active reading.

 active reading.




We know more about the world than we used to, and you may still think that knowledge is essential to understanding something. But knowledge is no longer as essential for understanding as one-sided thinking.


You don't have to 'know' everything about something to 'understand' it. Too much information can actually be an obstacle to understanding something. The present age is overflowing with facts that prevent us from understanding the correct appearance of things due to a lot of information.


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One of the most active projects of some of the best intellectuals today is to unite views from an intellectual standpoint. Through the Internet, television, radio, and magazines, people are provided with well-organized resources, from clever persuasion to carefully curated information and statistics, to make 'decisions' with little effort. But with effective packaging, viewers, listeners, and readers are sometimes unable to make their own decisions. As if pressing the play button, you inject packaged opinions into your thoughts. And when you need to, without having to think about it, press the button to 'play' it, and it's a great replay.


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The same goes for reading a book.


If you want to learn, understand, and grow into realization by reading rather than simply getting information, you need to read actively.


With the help of commentaries, reference books, commentaries, and the media, it is necessary to try to read and interpret with one's own intelligence, rather than accepting well-made information by passing the opportunity to think at the decisive moment and learn enlightenment.


The repetition of the act of elevating oneself from a lack of understanding to a state of better understanding eventually leads to a mastery of reading.


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The process of improving one's mind with only one's own mental activity ability without external help when one cannot understand anything except the unreadable typeface. At this point, the mind is improved from a state of lack of understanding to a state of better understanding. Skilled practices of doing this are desirable behaviors of reading skills.


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Doctors do a lot for their patients, but in the end it is the patient who needs to get better.


Farmers do their best for grain and livestock, but ultimately it is grain or livestock that must grow well.


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Reading a book and improving what you lack understanding through your own intellectual efforts is like standing up on your own.


The act of trying to read again after not fully understanding the first time you read it is an act of learning that takes place within the reader.

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