- Tags:: 🗞️Articles , Infoxication, Learning Techniques
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- Link:: [How to Read Fewer Books - The School Of Life](https://www.theschooloflife.com/article/how-to-read-fewer-books/
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- Finished date:: 2020-09-14
Highlights
Me ha gustado mucho porque llevo un tiempo dándole bastantes vueltas a la idea de que quizá sea más interesante empezar a releer, capturar y recordar cosas que ya he leído vs. leer cosas nuevas.
**what am I reading for? **And this time, rather than answering ‘in order to know everything,’ we might parcel off a much more limited, focused and useful goal. We might – for example – decide that while society as a whole may be on a search for total knowledge, all that we really need and want to do is gather knowledge that is going to be useful to us as we lead our own lives. We might decide on a new mantra to guide our reading henceforth: ^^we want to read in order to learn to be content.^^
Instead of always broaching new material, re-reading might become crucial, the reinforcement of what we already know but tend so often to forget. The truly well-read person isn’t the one who has read a gargantuan number of books, it’s someone who has let themselves be shaped – deeply shaped in their capacity to live and die well – by a very few well-chosen ones.