Five Ways To Become a Better Reader

Books can be your superpower if you know how to use them

Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash

After reading hundreds, maybe even thousands of books, I have thought a lot about the practice of reading and how to improve that practice. Herein lies a few lessons I learned in enhancing understanding, having greater recall, and implementing what I have learned from reading.

--

--

Get the Medium app

A button that says 'Download on the App Store', and if clicked it will lead you to the iOS App store
A button that says 'Get it on, Google Play', and if clicked it will lead you to the Google Play store
Wang Yip

Wang Yip

Author of Essential Habits. I write about personal development, work and managing your career. Connect with me at www.wangyip.ca
https://wangyip.medium.com/five-ways-to-become-a-better-reader-a02b12f42b46?source=user_profile---------1----------------------------
wangyip.medium.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2022-40
122556
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:PA43KSTOJUI2J5QYACBKBLH3SXCQH7V3
<urn:uuid:375b4bfd-2273-4a98-8289-4797968781be>
2022-09-25T15:45:00Z
162.159.152.4
text/html
sha1:HTYVOWQFASOBT2VABUJBCA34AZH52P7H
<urn:uuid:1d197238-3271-4c90-898d-4f8cab3ee066>
https://wangyip.medium.com/five-ways-to-become-a-better-reader-a02b12f42b46?source=user_profile---------1----------------------------
response
<urn:uuid:e23ea507-e4e8-4323-a4c2-0eaa2fcad640>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-28
software: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/