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This reminded me of great advice I heard from Naval Ravikant regarding reading. Previously, when he got bored reading a book, he wouldn't start a new one until
by jimmydddd 10y ago
This reminded me of great advice I heard from Naval Ravikant regarding reading. Previously, when he got bored reading a book, he wouldn't start a new one until he finished the current one. The result was that he would stall out and stop reading books. Now he gives himself permission to stop reading a book at any time and start a new one. Result -- way more books read.
- walterbell 10y agoIn one school of non-fiction speed reading, you are advised to reverse-engineer the "schema" (book proposal that was funded by the editor) of a book, without reading the book. This can be done by reading the conclusions of each chapter in the book, starting at the end and working backwards. There are also commercial services which offer book summaries. Once you have the book schema in hand, you then diff against your prior knowledge to determine a topology of value relative to your goals (which of course vary with time). Then you perform a non-linear reading of the parts of the book which are sufficiently new/relevant for your goals. You can always return to a different part of the book later, if your goals change and you recall the schema. This also applies to other media, e.g. video, which can be accessed via non-linear hypertext index. What we are missing is a commercial market for metadata to faciliate non-linear learning, dynamically mapped to ever-changing user goals by navigational interfaces.