An extraordinary approach and very useful. Disciplined thinking is responsible for what little progress has ever been made in any area.
Several recommendations for your consideration. 1) You may wish to explore the neuroscience of sleep...restorative sleep is a precondition for processing experience and fixing memory and is integral to cognitive function and emotional well-being. 2) Reading involves an engagement with abstraction, imagination, de-materialised experience. One way to optimise this is by integrating it with varied physical experience...walking, experiencing the outdoors (via a garden). 3) Modern reading is almost invariably asocial and silent. In ancient times most literature was prepared for performance or recitation. So a balanced diet of reading should involve something designed for physical realisation...being realised via sound. A play. Poetry. Oratory. 4) Finally, most importantly. Prioritise quality. Ignore rubbish or the mediocre. Life is too short to waste on them. The names that count, the truly greats, vary, but attention to them pays off.
agree with you on all of these. especially like the part "modern reading is almost invariably asocial and silent". perhaps that is why once you read something memorable, you almost feel impelled to tell others about it
I really enjoyed reading this article and Thankyou for all the tips . I have a long list of what I want to read but did not get to devise a strategy to achieve this . Eventually the whole idea seems daunting and I flee from even starting . This article covers everything I need to tackle and how . So helpful .
An extraordinary approach and very useful. Disciplined thinking is responsible for what little progress has ever been made in any area.
Several recommendations for your consideration. 1) You may wish to explore the neuroscience of sleep...restorative sleep is a precondition for processing experience and fixing memory and is integral to cognitive function and emotional well-being. 2) Reading involves an engagement with abstraction, imagination, de-materialised experience. One way to optimise this is by integrating it with varied physical experience...walking, experiencing the outdoors (via a garden). 3) Modern reading is almost invariably asocial and silent. In ancient times most literature was prepared for performance or recitation. So a balanced diet of reading should involve something designed for physical realisation...being realised via sound. A play. Poetry. Oratory. 4) Finally, most importantly. Prioritise quality. Ignore rubbish or the mediocre. Life is too short to waste on them. The names that count, the truly greats, vary, but attention to them pays off.
agree with you on all of these. especially like the part "modern reading is almost invariably asocial and silent". perhaps that is why once you read something memorable, you almost feel impelled to tell others about it
Or, better yet, memorise a passage so as to be able to quote it in conversation.
Hi Zara
I really enjoyed reading this article and Thankyou for all the tips . I have a long list of what I want to read but did not get to devise a strategy to achieve this . Eventually the whole idea seems daunting and I flee from even starting . This article covers everything I need to tackle and how . So helpful .
Great work 👍