Experiments on yourself

First, for those who do not like to read: let's look for a key book! That is, the first book that is interesting to us, whatever it may be.

How to find it?

The easiest way is to ask your friends, beg them for an interesting book. You can also say honestly in the library: "You know, I have never read with pleasure in my life... Please give me such a book so as not to tear myself away."

Perhaps the first attempt will be unsuccessful. It's not scary! Just as there are many boring people among people, you can't make friends with everyone, so there are many boring books (for us), and if we haven't "made friends" with one book, let's not think that all the others are boring either. Let's look for our key!

But let's set ourselves a goal: to read every day, at least for an hour, at least half an hour. There is an assumption that someone who spends at least half an hour reading a book every day for two or three weeks, without missing, will definitely love reading. However, this assumption, like many others, requires experimental verification. Please tell us about the results of your experiment: how many days did you continue it? Did you enjoy reading?

If you liked it, if you are already a reader, then let's continue the experiments.

For readers, the experience is as follows: learning to make extracts from books.

We start a common notebook for extracts.

We try to make only short extracts, no more than half a page in a notebook: they are easier to look through.

Be sure to leave the margins on the left, because then, in a few years, important thoughts will come to mind (it happens to everyone) and where to put them then? To the fields!

When the book is read, we think: do we agree with the author or the hero of the book on everything? If there is a disagreement, we will write down briefly what it consists of. There are books that you accept in their entirety, but the real reader sometimes has an objection.

We have already said that accounting is the flip side of the plan. As soon as you start to take into account what you have read, there will immediately be books that you need to read. Look for them!

The next experiment is as follows: we will try to determine what interests us the most and read all the available books on this topic. Maybe military equipment? Or Pushkin's life? Or is it all about birds? Or is it all about cinema? It is very important to read many books on the same topic. After the second or third book, you will certainly find that the further you go, the more interesting it is to read.