"Read well, read good books, and study well." This is a famous saying by Bing Xin. Today I will not brag about how great reading is, but let's talk about some more down-to-earth topics: how to develop the habit of reading. Good habit? What are the skills for reading? How to view and apply the knowledge in books? How to develop a good habit of reading?

The earlier the habit is formed, the better. The same goes for the good habit of reading. For example, the Jews began to cultivate the habit of reading in their children when they were young. They would give their children a copy of "Tower". "Mu De", and then put a little honey on the cover of the book. This is to tell the child that the book is sweet and the book is a good thing.

But some people will say, what should I do if I didn’t develop the habit of reading when I was a child? In fact, there are many people who did not develop the habit of reading when they were young. So how do you develop your reading habit after leaving school and entering society?

I often saw a saying before: just develop a habit and stick to it for 21 days. It is said to be so, but it may be a bit difficult to do it, especially in the era of developed mobile Internet, it is difficult to find time to install it. Reading with peace of mind and persisting for about a month seems to be more than enough.

So is there any good way? Suifeng would like to share some tips with you:

First, let yourself calm down when reading. So at the beginning, read some books you like, such as novels, essays, poetry, etc. If you don’t know what books you like, here is another tip for you: reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people thoughtful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and logic and rhetoric make people Argumentative.

You can refer to it, and then choose a type of books you like, first develop the habit of reading, and then read the books you need, or read the books you feel you are lacking in. .

Second, use the power of others to urge yourself to read. Check-in is popular nowadays, so you can also try reading. You can read a little bit every day and then take a photo and post it to your circle of friends, attaching your reading achievements. This is just a method, mainly to enable you to develop a habit, just like clocking in at work, and ultimately to urge yourself to develop a reading habit.

Third, plan your reading plan. Arrange time for reading every day, even if you are too busy to read, even just for a while! When you are reading, don't think about other things. Try to go to a relatively quiet place. That is to say, when you are reading, cut off all interference from the outside world and completely immerse yourself in the world of books. What are the skills for reading?

When you develop the habit of reading, you have to start reading selectively, because there are too many books and you can’t finish them!

So how to make the right choice? In addition to what I mentioned just now, do you need any other skills that you are lacking in studying? Of course there is. Here I will share my experience with Sui Feng:

If you are a student, you mainly read extracurricular books prescribed by the school, plus various classics, and your understanding ability is limited when you are a student. The main thing is to cultivate the habit of reading well.

If you enter the society, then you have to be more particular about reading. First, the general order of reading is to read books about being a person first, and then read books about working. Books about being a person include: emotional intelligence, emotions, logic, etc. These are also the areas where you feel you are lacking, so you should study in those areas. . Work-related books include: sales, management, marketing, etc.

Secondly, in addition to the two categories of dealing with people, there are also some snake oil categories, such as psychology, philosophy, etc. These are to enhance your own knowledge system. If you are interested, you can also take a look.

Third, when reading, you must read a wide range of books. Don’t just read any type of books. You can choose to read books from ancient and modern times, Chinese and foreign ones. Personally, I feel that for books about people, ancient Chinese books are better, such as: "Tao Te Ching", "The Analects of Confucius", "Wang Yangming's Theory of Mind", etc. For practical or workplace-oriented books, you can read some famous foreign figures. Books, such as: "Pyramid Principle", "Dry Method", "Management Practice", etc.

How to view and apply the knowledge in books?

It is said that to apply what you have learned, you must combine book knowledge with practice, and this is indeed true. But have you ever noticed that sometimes the knowledge in books doesn’t seem to be used often in real life, or at all? What's the point of looking at it? Indeed, the knowledge in books seems to have lost the value of knowledge when it is not used.

I mentioned it here because I had the same experience, but later I finally understood it through different channels: human cognition is limited. When you read a book, you feel that the knowledge in the book is not useful or not available. It's useful because you couldn't use it at that stage, but when your environment changes, your ideological realm improves, and your cognitive scope broadens, maybe the knowledge in books will be available at some point in the future. Useful.

To give a popular example: a blind man touches an elephant. When you don’t know anything, when you touch a certain part of the elephant, you don’t know the name of this part. When you know the elephant When you look at all the parts of the body, you will understand everything when you look at the elephant. In the same way, when you don’t understand when you read, it’s mainly because your knowledge framework is not complete enough. When you encounter problems after the knowledge framework is complete, the knowledge in the books you read will come in handy!

If you read a certain amount of books, you will find that the knowledge in some books has similar meanings. After seeing a certain amount of books, if you can understand them all, you will find that the essence of some knowledge in different categories of books is the same!

It is mentioned in the "Tao Te Ching": "Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things." In fact, reading is the same. First develop the habit of reading, and then read about your deficiencies. Books, if you read and get involved, you will take the initiative to find the books you like with purpose!

Books are the ladder of human progress. Please believe that there are things you want in books!