What are the four levels of the reading?
How to read better and remember what we have read?
One of the great benefits of reading is that it allows you to master the best of what other people have already figured out. This is only true, however, if you can remember and apply the lessons and insights from what you read.
Mortimer Adler wrote, “How to Read a Book” in 1972 which sold more than half a million copies in print. Adler identifies four levels of reading:
1. Elementary Reading
This is the level of reading taught in our elementary schools. If you’re reading this post, you already know how to do this.
2. Inspectional Reading
We’ve been taught that skimming and superficial reading are bad for understanding. That is not necessarily the case. Using these tools effectively can increase understanding. Inspectional reading allows us to look at the author’s blueprint and evaluate the merits of a deeper reading experience.
Skimming helps you reach a decision point: Does this book deserve more of my time and attention? If not, you put it down.
3. Analytical Reading
Francis Bacon once remarked, “some books are to be tasted, others to be…
