backbone of the same plot.You must have your own experience, just like the author has his own point of view.

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