How I Read - Non-Secrets for Voracious Reading 7 minutes read.
"I don’t finish every book I start. I skim. I’ll read a chunk of a book, place it on my shelf, and then pick it up two years later and continue. There have been a couple of occasions where I’d read the first page of a book, found it dull, and donated it. More than a year later, I bought it again, and read the whole thing in a few days. Sometimes, you have to be ready for a book. Most of what you read won’t be especially interesting or insightful. You have to crush a lot of rock to get to the gems. Deep learning demands effort. If you want to possess a large mental universe of knowledge from which to draw, you have to consume a lot of information. This requires focused reading." -- Books are a competitive advantage today. Your ability to think deeply and develop expertise comes from learning and practicing new concepts. Most people prefer to practice without understanding the fundamentals. Shallow practice will get you far, but you often miss opportunities to build compounding learning.
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