Get out of the misunderstanding of getting up early and reading early (2)

Hello, everyone, I am an old friend of your, May Wen, an 80-year-old aunt who can't write but loves writing.

In getting out of the misunderstanding of getting up early and reading early (1), we understand the reason why we insist on getting up early and reading early, but we didn't get the desired result in the end. The reason is that we have been moving forward in misunderstanding. If you want to make a real change in your life, you must change your thinking and get out of the misunderstanding first.

Only by changing the inherent thinking, changing the old habits and doing things with new cognition and correct methods can our dreams finally come true!

Learn to practice these five morning reading methods, and your life will surely begin.

1. Cultivate the habit of early reading

Reading is the first thing after getting up every day. When you do nothing, such as washing your face, brushing your teeth and making your bed, you just concentrate on reading, making reading a habit and your lifestyle.

When you get into the habit of reading for 30 to 60 minutes every morning, you will find that your cognitive ability has improved by one dimension, and then you will feel obviously relaxed when you do something again.

Of course, it should be noted here that you should not be too strict with your reading time at first. You must cultivate your habits first, and then gradually increase them, or you will die easily if you read early. We should understand that habit comes first, reading comes second, and never attending a meeting takes a process.

2. Deliberately practice efficient reading methods

As long as you enroll in a course about reading and learning, it is not difficult to find that some students can not only finish reading a book in two hours, but also gain a lot, and can explain the essence of the book clearly and let us listen with relish; And we ordinary people can't finish reading a book in a week or even a month. The difference here is not that others have superior abilities than us, nor that our reading comprehension level is inferior to others, but that our incorrect reading methods lead to it.

So how can we find time to read efficiently in a busy workplace? How to turn the dry goods in the book into the ability to solve problems?

It was not until I read How to Read a Book Effectively that I combined the methods in the book with my actual work and found the skills suitable for the reading habits of people in the workplace.

Learning these four steps can quickly help you improve your reading efficiency and interest:

1, why should I read?

The function of the human brain is very similar to that of muscles. If you don't exercise and don't use it often, it will become dull and even shrink.

With the development of the Internet and the popularity of short content, more and more people in the workplace think that they can increase their knowledge by reading more dry content, which is learning.

We regard passive input as learning, but this method is actually very inefficient and often has poor absorption effect.

So take the initiative to read, find out the weaknesses or difficulties in your work, and then find relevant books for in-depth reading.

From passive reading to active reading, we can not only think actively, but also record the knowledge of dry goods in books more efficiently.

2. Ask yourself three questions before reading.

Someone will definitely ask, just reading a book, why ask yourself questions?

In fact, there are two kinds of reading, one is brainless reading and the other is brainless reading.

Reading without brains is like brushing your mobile phone. Look at what you brush, or passively input. Reading with your brain is different. After we understand the purpose of reading, the efficiency of reading can be greatly improved.

I usually ask myself these three questions before reading:

Why should I choose this book?

(2) What does this book mainly talk about, and the author's background?

(3) What problems do you hope to solve after reading it?

When you read with these three questions, you will find that your thinking mode has changed and the way you look at the problem has also changed.

3. Read in the photo frame.

When you get a book, will you read it word by word from the first page?

This way of reading is not only a waste of time, but also inefficient!

I won't start reading the main content immediately after I get the book, but I will read two aspects first:

(1) Preface/Preface

From this part to understand the background of the author's writing this book, some books have their background elements, so you must have a general understanding first, and then you can better understand the content of the article after reading it.

Secondly, there will be some celebrity recommendations in the preface, which is some opinions after reading this book, which is also a way to help you better understand this book.

(2) content

The catalogue of most books is written by the author after writing the book, and it is also a high summary of each chapter of an article. These titles can basically cover the essence of the book.

Before reading, we have thought about what the author wants to solve through this book. Then, it is a good way to find the answer in the title of the directory.

There is no need to read a book from the first page. You can choose the chapters you want to know and read them first. This will also enhance your interest in this book and avoid the embarrassment of giving up after reading a few pages.

Step 4 record the key points skillfully

Reading also needs to take notes to assist memory.

Books with notes are at least three times more effective than books without notes!

It is not recommended that you take notes word for word here, it takes too much time. You can take notes with a mind map.

My usual method has two steps:

(1) Step 1:

Record chapter by chapter and establish a mind map. Record the key contents of this chapter and the contents of your own thinking, and record one page in each chapter. (Record after reading a chapter)

(2) Step 2:

Summarize the mind maps of all chapters into 1 mind map. At this time, I won't turn over the book, but collect the mind map of this book and the notes of each chapter.

Clip the sorted mind map into the book. The next time you open a book, look at the mind map first, and you can basically recall the main content. This method can help you remember better.

In addition to the above four steps, there are 1 tips that can help us enhance our understanding and deepen our memory, that is, reading books on the same subject in the same period!

For example, if you want to know about communication skills this month, you should read books related to communication skills. After reading all these books, you can compare their views, methods and connections.

Usually 1 month later, you can master the content of a knowledge point well.

Third, the establishment of the knowledge system of the bottom thinking.

Different knowledge, different environments and different ways of thinking make us look at the world differently.

You want to broaden your knowledge by reading, but if you don't increase your cognition by reading a lot, you are doomed to be unable to establish your own underlying thinking knowledge system. Imagine that others read a book a day, and you have a book in Harle. The gap between you and others in one month is the knowledge of 29 books. Then a year later, the foundation of other people's bottom thinking has already been firmly laid, and our reading speed and reading volume have no way for us to establish our own knowledge system.

We often hear the saying: stand high and see far! If you want to see the beautiful scenery in the distance, you must first stand high enough, and reading is the same. You must read a lot and build your own knowledge system of the underlying thinking. Only by establishing this system can we make ourselves faster and better.

Fourth, we should set the goal of reading early and find our dreams.

We must understand the purpose of reading in the morning after getting up early. And why do you have to get up early to study?

Reading must have been to realize your dreams. Then you have to ask yourself what your dream is. How to realize your dream?

If we have no dreams in life, we have no sense of mission and no internal motivation to drive us forward. Without internal motivation, we will stagnate or even go backwards.

Wake up every morning to see if the alarm clock or the dream wakes you up.

Fifth, practice business thinking through morning reading.

Reading in the morning every day is not just for reading, but to correct our business thinking through reading.

Why should reading be linked to business thinking? Because wealth is the driving force for us to persist, when you realize your economic freedom through reading, then you will stick to it more and more.

People should have two jobs, one for development and the other for survival.

The height and result of our life are determined by our learning ability. Ask yourself in your heart: What kind of life do you want? What kind of economic income do you hope to achieve? Only by reading with these questions can we realize our dreams faster.

Finally, I hope that each of us can realize our life goals and dreams through efficient reading.

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