The 7 Reading Habits of Intelligent People

From the 'BECOMING DISGUSTINGLY EDUCATED' series For people who want to know more than everyone else. Hello mylove, You read a lot but you don't feel any different , you don't feel any more knowledgeable or sharper. You may feel like you're not getting what you want to from literature but the answer is not need to read more. It is to completely change the way you read. You can finish fifty books a year, underline half of every page, fill your shelves with classics and philosophy and psychology and still struggle to tell someone what you actually learned three months later. Because reading something is not the same thing as learning it. And perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions we have about well-read people is that they simply consume an enormous amount of information. They don't. The really good readers do something far more interesting. They interact with it. Their reading is active. Psychologists have spent decades studying memory and learning, and one lesson appears again and again:the brain remembers information better when it has to work with it. Not merely see it. So if you have ever wondered how some people seem to read a book and somehow carry pieces of it around for years afterwards, let me show you a completely different way of reading. Subscribe now Here are seven habits worth stealing. 1. They read with a question in mind One of the easiest ways to forget a book is to open it with absolutely no intention besides finishing it. Intelligent readers often begin with curiosity. What am I hoping to understand? What question am I bringing into this book? What does this author believe that I currently don't? Your brain is constantly deciding which information deserves attention. When you give it a question, you effectively give it something to search for.