3 Non-negotiable Books You Should Read to Accelerate Any Kind of Learning
You need these metaskills to become a learning machine
The more you read, the smarter you become, right?
Wrong.
If you want to build your tree of knowledge, the process of learning matters more than the content. And contrary to how we were taught in school, that process is deliberate, not passive.
If I were to recommend non-negotiable books to read for supercharging the learning process, there are three that complement each other.
Let me introduce you to each one.
1 — How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
Books are a source of learning, but if we don’t learn intentionally, their life-changing ideas are as useless as a flickering lightbulb.
In school, we were given stacks of reading material without being handed the tools to absorb them the right way. And so, instead of digesting the material, we steal ideas from SparkNotes.