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Chapter 60 Five Step Reading Method

The famous mathematician Hua Luogeng advocated that the first step in reading is "from thin to thick".That is to say, reading must be solid, and every concept and theorem must be traced to the source and thoroughly understood. In this way, a thin book becomes "thicker" due to the addition of a lot of content. This is "from thin to thick".After this step, there is a more important step, which is to be able to analyze and summarize on the basis of the first step, grasp the essence, and grasp the whole.To achieve mastery.After such a serious analysis, you will feel that there are not many things that should be remembered. This is the process of "from thick to thin" in order to really improve efficiency.

For readers who seek knowledge for the purpose, it is best to master what they have learned as soon as possible.For this reason, mathematician Hua Luogeng created the "from thick to thin" reading method.How can we achieve "from thick to thin"?Combining with the reading experience of the predecessors, here is a set of reading procedures to realize "from thick to thin", which is called the five-step reading method from thick to thin.

Step [-]: Determine what to read

The ancients said "read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles". "Although there are many volumes, there are many eyes."Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, said in a poem: "Reading a book breaks through thousands of volumes, and writing like a god".How much is ten thousand volumes of books?A piece of "The Analects of Confucius" has only 1 words, and a piece of "Mencius" has only 37 words, which are not as many as a newspaper.This is an ancient book, and reading the first volume is equivalent to reading a few thousand newspapers with no more than 3 million words. Although the volume is not small, it can be done.

With the development of human beings today, the situation is different.Books can be described as boundless, even if it is a book of a certain subject, it is difficult to finish reading in a lifetime.The most important thing for us when we face Zhihai Shulin is to choose, recite what is suitable for memorization, intensive reading for intensive reading, rough reading for rough reading, and do not read for unsuitable reading.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Zhidong wrote a book called "Questions and Answers on Bibliography", which was specially written for his students. One of the purposes was to tell his students to choose good books to read and not to read bad ones, that is, to read books to read. There are options.The so-called choice means first looking at the table of contents or content summary of the book you are reading, and then determining which content should be read and which content should not be read according to the needs.If there is nothing in the whole book that should be read, then don't read this book.If it is a textbook and its reference books, it is mainly guided by the teacher; if it is an extracurricular reading, it is mainly famous and famous articles recommended by experts.

Reading can be a pastime, can increase talent, and can be inspirational. For primary and middle school students, it is most worth advocating to choose extracurricular books for the purpose of inspiration.Some students, after becoming interested in reading, read a book like a cow seeing green grass, regardless of good or bad, they gorge on it.This approach is highly undesirable.There are so many books in the world, so complicated, and you can't read them all in a lifetime without choosing them!Not only that, some books have toxic side effects on teenagers, if they read indiscriminately, they are likely to be lured away from the right track.If it is selected according to actual needs, a broad sense of "from thick to thin" will be realized.Peter Shiga in Gogol's "Dead Souls" reads desperately no matter what book, and reads indiscriminately.As a result, I studied hard all my life and got nothing.Belinsky pointed out: "Reading a book that is not suitable for you is worse than not reading it. We must learn such a skill to choose the most valuable and most suitable reading material for our needs."

Step Two: Clarify the Focus
For all the key content learned and all the knowledge that should be stored, you can use a pen to mark the bottom with wavy lines or make other marks, and you can also write your experience and add eyebrow comments.Read these contents in the next review, and you don't need to read other contents.Mark the key sentences in the key content and the key words in the key sentences, and filter out those redundant words and words.This is what Einstein said, "Find in what you read that leads you to the depths, and discard everything else that overburdens the mind and distracts you from the point. For all you For the confirmed key content, you can take notes while reading, and then go back and sort out the notes to make them networked or organized. Finally, the internal storage should be kept in memory, and the external storage should be classified in time for external storage .

Step [-]: Repeatedly understand, comprehend, and memorize the content that should be stored
At the beginning of learning, if there are one or two things that you don’t understand or can’t remember, it doesn’t matter. Keep reading, and after the content is connected, you will naturally understand it.

For science knowledge such as mathematics, physics and chemistry, it is necessary to do more exercises on the basis of mastering the basic concepts, basic theories, and basic methods to deepen understanding, memory and improve resilience.

Step Four: Summarize
After finishing each chapter and even the whole book, summarize and generalize the content that should be mastered.The sorted out content can be written on a few sheets of paper, or transcribed on a summary card, or marked with eyebrows, so as to realize the leap of "a thick book becomes a thin book, and a thin book becomes a sheet of paper".At the same time, on this basis, ask some questions about all the content you should know and meet, and answer them one by one by yourself.It is convenient and time-saving for reviewing in the future.

For the knowledge scattered in books that should be stored outside, transcribe cards and archive them.

Step [-]: Review every once in a while

This refers specifically to internal knowledge.The purpose of reviewing is to blow off the dust covering the memory, and it should be done in good time, otherwise the dust will be too thick and it will take time to remove it.

For liberal arts knowledge, you can mainly answer the questions raised in the fourth step during review; for science knowledge, you can mainly solve application problems.

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