Reading
insights on the art of reading
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Reading
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TED’S 24 RULES FOR READING
- Reading shouldn’t be a goal —instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit .
- It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, something you look forward to each day. That’s why setting too many reading goals will be counterproductive. It will put pressure on you, and that’s the opposite of relaxation.
- Remember that this is a
Ted Gioia • My 24 Rules for Reading
the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such excuse is needed. It is true that we get nothing whatsoever except pleasure from reading; it is true that the wisest of us is unable to say what that pleasure may be. But that pleasure—mysterious,... See more
How Should One Read a Book? (Pt. 2) - Tetragrammaton
Vorginia Woolf
The one thing I do try to follow is to go on streaks of reading a lot of books on a particular topic around the same time. Doing this is useful because it means I don’t have to just trust one author’s perspective on a particular topic, and it helps me connect a lot of facts together, so I can understand things better.