Keep the read

[Dan_Fastlane]

Hey guys,

looking for better and more efficient reading habits.
Can you please give me your best advice in reading and how to keep what you read. Do you write it down or make notes on the book?Where you start reading a book, at start ,backwards maybe , in the middle? Atm i read the book: How to read a book bei mortimer & adler. Maybe some people here know more about how to properly read a book.

I would love to see what's on you mind about that topic.

 

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[Lex DeVille]

Hey guys,

looking for better and more efficient reading habits.
Can you please give me your best advice in reading and how to keep what you read. Do you write it down or make notes on the book?Where you start reading a book, at start ,backwards maybe , in the middle? Atm i read the book: How to read a book bei mortimer & adler. Maybe some people here know more about how to properly read a book.

I would love to see what's on you mind about that topic.

I stopped reading for the most part sometime last year.

Now I listen. Audiobooks let me absorb material on a deeper level and I retain more of it.

Then I put it to action. Direct action and experience create a linking memory that helps with recall.

I can't prove that. Just my experience.

 

[Limitless4Life]

Don't aim just to read, but aim to study. Study by highlighting and taking notes - you might think you'll remember why a certain sentence speaks to you, but you won't. I also study by reading the material plenty of times so I absorb it enough to use it 'in the moment.'

 

[OldFaithful]

backwards maybe

Yes, do that, great idea. Start at the end and go backwards, word for word!

JK, of course. I start at pg 1 and read until I reach the back cover. Works for me.

 

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[Dan_Fastlane]

I stopped reading for the most part sometime last year.

Now I listen. Audiobooks let me absorb material on a deeper level and I retain more of it.

Then I put it to action. Direct action and experience create a linking memory that helps with recall.

I can't prove that. Just my experience.

thank to you sinister i also started listen audiobooks and its great.

you don't read but your a copywriter right, how is that possible? since i read stephen kings book about writing i believe without reading you cannot be good in writing.

 

[Dan_Fastlane]

Don't aim just to read, but aim to study. Study by highlighting and taking notes - you might think you'll remember why a certain sentence speaks to you, but you won't. I also study by reading the material plenty of times so I absorb it enough to use it 'in the moment.'

that sounds like preparing for a exam

 

[Dan_Fastlane]

since spreedreading is famous i thought we would have some speedreaders here with special tactics

 

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[c_morris]

What works for me is reading through the entire book at my normal speed without taking notes or highlighting. Then I read it again but quicker and with a highlighter in hand. I also supplement with audio if I find the book valuable enough.

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[G-Man]

since spreedreading is famous i thought we would have some speedreaders here with special tactics

Part of that is because in a lot of "entrepreneurial" circles, reading is essentially a consumption habit that masquerades or "action fakes" as a production habit.

Executing 1 book's worth of information is better than speed reading 1,000 books. Unless you're Tai Lopez apparently

 

[Lex DeVille]

thank to you sinister i also started listen audiobooks and its great.

you don't read but your a copywriter right, how is that possible? since i read stephen kings book about writing i believe without reading you cannot be good in writing.

Words on a page don't make a good writer. Seeing words isn't what gives them meaning.

Stephen King says you need to read because it helps you understand the experience you want to create.

Good writers communicate experiences. Mind to mind and heart to heart.

 

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[Dan_Fastlane]

Part of that is because in a lot of "entrepreneurial" circles, reading is essentially a consumption habit that masquerades or "action fakes" as a production habit.

Executing 1 book's worth of information is better than speed reading 1,000 books. Unless you're Tai Lopez apparently

Tai Lopez can recommend that because he is backed up by big names who recommend also reading like gates, buffet and so on. Is that all just a lie? i mean you are right, how to take action if i read hours a day. Maybe they fool us? or we are just to ignorant to read between the lines?

 

[G-Man]

Tai Lopez can recommend that because he is backed up by big names who recommend also reading like gates, buffet and so on. Is that all just a lie? i mean you are right, how to take action if i read hours a day. Maybe they fool us? or we are just to ignorant to read between the lines?

I think if your business model is to read books from successful entrepreneurs then regurgitate that content on youtube, you can focus on learning to speed read, but you'd have to be better at that business model than a guy like Tai and his 10 million imitators.

I'm not against reading. I generally make it through 2-3 books/month, which isn't prodigious, but it's vastly more than the average American that hasn't read anything since Great Expectations in the 9th grade.

I just wouldn't invest too much time and effort in finding the best reading "technique". That's all I'm saying.

 

[Dan_Fastlane]

what you guys think about blinkist.com ?

 

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