Super top students: the most efficient learning method for top students

Chapter 36 Effective Learning Step [-] - Effective Reading

Reading is the only magic weapon for learning
"Feel the pulse" for your own reading

There are always some people who are dissatisfied with the effect of their reading. They always think that there are some problems in their reading, but they don't know where the problem is?

Before reading the following content in this section, you can list all the problems in the reading in the form of a mind map, and strictly demand yourself. The more problems you find, the more comprehensive your improvement will be in the future.

Reading, if one defines it, is the process of obtaining information from written material.This written material mainly refers to words, but also includes symbols, formulas, diagrams, etc.

Generally speaking, before you can learn to read quickly, you need to overcome three bad reading habits that we have had since elementary school.If we are not told that there is something wrong with our reading, we will automatically adopt these reading habits every time we read.

It is the negative effects of these reading habits that make our reading less effective and less effective. At the same time, it makes people feel depressed and heavy.

The three bad reading habits are:

(1) meditation

(2) Read word by word
(3) Read back

These three reading habits exist in more or less everyone. Although some people have never heard of these three habits, they have been using them without realizing that they have this habit.Once you understand them, you realize that your reading has been inhibited by it.

The first bad habit is meditation.

Maybe it's the teacher's fault, because he once asked you to read the text silently in class, usually after the teacher reads it once, you will follow it silently; it may be your own fault, because you have always been used to silent reading.

I don't know if you have noticed, but one of the reasons why this kind of silent repetition of words and sentences will make your reading speed is very slow is that our brains think and read words and sentences much faster than we can speak, and silently repeating words and sentences is faster than we can speak. Speak more slowly.

Take reading English words as an example. If you usually silently read words at the fastest speed of 150 words per minute, then the fastest reading speed is about 200-300 words per minute, which shows how big the difference is.

The second bad habit is to read word for word.

Reading word by word is also a reading habit that many people have.Reading word for word will not only slow down the reading speed, but also hinder the understanding of the content of the article.In addition, word-by-word reading will often split sentences with complete meaning into words and words, and attention will be distracted by single words and words.It is easy for people to hinder and slow down the understanding and memory of the whole sentence or the whole paragraph during reading, and it is impossible to grasp the more complete meaning of the article.

The third bad habit is to backtrack.

This habit is probably more common.

It can be said that reading back is the biggest obstacle to fast reading.Going back means that we go back and check what we have read before, and check whether our understanding of a word or sentence is correct.Reading back is an unconscious behavior. The main reason is that the reader is inattentive, careless, or suspects that there is a problem with his memory and comprehension. Instead of focusing on moving forward to meet new content.

Reading backwards not only fails to improve our comprehension, but in fact it may affect our comprehension.Because every time we encounter a word, we stop and ponder over it, which will affect the function of our brain and make it unable to grasp the meaning of the reading material as a whole.As a result, the new content was not fully understood, so I had to go back and reread it.Going back to re-reading will cause confusion and loss of information, affecting memory, thus forming a vicious circle.The more you look back, the more you need to read back. Therefore, in the exercises, readers should first strengthen their attention, and second, increase their self-confidence, and practice and adjust from both psychological and visual aspects.

Broaden your horizons through extensive reading

Extensive reading is one of the keys to a person's success.When you get this weight, it means that there is one less obstacle on your way to success.

Classroom study and extracurricular reading are two basic ways for a person to learn and master knowledge.There is a lot of knowledge that is not found in textbooks, and to expand our knowledge and knowledge, we can only rely on reading and watching more.Extracurricular reading is the "fertile soil" for us to acquire all kinds of knowledge, and it is a "knowledge bank" that can benefit us for life.

Many outstanding figures at home and abroad discovered, explored and finally achieved a certain career through extracurricular reading.Just imagine, if a student graduates from high school and still doesn't know anything except textbook knowledge, then even if he gets 100 points in every subject, how much knowledge can he have?
A classmate who often loves to read extracurricular books said: "If I am in a bad mood, I will take an extracurricular book and listen to soothing music. After a while, my mood will calm down, and I will become happy and cheerful." , extracurricular books are like a pistachio for me.”

Therefore, every student should include extracurricular reading in their study and life, make a plan (such as the purpose, content, form, time arrangement, effect inspection, etc.) of extracurricular reading, and consciously cultivate their habit and ability of extracurricular reading .

To develop a good habit of extracurricular reading, you should first choose books for extracurricular reading.Different books have different functions, as Bacon said: "History makes people wise, poetry makes people wise, mathematics makes people refined, natural history makes people deep, ethics makes people solemn, and logic makes people eloquent." Therefore, we You should read books selectively according to your specific learning goals and hobbies, so as to improve the efficiency of reading.Some books are not suitable for us to read, especially those with vulgar taste and unhealthy thoughts.So, what kind of extracurricular books should you choose?
1. In terms of ideological cultivation
You should read more books that are conducive to the formation of your own good thoughts and morals, the development of good behavior habits, and the establishment of a correct outlook on life and world outlook.For example, in the lower grades, you can read some vivid and educational books such as the deeds of heroes; as you grow older, you can gradually add some philosophical books and famous works by classic authors.

2. Literary accomplishment
It is not enough to cultivate our literary literacy only by Chinese classes. There must be enough extracurricular literature reading as a supplement and assistance.Combining what you have learned in stages, you can widely read famous works from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, and gradually form your personal hobbies on this basis.Don't regard reading extracurricular books as pastime and entertainment, but understand and tap the essence of beauty from the background, content, thought, emotion, language, skills and other aspects of the work.Actively participate in works appreciation lectures, reading seminars, book reviews and other activities organized by schools or subject teaching and research groups.

3. Popular science books
In today's era, with the rapid development of science and technology, it is impossible to add ever-changing new concepts and new knowledge to textbooks at any time.This requires us to combine subject learning, read some popular science books or magazines, and try to read some books or articles on science and technology, history and geography, sociology, thinking science, etc.As for the amount of reading, it depends on your reading level and time arrangement.

Also, try to make an effort to find a passionate teacher.A passionate teacher can help us a lot.He will let us see that the world is so big, but there are very few things that belong to us, so that we have a strong desire for knowledge, so that we can develop a good habit of reading, and take fewer steps on the road to success detour.

Adhere to morning reading and enjoy the essence of the day
Morning is the golden moment of the day. Reading in the morning not only enables us to gain knowledge, but also cherishes time and cultivates our positive and enterprising spirit.

Early morning is the best time of the day, just like spring to the four seasons.During the day, we are busy with study or other things, watching the six directions, listening to all directions, working our minds and minds, tired our body and skin, and our bodies and minds are in high-speed operation.As students, we have full courses, a lot of homework and too much thinking every day, which keeps our minds and minds busy.As a result, after a day of intense study, we will feel tired, need rest, and need sleep.

Therefore, a night's sleep is essential to restore our energy.After a night of sleep, when we wake up in the morning, our minds will be refreshed, but the memory of the day is still blank.It's like a blank sheet of paper for drawing the latest and greatest pictures.The air in the morning has been purified all night, and it is also the freshest time, which makes people feel sober.Human energy is like a well-wound clockwork, abundant and exuberant. In the faint morning mist or morning light, what we should do most is to read.

The effect of morning reading is better than any time of the day. It has less distracting thoughts, is easy to understand, and has no memory burden. It can leave clear and profound memories most.The effect of reading it once in the morning will be better than reading it 10 times during the day.Because of this, both ancient and modern people have the habit of reading and exercising in the morning, and there is also the classic saying "The plan for a year lies in spring, and the plan for a day lies in the morning".

A classmate named Liu Shu said that she has never stopped reading every morning in the past few years.She calculated a morning reading account for herself: she read 15 minutes a day, which is equivalent to 122 lessons of happy reading in one year.

Over the past few years, she has not only become familiar with the texts and theorems from the morning reading equivalent to hundreds of reading lessons, but also greatly enriched her extracurricular reading—the reading of poems, famous quotes and classics.In this way, she really tasted the benefits of reading through thousands of volumes.In the morning reading, she enriched her knowledge, accumulated a large amount of vocabulary, cultivated her own sentiment, and enjoyed the fresh and pleasant morning.This is not only conducive to learning, but also helps to develop good living habits.

Students should make full use of the golden time in the morning, and develop a good habit of going to bed early and getting up early. It is best to ensure that there is an hour of reading time before breakfast, and arrange breakfast reasonably. Do not eat too early or eat If you eat too much, you must balance nutrition and calories.

However, each of us is lazy.Because of this, many students did not make good use of the most beautiful morning time of the day. Either they were greedy for bed and quilt, they liked to sleep late, or they used it improperly or did not grasp it tightly, resulting in a waste of this golden time in the morning.Therefore, we must rely on our own will to overcome inertia.

Long-term morning reading has cultivated the positive and enterprising spirit that we need as a student.In fact, the development of good morning reading habits can also cultivate the regularity of our lives, and through happy morning reading every day, we can eliminate depression and troubles in our hearts, and establish an optimistic and full positive mood for a new day of life or study , Let us take a good attitude and devote ourselves to new learning and life.

Remember, the morning is the essence of the day, 15 minutes less sleep will have no effect on the energy of the day, but 15 minutes of morning reading will be of great help to your life, the key is that you can't stop at will.As long as we persevere and persevere, this good habit will enter our study and life unconsciously, and our learning will continue to be enriched and improved.

Good habits are all about persistence. The so-called "habit" must be used to it day by day, month by month, and year by year. Persistence, formation of rules and routines.It takes hard work and persistence.As long as you have perseverance and perseverance, insist on getting up 15 minutes early every day for morning reading, and persevere, morning reading will become a habit over time.Persistence is really hard, but remember never to give up, don't stop, grit your teeth at critical moments, and it will pass if you hold on.Good habits are hard to develop if you give up.

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