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Creating a productive schedule
Avoiding procrastination
Prioritizing tasks effectively
Read wisely
- Before you start reading a new book, take out a blank sheet of paper. Write down what you know about the book / subject you’re about to read — a mind map if you will.
- After you finish a reading session, spend a few minutes adding to the map with a different color.
- Before you start your next reading session, review the page.
- When you’re done reading, put these ‘blank sheets’ into a binder that you periodically review.
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Speed Reading
Reading speed is a vanity metric. No one cares how fast you read or how many books you read last year. In the real world what matters is what you absorb.
Skim broadly to find something worth reading. Then dive in slowly and deeply.
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Reading as a good habit
- Reading to Entertain — The level of reading taught in our elementary schools.
- Reading to Inform — A superficial read. You skim, dive in and out, and get a feel for the book and get the gist of things.
- Reading to Understand —...
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Pretend To Teach A Concept
- Take out a blank sheet of paper.
- Write the name of the subject as your heading.
- Then write down everything you know about the subject as if you were teaching it to a child. Try and explain as simply as possible.
Take notes while you read
- If you read a printed book, highlight important quotes, ideas, or questions. Write the page number on the first blank page.
- If you're reading a Kindle book, use Kindle's "notes" and "highlights" to collect important takeaways.
- Highlight
Just Read It
Superficial reading is the first step towards analytical reading – that is, understanding and interpreting a book’s contents. If you stop and go over everything you don’t understand on your first reading, you get lost. Sure you finish the book but you’ve lost sight of where you’ve been and where ...
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