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NEVER STOP LEARNING Reading Is An Art Form.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)(IBD'S 10 SECRETS TO SUCCESS)
Byline: Robin Grugal
4 If you're like most people, you probably think of reading as something as simple and natural as walking. But by doing so, you're cheating yourself out of a great learning experience.
At least that's how Mortimer Adler (1902-2001) saw it. The educator, philosopher and author of some 60 books said reading is the key to being a lifelong learner, "but not the way most people do it."
His 400-page book on the subject, titled "How To Read a Book," treats reading as an art form, with rules to learn and follow. It was a bestseller when it hit book shelves in 1940 and remains one of the great how-to books to this day. Some of his tips include:
Take an active role. Many people think reading and listening are entirely passive activities, Adler says. They simply sit back and soak up the paragraphs.
That's OK if you're reading a magazine or newspaper for a store of facts, he says. Otherwise, you should be challenging yourself to get at a deeper understanding of the material.
"You may think you understand (something) and be content with what you get from an effortless reading, when in fact much may have escaped you," Adler wrote. "Enlightenment happens only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it."
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