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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