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Umberto Echo said: "He who does not read, he will experience only his own life, and the person who reads, he will experience five thousand years." "From oracle bones to simple books, from paper books to e-books, from hand-engraving, copying to printing, and now to "copy and paste", the medium of reading is changing, but it is always our way to understand the world and understand the world. Tomorrow, it is World Book Day, this issue of "The Voice" column, three commentators from their own experience, with you to talk about the way to read.
A Commentator Zhang Zhou: Reading is a cloud tour
Regardless of the era, the importance of reading to humanity is unquestionable. Even in today's world, constructed of sudden, immediate information, reading is still the best way for people to maintain a sharp mind and a path to inner freedom. For me personally, reading is like a aimless cloud tour, and everyone who reads can be seen as a traveler who is about to travel. Although the motivation for starting this journey is either for interest, or for growth, or forced by reality. But reading always gives us the opportunity to fully mobilize our imagination to experience different lives and worlds, so that you and I can get rid of the tedium of daily life, explore the unknown, and harvest completely different experiences.
So, instead of reading as a tool, read as a habit. Maugham once said, "Developing the habit of reading is tantamount to building a refuge for yourself, and you can avoid almost all the disasters in life." "Our lives and environments are facing increasing uncertainty, and mastering them in our own profession is nowhere near enough to cope with a rapidly changing world. Therefore, on the one hand, we do not have to reject fragmented reading, because this can constantly expand the territory of our thoughts; on the other hand, it is still necessary to inject thinking into reading and make our thoughts more profound. In this way, we can perceive the subtle but important changes around us and have the wisdom and courage to face reality.
Speaking of which, I am reminded of a quote that the writer Tolkien once said. He said, "Not all people in the cloud are lost. "Well, as long as you're reading, you're not wasting your time. For reading is a matter of not having to deliberately question meaning and seek purpose. You can read when you're bored, you can read when you're happy, and you can read when you're sad. As soon as you start reading, people's minds are placed in an infinite space, and the pitch is a treasure. No matter how much we gain from reading, what is certain is that we are one step closer to the freedom of thought and heart.
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B Commentator Ma Yubao: Books, are they used to "listen" or to "see"?
When everyone is talking about reading, in fact, it is no longer limited to their own reading, all kinds of listening to book APP, so that "audiobook" has become the choice of many people. On the way to work, before going to bed, open a novel to listen to it, do not delay things, and effectively use fragmented time.
But isn't it really working? Maybe a question mark. Because for this type of "reading", many people's feedback is that it is good when listening, but there is a problem - can not remember.
There are many reasons, for example, "listening to books" is often accompanied, maybe there is something else at hand, the brain is "running in the background", one after another, it becomes "left ear in the right ear out".
For example, "listening to the book" is linear, you must be word by word, from the beginning to hear the end, you can know what the gist of this paragraph is, and if you miss a few of the keywords, and can not go back in time to listen, you will think about what you said before, and it will become "take care of the end".
In contrast, words have an advantage. When reading a book, people are more focused, after all, you have no way to do housework while reading a book; and the text, and non-linear, for a book, you can read, browse, can read intensively, annotate, you can also skip to read, read back and forth, the text breaks the linearity, but also really improves the efficiency - the same information, video or audio may take a minute to finish, put on the text, may be with the eyes to sweep to understand.
The development of the times and the progress of science and technology are actually largely to meet people's more sensory needs. Watching words before, listening to sounds and watching videos now, is the trend of the times. But you know, sound, image or text, each has its own advantages, but also has its own shortcomings, each other should be complementary relationship, rather than one side overpowering one party, one side replacing the other. Just as with television, radio is still there, with radio, newspapers are still there, and only by learning from each other's strong points can we develop together.
So, is the book used to listen, or is it used to see, do you have the answer?
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C Commentator Chen Shiyin: Good reading, very demanding
Turnip greens, each with its own love. Reading is a very personal and private thing, what you like to read, what you read, what you read, what you read, basically determined by your own interests, reading habits and professional background.
True reading is not to take it all according to the order, nor to blindly adopt other people's reading methods, nor to pay attention to reading only on World Book Day. True reading is to try to choose your favorite books, adopt the methods that suit you, and realize the reading purpose of thinking upgrading, temperament and knowledge expansion day by day.
Tao Yuanming said that reading well and not seeking much understanding is a way of reading. However, in the Internet era of information flooding and mixing fish and dragons, fragmented reading with flashes of light may not absorb real nutrition, and it has wasted time and energy. Especially for adults, in the case of more interference items and limited time, it is more necessary to take the rough and refined, and pour limited energy into the most valuable books, the logical framework and underlying knowledge built by these books are our tools to understand the world and analyze problems.
As journalists, we are confronted with a large amount of news material every day. Hot news may seem dazzling, but most of them can be analyzed, explained, and commented on by theories of economics, sociology, political science, and philosophy. Therefore, we may as well find out the most classic books or two in these fields and nibble them away in the way of reading "seeking solutions".
For example, Samuelson is the master of Western economics, he integrates the schools of thought, and in the book "Economics", he makes popular and professional arguments on common economic phenomena and social problems such as production, consumption, monopoly, and discrimination. Instead of reading ten books in general, it is better to read a classic book that touches the bypass, compared with the two, the time and energy consumed are similar, but the harvest of intensive reading may be greater. There are also such must-reads in the fields of sociology and political science.
Reading should be quantitative, but it must be more qualitative. Books that have a profound impact on life are books that have been read intensively. In this era of entertaining and fragmented information acquisition, reading books to seek solutions seems inappropriate, but I still think that reading cannot be too impetuous, can not be greedy and fast, how high the tree is, how deep the roots are.
Chengdu Daily Jinguan News Commentator Ma Yubao Zhang Zhou Chen Shiyin Responsible Editor He Qitie Editor Liu Yonghao