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How to prioritize tasks effectively
How to manage your time efficiently
How to reduce stress and anxiety
The blank sheet
It's a strategy for remembering what you read and linking it to things you already know.
- Create a mindmap with your ideas about the subject before you read the book.
- Add new ideas to the mindmap after each reading session.
- Check the mindmap before each session.
- Periodically review the mindmap after you finish the book.
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Set a goal
Know what you want to get from the book.
- To communicate better?
- To learn how to manage your time?
- To explore a subject?
- To improve a skill?
Clarifying your goal helps you pay more attention while r...
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Active reading
It requires you to stay focused and to engage with the author.
- Take notes
- Underline or circle important statements
- Write in the margins your thoughts, questions and reactions
- Build mental pictures
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After finishing a book
- Apply what you learned from the book
- Explain to someone else what you learned
- Add your notes in a digital system and review them periodically
- Reread great books to get all the ideas you might have mis...
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The words of the writer act as a catalyst in the mind of the reader, inspiring new insights, associations, and perceptions, sometimes even epiphanies.
NICHOLAS CARR
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Reading The Book Twice
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Before reading
- Consider your purpose for reading and what you need to be able to understand, know, or do after reading.
- Determine what you already know about the material you are to read.
- Give the text an initial glance, noting headings, diagrams, tables, pictures, bolded words, summaries, ...
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