132. Thematic reading can systematically solve your problems

Thematic reading is not about reading one book, but about reading the subject of many books on the same topic.

It is difficult to fully absorb a whole type of knowledge just by reading a book, because books are all subjective ideas. Only by combining more people's opinions and converting them into their own words can the real essence be quenched. Moreover, with the changes of the times, Everyone's current time and space background is not exactly the same, some principles can be used forever, but some will be eliminated with time and space.

Then comes the hardest part: you need to know which books you should be reading, instead of gorging yourself on it without really understanding the subject you want to delve into, and the first book is important, like a waterfall of emotions Likewise, if you start with the wrong book of enlightenment, the first book you will be most impressed with is often the first book, so choose carefully, not shoot darts!

Is the title of the book all about the same theme? Not really, maybe you want to explore the historical facts of the war rather than the war novel, so be careful not to be deceived by the title of the book, and now in order to attract attention, a bunch of title party books Bookstores are flooded, and how to filter requires the use of the "inspection reading" and "analytical reading" mentioned earlier. How to read a book is a series of steps accumulated, and the pre-work of topic reading is to skim these books ( Analyze the first two steps of reading) and find out whether you have chosen the right book before proceeding to the next step.

But this is still too time-consuming, so inspection reading comes in handy . The most important core question in inspection reading is: Is the content of this book important to the reader's research topic? If you are a student and read A book on how to solve intractable diseases at work, you just learned about this book in the wrong time and space. It's not bad, but it may not be able to solve your current problems.

Choosing the right book is more important than reading indiscriminately, because human attention and self-control are limited. You must use the right method and time to absorb the information on the topic you want to study at the moment. Before starting today's introduction to the topic reading, please note: Analysis Reading is for one book, and subject reading is for more than one book! (For more detailed steps, please refer to this book by yourself)

Five steps to topic reading:

1. Find the relevant chapter:

Don't take the book as a unit, but take the book chapter as a unit, and combine the analysis with the topics you are interested in. Too many people analyze it separately by a book, which will make your brain need to start from scratch, just like memorizing words in high school , you must be most familiar with the A-letter words, but you should analyze the subject as a unit! You read it to solve a problem, not for the purpose of the book itself , what you do is not Understand the whole book, but find out how this book can help your subject, please be the owner of the book!

2. Lead the author to a consensus with you (the hardest part):

In fact, it is to lead the "people" of the authors to reach a consensus with you. To reach a consensus means that you already understand what the authors want to express, and you can put it in your own language. In other words, just like what I do every day, in the book Find the essence of what you think is in other words, not deliberately using synonyms, but Erchuang adding your own point of view to understand and interpret it.

3. Clarify the problem:

Find the golden sentence, understand the author's theme, and create a set of your own themes. The problem you want to solve is not necessarily the problem the author wants to solve. Maybe the problem you want to solve will need to combine ideas from multiple books, or you Ask new questions.

• Define the topic:

•Different authors may have different opinions on the same issue, possibly due to different time and space backgrounds or different perspectives on the problem. In this case, it is necessary to sort out the relevant issues and go to the last step

• Analytical Discussion:

Objectivity is the most important thing, easier said than done, even the order of reading or your preference for a certain author can make you too subjective, and sometimes even the pros and cons are wrong, but you can fall into the trap of logic , so you will be asked to retouch with your own vocabulary (to make yourself neutral and objective), provided that you understand the original meaning of the author's words, so that you can be objective when reading the subject.

Reading and writing are actually interlinked. When you finish the thematic reading, you will often write a lot of your own opinions. In other words, when you can read, you will actually write.