Video: Quarzt
I don't let myself start a book that I'm not going to finish.
1. Take notes in the margins
When you're reading, you have to be careful that you really are ...(1)..., particularly if it's not a non-fiction book. Are you taking the new knowledge and attaching it to knowledge you have? For me, taking ...(2)... helps make sure that I'm really thinking hard about what's in there. If I ...(3)... with the book, sometimes it takes a long time to read the book because I'm writing so much in the margins. It's actually kind of ...(4)... "Please say something I agree with so I can get through to the end of this book".
2. Don't start what you can't finish
There's this one, it's a fiction book, called Infinite Jest. I'm trying to decide if I start it or not because I watched the movie The end of the ...(5)... I loved it. David Foster Wallace comes across as a super interesting, broad-thinking person. If the book was a two or three-hundred-page book, there's no ...(6)... as soon as I watched that movie I'd dive in. But it's quite long and complicated and I don't want to make an ...(7)... It's my ...(8)... to get to the end.
3. Paper books > ebooks
Over time I will make the ...(9)..., but when I'm just sitting there at night reading, often a paper magazine or the book, I'm used to that. It's ridiculous because I have a whole book ...(10)... that goes on my trips with me and it's voluminous and antiquated.
4. Block out an hour
If you're reading books like these, you'd want to be sitting down for an hour at a time. Otherwise, just getting your ...(11)... arround, "Okay, what was I reading?". This is not the kind of thing you can do five minutes here, ten minutes there. ...(12)... articles fit, or short Youtube videos fit into those little slots. And so every night I'm reading a little over an hour so I can take my current book and make some progress.
Từ mới:
margins: lề, mép
non-fiction book: sách người thật việc thật
fiction book: tiểu thuyết, sách hư cấu
broad-thinking: tư duy mở
dive in: chìm đắm
ridiculous: buồn cười, nực cười
voluminous: đồ sộ, phong phú
antiquated: cổ xưa, cũ kỹ
block out: ngăn chặn những điều gây xao nhãng, cố gắng không nghĩ đến hay cảm nhận gì khác