41 Learning Methods That Benefit a Lifetime

Chapter 31 How to Choose a Good Book
After finding the right book, how to choose the best one?You may wish to learn from the experience of the following famous experts.

①Look at the beginning and the end to find out the coming situation.The first page or two may be interesting and readable if new questions are raised.If there is indeed a new situation in the last few paragraphs, or it may be unexpected, you should read it carefully.

② Read backwards.There are often some filler essays in newspapers and periodicals, generally less than a thousand words. "Small but complete".These essays can be described as short and concise, not to be missed.

③When reading, use the nose to smell, like the blind monk in the famous "Si Wenlang" in "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio", and use his strange nose to smell the good and bad smells of the articles.If it smells bad, stop.If the article boasts of being "little famous", or unnecessarily repeating herself as a young female writer, you should read it carefully.

④ There are many situations when encountering books that cannot be read.One is my lack of academic ability, the book is indeed brilliant.The second is that the author "speculates" things that he doesn't understand in a way that everyone doesn't understand, so as to scare people.Don't read it, don't be fooled.

⑤A long novel may not have wonderful chapters and moving back and forth, but there are also ordinary chapters and even failures.If you read something that is unclear or uncomfortable, you can pause, insert a bookmark, and skip to continue reading.Go back to the place where you "paused" after reading the whole book.To judge whether it is a failure or a brilliant move.

⑥ Pay attention to the works of newcomers.A newcomer can stand out in today's environment and must have strength, which cannot be ignored.

Extracurricular reading plays an important role in our study.A wide range of extracurricular reading can effectively make up for the lack of in-class reading.Therefore, extracurricular reading should also be "screened and selected".Let's briefly talk about how to choose extracurricular reading materials.

Pay attention to pertinence and interest in choosing extracurricular readings

Books are our human friends.A good book can lead you to the other side of maturity.In our student days, reading more books about life, ideals, and self-cultivation can provide us with rich nutrition and benefit us for life.

In a nutshell, the choice of extracurricular readings should be targeted and suit your actual situation.If you are very poor in a certain aspect of knowledge, then you might as well find some excellent books in this area to read, which will enable you to learn things that you will never learn in class, so as to make up for your lack of knowledge.Even, it is no exaggeration to say that a good book can establish the direction of your future life development.Therefore, it is very important to choose suitable extracurricular reading materials and insist on extracurricular reading.

Choose extracurricular books, but also interesting.Needless to say, the excitement of extracurricular reading is mainly based on strong reading interest, and the stimulation of interest is closely related to the fun of books.If the book is uninteresting, if there is no taste in reading, if you obviously don't want to read it, then the result must be that you can't read it well.

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