What do you get out of reading? Why do we do it?
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What do you get out of reading? Why do we do it?
What do you get out of reading? Why do we do it?
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Reading in combination with learning tools from "Make it Stick" will expand your knowledge and also makes you a better reader.
The problem is that "reading" for most school "educated" (school is just destroying people for life with the life torture called "grades") means
>open a book
>follow letters with your eyes
>turn pages
>close book
>forget everything
>brag on YouTube that you "read" 300 books in a year
>rinse and repeat
The reality of real reading
>read book
>stop after sentences/paragraphs/pages/chapters (depending of the importance and complexity)
>close book/move away from the book
>ask yourself questions about what you read
>answer your questions yourself
>continue reading the next "logical chunk" of the book
>continue the questioning without rereading
>after you finished the book you can do a "summary questioning" of the book with questions like "how did this solve my problem", "how can I profit from this in my life"
>put book away and only reread it either after a long time (if at all), or reread it if it is necessary for your job/education test
This is real reading and most people simply don't know how insane this way of reading is. Sure, there are even some other minor things you do to get the most out of a book, but if you question the meaning of reading, you have never read in your live and only moved eyes and flipped pages.
To this day I don't understand why reading isn't called "questioning-books", because without the doing the "secrets" of how to remember stuff, a book is literally just a bunch of wood which is useless. That's also why smart people take weeks to read some books, while the moron Youtube "reader" can "read" books in seconds and has "read" billions of books in a year while knowing less than before the "reading".
TL;DR — there's a difference between reading, absorbing and understanding a book.
Yea this sounds a lot like halfwit drivel. I get ur point but it still feels like you dont get the point of reading either. Please read more
Then do tell what is the point of reading if you think "I don't understand it".
Sounds like a nietzschean idiot saying "you don't understand him, only I do".
Please understand that I only write what He tells me to write... If I fail to fulfill his commands He unleashes hell upon my self-esteem. Forgive me brother scholar for I mean no offense.
I only asked a simple question to your refutals.
Whom is "He" that you speak of? Nothing can overpower you unless you let it. You are self-imposing that belief.
Offense not taken, my friend.
homie im just clowning. But to give you a serious answer I agreed with most of your post, except these 2 parts
>after you finished the book you can do a "summary questioning" of the book with questions like "how did this solve my problem", "how can I profit from this in my life"
>put book away and only reread it either after a long time (if at all), or reread it if it is necessary for your job/education test
Now my nuanced worldview is hard to describe without inviting prolixity, so to be concise the act of reading should be a reward in itself by having your mind engaged in a rational action. Just like a piece of cloth can not help but be affected by the dye around it, your thoughts and actions will overtime be positively affected by reading. The rationality/irrationality dichotomy is akin to the soul/flesh, virtue/vice, human/animal ones. By engaging in rational activities you're being a virtuous human being.
Because intuition and the truth of things transcends words, one shouldn't look for answers in philosophical writings, but instead treat them as nourishment for the soul.
Looking to profit by reading, i.e getting material or spiritual benefits is irrational and should be avoided.
Also I have read countless of STEM related journal articles and the most effective way to understand what's important is just to skim a dozen of similar ones. Science authors are so incestuous and they always refer to same sources. Modern academia is a joke and should be avoided, but you probably knew that already.
These words are just one version of my worldview. If you find them distasteful I'm sure I can conjure up some more likeable ones
good post dude
You understand that most of the books people who read 300 books a year read are complete shit? And probably barely worth spending any time thinking about on any deeper level?
>This is real reading
Frick off anon. You must do A,B, and C or you're a "fake" reader. kek
to make peolpe think im smart 😀
support my poverty. Books are free to download and read. Authors have been poor and the readers too.
dont then. just shut the frick up .
were not here to 'motivate' you to read. you stupid zoomer homosexual. you dont need to be rewarded for every single action. stop being such a total woman homosexual baby. just have a nice day, literally.
im a beta at life and bad at videogames so i turned to reading. i wouldnt read books at all if i had any real life goals, because information to achieve those is available on the internet readily.
same here, brother.
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Good thoughts + woke brain
Gotta train my brian to 3d render, voiceact and play a book as a movie
Same reason I watch movies, play games and listen to music. So I can enjoy it 🙂
To pass the time until the long sleep.
Dark
I get to experience life that I wouldn't enjoy if I actually experienced it. Books also have a unity that real life is missing. I am all the characters, all the scenes, all the voices - subject/object distinction falls apart.
Intellectual masturbation
Do it
You understand implicitly that your must work out your body to become strong. You must train to the point of physical exhaustion, and only then will your muscles develop. Don't be tricked by the seemingly-cumulative nature of knowledge into believing mental acuity works the same way.
I don't really regret the time I spend reading, while I can easily regret the time spent playing video games or jerking off. I also enjoy it. I have some hope that some books will help me in some ways, but I've never measured the results.
I derive enjoyment from it. Whether it be fiction or non fiction, I enjoy it, it is meditative for me. As for why we read? As stated, we enjoy it; but it also makes you more wise. A large vocabulary. Able to express your thoughts clearly and eloquently. Builds your memory. Improves your writing. Build an archive in your head of knowledge about fiction and non fictional things. So many damn benefits to it. Why would you not read?
For starters, WE, we, who is we?
WE don't do anything
Nobody on this board reads
In general, I've read non-fiction to learn whereas fiction is something I read to escape and kill time. I don't understand people saying that reading is fun. It's always been escapism to me from the time I was a kid.
I read books to accumlate facts so that I can dunk on morons.
Consolation.
Introspection, a better understanding of the thoughts of others and through that our own.
Also helps with visualization and not needing constant high-dopamine activities to function
I GO to the STORE to GET GROCERIES
I GO to the GYM to GET MUSCLES
I GO to the UNIVERSITY to GET DEGREE
I GO to SLEEP to GET REST
I GO to MCDONALDS to GET FOOD
I GO to BAR to GET LAID
aaaa I NEED to GET aaaahhhh I NEED TO GET SOMETHING Aaaaaaah I can't do ANYTHING if I don't GET SOMETHING FROM IT AAAAAAHH IM GOING INSANE AAAHH
maybe stop clutching your withered, bony hands you frisky fool
one day you won't be able to close your silly little fists and end up slapping yourself, mmkay!
>What do you get out of reading?
aesthetic pleasure. simple as.
pleasure.
have frick all else to do at work most of the time
I'm interested in philosophy and the history of thought because I want to know what knowledge and convictions the men who lived before me held, including how they arrived at that knowledge, in all aspects and depths of life. The idea of being unable to have control over my mind by getting swept up in the mostly worthless intellectual climate of our time terrifies me. Through a liberal and classical self-education, I want to be in touch with a more perennial outlook, one that's closer to the evergreen and unchanging substratum of reality. In doing so, I hope to become closer to God. I don't know if any of this is possible, for me at least, but I won't ever know unless I try my best.
There's also the fact that in general, abstraction and learning is a good — possibly even essential — pastime that keeps you sharp-witted until old age.
I read fiction for artistic pleasure and to become a better writer.