Whole brain super learning ability

Chapter 17 Strong Reading Ability (1)
To read well, to read real books with a real spirit, is a grand exercise, harder than any in the reader's life.

the essence of reading

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Exercise makes a man strong, and reading makes a man wise." This is a passage said by the British essayist Joseph Edison in 1711.Unless we enrich our minds with the legacy of great ideas which our predecessors have left us in books, our brains will stop developing without these necessary exercises, and will gradually become dull, like a child without training. Same with practicing athletes.Knowledge of vocabulary improves reading, and reading in turn increases your vocabulary knowledge.Because words are a tool for thinking, and reading is a supply warehouse for our thinking materials.

To read, we must learn to read effectively and improve our reading ability.The three elements of effective reading are:
1. Concentrate;
2. Remember as much as possible;
3. Connect what you read with your existing knowledge and experience.

Three common reading methods are:

First, browse or skim.This method of reading requires a quick scan to find a particular fact.For example, when did Alexander the Great die or when Lincoln became President of the United States and so on.Browsing can also be used to get past the details and quickly find the central idea.

Second, analytical reading.The purpose of this kind of reading is to find and remember the central idea, and then to determine which are the important details and how these details relate to the central idea.

Third, intensive reading.The purpose of this reading is to understand and master technical information, explanations in textbooks or test papers, and certain teaching materials.Such materials must be read intensively in order to achieve a comprehensive understanding.

The above three reading methods are mainly used for learning reading rather than recreational reading.Although there are many different training methods for improving reading, they all aim to solve three common problems:
1. Determine the purpose of reading;

2. Improve understanding;
3. Improve reading speed.

Therefore, after you have read the specific suggestions on how to solve the three problems listed below, you can choose and modify them according to your specific situation, and maybe you can come up with more effective solutions.If you are like most readers, the first and most difficult task you face is whether you can believe that you should improve your reading habits.Because, the general attitude of people is that after four or five years of formal reading training in elementary school, one will know how to read.The inevitable conclusion to be drawn from this is that further research into methods of learning to read is quite unnecessary.

If a person wants to continuously improve his reading ability, he must persist in reading a lot.If the knife is not used, it will be blunt, and if the brain is not used, it will be stupid.Without a lot of reading practice, it is impossible to develop good reading habits.The great German poet, writer and philosopher Goethe said:

"People often don't know how long it takes to learn to read! I have been reading for 18 years, and I still can't say that I have learned to read."

Henry David Thoreau included an article on reading in his famous book "Life in the Woods".In fact, his whole book has been reprinted several times, which itself is a good tool for us to improve our reading ability.He said of reading:

"Reading well, I mean reading real books with real spirit, is a magnificent discipline. It is more difficult than any discipline in the reader's life. The reader must study hard like an athlete and strive all his life to achieve his goal. Goal. Readers must be as serious, prudent, deliberate, and deliberate when they read as when they are written by the author."

In the same paper he goes on to say:
We can say that the works of great poets have never been read by human beings, because only great poets can read them.Of course, ordinary people have also read them, but that kind of reading is just like ordinary people watching stars, at most it is just astrology, rather than studying and researching from the perspective of astronomers.Most people learn to read just to get by with life, just as they learn to count just to do the math and not be cheated in their purchases.As for reading being a noble intellectual exercise, they know little or nothing.Of course, the reading here refers to reading those meaningful books that we must devote ourselves to and think about seriously, not those that make people drowsy or drowsy.

Reading takes a lot of time, and everyone's situation is different, and the schedule of the day is also different.There is no one-size-fits-all schedule.The day is filled with dozens of different things, but, no matter what the circumstances, there are three things that must be done every working day, must be done:

1. On-campus study;
2. Homework;
3. Reading.

No matter at home, in the library, in other people's residences, or on the counter, there are all kinds of books silently placed in front of us.How wonderful it would be if books could shout!How nice it would be if books also had the power to compel people to read them!How wise and kind would we all be then!
Books are silent.Movie screens are flickering, radios are calling for attention, commercials for singing and dancing are calling for audiences.Books are silent.There is nothing in the world that is more patient, tender, and uncomplaining than books.Numerous books were forgotten, shelved, thrown into small storage rooms and basements.Books are still enduring, dying without moaning.It has been waiting for people's patronage for thousands of years, and it quietly waits for people's strange hands to open it.People don't read it, it doesn't complain; people open it, it doesn't feel happy.There is pain, wisdom, smiles, irony, cunning, anger in books.Books are rich in vigor that is not possible for anyone, but they stand motionless on the shelves.After all, books have to shout.

We must hear their cries.

"Read a few lines every day," said Plato. "Read a few pages every day," we readers say with him.

It's a great joy--to be in the world, and to be a reader.Let's read too!
What are we looking for in a book?Why do we have to open it?

We look for pleasure, we look for answers to the questions that torment us (perhaps unintentionally).We look for wisdom.We also seek distraction—books give distraction, too.Of course, we also seek knowledge.We want books to tell us about ourselves, and we look to them for role models that define our purpose.What is good, what is bad, what is evil, what is good - we also need to learn about these from books.We look for friends in books.Appreciating the art of writers and poets, savoring every word and phrase, being ecstatic about their successful expressions, admiring their superb description skills, and being excited about their profound thoughts, this is called reading.Enjoying this technique allows us to be educated (it's not the same as "learning").The skill of depiction and profound thoughts can inspire our noble sentiments, show the height of real life, and improve our appreciation.Skills are always instructive.

Goethe reread all of Molière's works every day in his later years, in order to maintain his interest in reading, and he even wanted to understand the pure meaning of the words, beautiful thoughts and noble morals in detail.Goethe read like this, so what should we do?

You should cherish your interest in reading.

What exactly determines the artistry of books?How to learn to distinguish good books from bad books?How do you identify books that increase your interest in reading and those that detract from it?
What finally determines the quality of a book is not its vocabulary or style, but its tendency, firmness of thought and richness of content.It is often said that the book "empty".How could it be "empty"?It's 300 pages long!But what the author says is already known.It is often written 300 pages, 1000 pages, and printed into a book.However, there is nothing in the book, and it is impoverished both ideologically and artistically.

Only a few books are worthy of the attention of real readers, and these books are called classics.

The most remarkable and splendid texts produced over the centuries are called classics.People study these books, people know them well, it is a cultural treasure.It is always a little embarrassing not to know a few classic books.Some people, even though they have never read a classic book, deny it.They said: "I have read it, of course I have read it..." But at this time they themselves felt very ashamed, as if someone had exposed one of his scandals.Indeed, is it not an infamy not to read the good books of mankind?

A person can read about 4000 books in his life, which is a very large number.If these books are piled up in the house, people will say: "The whole house has become a library!" Usually, a small town library has 8000 to 10000 books, and a city middle school library has 4 to 5 books. [-] volumes.However, many of these books are not worth reading, and it doesn't matter if you don't read them.

And there are some books, without which we can't do it.These books are true classics in world literature.There are not many such books, but only two or three hundred.

Then, reread these books over and over again throughout your life, keep them in your memory, and keep them in your heart.What distinguishes classic books from other books is that they can be read over and over again for a lifetime, even though their contents are already known.In addition, every time you read, it can bring you new comfort and joy, which is not the same as the pleasure of first reading.In fact, people who read books are not readers, but readers are people who read repeatedly.These classic books continue to enrich our spiritual world.It is only from the time we read such books that we gradually become "educated people."To graduate from high school without having read the major classics, falling in love with them, and developing the habit of reading them over and over again is a graduating act of self-deception.Everyone thinks you have a middle education level, but you don't.You only have a diploma, but not an education level.

Of course, studying strictly according to the plan is like living strictly according to the schedule: not everyone can do it, and besides... it's a bit boring.

Reading should have a certain degree of freedom.A plan is always a plan, there must be a main line, and there are many branches on both sides of it, such as: new books, occasionally interesting books, and novels, novels and poems published in literary magazines.

This freedom of reading is necessary.There are also some books that are just for people to digest. In fact, they can only be read casually when you are tired.There are also some books that are popular science books. These books are just "siege guns" for studying important scientific books.

However, when we are dissatisfied, when we read books that are not very serious and not very important, we must always think of the main line in our minds - read classic literary works, and don't deviate from this main line.

No matter you are a student, a chemist, a turner, a baker, or a ghost or a devil, you have not finished reading or read two or three hundred classic literature books repeatedly, you must spend your life seriously is impossible.Whoever is going to give up on himself, intends to be a devil in the world and fool mankind, he should read these books all the more.Without reading these books, one cannot understand a person's psychology.

Books can teach future men to be men.

Books can teach future women to be real women.

silent reading

Silent reading (read silently) refers to audio reading.It is related to silent reading, but the two are not identical.Silent reading is the starting point of speed reading, and it does not speak aloud.But although they didn't make a sound, many people were thinking in their hearts, and some even moved their lips, tongues and even throats.When reading silently, these problems should be overcome.Otherwise, it will hinder the improvement of reading speed.Mind-reading is the most difficult to overcome, because it is a kind of inner self-talk, although it is difficult to detect when you read and listen to yourself.Silent reading requires direct eye-to-brain reading, which is a pure visual reading, and it does not need to convert text into sound.If you can practice silent reading well, you can gradually master the speed reading method.To control the pronunciation in silent reading, you can nibble the tip of your tongue with your upper and lower teeth or hold a piece of sugar in your mouth, or you can tap your hands on the table with a certain music rhythm (such as 2/2 beat).

Limiting the volume to improve reading speed will not reduce the quality of information received by readers, but can better help readers grasp the content of the article.Practice has proved that all speed readers use the silent reading method.This method is to compress the inner language to the maximum conditional reading.In this case, the internal language becomes a series of keywords and concepts that can reflect the content of the article. "Silence is better than sound at this time" is an image description of the silent reading method.The speed of reading with sound is slow, while the speed of reading without sound is fast, so: "Silence is better than sound at this time"!The silent reading method can improve the reading speed and is a fast reading method.

The characteristic of silent reading is, of course, that there is no sound.However, there is one more point that needs to be emphasized: even the silent reading that still has vocal cord system activity will not work.Another point to mention is that silent reading advocates speaking in internal language.The so-called internal language is a new coding of cognitive text information, which is sent to the brain command center by the language nerve for processing, causing brain thinking activities.

The key to realizing silent reading is how to quickly and effectively turn off audio reading and latent reading completely.

Let's analyze the various latent reading situations first!These latent reading situations mainly include:

"Lips move".The lips are gently activated to produce a sound that is very faint and inaudible to the human ear.

"Tongue movement".This situation is more difficult to detect.It is hard to imagine that when we close the mouth, the tongue is still.However, when we start to read, the tongue is still in a static state, and we all think that it has no other movements and no sound.However, a muscle under the tongue did not stop working.It was shaking slightly, and it was "busy", shaking rapidly up and down.What is it doing?That is, it is reading secretly with the vocal cords of the throat!We didn't notice it.

"Chin movement".This is also secretly making a sound, sending out audio frequencies that our human ears cannot hear to participate in reading, which reduces the reading speed.

"Throat movement".Together with the muscle under the tongue, it secretly participates, and only a slight sound can be heard from the loudspeaker as the reading activity progresses.

(End of this chapter)