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How to prioritize tasks effectively
How to manage your time efficiently
How to reduce stress and anxiety
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 reading and remember what you read.
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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...
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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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Know Your Why
What are you reading this book for? Entertainment? To understand something or someone you don’t know? To get better at your job? To improve your health? To learn a skill? To help build a business?
You have to have some idea of what you want to get from the book. You don’t j...
Reasons for writing a book summary
- Writing a book summary helps you remember what you read months, or even years, after reading.
- It helps you connect main concepts from other books, giving you a deeper level of understanding.
- Lastly, it helps you improve your own wr...
Read, then read some more
When you want to write a book, reading helps you figure out what you like. Reading good writers can help you make your own voice better.
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