Instead of chasing speed reading and memorization techniques, it is more important to first select the right books, and read only those. - Planned Reading: The Trick for Reading Nonfiction

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• Lecture rapide : les médias gobent l’arnaque
  • Champion du monde de lecture rapide, Kamel Kajout livre ses secrets

Don’t read nonfiction books from cover to cover

If you research a bit into the process that book publishers use to get nonfiction books out the door, you’ll learn that most nonfiction books are just 10-page articles that have been stretched into 250-page books using bad prose and anecdotes. Therefore the structure offered by authors in nonfiction books is a trap, and following it will inevitably lead you to getting bored and dropping out.

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• How to Remember What You Read
  • Mark up the book
  • Make mental links
  • Apply what you’ve learned
  • Make your notes searchable
• Study Less Study Smart
  • have a quiet place
  • have a 5 min break when bored (even every 25min if needed)
  • what I am learning ? - a fact or a concept : concept are more important than facts
    • facts illustrate concept
  • sleep enough
  • try to find acronym