 Alright guys so hopefully in this video I'm going to be teaching you my method when it comes to reading now primarily this isn't my method I got this from one of the favorite books I've read of all time that's how to read a book by Mortimer Adler now the problem with most people today and listen I had a huge fucking problem for the longest period of my life I never read at all truth be told like I didn't fucking enjoy reading because it's how we were taught from the get go of how to read it's a very binary relationship when you think about it most people are ingrained from school it's very simple you know you get a book you open up and you read word for word and you literally forget 99% of things it's not an experience it's not a process you most people don't enjoy the process of opening up a book and having a relationship with the book and when I read Mortimer Adler's book how to read a book that kind of brought it up my mind of different ways you can have a relationship with books and so in this video I want to kind of quickly briefly go over some of his strategies when it comes reading book it's a very thick book so I highly recommend you get this I'm using the resource or Coles note from faster2master.com and I'll leave a link below on the show notes for this however basically kind of want to summarize I want to summarize the process because it's very simple it's a good checklist you can have when it comes to reading a better book and I have a great book in front of me right now I just had him on my podcast Oliver Haydorn PhD social credits and economics I'm about to dive into that over the holiday break and I'll use this as example today on how I'm gonna approach this book because if you look at it it's a thick motherfucker right it has about like 500 plus pages and so basically how it works is this and you know you can see the notes over here I'm gonna go through every single one but I'll leave a link so you can see it but the whole idea the premise to kind of simplify the process for use this so Oliver you know he's studied social credits for very long time of his life he has a PhD and he has spent let's say years gaining information to create this book how most people would approach reading any book they're just gonna open it up and start reading from page one right blah blah blah and that's it right they go page by page and they forget everything the first step when it comes to reading any book is you want to understand who the author is remember the author has spent years if not decades some authors of putting their ideas and thesis is and thoughts down a piece of paper you want to understand the viewpoint from the author because this gives you the framework to understand how the how the author views the subject itself right from the last video talk about how to think critically we talk about biases we talk about context well biases plays a role in this context plays a role this so the first thing I like to do is I like to go in the back and literally find out who Oliver is in this case I met Oliver and talked to him for one three hours so I know him quite well which gives me a great primer and plea preliminary information on how I'm gonna approach this book right so the first thing you want to do is like you want to google the author you can start in the back over here you want to google the author you want to understand who this author is like why has the author spent his or her time on organizing this book and putting down their thoughts that's the first thing you want to do really understand the author of psychology the second thing you want to do is you want to go through the table of contents so in this case so why you want to pull out the table of contents the table of contents gives you the overview of how the author and the publishers organize their thinking within the book you know in this case we got you know part one part two part three bibliography index within each section you have subsections right so this gives you the general idea of how he or she has organized their thinking to approach this book and it's really important this gives you a good kind of primer and understanding of of the thesis of the book right so already you are at a head start already right before you even read one word before you dive into book you understand who the author is you understand their previous work you understand you know their experience now you understand how they've laid out the book in front of you okay now the table contents the next thing what you want to do is very simple process is let's say something catches you on table contents like in my case over here would be like would be part three you know they talk about current financial policies must be replaced by correct financial policies so page 345 I would go to page 345 and I would quickly skim areas right I just skim I look at areas and I skim and basically the whole process is you skim you go to areas the fancy or I and you skim and basically what you're doing is your data gathering your gathering tidbits and for information from the book because how most people approach the book or how most people approach any learning process as we look at everything from a linear aspect or we think the human mind works from ABCD but the human mind is exponential we don't just learn linear from A to B we may go from A to Z Z to G G to P P to E we're all over the place right we connect the dots and it's really seldom that you're gonna read in a linear fashion that you're gonna absorb information remember most of the things within a book you're not gonna remember you want key takeaways from the book so after I've gone through the process of skimming around I put down the book and I actually then take out a piece of paper and what I take out is what do I want to gain from this book because most people they think they have to remember everything for that's not the case the whole point of reading the whole point of having experienced a book is to make you think better it's to put different ideas in your mind so those ideas can percolate you know there's a saying an intelligent man is able to have two different opposing viewpoints in his mind and able to hold those thoughts as opposed to just having one thought two thoughts together and you've got to let that percolate and mature and let those thoughts grow together so once you've done your scan I take out a piece of paper I take my pen and I write what I want to gain from this book in this case I'm not too familiar with social credits I've had a great primer by having Oliver on the show I did some background who he is I went through the book I scanned everything I took some notes down and basically what I want to do now with my 8 by 11 piece of paper is what do I want to gain from this book number one is I want to know the general principles of a social credit I might not care about the history the history doesn't help me with the future of the knowledge a game from social credits uh so basically it's like I want to know the general principles and this is how Elon Musk Peter Teals they look at the fundamental principles of anything new they want to learn so what are the principles of social credits that's number one of my checklist out of everything or out of all the time I spend on this book the only thing that I fucking care about is what is the fundamental principles of social credits and based on that kind of north star is like honestly maybe only 20 pages matter for me then out of the whole book because I'm not going to become an expert after reading the book I just want to know the fundamental principles so I make a checklist of maximum three to five points right so number one point for me for this would be what are the fundamental principles of social credits once you have your checklist of three to five points what you want to do is you want to locate sections in the book going back to the table contents right so I go back to the table contents and I see where my checklist may associate with the table contents right so if I'm looking at different parts there's three parts and there's about five sections in each single part and I'm going to go to that section I'm going to skim around I'm going to look at paragraphs I'm going to highlight words or highlight pages and bunnyfold ears and I'm just going to spend maybe half an hour skimming that once I've skimmed that and then I'm going to go back to the book another day and I'm going to go back to the sections with another piece of paper and then I'm going to spend my time on the areas that I skim down to write down my notes I want to see what you know I'm just going to for the sake of this video just pay attention to the only thing that I care about is the principles of social credits so I'm going to write down my thesis what do I think social credits are what are the fundamental principles of social credits I'm going to write that down and create a one page paper of my summary of the principles of social credits because at the end of the day out of 500 pages what am I going to really gain out of 500 pages I'm not going to remember 99 percent of the things right if I just gained the principle of what social credits are this book is what it's it's it's worth its weight in gold right and so that's how kind of more and more Adler digs into things he goes into crazy stuff like meta learning like you have for example over here you have inspectional learning which is systemic skimming which I just mentioned right then you have analytical reading right then it's it's pretty big book right so he has different types of reading but generally speaking if I want to summarize the process of reading it's not reading it's an experience right you're going at it as a general you want to go with a game plan what is your strategy what insights do you want to gain because remember it's about action plan too most people read for the sake of reading without doing anything with that knowledge this system forces you to use critical thinking this system forces you to actually acknowledge the information that you gain from a book and write down your own summaries and hypothesis of the information that you gain and that's how you should approach everything in life don't do things for the sake of doing things people tell you read for the sake of reading why how many how many fucking books have you read that you don't remember shit or how many podcasts have you listened they don't remember shit how many things have you done in your life for the sake of doing those things and you don't fucking remember shit I tell you what I've been there a hundred times happens all the time and it's a waste of time literally it's a waste of time and at the end of the day time is the most important resource we have on this fucking planet or in the universe and so that's that's it in the nutshell man it's like don't approach reading just for the sake of reading I really recommend you read Mortimer Adler's book or go check out this quick Coles note like I said I'm gonna leave a link below this video but if you have any comments for me about this like I love to know your reading processes I like to know what kind of experiences you have with different forms of reading and leave a comment make sure to subscribe to this video and I'll talk to you guys soon peace