February 15, 2008 at 23:55How to increase reading productivity.
Those who write a blog read a lot. This is an axiom. There are certainly exceptions. But for that there are exceptions to confirm the rules.
As for me, the opposite statement will be true. Those who read a lot write blogs. And one of the most important reasons for this phenomenon is the desire to discuss the material that is read. Plus, a natural desire to somehow systematize the existing deposits, and boast of accumulated in the network and invented by ourselves. So in this post I really want to talk about the declared topic. The English source is here . And my understanding of everything that is written in it is below.
In the modern world, we are forced to absorb ever-increasing volumes of information. And do it on a weekly, or even daily basis. In any case, if you do business online, blog, read something for work or just for fun, I am sure you can get more benefits if you memorize more from what you read. The Internet allows you to quickly find and get acquainted with huge volumes of information. Primary sources and recycled material. But how much can you keep in your long-term memory? Here are 10 tips to help yourself in this matter.
1.Read, recite, review. Cool, the author succeeded. Three R. But in Russian it will be, as usual, triP. Read, Repeat, Revise. The process of active reading provides that you will make stops to take notes that are important to you. Inspection allows you to save key points that most fully reflect the essence of the topic under discussion, or pay attention to incomprehensible and contradictory points. They are also a source of information during subsequent re-viewing. If the quotes are clear and understandable to me, then as a rule, I have causal relationships that clarify the picture of what is said. If, on the contrary, something of the summarized is alien and not clear to me, this sign will return and re-read again the material relating directly to this quote. The emergence of my site and my first posts were just the result of such an active reading. In addition, in the conditions of interrupted reading, when I sometimes return to books after a long break, this saves time not only by re-reading quotes much faster than the whole book, but just finding a place to read from is much easier. Another point related to active reading. We already know a little bit about how to read online or electronic literature (here we have readers and organizers and a google notebook and many other lotions), but we gradually forget about how to “actively” read books. I just recently finished reading a very good book. Yes, it’s a paper book. But when I wanted to write a short report about her, I realized that I was caught. Agree, no one is sitting with a book in front of a computer. It’s good to lie with a book. But I just forgot about the use of the marker. And even what I remember, what I would like to write about, does not help. In the absence of electronic search and other amenities, in order to write several excerpts now, you need to read the book again. Well, either carry a gag. In addition to the marker, the presence of bookmarks and pointers (maybe the marker itself) will significantly increase the reading speed.
2. Trim the fat. Well or simpler - cut out all the excess. If you use an RSS reader for reading, then go through all your subscriptions and delete everything that is not mandatory for you, and without which you can do without. I think this is the standard way that everyone who starts to use this ingenious invention of the Internet follows. First, the reader to the eyeballs is stuffed with all sorts of useful links. Then comes an attempt to read at least the headlines of all past news. When it becomes clear that this is not real, a person begins to clear the whole story, and tries to keep track of new arrivals. Then comes the attempt to streamline, speed up, put it into the most important, mandatory for daily viewing and less relevant. And then it begins to seem that using a reader does not give any advantage. And finally, the person understands that its bandwidth is limited. And what is better to miss something important than to endlessly shovel mountains of information manure. Gradually, you become convinced that it’s better to keep the added subscriptions under surveillance for some time and then delete them. That you need to remove the channels without regret, and add very, very carefully. Especially if these are the so-called aggregators, the amount of news on which can reach hundreds per day. When it comes to a single author, I add it to my subscription without any problems. Maximum, after some time I will remove it. But with portals, forums and aggregators, you need to be very, very careful. In the beginning, I, like many, happily subscribed to news feeds, both regular and specialized. And I thought that looking through headers and deleting messages, I will just keep abreast of current events. Two weeks later, after the unread records had exceeded one thousand, I unsubscribed from most of the subscriptions to these time eaters. Because this is my time, and therefore money. Well, then, if you still do not use the RSS reader, then it may be enough to convince yourself that the world is square. It gives savings and it is verified.
3.Start acting. We all remember the things we read better if they fit into our value system through practical application. It is possible, like me, to learn English for decades, but without constant practice it is not effective. My translations of articles now give me more experience and more memorization of words, something when I memorized just words. If you are reading something that seems useful to you, start applying it right away. Nobody has become richer just by reading and absorbing information. Somewhere I came across such an example that one woman collected a lot of recipes for cooking various dishes, but at the same time she never cooked anything. This is of course ridiculous, but only until you remember how many books you read on any topic, and how much of this you really use in your daily practice.
4. Read when you can be as focused as possible. Choose a time when you are as productive as possible and are able to work with the material with maximum efficiency. Setting a schedule and allocating special time will also contribute to a better perception. Do not read when you are in a hurry. But what about those time management tips that recommend using the time intervals between meetings, traveling by public transport, etc. for reading? It is probably more correct to leave these moments for reading something pleasant and not requiring mandatory memorization.
5. Understand and use graphic elements of the text. If the author wants to draw your attention, he can use various fonts, graphic elements, styles to highlight and group material. Understanding and paying attention to these elements can significantly accelerate the study process. But this helps especially when re-viewing or when searching for some specific information about already familiar material. Yes, and you yourself can note in any way accepted by you, this or that type of information provided in the material. Remember, earlier it was called marginal notes and the use of markers.
6. Create a map of what you are reading. Mapping involves several basic steps that can increase the productivity of your reading. This is, first of all, awareness of the goal that you pursue by reading this or that material. Next, you need to find and save keywords and phrases. And finally, you need to focus on the information that is directly related to your goals, skipping the irrelevant. I did not create maps, but I remember exactly how I read my first thick book. It was in the school library, and the book was given for a couple of hours, not more. So then I skipped all descriptions of nature, things and the intricacies of relationships, reading only paragraphs with monologues and descriptions of actions. Surely I missed something important, but since my goal was to find out about all the adventures and the result,
7.Print the pages of your greatest interest. Sometimes such a solution will be as simple and useful as possible, and most importantly autonomous. You can take this material with you and pay attention to it when it is convenient for you. And sometimes it’s also nice to read not from the monitor.
8. Write notes, take notes while reading. Not for nothing at all kinds of lectures and seminars it is customary to take notes. At particularly advanced training holidays, a brief summary or abstract of the material is distributed in advance. But above all, a record of the main points and ideas makes it possible to once again mark them both in our memory and on paper, with the aim of a subsequent return to the material.
9. Creating a plan for the article. If you write an outline of the article, it will help you not only to better remember the constituent parts, but also to better understand the relationship between the structural elements of the article and their impact on the whole picture.
10. Using the bookmark manager. When you surf the Internet, you always come across some services, or information that you will probably use in the future. In addition, now people, as a rule, go to the Internet from various computers. Therefore, the use of a service that allows you to store bookmarks centrally on the Internet becomes really critical. There is no shortage of such services, and free ones, now, and everyone can choose the most suitable option for themselves. I personally prefer the GOOGLE NOTE, with which, I implement virtually all the items from 5 to 10. Accordingly, with all the advantages of GOOGLE.
As for me, the opposite statement will be true. Those who read a lot write blogs. And one of the most important reasons for this phenomenon is the desire to discuss the material that is read. Plus, a natural desire to somehow systematize the existing deposits, and boast of accumulated in the network and invented by ourselves. So in this post I really want to talk about the declared topic. The English source is here . And my understanding of everything that is written in it is below.
In the modern world, we are forced to absorb ever-increasing volumes of information. And do it on a weekly, or even daily basis. In any case, if you do business online, blog, read something for work or just for fun, I am sure you can get more benefits if you memorize more from what you read. The Internet allows you to quickly find and get acquainted with huge volumes of information. Primary sources and recycled material. But how much can you keep in your long-term memory? Here are 10 tips to help yourself in this matter.
1.Read, recite, review. Cool, the author succeeded. Three R. But in Russian it will be, as usual, triP. Read, Repeat, Revise. The process of active reading provides that you will make stops to take notes that are important to you. Inspection allows you to save key points that most fully reflect the essence of the topic under discussion, or pay attention to incomprehensible and contradictory points. They are also a source of information during subsequent re-viewing. If the quotes are clear and understandable to me, then as a rule, I have causal relationships that clarify the picture of what is said. If, on the contrary, something of the summarized is alien and not clear to me, this sign will return and re-read again the material relating directly to this quote. The emergence of my site and my first posts were just the result of such an active reading. In addition, in the conditions of interrupted reading, when I sometimes return to books after a long break, this saves time not only by re-reading quotes much faster than the whole book, but just finding a place to read from is much easier. Another point related to active reading. We already know a little bit about how to read online or electronic literature (here we have readers and organizers and a google notebook and many other lotions), but we gradually forget about how to “actively” read books. I just recently finished reading a very good book. Yes, it’s a paper book. But when I wanted to write a short report about her, I realized that I was caught. Agree, no one is sitting with a book in front of a computer. It’s good to lie with a book. But I just forgot about the use of the marker. And even what I remember, what I would like to write about, does not help. In the absence of electronic search and other amenities, in order to write several excerpts now, you need to read the book again. Well, either carry a gag. In addition to the marker, the presence of bookmarks and pointers (maybe the marker itself) will significantly increase the reading speed.
2. Trim the fat. Well or simpler - cut out all the excess. If you use an RSS reader for reading, then go through all your subscriptions and delete everything that is not mandatory for you, and without which you can do without. I think this is the standard way that everyone who starts to use this ingenious invention of the Internet follows. First, the reader to the eyeballs is stuffed with all sorts of useful links. Then comes an attempt to read at least the headlines of all past news. When it becomes clear that this is not real, a person begins to clear the whole story, and tries to keep track of new arrivals. Then comes the attempt to streamline, speed up, put it into the most important, mandatory for daily viewing and less relevant. And then it begins to seem that using a reader does not give any advantage. And finally, the person understands that its bandwidth is limited. And what is better to miss something important than to endlessly shovel mountains of information manure. Gradually, you become convinced that it’s better to keep the added subscriptions under surveillance for some time and then delete them. That you need to remove the channels without regret, and add very, very carefully. Especially if these are the so-called aggregators, the amount of news on which can reach hundreds per day. When it comes to a single author, I add it to my subscription without any problems. Maximum, after some time I will remove it. But with portals, forums and aggregators, you need to be very, very careful. In the beginning, I, like many, happily subscribed to news feeds, both regular and specialized. And I thought that looking through headers and deleting messages, I will just keep abreast of current events. Two weeks later, after the unread records had exceeded one thousand, I unsubscribed from most of the subscriptions to these time eaters. Because this is my time, and therefore money. Well, then, if you still do not use the RSS reader, then it may be enough to convince yourself that the world is square. It gives savings and it is verified.
3.Start acting. We all remember the things we read better if they fit into our value system through practical application. It is possible, like me, to learn English for decades, but without constant practice it is not effective. My translations of articles now give me more experience and more memorization of words, something when I memorized just words. If you are reading something that seems useful to you, start applying it right away. Nobody has become richer just by reading and absorbing information. Somewhere I came across such an example that one woman collected a lot of recipes for cooking various dishes, but at the same time she never cooked anything. This is of course ridiculous, but only until you remember how many books you read on any topic, and how much of this you really use in your daily practice.
4. Read when you can be as focused as possible. Choose a time when you are as productive as possible and are able to work with the material with maximum efficiency. Setting a schedule and allocating special time will also contribute to a better perception. Do not read when you are in a hurry. But what about those time management tips that recommend using the time intervals between meetings, traveling by public transport, etc. for reading? It is probably more correct to leave these moments for reading something pleasant and not requiring mandatory memorization.
5. Understand and use graphic elements of the text. If the author wants to draw your attention, he can use various fonts, graphic elements, styles to highlight and group material. Understanding and paying attention to these elements can significantly accelerate the study process. But this helps especially when re-viewing or when searching for some specific information about already familiar material. Yes, and you yourself can note in any way accepted by you, this or that type of information provided in the material. Remember, earlier it was called marginal notes and the use of markers.
6. Create a map of what you are reading. Mapping involves several basic steps that can increase the productivity of your reading. This is, first of all, awareness of the goal that you pursue by reading this or that material. Next, you need to find and save keywords and phrases. And finally, you need to focus on the information that is directly related to your goals, skipping the irrelevant. I did not create maps, but I remember exactly how I read my first thick book. It was in the school library, and the book was given for a couple of hours, not more. So then I skipped all descriptions of nature, things and the intricacies of relationships, reading only paragraphs with monologues and descriptions of actions. Surely I missed something important, but since my goal was to find out about all the adventures and the result,
7.Print the pages of your greatest interest. Sometimes such a solution will be as simple and useful as possible, and most importantly autonomous. You can take this material with you and pay attention to it when it is convenient for you. And sometimes it’s also nice to read not from the monitor.
8. Write notes, take notes while reading. Not for nothing at all kinds of lectures and seminars it is customary to take notes. At particularly advanced training holidays, a brief summary or abstract of the material is distributed in advance. But above all, a record of the main points and ideas makes it possible to once again mark them both in our memory and on paper, with the aim of a subsequent return to the material.
9. Creating a plan for the article. If you write an outline of the article, it will help you not only to better remember the constituent parts, but also to better understand the relationship between the structural elements of the article and their impact on the whole picture.
10. Using the bookmark manager. When you surf the Internet, you always come across some services, or information that you will probably use in the future. In addition, now people, as a rule, go to the Internet from various computers. Therefore, the use of a service that allows you to store bookmarks centrally on the Internet becomes really critical. There is no shortage of such services, and free ones, now, and everyone can choose the most suitable option for themselves. I personally prefer the GOOGLE NOTE, with which, I implement virtually all the items from 5 to 10. Accordingly, with all the advantages of GOOGLE.