Since we came to this world, we have been consciously or unconsciously, actively or passively accepting various external teachings, which will constantly cause us to think, so our body and mind will be in a state of continuous growth.

However, with the growth of age and experience, many people will stop studying at a certain stage, because there are too many temptations from the outside world, and all kinds of trivial things and pressures in life will gradually disrupt your growth pace.

These things are like making an appointment with someone you like to see a beautiful sunrise. As a result, on your way to the date, you saw golden apples scattered around you. You are addicted to the temptation of this place, constantly wandering there, excitedly picking up every golden apple.

By the time you arrive at your destination sweating with these golden apples, it's already night arrival and the person you like has left. You are so regretful that you don't even know why you stopped to pick up the golden apples and chose to miss those better things.

In real life, all kinds of golden apples are scattered around you. They may be the embodiment of all kinds of money and interests, or they may be the embodiment of all kinds of pressures and emotions. They keep appearing around us to distract you and make you forget who you are, where you are going and what kind of things you are going to do.

Therefore, with the increasing pressure of life, you begin to live more and more passively. You stayed up the longest night, added the most tiring work, but had more social activities, lost your hobbies, neglected your family, and gradually deviated from the ideal direction of a better life.

You gradually become a machine for others to make money, a slave to work, and the embodiment of emotions.

So everyone is shouting that they don't work hard and don't know what despair is. More and more, you feel that life is very sad and the reality is very bitter.

However, the more emotions accumulate, the more you can't see the direction, and the easier it is to ignore a more important problem: all kinds of media in reality are actually just to help you learn to think better and know yourself better, and you are the source of the problems around you.

If you fall into such a dead end, you are more likely to choose to stop studying, be too lazy to explore and look directly at your own problems and situations, and give up the opportunity to take the initiative again and again.

This vicious circle will only make you gradually lose your initiative and get black and blue by reality. Live like a thunder game, and every step is enough to make you live with fear.

It is precisely because of too much confusion and anxiety that the "knowledge anxiety" has quickly swept through this era. All of a sudden, the upsurge of "reading for all" began. If this appearance is uncovered, it is actually the general trend.

In the internet age, under the appearance of serious information flooding, souls lacking knowledge cultivation are more and more anxious.

All kinds of information, such as sudden death after staying up late, business failure, work pressure, housing pressure, life pressure, rumors of getting rich overnight, etc., quickly appear in front of you, stand on the opposite side and argue, constantly refreshing your three views. This is enough to force a large wave of people into a dead corner, leaving another wave of people fleeing around outside the bureau, or watching blankly.

Many people are forced by pressure and lack of security, not only lead a confused and passive life, but also have lost the ability to think rationally and independently.

Take the fragmented learning that we often talk about now. In fact, many people already have this habit, but it is easy to ignore the importance of "setting reading goals" and "systematic learning". In the end, they just completed a process of receiving information.

When others ask questions, you are anxious with them. When others come to a conclusion, you suddenly realize that you have suddenly learned a lot of knowledge. In this process, what you get is not necessarily what you want, but what is gradually weakened is an extremely valuable thing, and that is your ability to think independently.

In this process, if you don't understand the essence of reading, it will be difficult to achieve a more precise direction and strive to grow.

If you want to get rid of all kinds of complications caused by lack of knowledge, reading is a good learning method and a benign and controllable active learning method.

Let's talk about the public's learning route first. When you go to school, there is a teacher to guide you how to study; In the workplace, I was fortunate to meet competent leaders and learn something; Or sign up for various training courses, and the instructors in the class will also tell you various ways and shortcuts to acquire knowledge; This way of learning, we all call it "guiding learning".

In other words, you need the supervision and guidance of another person to complete this learning process.

However, as you get older and the situation changes, you must also learn to learn to learn and discover more actively. In this process, you may need to rely on the book itself to learn without the help of others. At this time, you will learn how to let books teach you.

This study habit based on reading has higher requirements for itself, because its ultimate enemy is everyone's "laziness".

We call this learning method "self-discovery learning", which is also a learning method we are discussing today.

Montaigne said: "The ignorance of beginners lies in not learning, and the ignorance of scholars lies in learning."

It is certainly a good thing to cultivate reading habits, but our reading is not simply to understand those words. We should try to avoid spending a lot of time reading those wrong books.

Before reading begins, we should first recognize the correct reading thinking, understand various reading forms and clarify the purpose of reading.

Many people are unwilling to break through their reading barriers for two essential reasons:

One is not clear about personal development goals and unwilling to explore. Therefore, he is far from being eager for knowledge, and naturally he will not attach importance to the cultivation of reading skills.

The other is because of laziness. Words can be said to be the medium you contact every day. As long as you can read, it surrounds you every day like air.

We have changed from previous letters to telephone calls, from online typing to pronunciation, from reading to listening to books, and your chances of contacting words are getting less and less. Some people think that this is a way to save time and improve efficiency, which is undeniable, but when this way becomes a habit and you have no consciousness and ability to achieve balance, you will gradually get tired of thinking and your brain will become more and more tired.

Therefore, before reading, you need to ask yourself, time is so precious, why do you spend so much time and energy reading? What are the benefits of learning to read?

Reading has many advantages. Here is a brief analysis of some of them.

First of all, simple reading can get you information.

All kinds of novel things happen in this world every day. If you can't receive all kinds of information through reading, it will not only be out of touch with the times, but also seriously affect communication, because you are losing your conversation resources.

Second, high-quality reading can improve your understanding.

The flood of information in the Internet era has gradually weakened our understanding ability. A lot of words poke your pain point and give you a conclusion through exquisite packaging. In fact, many of them are products of marketing and psychological warfare. You can know the conclusion almost without thinking, and quickly sort out your thoughts.

Once you get used to reading this kind of information, your brain will gradually adapt to the process from "stimulated" to "appeased" and will gradually begin to enjoy this feeling. Once this habit is formed, you are on the verge of danger. You will not only make your brain tired of thinking, but also let it continue to develop, which may affect your mental growth.

Therefore, it is also a very important secret of personal growth to let high-quality reading constantly promote your understanding.

Third, good reading will let you know the world and yourself, and guide you to find some answers to life.

Why are many literary works enduring and suitable for us to read repeatedly? Because the cognition conveyed by these works has always been above your cognition, it can give people of different ages some different inspirations and sentiments. In other words, the height of this book itself, while constantly improving your cognition, is also growing with you.

If you have the ability to read these excellent works, maybe you can slowly find the answers to some puzzling questions in life.

The benefits of learning to read do not stop there. When knowledge is accumulated to a certain amount, it will also push you to constantly transform your input.

Therefore, in the era of knowledge payment, you will see that more and more knowledge craftsmen are rising, and they are respected by most people, not only because they are imparting knowledge, but because they give everyone a more positive mindfulness through their words and deeds: there is a golden house in the book, and knowledge can really change their destiny as long as the method is proper.

Of course, sometimes reading is not necessarily so purposeful. You can use it as a way to kill time, and you can enjoy yourself in the world of words, which is also a kind of spiritual enjoyment.

However, if you can read with questions and goals, you may benefit more. In the process of reading, you can not only find fun, but also really feel the changes and strength that reading brings to you.

If you only understand the importance of reading, you still can't solve the problem.

You also need to know several levels of reading and what stage you are in now. Only by understanding this, can you build your own reading system and reading goals more clearly.

So, how many levels are there in reading? Let's explore together.

The first level of reading: basic reading.

A person with healthy body and mind and normal development, from the moment of birth, his vision, hearing, intelligence, expressiveness, attention, etc. I have already begun to receive external training, which belongs to the preparatory stage of reading, and I often finish it imperceptibly in my childhood.

In the first grade of primary school, at that time, I basically began to have simple literacy and writing skills. As you read more and more books, your vocabulary begins to increase. Slowly, you begin to understand what each article is talking about, and learn to extract and use good words and sentences in the book. Next, your reading ability begins to improve, and you can almost read a lot of books written in ontology language.

This is the first level of reading, and many people stay at this stage, so they don't continue to explore further. Therefore, with the increase of the complexity of the knowledge in the book, many people will choose to retreat when they need to call their brains to think, and they will feel restless and sleepy when reading. Sometimes it is difficult to read a page in the morning.

It's okay. It's normal. This question is still left to the second level of reading.

The second level of reading: examining reading.

How to understand this word? Explained in professional terms, we can understand it as skimming and rough reading.

Generally speaking, it's just a cursory reading. Don't take so much psychological pressure when you start reading, so you will definitely not be able to read.

Before reading a book, you need to learn to judge whether the book is useful to you. Is this stage worth your time to read?

The following points are emphasized here, which can help you quickly locate this book when browsing easily and simply judge whether this book is worth reading.

First, the title and subtitle. A good title is the epitome of the content of a book, which often hides the theme of the book. Through the title, most people can know what this book is mainly about, and through the title, we can give this book a general category.

For example, how to read a book is known as reading the Bible. From its title, you can basically judge that this book should teach you how to read. If you are only eager to learn reading skills, it may help you.

Of course, not all titles directly convey the theme of the book, such as the moon and sixpence, a classic literary work. Without the help of other information, it is difficult for you to understand what this book is about at first.

This requires finding the second place to look-preface or preface.

Through the preface or preface, we can basically understand why the author wrote this book, which almost always reveals the theme essence of the whole book. Combined with the title, we can basically know what this book is about, which is the most basic structure of a book.

Another place is the book coat. Many books now, in order to attract readers to buy, will extract the essence of the whole book and show it to readers as the main selling point. Don't underestimate a few short sentences or words, which may be the key knowledge points to be conveyed in the whole book.

The third thing you need to pay attention to is the table of contents page.

Anyone who has studied figure sketching should have experience, whether it is sketching or copying. If you don't have a general understanding of the basic skeleton of the human body, it is difficult for you to draw this picture.

Why? Because from the appearance, all you can see is the combination of these external things on the human body, such as clothes and ornaments. You don't know how many hands and legs the Chu people have, and what is the relationship between them. Even if you restore the details well, the restored character may be a strange image.

The directory page is the skeleton of the book. Through it, we can analyze whether the knowledge framework constructed by the author is logical and complete.

Just like some reference books, they only have an insight into the weakness of human nature and ask some anxious questions without giving answers. Such a book is not only empty and unconvincing, but may even have a vague theme.

Therefore, before reading, it is necessary to have a brief understanding of the content framework of the directory page.

After reading the book title, book jacket introduction, preface or preface, and table of contents, we will basically have a general understanding of the theme of the whole book and should be able to answer the following three basic questions:

1. What kind of book does it belong to?

2. What problems did you help readers solve?

3. Is there a solution to the problem in the book?

Through the examination of these steps, if you still think this book is worth reading, you can pick out the chapters you are most interested in and read several pages in a row to see if you can accept the author's expression.

If you feel good, you can read the whole book for the first time. When you meet something you don't understand, don't stop to search, but skim through the book from beginning to end.

The above are the steps to examine reading.

In this process, there are several points that need your attention.

The first is the speed of reading. Although we skim and skim, it doesn't mean that we should read the above places at the same speed. For example, the key points mentioned in the preface can be left for a while, which is helpful for our next reading.

The second is to get rid of the habit of staying and going backwards. For example, when we are reading chapters we are interested in, we don't have to keep looking back and forth when we encounter something we don't understand. We can read line by line with our fingers. If we have a reading foundation, we can even read three lines at a time. Because you don't need to know much about this step, it is more to help you judge whether this book is worth your time to read.

The third level of reading: analytical reading.

Speaking of analysis, some people may start to have a headache. Actually, it's not as difficult as you think.

In this step, you only need to answer three questions.

First question, what is this book about?

You'd better describe the whole book in one sentence or a short paragraph.

For example, how to read a book, I can simply summarize this sentence by scanning the preface and table of contents and important chapters:

While pointing out the importance of reading, this book also gives several ways to help us break through reading barriers.

This sentence is not necessarily the most accurate or specific, but it must be able to focus on the theme of this book or help readers solve what kind of problems.

The second question, how to list the whole knowledge framework of this book?

It is not difficult to solve this problem. You have basically understood the theme of this book by reading the preface or preface before. First find out the main keywords in the book, then find out what problems the book wants to solve for readers, and then find out the ways to solve the problems in the book through the directory page combined with key chapters. As long as we grasp these three key points, we have grasped the lifeline of the whole book.

Here is a reading guide, such as how to read a book.

Using the above method, after simple reading, I can get some key words as follows: reading, basic reading, inspection reading, analytical reading, theme reading, skimming, rough reading, reading speed, learning to criticize and so on.

I also know that there are probably several questions in the book, and I use the thinking mode of "what-why-how" to help me think. I listed three main problems in my book:

What: What are the reading skills mentioned in the book?

Why: Why should we learn reading skills?

How: How can I learn to read?

Take these questions as the index, take the key words as the answers, build a preliminary knowledge framework, and then combine the table of contents page and key chapters to start our thinking, so that we can sort out a simple brain map. At this point, you can basically understand the knowledge framework of the whole book, which is the skill to solve the second problem.

The third problem is to respect the author's point of view and criticize it.

After reading a book, in addition to absorbing knowledge, there is a more important purpose, which is to help you learn to think.

Are the questions raised by the author in the book meaningful for research? Are there any omissions in the questions asked? You're still a little confused. Did the author give a solution to the problem? Are these methods useful? Does the author still have a blind spot in knowledge about some of the questions raised and give no answers? Wait a minute.

After reading a book, the best effect is that you find many questions from it, and you can also find answers from it, or think about your own answers according to the author's guidance.

Of course, judging a book is like communicating with people. You should listen to what the other person has to say first, and thoroughly understand his point of view in your mind before making your suggestions and criticisms. This is a more objective way, and you will gain a lot in this process.

In the process of analyzing reading, you can imagine that you are talking to the author. You listen to him carefully, then thank him for his teaching, and then tell him the benefits and doubts after listening to these words. Perhaps there are still some places worthy of further discussion and in-depth.

If you understand reading in this way, I believe you will gradually fall in love with reading and learn to enjoy reading. This is the experience that analytical reading can bring you.

Next, we continue to talk about the fourth level of reading, which is also the ultimate goal of our reading.

The fourth level of reading: thematic reading.

"Study hard, read more, study hard" is a thought-provoking view put forward by Bing Xin in Memories of Reading.

In the last article, we have talked a lot about the benefits of reading and shared some ways to improve your reading ability, so that you can read more books more easily. Then the most important question comes. What is a good book? This is directly related to the meaning of reading. We spend so much time, of course, hoping to improve ourselves through reading, and the more accurate the better.

Therefore, learning thematic reading is to improve one's knowledge in a certain field more accurately and systematically. If you learn this method, you will have more initiative, whether in the professional field or the challenge of cross-border integration.

So, how can we learn subject reading quickly?

It's actually quite simple. You only need to do two things:

The first thing: find out the most authoritative books in the field of knowledge you want to know and read them through according to the above method.

As for how to search these books, there are too many channels and methods. You can search through the current platforms of major knowledge, such as Get and Himalaya. There are roughly classified classic books and popular books in various fields, and you can basically find many books you need in this field.

By combining the platforms of Douban, Baidu Library, Zhihu and Wukong Q&A to understand the basic information and introduction of these books, we can have a basic understanding of these books, so as to screen and sort them out and establish a reading plan.

The second thing: list a series of relatively neutral questions around a purpose.

For example, in the case of developing reading skills, you can ask some questions: Why should we study? What are the benefits of reading? How do we learn to read?

Then, read with questions, see if the authors in these books have talked about these questions and given answers, and sort out the methods and opinions given by different authors through notes.

In this process, each author may put forward some unique topics and keywords, or list them separately for comparison and in-depth study, and then see if they are more relevant to the topic you are discussing.

What is a unique problem? For example, we are talking about reading, but the author of a book advocates improving your reading ability by taking notes and writing output.

Then you might want to pay attention. Is this method of writing and taking notes put forward by the author easy to understand? Can I use it directly? If you still need to spend a lot of energy to learn and study these auxiliary skills before you can use them, then the energy spent during this period and the real effect need to be evaluated, and you can take it as another extension of the special research. The advantage of doing this is that you can give priority to focusing on a more precise direction and get twice the result with half the effort.

These are the four levels of reading. Partners who are interested in learning may wish to make a good analysis. What level are you in now? Can simple exercises with reference to the above methods improve reading ability?

The essence of reading is actually an activity that constantly inspires you to think.

How to understand this sentence? You see, when you encounter a difficult problem, whether it's life problem, income problem or skill bottleneck, if you want to solve these problems, you must always find a way to solve them.

Reading is not the best way to solve these problems, but it is the underlying logic to open many channels. Participating in the reading process can minimize the influence of external fluctuations.

In other words, as long as you master the correct reading thinking and only rely on your own communication with books, you can already benefit a lot and broaden your horizons. The more accurate your knowledge is, the better it will be for you. It will gradually lead you to know more people you want to be close to and find more things you want to do.

In this process, what you will gain is how to borrow more actively and accurately, so as to establish a set of independent thinking ability that truly belongs to you. This is the most essential strength that reading can bring you, and it is also something that others can't take away, and it really belongs to your core competitiveness.

Learning to read is like preparing for an unknown exploratory activity. In this process, you can keep your strongest curiosity and explore freely in that infinite space. Even in the field you are most familiar with, there will be bigger treasures waiting for you to dig.

Once you find these treasures, if you are willing to share them with those in need, this treasure will not be less, but will gain more.

Therefore, the essence of reading is to help you establish a set of your own thinking logic, so that your mind is in a state of continuous growth. The best way to verify is to sort out what you have learned and share it with more people in need.

Apply what you have learned. When encountering difficulties, please believe that you have the ability to solve the problem first, and then try to pry open the way to solve the problem through reading the topic. I believe that you can not only finish well, but also get more unexpected surprises.

Embark on the reading journey seriously and firmly, and I believe you will learn more than you think.

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