Chairman Mao read the book thickly and the book thin

Lu Xun: "To read, you must first read the thin books thickly, and then read the thick books thinly." ”

Question: How?

In fact, the answer lies in the great man's "Theory of Contradiction" and "Theory of Practice", using the methods in "Theory of Contradiction", you can read the book thickly, and using the methods in "The Theory of Practice", you can read the book thinly.

The Theory of Contradiction: p.

1. The two sides of each contradiction in the development of things, each with its opposite aspect as the premise of its existence, and the two sides coexist in a unity; Clause.

2. The two sides of the contradiction, according to certain conditions, each move towards the opposite aspect. These are the so-called identities.

2) The head goes to the tail, and the back goes to the head.

The text in the book often exposes a lot of positive or negative sides, so when you see the positive, you connect with the negative and supplement the negative, and when you see the negative, you contact the positive and supplement the positive. When I read it this way, the book became twice as thick as it was before.

And between the positive and negative sides, there is a law of transformation towards the opposite aspect. Using this rule, we can see whether the book is correct and whether it is wrong.

So, we often see the commentary of the great man who reads the book - this statement is not true, what is the basis for this judgment?

1) On the one hand, it comes from the experience of a large number of social practices of great men.

2) On the one hand, it comes from whether this statement is in accordance with dialectics.

Therefore, at this time, as long as the positive and negative sides of the words in the book are exposed, and the laws between the positive and negative sides are modified to conform to the dialectic—the law of moving towards the opposite—this is called critical reading. At this time, the book was both thick and right-- Correct absorption, wrong criticism and rejection.

In this way, using dialectics to read, the laws between various positive and negative sides can be accumulated, and all wisdom is in line with dialectics.

Of course, once you go, there are often a lot of omissions, so you can read it ten or eight times. Constantly refine the positive and negative sides of the book, and combine the skills and laws of transformation between the positive and negative sides revealed by the author in the book into his own skills.

"Theory of Practice": Some people from outside came to Yan'an to investigate, and in the first day or two, they saw the topography, streets, and houses of Yan'an, came into contact with many people, attended banquets, evening parties, and mass meetings, heard all kinds of speeches, and saw all kinds of documents, these are the phenomena of things, the various aspects of things, and the external connections of these things. This is called the perceptual stage of cognition, which is the stage of sensation and impression.

This is the first stage of cognition – the perceptual cognition stage.

In other words, the books we read and the words spoken by the characters in the books are all emotional things.

"Theory of Practice": After the gentlemen of the foreign delegation gathered all kinds of materials and "thought about it," they were able to make a judgment that "the policy of the Communist Party's anti-Japanese national united front is thorough, sincere, and true." After they have made this judgment, if they are also true about uniting to save the country, then they can further conclude that "the anti-Japanese national united front can succeed." This stage of concept, judgment, and reasoning is a more important stage in the whole process of people's understanding of a thing, that is, the stage of rational understanding.

That is to say, by taking a large amount of the content of the book and reasoning logically—you can read the book thinly—the perceptual content becomes the rational content.

For example, after reading a book, some people use one sentence or a few sentences to conceptualize the book - this sentence or a few sentences is a logical reasoning - which is the stage of rational cognition. At this point, the book becomes just a few sentences - the book is thin.

Of course, the cognition of dialectics is also rational cognition, and after reading with dialectics, only the laws and techniques of the transformation between the positive and negative sides, as well as the positive and negative sides, are left.

For example, in ten books, a large number of their pros and cons overlap and intersect. The thickness of the original ten books may only be the thickness of one book.

Cognition after logical reasoning is also rational cognition. After reading a book with logical reasoning, we eliminate inferences that do not correspond to common sense and universal truth, and only a few sentences of judgment and inference remain.

For example, the thickness of the original ten books may only be the thickness of a few dozen sentences, and even after logical reasoning, there may only be a few sentences left.

Therefore, in this process, it is possible to read the book thinly.

Summary

Reading with dialectics and logical reasoning goes through a lot of brain thinking, and the things obtained from this kind of thinking are easy to become real things of oneself and will not be forgotten for a long time.

This kind of reading is easy to be fruitful reading. Instead of reading a book and reading it again after a year, it's all forgotten and everything is fresh again - this kind of reading is a complete waste of time.

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