41 Learning Methods That Benefit a Lifetime

Chapter 30: Reading Strategies
Middle school is a vigorous period of seeking knowledge in life.Some people have made statistics, study 40 weeks a year, study 50 hours a week, a total of 1.2 hours, which is equal to 3.6/1 of a person's total reading time (33 hours) after joining a job, and is equal to a person's lifetime reading time ( 6.8/1 of 36 hours).In this precious reading time, how to achieve good reading effect, the choice of reading strategy is very important.

① One of the strategies: directional reading.

"Life has a limit but knowledge has no limit." If you spend your precious life reading time on aimless reading, it will undoubtedly have little effect.In Gogol's famous book "Dead Souls", there is a character named Bishgaqiu who is addicted to books and reads all kinds of books.As a result, because he read without choice and without purpose, he ended up getting nothing.

Secondary education is an important foundation for a person, and often has a profound impact on the growth of a lifetime.Many famous scientists and scholars set up their lifelong career goals in middle school.Chen Jingrun was determined to dedicate himself to mathematics when he was in middle school, and Zhou Ren was determined to study ancient Chinese ceramics when he was in middle school.Therefore, for middle school students, on the basis of extensive reading, choose one or two "central interests" for a large number of in-depth reading, and you will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

Middle school students have great potential for extracurricular reading.Some people have compared the amount of in-class reading and after-school reading of middle school students: the total number of textbooks read by first-year junior high school students in one semester is about 70 words, and the number of textbooks read by first-year high school students in one semester is about 130. A total of 700 million words; and at the same time, they read 1000 million words and 1 million words respectively in interesting extracurricular reading after school, and the average ratio of in-class and extra-curricular is 9:[-].With such a huge amount of reading, if we can establish our own central interest and conduct targeted reading according to our own interests, goals, and abilities, we will definitely gain a lot.

②Strategy two: choose to read.

Mathematician Wang Zikun once said that reading should be chosen.There are all kinds of books in the world: some are not worth reading, some are only worth reading for 20 minutes, some can be read for 5 years, some can be kept for a lifetime, and some will last forever.But even the great masterpieces of immortality must be chosen because of our limited energies and time.

The strategy we choose can start from the following two aspects:

The first aspect is, "read first-rate books."Among the vast number of books and articles, as long as you carefully screen and compare them, it is not difficult for you to find out what are the first-class representative works belonging to a certain subject. As long as you are familiar with these works, you can appreciate the whole picture of the subject and understand the subject. cutting-edge and development.

The second aspect is, "read books written by first-class scholars".The so-called first-rate scholars refer to the most well-known and authoritative scientists and scholars in the subject field.They are at the forefront of the subject or research field, and have insight into the development source and development trend of the field.Reading the books written by them can give you a comprehensive and accurate understanding of the development of the subject area.To learn about "first-rate books" and "books written by first-rate authors", the method is to learn about them through the recommended bibliography, or ask teachers and parents to recommend them.

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