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Building on this advice, I highy recommend the essay titled "How to Read a Book" by Paul Edwards: https://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf https://pne
by garden_hermit 6y ago
Building on this advice, I highy recommend the essay titled "How to Read a Book" by Paul Edwards:
https://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf https://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf
Edwards is an academic historian of science who write incredibly long and dense books drawing on hundreds of sources. If anyone knows how to read, its him, and his advice was truly useful for my own reading.
- lappet 6y agoThank you for sharing this. I seem to follow some of his methods and there are some I need to adopt.
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- isthatsoup 6y agoThanks for this. I clicked on this thread thinking "why should I care about how den zhadanov reads books? what has he accomplished exactly?" and confirmed my suspicious when I saw the picture of him reading one of those junk business self help books. Snake oil. This person, however, seems worthy of consideration.
- hckrnrd 6y ago“junk business self help books.” Indeed many a bookshelf is littered with such babble, but to group Nobel laureate, Danny Khaneman[1] into that group would be a gross overestimation. [1] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Kahneman https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Kahneman
- nosmokewhereiam 6y agoThis is awesome: It's useful, it's enlightening, and I wouldn't have found this without your comment. Thank you!
- Denzhadanov 6y agoThank you for the advice! I'll add that to the list