How to read books

If you want to read fiction, you just have to sit back and start enjoying reading your favorite book. But what if you need to read a book on business education, which does not capture your attention as an art, while still containing a large amount of new, sometimes completely incomprehensible information? In this case, there are special techniques that will help stimulate interest, increase the efficiency of information assimilation.

Instruction manual

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Psychological attitude and preparation. Ventilate the room, remove from the field of attention everything that may interfere with you. Free your thinking from unnecessary thoughts and tune in to the fact that you will now receive new important and useful information that you can easily remember and subsequently apply in your activities. It is necessary (necessary) to breathe fresh air with full breasts - this will facilitate the entry of a “shock dose” of oxygen into the body. A series of favorite (but short) physical exercises will not hurt.

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25 minutes to read. Without stopping, without distracting attention to external stimuli (the phone and any means of communication is better to turn off or put it into silent mode) read a passage of text. It is recommended to concentrate as much as possible. 25 minutes is the maximum period of time, you can limit yourself to 10 minutes, but no less. When reading a passage of text, the most important thing is to make notes.

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Analysis of the read. After reading the passage, you need to ask yourself the question - what did I understand from the text I read? There are three main thoughts that are best written down somewhere.

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Three thoughts to three people. Tell the material you read to three people, try to convey the ideas of the author. It is very important to do this in the near future, until nothing is forgotten and the author’s ideas have not been transformed into yours. A very important stage, very effective for the assimilation of intellectual information.

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Act! Plan in the near future what exactly you can do to implement the information received earlier. Do not pull - for a maximum of one day, take certain pre-planned actions based on the knowledge gained during the reading.

note

You should not read less than 10 minutes and more than 25. Be sure to follow all the steps in this technique. Do your best to make reading your daily habit. And most importantly, enjoy reading. You must absorb the information “like a sponge” - and then the effect will be maximum

Useful advice

You read how to read books, and now, guess what needs to be done? That's right - grab a book between your teeth and rush off to read (in accordance with the above methodology). There remains one unresolved question - which one and how to choose it? A word of advice: start with the best sellers first and study the lists of the best books. At the same time, for the future, study thematic articles and reviews, forums and websites, ask your friends, whose opinion you value and whose opinion you respect. After the habit of reading becomes regular, you can use the wonderful method of finding excellent literature - the path from author to author.

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