"Talking about Reading"
Author: Francis Bacon
Reading is enough for pleasure, enough for gambling, and enough for talents. His joy is most seen when he is alone in seclusion; his gambling is most seen when he talks loudly; his talent is most seen when he is dealing with the world and judging things. Although a skilled person can handle details individually or identify details one by one, he must be one who is studious and thoughtful in overall planning and overall planning.
If you spend too much time studying, you will become lazy; if you have too much literary flair, you will be pretentious; if you rely solely on articles to decide things, it will be the old school mentality. Reading makes up for the deficiencies of nature, and experience makes up for the deficiencies of reading. Innate talents are built up like natural flowers and plants. After reading, you know how to prune and graft them; but as shown in the book, if you don't use experience to model it, it will be too big and useless. Cunning people despise reading, ignorant people envy reading, but only wise people use reading. However, books do not tell others about their usefulness. The wisdom of using books is not in the book, but outside the book. It can all be obtained by observation.
When reading, you should not deliberately criticize the author, do not believe everything in the book, and do not look for chapters and sentences. Instead, you should think carefully. Some books can be tasted, some can be swallowed, and a few need to be chewed and digested. In other words, some people only need to read part of it, some people only need to dabble in general, and a few need to read it in full. When reading, you need to concentrate on it and work tirelessly. You can also ask someone to read the book for you and extract the summary, but only if the subject matter is inferior or the value is not high. Otherwise, the refining of the book is like the distillation of water, and the taste will be the same as chewing wax. Reading makes you enriched, discussion makes you witty, and writing makes you accurate. Therefore, those who do not often write must have a strong memory, those who do not often discuss must be naturally smart, and those who do not often read must have skills to deceive the world, so that they can show their knowledge from ignorance.
Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people thoughtful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and the study of logic and rhetoric makes people eloquent. Become a character. If a person's intelligence is blocked, there is no need to read appropriate books to make it smoother. Just like all diseases in the body, they can be cured by appropriate exercises. Rolling a ball is good for the testicles and kidneys, archery is good for the chest and lungs, walking is good for the intestines and stomach, riding is good for the mind, and so on. If the intelligence is not concentrated, it can be taught to read mathematics, because the calculation must be concentrated, and if it is slightly distracted, it must be repeated; if it is unable to distinguish differences, it can be taught to read scholastic philosophy, because this generation is a picky person; if it is not good at seeking common ground, it is not good at judging one thing. To elucidate another thing, you can ask the lawyer to read the case file. In this way, every defect in the mind can be cured by special medicine.
Appreciation:
"On Reading" is a famous work by Francis Bacon, a statesman, philosopher, and scientist during the British Renaissance. This article begins by talking about the three uses of reading: pleasure, gambling, and talent development. Then he talked about the method of reading. For example, some books can be read in advance, some can be swallowed whole, but a small amount of books must be savored carefully. Finally, the author believes that reading is like treating diseases. Different books treat different diseases. For example, reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people thoughtful, and science makes people profound.