How I Read Books
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Many people think you have to read every page of a book starting at the first page and go to the last page, before moving on to the next.
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Maybe because that's what they were taught in school?How I read:- as many books as I want concurrently (from 0 to infinity)- sometimes I skip entire chapters to get to the bits I find important- sometimes I read parts of a book and decide it's a bad book, or not useful to me, so I put it aside- sometimes I read the same paragraphs/pages/chapters/books multiple times, rarely, but occasionally, many, many times (e.g.
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some essays I read approximately every 3 months, since they're so important to keep front of mind).- very often, I take notes, often many pages of notes.
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