when I opened the book, I was shocked by this sentence: we are like "primitive people", "in abundance, but we are gradually starving to death". Mr. Hao Mingyi, the author of The Yue Reader, talks about our "reading": "We are in an unprecedented rich reading era in human history. As far as books are concerned, there are nearly 2, kinds of new books in Chinese every year. What's more, there are countless convenient foreign language books. In terms of web pages, new web pages are born every minute in the world at an incalculable speed. Not to mention the many forwarded email and messages. "

But it is precisely in this era that people are giving up reading more and more, or limiting our reading to a narrower and narrower scope. There is a strong contrast between the richness of reading environment and the poverty of actual reading. Behind reading poverty is spiritual poverty: this is what really makes people anxious. The reading crisis came into being.

In Mr. Hao Mingyi's view, the reason for the reading crisis is that we are "confined to some boundaries consciously or unconsciously". What are the boundaries? Mr. Hao Mingyi said: "The boundary may be formed by the locking of textbooks and reference books in examination education, the influence of reading appetite of Chinese and universities for ten years, and the realistic oppression after entering the society. It may be formed by some established impressions and usage habits of' network' and' books'. "

Therefore, in this book Yue Reader, based on his years of publishing experience and long-term reading experience, he analyzed the evolution of reading and the reading crisis facing today with a long-term historical perspective, examined the relationship between the Internet and reading, and also shared many specific reading methods.

Yuan Mei, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, once said, "You can't read books unless you borrow them." This is because of the borrowed books, and we read them carefully because we were worried about returning them. And my own book is so convenient that I can read it at any time, so I drag it on. What is too easy to get is not cherished, and what is more convenient to get is less valued. This is human nature and has nothing to do with the internet.

in fact, we need to realize that the internet will not only prevent reading, but also provide new possibilities for reading.

Human beings perceive the world by observing it first, and then expressing it with voice, body movements and images. Until the invention of writing. Words can make us know the world efficiently in an abstract way. But we rely too much on words, which also makes our ability to use other senses go backwards.

With the emergence of the Internet, we can immerse ourselves in multimedia environments such as words, images and sounds at the same time, so that various senses can work at the same time. Network makes reading more vivid and efficient.

Therefore, the invention of the Internet is actually helpful for reading.

the first kind: staple food reading

staple foods such as rice, noodles and steamed bread make us full and meet our needs for survival. Staple food reading refers to those books that can provide guidance for our career, life, psychology and other aspects and solve practical problems, also to meet the needs of survival.

Most books on methodology and self-improvement provided in the market now belong to this category. For example, reading like this is enough, How to Ask Questions, Writing Weapons that McKinsey taught you, and so on. The advantage of this kind of books is that they can directly solve the problems in our work and life, but the disadvantages also arise, that is, after solving the problems, we can easily be satisfied and complacent, taking staple food reading as the whole of reading and not reading other books.

But in fact, staple food reading meets the problems in reality, and reality is constantly changing. This leads to staple food reading is often only useful to some people for a period of time, and only solves immediate problems. Therefore, when we study, it is not enough to read only by staple food.

the second kind: gourmet reading

after we meet the basic survival needs, people will naturally pursue more delicious and exquisite food. In reading, you will also read too much food.

If staple food reading is aimed at practical problems, then gourmet reading meets ideological needs. Although food reading does not directly solve practical problems, it often indirectly makes us think about the essence of the problem.

to appreciate food reading, it is natural to improve reading taste. This is the difficulty of food reading. Because many people have poor reading taste and can't tell good from bad, some inferior books under the banner of history, literature, philosophy and art are often popular. And those real classics are rarely talked about.

The third kind: reading fruits and vegetables

Vegetables and fruits can provide fiber and help digestion. Books on fruits and vegetables are books that can help us understand and digest other books.

dictionaries, maps and encyclopedias are all fruits and vegetables reading.

fourth: sweets reading

we eat sweets not for satiety, nor for nutrition, but for delicious food. Sweets reading does not solve practical problems, nor does it meet ideological needs. It provides entertainment and recreation. Popular novels such as comics, martial arts and reasoning all belong to this category.

This kind of books is hard to appeal to the public, so reading sweets is often regarded as a waste of time. But people are not machines after all, and always need to rest. A moderate amount of sweet food reading can be used as an adjustment to life.

Therefore, these four types of books are indispensable in our reading career. But the allocation of time and resources should be based on your own goals. On this point, we will mention it later.

after clarifying the four different types of reading, let's discuss how to improve reading efficiency.

first of all, we should distinguish between fragmentary reading time and whole reading time. Spare time can be used to read some short magazines, newspapers and browse the web, and try to leave a whole block of time for reading a whole book. Why? Because we often need a certain amount of time to enter the reading state, if we read a book intermittently, it is difficult to understand the content of a book deeply.

Secondly, we need to prioritize and read hierarchically. Some figures in history are famous for their reading methods, such as Tao Yuanming's "not asking for a very good understanding", Zhuge Liang's "reading the outline" and Zhu Xi's "reading carefully". Combining these three methods is a good reading skill.

For example, reading books on sweets is just for entertainment, so long as you don't ask for much understanding.

For staple food books, just look at it and quickly find out what you want to use. Then, for the departments that you need, you can read them from scratch, that is, "read them carefully."

For food books, you need to read carefully and understand and appreciate the profound and subtle ideas.

Therefore, if we want to improve reading efficiency, we should first distinguish between fragmentary time and whole time, and make different books for different types of time. At the same time, for different types of books, we should distinguish between primary and secondary and use the right method, instead of using the method of "perusing and thinking carefully" from beginning to end when all types of books come up.

on the way to reading, it is not smooth. We have different reading goals in each journey, which corresponds to different reading methods. Mr. Hao Mingyi, the author of this book, gave seven steps on the road to reading, just like the seven increasingly powerful big boss that we encountered when we were fighting monsters on the road in life. Only by conquering one level can you enter the next level until the top. So which seven steps are they waiting for us to climb?

on the first step, what we care about is how to make ourselves better off. So I will read some books on occupation, financial management, inspirational, health and so on.

On the first step, we care about how to become better with the people we love, and we will look for books on psychology, love, marriage, parenting and so on.

On the third step, we began to appreciate the abstract beauty, and read books such as philosophy, religion and science.

When we reach the fourth step, we will further understand the society we live in and think about how the society works and how a small organization works. At this time, you have a certain understanding of human nature and social mechanism.

On the fifth step, you begin to understand and appreciate the thoughts of people whose ideas are different from yours. You no longer live narrowly in your own values, but discover the bright spots of different thoughts with an inclusive attitude.

the sixth step is to experience the beauty of mutual agitation of diverse knowledge. Different fields of knowledge are interrelated in your mind and interwoven into a huge network. You can walk freely in the knowledge forest and lift the weight easily.

finally, you successfully climbed the seventh ladder and felt the beauty of the wisdom of the universe. This wisdom transcends all times and life.

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