![]() ![]() The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding.Ĭommunication between unequals must be possible, or else one person could never learn from another. The thing to be read is initially better or higher than the reader. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement and perplexity that comes from getting in over our depth.Ī person tries to read something that at first he does not completely understand. ![]() Reading anything that, is at once thoroughly intelligible to us may increase our store of information, but cannot improve our understanding, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. You know the book has more to say than you understand and hence that it contains something that can increase your understanding. Catching the ball is just as much an activity as pitching or hitting it. The reader is the catcher in a game of baseball. The point is to grow up to the level of the author. Read books twice, ask questions while reading, answer those questions, then summarize and criticize afterwards. Advises to read books that are above your current ability. Go to the Amazon page for details and reviews. How to Read a Book - by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer Adler | Derek Sivers Derek Sivers How to Read a Book - by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer Adler
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