Reading a book really requires skills and methods.
A lot of people love to read. But how to find the content you need to learn from the complicated information in the book, and internalize it into your own knowledge to form a complete knowledge system?
In the book "Sponge Reading: How to Absorb the Essence of a Book", the author tells how he grew from a reading "novice" to a book blogger who monetizes his reading ability.
And the method used by the author Xiaomo is a set of "sponge reading method".
The book lists the six stages of reading that each of us will go through in reading, let's take a look at which stage you are stuck in!
1. Casual reading stage.
At this stage, we tend to refer to ourselves as readers, as if such a label can make us tall. But in the process of practice, we have time to read it, and if we don't have time, we don't read it, and after a year, in fact, we have a pitiful amount of reading. After reading the book, I didn't have a very good insight, and I didn't have a sense of urgency to read it. It seems that reading books has not brought a very big change to my life.
At this stage, we are very good at deceiving ourselves, pretending to be people who love to read and can read, and at the same time deceiving ourselves, we also let ourselves slowly lose the meaning of reading.
Second, a lot of random reading stage.
At this stage, readers learn to enrich their knowledge base with a "knowledge system", and when reading books in a certain field, they dabble in a large number of books extensively, and read a large number of books desperately.
But at the same time, a lot of time is wasted reading books that are not worth spending a lot of time.
But at this stage, the improvement of reading speed and reading quality lays a very solid foundation for subsequent reading. It made our subsequent reading more and more convenient, which greatly improved the quality of our reading.
3. Forced output stage.
If you've come to this stage, congratulations first!On the basis of learning and mastering, you have learned to output, and you have truly internalized the knowledge into your own system. Forcing oneself to output is a learning method that many book bloggers are advocating.
We will not simply carry what we see and learn in the book, but process and understand it, so that it can expand our knowledge boundaries, update our cognition, and make ourselves have a deeper understanding of the world.
Every time you finish reading a book, you can force yourself to output it, so that you can disassemble and absorb the book like a cook, and absorb its essence to the greatest extent.
Fourth, the stage of establishing a knowledge system.
After deeply understanding and digesting books, the knowledge in one's mind will become more and more complex, and the continuous ingestion of new knowledge will easily lead to confusion in one's mind. At this time, it is particularly important to establish a good knowledge system.
People who don't have a knowledge system are like a rabble, and there may be fights between different factions and different knowledge, and the more they learn, the more chaotic they become.
The establishment of a knowledge system can read many books as a whole, not to read books in pieces, but to bring each book into the system in which it is located, and to continuously improve and expand our knowledge system. Let this knowledge serve our lives.
5. Writing and Transformation.
After the continuous accumulation of the previous stages, it has become much easier to monetize reading, so that our efforts have paid off.
But if you don't go through the previous stages, you want to get the ability to monetize, just like a castle without a good foundation, which is a very unrealistic idea.
Sixth, the formation of the first stage of the system.
The last stage is to build on the previous stage and start to enjoy reading in our own unique way, and reading really starts to serve us.
These are the six stages that the author has gone through, and they are also the stages that many successful book bloggers have gone through. In this process, the author summed up this book that is suitable for him and most reading novices - sponge reading method.
In the book, the author explains in detail:
How to take notes efficiently;
How to keep independent thinking while reading;
How to build your own body of knowledge;
How to apply what you've learned to the fullest;
How to form a long-term and stable reading habit.
These problems cannot be solved in the process of reading, and the author proposes practical methods.
By doing these well, we can avoid many detours in the process of reading.
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