How to read a book using o1 - Marginal REVOLUTION

Fortunately, this is a skill you can develop. No book can give you all of the answers, but this book can train you to ask better questions. Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that “The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything

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Here are some thinking prompts you can use while reading:

• How could I put this in my own words?

• How do I know this is true?

• How can this be applied to my life?

• How do I feel about this?

• How would I improve this?

• How would I change this?

• How would I explain this to a 5-year-old?

• What is the main idea here?

• What is this similar to?

• What is

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Our societywide obsession with speed and efficiency has given us a flawed model of human cognition that I’ve come to think of as the “Matrix” theory of knowledge. Many of us wish we could use the little jack from “The Matrix” to download the knowledge of a book (or, to use the movie’s example, a kung fu master) into our heads, and then we’d have it... See more

Slow Reading Technique: SQ3R Method:1. Survey (S):

The first step is easy. It’s even fun. You don’t start reading the book. You examine it. You skim through the pages. You go through the table of contents. The headings inside the chapters. Your goal is to get a sense of the content. To form an impression about the book. To spot what are the key ques

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