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From The Complete Guide to Effective Reading by Maarten van Doorn

The method is simple: Reduce the information presented to you into questions paired with conclusions. Between the two, list the evidence that justifies the connection. In other words, the questions and the conclusions become a wrapper around the raw facts — transforming them into self-contained ideas.

From The Complete Guide to Effective Reading by Maarten van Doorn

One approach is to use the QEC (question/evidence/method), which I picked up in Cal Newport’s How to Become a Straight-A Student. Here’s Newport:

From The Complete Guide to Effective Reading by Maarten van Doorn

The trick is to be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of reading. So the number of the pages absorbed could grow faster than otherwise. And you find gold, so to speak, effortlessly, just as in rational but undirected trial-and-error-based research.

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