Stop the race to finish a book
Thursday, February 27, 2020I finished reading Sönke Ahrens How to Take Smart Notes today. And like what one person commented on the book in Goodreads said, "This book is GOLD."!
I will try to do justice in giving it a good review soon, but what I can share now are these two important lessons that I have learnt.
One, I will stop the race of finishing books. I have started challenges to read a certain number of books every year and even reading beyond that.
And when I read, I did it with two purposes: (1) to learn and gain insight and (2) to finish them to add to the list of books read as an accomplishment.
But after reading Ahrens book, I need to stop doing that. Of course I will still learn and gain insight from reading, but I will stop the race of finishing books.
And that brings me to the second most important thing: when I read, I will think, elaborate by taking notes and then to connect the notes. And it doing so, I will have a stronger grasp in my learning, thinking and ideas.
This will no doubt take a lot of time but don't even refer to the books I have read in past years, on the 11 books I have read these two months, not counting Ahrens's one, I don't remember much, if anything at all.
So even though it takes a lot of time, it is what needs to be done if I want to read.
If I don't do that, I had better not read anything at all to begin with because in the end, it wouldn't make a difference whether I read or not, if I don't remember or gain anything from it.
And with that, of all these books I have read this year, I will need to reread A More Beautiful Question. Next to Ahrens's, this is also very good.
But Ahrens did say that it is dangerous to reread books but I have to do it, though I think I will wait it out awhile before I do.
My project now is to read Daniel Coyle's The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups.
I need it badly for work.
pearlie
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