How To Read A Book Sample 1

One should read above their heads.

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Education

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• Adler
• Books
• Great
• Ideas
• Mortimer
• Reading

[joannagough]

I read Greek Mythology when i was 4. I read about momentum and energy at 8. I read and played Bach's Inventions when i was 9. No wonder i'm so weird. o.O

[selectgamers]

im in 8th grade and i watched this

[qtutoringhelps]

This is why my bed time reading is Eric Kandel's PRINCIPLES OF NEURAL SCIENCE.

[spidrmage]

just started reading the book now, giving me plenty of food for thought and definitely going to be re-reading my entire home library with this new found knowledge.

[TheHarmanism]

okay those who are criticizing ,

he is telling you to pick on books which go above your head and not the ones which go 1000 metres above your head, only by conquering the ones over your head will help you to take on the ones which currently are flying in the sky and completely out of your reach.

[postalsock]

Agreed, but writing that appears simple is sometimes very complex.

[ultramagellan]

The above poster might be crude, but he's basically right- understanding a difficult (non-fiction) book only comes from understanding something of the underlying factual concepts that that book deals with.

Try understanding A History of Economic Time by John Kenneth Galbraith without first having a good understanding of how monetary or currency exchange works and how interest rates are decided, why they're important, etc. No amount of "critical thinking" will decode it for you.

[NecrosisOfLight]

Tomorrow in "Bullshit Level Analogies" we bring you our first season favorite, evolution.

[confusedmatthew]

It may help you to avoid leaving stupid comments like this in the future if you actually listen to what is being said in the video.

Adler isn't saying you should read books you CAN'T understand, he is saying you should read books that are difficult to understand at first, and not to avoid the ones that are.

[Taniseth]

That's retarded. That's like saying you can't get stronger unless you try and lift things that you arn't strong enough to lift. There are lots of way to improve yourself, and yes challenging yourself is one of them. But that can mean anything from putting yourself in impossible situations, to taking the first baby steps in a long journey of understanding and accomplishment. If you want to learn a new language, begin with the alphabet. If you want to learn Kung-fu, begin with simple exorcises.