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How to focus on the present moment
How to improve relationships through mindful communication
How to reduce stress and anxiety through mindfulness
— Edgar Allen Poe
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There are five steps to syntopical reading:
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This is also known as comparative reading, and it represents the most demanding and difficult reading of all. Syntopical Reading involves reading many books on the same subject and comparing and contrasting ideas, vocabulary, and arguments.
This task is undertaken by identifying relevant pa...
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Reading is all about asking the right questions in the right order and seeking answers.
If all of this sounds like hard work, you’re ri...
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Mortimer Adler literally wrote the book on reading . Adler identifies four lev...
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There is a difference between reading for understanding and reading for information.
A lot of people confuse knowing the name of something with understanding. While great for exercising your memory, the regurgitation ...
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We’ve been taught that skimming and superficial reading are bad for understanding. That is not necessarily the case. Using these tools effectively can increase understanding.
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This is the level of reading taught in our elementary schools. If you’re reading this website, you already know how to do this.
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At this point, you start to engage your mind and dig into the work required to understand what’s being said. I highly recommend you use marginalia to converse with the author .
Francis Bacon once remarked, “some books are to be tasted, other...
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When we experience negative things it is important we lean on social support because most of the time our friends are better at regulating our emotions rather than ourselves.
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