Reading is good, reading well, reading good books. - Bing Xin
P(3,3)-1 Engineering Record No.01 - Prologue#
Background of the Project#
During my university years, I collected a lot of books, but I never had the opportunity to digest and absorb them. Due to procrastination, I often postponed my plans and abandoned my goals. After starting to read, because I was just "reading" the books, the process of reading and thinking was not deep enough. After finishing the first book, there was no valuable output.
Significance of the Project - Reading is Good#
The significance of reading is self-evident, just one word: good. Basically, reading is the process of extracting information from articles and books, processing it, and then thinking and digesting it. Through reading, we will build our own knowledge network in our minds.
Purpose of the Project - Reading Well#
Through this project, I hope to develop the habit of reading and writing blogs, and complete the complete process of "input -> processing -> output". I aim to consistently achieve the daily reading target, while making annotations to facilitate thinking and information processing after completing the reading, and finally summarizing and outputting through a blog.
Feasibility of the Project - Books Worth Reading#
The feasibility of the project is self-evident. Although the books for reading are in Chinese, even though they have been translated by someone else, the essence of the information extracted from them has not changed. Although there are many books in the library, as long as I persist in completing the daily goals, the inventory will only decrease. Finally, the daily tasks will become a habit, thereby transforming this project into a general reading plan.
Design of the Project - Reading Good Books#
Although reading is good, if the books we read are not worth the time, it is no different from wasting time. The books in the library are basically classic books from various fields, some of which are even textbooks of well-known universities, so they should be good books.
Implementation of the Project - Reading Books Well#
Finding good books and being able to read them with maximum efficiency is the best. Regarding the concept of "input -> processing -> output", Liu Weipeng's BetterExplained: Why You Should (Start) Blogging Now provides a detailed analysis. (By the way, the other articles by Liu Weipeng are also very well-written, and it often takes a day to think about the points in one article) In order to complete this chain, my current approach is:
- Input:
- Set a reading time of 25 minutes using Apple Books and make annotations of important sentences while reading.
- Take a 5-minute break and reflect on the reading, what the book talked about, and grasp the key points.
- Processing:
- Reread for 25 minutes using MarginNote 3, focusing on the annotations made in Apple Books, organize the information, and build a mind map.
- Take a 5-minute break and reflect on the mind map that was just organized, and see if it can help clarify the context of the book.
I compare this constructed reading process to a simplified transaction. All of the above operations can be repeated multiple rounds as long as there is enough time, but within one round, either complete all of them or don't do them at all. When repeating this operation, as long as I finish reading a book, it is the output:
- Output:
Summarize and output the mind map organized using MarginNote 3 in the form of a blog.
Finally#
$P(3,3)-1$ means the arrangement and combination of the three characters "reading," "book," and "good," minus one arrangement that does not make sense, "good book reading." I hope this somewhat pretentious project name can bring me a sense of fun and mission when executing the project :) Confirmed as a pretentious teenager. I hope I can write like this, and I won't procrastinate on the next formal book review. That would be too embarrassing.