When we see others reading, we also want to read, but in the face of a variety of books, we don't know how to choose. Follow the trend, the selected books are either not understood or disliked. Sometimes I just read the title of the book and buy it directly, and the result is that the content is not what I need at all. Even if I choose some books, read one in the east and read one in the west, I still feel that the knowledge is very fragmented, the form is not systematic, and I can't get it out when I need to use it.
So how can you choose a book that suits you and can really improve your ability?
Recently, the mole's potato teacher recommended a "high-score reading method", which is said to be very thorough on the issue of book selection.
The author of the book is Kazuma Makoto Nishioka, a student at the University of Tokyo in Japan, who was still in his junior year when he wrote the book. He failed to apply for the University of Tokyo twice, and later, relying on the method summarized in this book, he was successfully admitted to the University of Tokyo when he applied for the third examination.
Then let's read the book "High Score Reading Method" together. We can use the key reading method to quickly read this book. The 5 key reading methods are: reading the recommended words, reading the preface, reading the table of contents, marking and browsing the whole book.
1. Read the recommended words
Through reading the recommended words, I know that the recommenders of the book "High Score Reading Method" are the doctoral supervisor of the Chinese Department of Shanghai Normal University, the editor-in-chief of Fan Deng Reading, and the founder of the well-known reading self-media. From their comments, it can be seen that the author of this book has deep research and practical experience in reading, and the concept of "active reading" proposed by the author Kazumachi Nishioka in the book is also refreshing.
Read the preface
From the perspective of the preface, the book "High Score Reading Method" is mainly a self-prologue written by the author, Kazumachi Nishioka.
In the self-prologue, several key words of the book are emphasized, active reading, reading and thinking.
3. Read the table of contents
As can be seen from the table of contents, the book is divided into two parts: high-score calligraphy and high-score calligraphy. Because we mainly want to know how to choose books this time, we can focus on the second part of the high-scoring calligraphy. And the zero move is an introduction, so I focused on the first move to the fifth move, which is also the chapter to focus on reading next.
Fourth, mark it with your hands
Then, in the process of reading, we can mark the knowledge points that we feel, move ourselves, and deserve deep thinking. You can scribble or make sticky notes, and finally organize them into the library. For example, in the book "High Score Reading Method", I put together the following ideas:
5. Browse the whole book
Browsing the entire book means reading the entire book quickly. There is no need to read verbatim, as long as you can solve the problem of book selection.
We can quickly scan each page of the second part of the high-scoring calligraphy, focusing on the "5 book selection tricks are what and how to use them". If the theory is understood at a glance, the case can be directly ignored.
By browsing the whole book, we found the specific content of the following 5 major book selections:
The first trick: read the bestsellers
When reading bestsellers, we can understand what books everyone loves to read now, and we can ask more of our own questions and think more in the process of reading. For example, why is this book selling well? What do it meet people's needs? What social problem does this reflect? By understanding these issues, we can understand the current market demand.
Then, read through the topic, connect and compare, and then summarize and integrate to draw your own conclusions. This is what we want to do when we read bestsellers.
For example, books on reading and writing are now selling well, why? The book will mention the pain points of many modern people, such as slow promotion, low salary, hoping to increase a skill through reading and writing, improve workplace competitiveness, or increase amateur income, create their own slash labels, and so on. Of course, if you look deeper, this is actually a kind of intellectual anxiety, and it also reflects the current situation of fierce competition and difficult survival in modern society.
Of course, understanding these can also provide direction for further book selection, and even have certain guiding significance for the direction of future efforts.
The second trick: believe in reliable recommendations
After saying the first trick, read the bestseller, and then look at the second trick to believe in reliable recommendations.
Because many times even if we want to increase our knowledge and improve our skills in a certain aspect, it is difficult to choose because the books on the market are so varied and mixed. At this time, if there are more professional people, first identify for us, it will take many detours.
Of course, in real life, we may not be able to find professionals to help us recommend anytime and anywhere, but there is no hurry, we have a better way to get reliable recommendations.
1. Web search
Now that the Internet is so developed, we can search for a list of books on a certain topic on the Internet, such as reading lists, writing lists, and financial book lists, and we can find that many professionals have sorted out the list of books, and why each book is worth reading has also been explained in detail. You can search baidu, you can also go to the major self-media platforms to search, such as Zhihu, Douban, Xiaohongshu, Baijia and Toutiao and so on.
2. Recommended for the previous book
In addition to web search, we also have a good way to use it, which is to read the recommendation of the last book. Let's say you're currently reading a book about reading. You can take a look at the books mentioned in it, or the last bibliography of books, and then find these recommended books to read. This is also a very good way, and through this method of tracing the source, it is often possible to find the true source of a theory.
The third trick is to transcend the classics of the times
Let's move on to the third trick, beyond the classics of the times. The reason why classics can become classics is because they all have values that transcend the times, classics can be passed on forever, and classic books can become the cornerstone of our thoughts.
For example, the world's masterpieces of classic literature, such as the works of Shakespeare, the works of Lu Xun, etc., have far-reaching significance at any time. The same is true of other professional classics, such as Stiglitz's Economics or Manquin's Principles of Economics, which are classics in the field of economics, psychology and life (16th edition) and Introduction to Psychology: The Road to Knowing Thought and Behavior (9th Edition).
The fourth trick is to set up an annual reading theme
After talking about the third trick, beyond the classics of the times, let's look at the fourth trick and set up the annual reading theme. Topic reading, that is, reading multiple books in one field at a time, allows us to quickly and deeply grasp the knowledge of one field. You can set up 10 reading themes a year, or one reading theme a month, for a total of 12 themes a year. This is the theme of setting up the annual reading.
The fifth trick is to face the difficult book
The last trick is to face up to the book that makes you difficult. Sometimes, when we can't read some books, we often want to back off. But reading is like eating, if you only read one or two areas of books, just like eating bias is easy to malnutrition, reading is unbalanced, the intake of knowledge will also be greatly affected, will greatly affect a person's ability to improve and develop comprehensively.
We can first make a difficult table, so that it will be much easier to choose a book later.
The work of the difficult watch is also very simple, that is, first draw the intersecting horizontal and vertical axes, and then mark the corresponding theme of the book. For example, on the horizontal axis are the past and the future, and on the vertical axis are science and liberal arts. Of course, you can also mark the corresponding themes according to your own needs, such as theory and practice, fiction and documentary, as well as literature and methodology. Then, write the title of the book you are reading to the corresponding topic. You can also mark a few books on the corresponding topic, and then choose the next book directly from the inside.
After learning these five tricks to choose books, you will no longer have to worry about choosing a book that suits you.
summary:
Through this reading practice, it can be found that reading with the key reading method is more purposeful and more efficient than reading from beginning to end without landing word.
This allows you to read it with some emphasis, as long as you grasp the content of the target chapter. And in the first three steps of the key reading method, the overall framework of the book and the context of the article I want to write have been taken out, so it is more rewarding to read.
In the process of reading, you can send the notes you wrote down to each platform to earn traffic.
Basically, after reading, the knowledge framework organized in the reading table of contents stage and the notes and materials in the process of browsing the whole book are combined, and then a little processing and arrangement can be organized to organize a book review. It's really reading and writing.
Therefore, for those of us who want to read books and monetize, the key reading method is undoubtedly a very ideal reading method. If you can make good use of it, you will definitely be able to do more with less and realize more.
The key reading method, have you learned? Go and use it!