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Find what motivates you, see how it can be practically applicable, and attempt to incorporate it into a daily routine.
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This is one of the hardest things to do. Not sure if anyone has it down, but the best tactic I’ve found is to break it down into “smart notes” and referencing them frequently will help you digest and implement it.
For me it depends on the book, but I tend to favor books that have definitive frameworks and things I can try in my day to day. With a book like that, I’ll typically bookmark areas and scribble notes in the margins then try to find an opportunity to try that thing within a week of marking it.
For example I just finished reading “How to Decide” which gave a great framework for risk based evaluation using what the author called a “post mortem” where you evaluate a decision based on it being 6 months after you made it and you had a negative outcome, then looking for factors that caused that negative outcome, which helps you “fill the gaps” in information you need to think about before making the decision.
I found an opportunity to use that with my team this past week for a project we are working on.
Now since it’s something I tried, there are a lot more learnings that add context to what I read
It depends tbh. Most great books from the masters (think Proust, Shaw, Tolstoy etc) require you to slow down and really, in the process of reading, introspect almost therapeutically. That's why classics can be such a hit or a miss sometime.
Nonfiction usually takes a very different approach especially nonfiction stemming from the social sciences which tends to have a much more broad based applicability than just pop-business or interview or coding books. To learn from them would be relatively easy because the "outcomes" or answers are made for the taking. Practices like note taking, discussing with friends etc can help. Revisiting the same content also helps, pretty much in line with how you would treat a prescribed text book.
Also a small point of distinction can come from what sort of a reader you are. Are you the general lay reader (a generalist if you will) who reads a text to imbibe the spirit of the text, revel in it and move on or are you the analytical reader who can, on end, discuss the semicolons and plot structures in say a Virginia Woolf essay. Similarly for nonfiction are you someone who would perhaps read Sapiens, understand the points and move on or would you be drilling down into the references to pick up the papers and academic text books which the author referred to ? Depending on your goals with the book or topic, the mode of reading might change and that might change the overall arc of the "knowledge acquisition" if you will
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Yes. But I see it more often in Nonfiction.