Yol · 12 Stations · 12 days · Mind & Psychology › Focus
Read More and Remember It
Someone who chooses how deeply to read each book, keeps notes that grow into ideas, and can still explain a book months after closing it.
Twelve Stations, one a day, built from How to Read a Book, How to Take Smart Notes and the research on memory: the four levels of reading, the four questions, three kinds of notes and a slip-box, testing yourself instead of rereading, spacing, and reading for a real project. The road ends with a one-page reading system.
The road, station by station
01Four levels of reading
~5 minfrom How to Read a Book
Today’s Station — start →
02Inspect before you read
lockedfrom How to Read a Book
03Read with four questions
lockedfrom How to Read a Book
04Test yourself after reading
lockedfrom Make It Stick
05Three kinds of notes
lockedfrom How to Take Smart Notes
06A slip-box that thinks with you
lockedfrom How to Take Smart Notes
Milestone
One book, truly read
Inspect one book in a few minutes, then read it with the four questions; after each chapter close the book and write what you remember, and finish with at least five permanent notes in your own words.
07Space your rereading
lockedfrom How We Learn
08Read books against each other
lockedfrom How to Read a Book
09The illusion of knowing
lockedfrom Make It Stick
10Read for a project
lockedfrom Ultralearning
11Write to think
lockedfrom How to Take Smart Notes
12Your reading system
lockedfrom How to Read a Book
Milestone
Destination: your own reading system
Your one-page reading system is written: the level you read each book at, how you keep notes, when you return to them, and the project your reading feeds. Within a month, one short piece of writing has come out of your notes.