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  • Hey, what's up? It's Thomas Frank, and in this video we're talking about active reading.

  • Active reading is a method of reading a book with the intent of pulling something useful

  • out of it. It's different from passively going over the text once to experience it. Right

  • off the bat I'm going to say there were a lot of systems that have been put forward

  • like SQ3R, SQ4R, and lots of other acronym driven systems for active reading, and I think

  • that these systems are too cumbersome, they take too long, and I'm not going to be going

  • over them in this video. I'm not the only one who think this. Instead what I'm going

  • to do is show you how I'm applying active reading to 3 specific books that I've been

  • reading recently, and how I'm able to recall the information better by doing that. First

  • I'm going to give you 5 general active reading tips that you can apply to any reading that

  • you have to do. The first tip is to use a technique called pseudo-skimming.

  • The longer the readings that you have to do are, the more likely a lot of the paragraphs

  • in those readings are going to be filler. That could be background, that could be extra

  • detail, it could be asides. Things like that. Often you don't really need to read these

  • paragraphs all that in depth to get the information you need for your classes. The pseudo-skimming

  • technique is really a paragraph by paragraph technique where you skim each paragraph very

  • quickly, and then you get a feel for the reading and figure out which paragraphs hold the most

  • important information. The second tip is to try to read backwards. A lot of textbooks

  • are not all that exciting. They don't really have a narrative, and you're not going to

  • spoil yourself if you read it backwards, or go to the end.

  • If you want to figure out what a certain chapter is all about, you can first go to the back,

  • look at summary, look at the vocab lists that are put back there, some of the questions,

  • the review items, and get a feel for what the actual chapter wants you to learn in a

  • big sense, like a sky high sense. Once you get that you can start going backwards and

  • seeing, okay, yes. This vocab word was mentioned here. This graphic mentions a topic that was

  • in a review question, etc. Tip number 3 is to come up with questions while you read.

  • When you are going through the chapter, if you are doing pseudo-skimming, or anything

  • else, when something comes up that you don't really know about, then note that down as

  • a question. You can also use the headings, the sub-headings in the chapter as questions.

  • If there's a sub-heading that talks about a specific concept, you can re-word that as

  • a question, maybe even right it down in your notes, and then as you go through the actual

  • content of that section answer the question for yourself.

  • You can do this in review as well. Tip number 4 is to pay attention to the formatting of

  • a text. When I was in college I would do this with almost all of my readings. I would open

  • up the book, I would look at almost every single bolded item, or list of things, and

  • I would pay special attention to those items in the text because they probably were to

  • go over processes that are important to the chapter, or go over vocab terms that are almost

  • certainly going to appear on tests. Pay attention to things that stand out, and their formatting,

  • and not those down. My last tip before I get into some of the books I'm reading is to either

  • mark up the book while you're reading. If you own the book, you can write in it with

  • a pencil, and make notes in the margins, which is really helpful. If you don't, you can use

  • flags, or possibly highlight depending on your schools policies, and I'll show you that

  • in a bit. If you really don't want to mark up your book, then you can take really short

  • bulleted notes on a piece of paper. You can also put questions in there, or you

  • can take flow style notes. I'll throw some of my recent notes up on screen here. These

  • are notes I took in researching textbook reading strategies for these videos in this one, and

  • the last one. As you can see, I took notes on the things I was reading, actually for

  • multiple books, but it ended creating a better picture that I could come back to. It's in

  • my own words, it's in my own terms, so it makes for better recall. Those are my 5 tips,

  • and to round this video out, I'm going to show you a few of the books that I've been

  • reading, and 3 different active reading strategies that I adopted for each book. The first book

  • is, "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. This book is about cognitive biases, it's

  • about bugs in human reasoning, and rationality, and decision making. It's a super dense book.

  • I've only gotten to page 145 as my little Ninetails will tell you. If you look at the

  • side of it, I've used flags to markup almost every page that I have read.

  • This is one of those books that's packed with information on almost every single page. Every

  • single chapter mention multiple studies with lots of results, defines different terms,

  • and I was interested in almost everything I was reading here, so as I went through I

  • used flags to markup the book in a non-damaging way. I was reading this book about a year

  • ago. I've become a little bit more okay with marking up my books permanently since then,

  • but the flag method does work, especially if you're renting textbooks, or you plan on

  • selling it later. You can pull them out when you need to when you have good notes for them,

  • and you finished reviewing. It's a pretty good method. The second book here is "Confessions

  • of a Scholarship Winner" by Kristina Ellis, and I'm going through this book because it's

  • a fantastic overview of how to win scholarships. Probably going to put it on my essential books

  • list and create a lot of blog posts, and things on it.

  • This book I went through with a pencil and I would bracket paragraphs that held specific

  • ideas I wanted to review later. I would write notes in the margin underlining specific terms

  • that are really important. As I'm looking back through the book I can see all the spots

  • that I wanted to note for later. I'm going to go through the book a second time once

  • I finish reading it, and take good notes on it. Speaking of notes, the book I've been

  • reading most recently is "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg. If you were to be able

  • to look through this book, you'll see no markings whatsoever. I actually have a third active

  • reading system which is working really, really well for me at this point, and it's just to

  • take notes on the chapter after I've read it. I've created a habit of reading this "Power

  • of Habit" ... I've created a habit of reading this book every single day for at least 15

  • minutes. I check it off in HabitRPG, and it's something

  • that's becoming a very strong habit for me, so I definitely do it every day. About once

  • every 2 days I finish a chapter. Immediately when I finish reading a chapter, I'll go over

  • to Evernote on my desktop computer, go back through the chapter and write notes in Evernote,

  • which you can see right now on the chapter. I've got a good bulleted summary of almost

  • the entire book right now. Everything that I thought was important in the book is in

  • that summary, and it's going to be about 3,000 words once I finish it, I'm estimating. That's

  • a lot less than what's in the book, and if I want to go back and review what I learned

  • it's going to be much easier, and it's in my own words as well. Those are some of the

  • strategies you can use for active reading. Hopefully you can implement some of these

  • into your studies in order to cut down on that study time, and increase your recall

  • and your ability to do better on tests, and essays, and whatever it is you need to apply

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Hey, what's up? It's Thomas Frank, and in this video we're talking about active reading.

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