A while ago, the circle of friends was screened by a photo of frost on a little boy's head. In the picture, the little boy's clothes are thin, his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes are frozen out, and his face is red with cold. According to online news, the child in the photo is a primary school student in Ludian County, Zhaotong, Yunnan Province. The frost on his head froze like that on the road in walking to school because the temperature was very low that day and his home was too far from school. This photo was taken by his teacher. Subsequently, it was spread to the internet by the principal, which caused the distress and emotion of many netizens.

So what makes this little boy so obsessed with "reading"?

This is not difficult to answer. For many children from poor families, no one knows the meaning of reading better than them. The poor life made them understand from an early age that if they want to change their fate, they are destitute, and reading is still the only way out.

When I was a child, there was a sister in our village who studied very well and always came first in exams. My mother often uses her as a textbook to educate me. Once I went to play with my sister and found her door closed. I thought she overslept and was going home to tell her mother, but I was just leaving when she opened the door to meet me. Looking at her holding a doorknob in one hand and a thick book in the other, I asked her, "What's so good about books?" She smiled and said, "It's beautiful. There is a lot of knowledge in it. "

I asked her again: Are you working so hard to get into a famous university? She smiled again and didn't answer. By the time I go to high school, she will have been admitted to a famous national school. Later, she made a like-minded boyfriend. After graduation, they worked hard for a year or two and bought a house in Shanghai.

I thought that after studying hard for many years, being admitted to a famous university and buying a house in a big city, she would develop some other hobbies. But once I went back to my hometown with her. In the car, I watched Korean dramas with my mobile phone, while she was still reading quietly by the window. I asked her again, "You don't go to school now, and you still love reading so much?" After listening to this, she still smiled and said, "The purpose of reading is not only to further study, but also to learn a lot of interesting things. The world in the book is wonderful. " "Say, lower the head to read.

This made me blush. I have been studying for more than ten years, but I can't understand the "good book". Later, I began to force myself to read, bought a bunch of books according to the list of books shared by online talents and began to read. Sure enough, I found the world in the book really wonderful, especially the plot in the novel often made me forget to eat.

But after a while of excitement, I began to be confused again. I find that I can only read interesting books. To put it bluntly, I read just for fun. I feel empty after reading a book. I am anxious to find the next one to fill this feeling. After my enthusiasm faded, I went to do other things. Later, I discovered that this kind of blind reading is far from the real "reading"!

Real reading should be carried out with a purpose. Japanese writer Toshiyuki Oshima pointed out in "Practical Reading Guide: Turning what I have read into ability": In the adult world, reading is more or less purposeful, and sometimes we obviously read a lot of books, but we still don't fully grasp the contents of the books; With new inspiration and insight, I didn't put it into action immediately. Reading takes time and money, and it's really a waste that reading doesn't change yourself.

Toshiyuki Dayan, a Japanese sales elite, has served as a legal person in many well-known enterprises. Later, after discovering that "successful people are all scholars" in the process of starting a business, he began to read 300 books a year, summed up the "slow reading method" that is easy to master and will not encounter bottlenecks, and gave many lectures to become a reading expert.

Practical Reading Guide is a reading guide that he summed up through years of research and exploration based on his own efforts in reading, combined with his experience of "forgetting after reading" and "how to transform the knowledge in the book into ability with skills".

First, reading should be carried out with a "purpose".

Determine what you want from the book, and read with this "purpose", the effect can be remarkable. The little boy mentioned earlier who wants to go to school despite the cold has a clear purpose of reading: to change his poor fate through reading. With this goal, he will act purposefully and insist on going to school even if the snow is heavy.

Taking the initiative will make you more focused and easier to concentrate. In this regard, the author makes an analogy: If you close your eyes now, think about how many blue objects are around you. You will find that your brain is blank and you can't count it at all because you don't pay attention to it. Instead, count how many blue objects there are before closing your eyes, so that when you open your eyes, all you see are blue objects.

This shows that only by taking the initiative to do one thing can we have a clear goal. The same is true of reading. Make clear the purpose and use the initiative of reading, so that you can "concentrate your firepower" and find the information you want more easily.

Second, reading skills.

1. Read the author's introduction, preface and postscript first to get a general understanding of this book.

A book usually has hundreds of pages, and it takes a lot of time to understand the contents of the book. But if you set a goal before reading, starting with the author's introduction, preface, catalogue and postscript, you can quickly understand what the author wants to express, so as to grasp the key points in the book and find what you want.

After understanding the general situation, you only need to focus on the "purpose" and "problem" in the following reading, and concentrate on what you need.

2. Set reading time to improve reading efficiency.

In order to improve efficiency, there is generally a time limit for doing things. The same is true for reading, if you are required to finish reading a book in 10 minutes and tell others the content. How can we do it in such a short time?

With a sense of time, reading efficiency will be improved. As mentioned above, we should read with purpose and initiative. With these two points, we can browse the main content quickly and pertinently. In addition, we are pressed for time, so we will be more focused and more efficient when reading.

In addition, the general business books will be mainly in bold, so focus on reading the bold part, as long as useful information is extracted, you can quickly grasp the main points.

3. Learn to break away and grasp the key point of 4%

There is often a misunderstanding in our reading: it is right to think that a book should be read word for word. In fact, in a book, the important content only accounts for 20%, of which only 4% is the most important. So from the beginning, we should focus on reading, find out the important 20%, and then extract the most important 4%, which will greatly improve reading efficiency and make the extracted content easier to remember.

4. "Read more" skills

Read more, literally means "read more". Consciously improving reading ability and trying to read books in different fields can make reading interesting and broaden your horizons.

"Lever Reading" mentioned: "If speed reading is achieved by training eye movements, then reading more is the skill of discarding useless parts." There is also the concept of "reading different books on different occasions and reading several books at the same time in one day" advocated in "Reading 10 Books at the same time". These are the skills of "reading more".

5. Don't borrow books to read

I know very well that most borrowed books can't be read carefully. I often borrowed books from the library when I was at school. When I first borrowed them, I thought I would look good. But after a few days of enthusiasm, I went to do other things. I thought it was free to borrow books anyway, so you can read them at any time. So the book was forgotten in a corner. When I remembered it was time to return it, it was all dusty. I didn't turn a few pages at all, but I spent five or six yuan to compensate for the overdue fee.

Third, make reading notes and mind maps.

As the saying goes, good memory is better than bad written memory. Only by writing it down can it be traced back. Taking notes and mind maps while reading can help us better organize information, master the structure of books and deepen our impression of knowledge.

Take notes directly in the notebook. Don't be reluctant to get the book dirty. Reading is a process of gaining some insights and learning knowledge. Write notes directly in the book, so that you can find the key points faster when reading later. The main points of taking notes advocated in the book are:

1. directly extract the parts you think are important.

2. Classify the excerpts.

3. Write down your feelings.

Isn't it meaningful to add your own reading notes? It will change the original value of the book and become your own thing.

Make a mind map. Mind mapping is a kind of thinking tool, which uses visual graphics to present what we think in our brains. Now there are free software on mobile phones and computers, so we can choose one according to our own preferences. You can also draw directly on paper with colored pens.

According to the "purpose of reading" and "deep thinking" when reading, put forward relevant "questions" and write down "answers". It is the process of making mind maps through regular reading. You can also add your own reading comprehension or follow the structure of the book directly.

Fourth, remember what you read.

1. Why did you forget the book you read so quickly?

The structure of our brain determines our forgetfulness. The Law of Brain Structure and Scientific Learning explains that there are about 654.38+000 billion nerve cells in the brain. If you remember everything you touch, your brain will be loaded with information in less than 5 minutes. So the brain will constantly delete information to receive new information.

Through Ebbinghaus memory curve, we can see the process of forgetting one thing.

2. Review and deepen your memory.

The memory method given in the book is: read a book several times repeatedly, "review the old and learn the new." Here, I think we can read the reading notes several times, because the notes are written by ourselves, and rereading can produce new ideas and achieve the effect of memory.

3. The "28 Law" focuses on 20% of the content.

The "28 Law" means that "20% of high-income people in society occupy 80% of social wealth." Similarly, learn to find the important 20%, and then extract the useful parts from these 20%. It's easier to remember.

4. Read with emotion and immerse yourself in it.

People tend to remember more clearly the events that produced their emotions. "Brain Structure and Scientific Learning Methods" mentioned that there is an area called "hippocampus" in the human brain, which is used to receive memories. Next to this area is the "tonsil" responsible for handling emotions. When emotions are mobilized, the tonsils will be stimulated, which in turn can stimulate the "neighbor"-hippocampus. Reading with emotion, stimulating hippocampus, memory will be more profound.

5. Read for "output"

The output includes two aspects: first, use notes to write down key contents, and you can take notes, review books and feel after reading. The second is to tell others what you have read, just like a teacher giving a lecture on the blackboard. Students understand, which means they have mastered it.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) puts the contents of the book into action.

"I think it's an armchair strategist. I don't know if it should be done." Reading without changing yourself is a waste. It is most worthwhile to apply the knowledge in books to real life.

Set goals in the book and find ways. For example, if you want to imitate scrambled eggs with tomatoes, then scrambled eggs with tomatoes that are good to eat are the goal. Buy a recipe with clear material requirements and production process. According to the above method, it is possible to buy materials and make delicious scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Similarly, I want to do one thing. First of all, we must establish a goal, understand how far the status quo is from the goal, and think about how to fill this distance. Find the right way through a lot of reading, understand what to do next after reading, set feasible steps, make plans and deadlines, and then put this plan into action to get closer to the goal bit by bit. To sum up, it is the following five steps:

What's your goal?

(2) How far are you from your goal?

(3) Find a way through reading.

(4) Make an effective and feasible plan.

⑤ Action.

When we were young, we studied to get into a good school. Like a little boy who went to school in a circle of friends with first frost, learning to change his destiny. And my sister, who loves reading, may not only be for this purpose, because she still loves reading after many years of achieving her goal. Perhaps she has other bigger goals, really understood "good reading" and entered the world of books.

As the ancients said, reading is like breaking ten thousand volumes, and writing is like a god. Read more books, a lot of truth will naturally be transparent, and the writing can be very smooth. Reading with "purpose" will produce better results. The deeper meaning of reading is probably to realize the richness and vastness of the world more deeply, to realize the smallness of one's ignorance, to have awe of everything in the world and to treat life more seriously.