How to Read Better
  • How to Read
  • The End(s) of Reading
    • Reading Failure Modes
  • We've Got Reading All Wrong: Relearning How to Read
    • How Most People Read
    • Reading Is a Useless Word: The Many Kinds of Reading
    • On Non-Linear Reading
      • Reading As Iteration
      • Non-Linear Reading: Case Studies
    • Speed Reading is Dead
      • 80/20 Scan
    • Books as Networks
      • Networking / Associative Reading
      • Conversation vs Indoctrination
  • Reading Deeply: Going From Passive to Active
    • The Death & Rebirth of Highlighting
    • Feynman Method
    • Brain Dump: Active Reading Techniques
    • Brain Dump #2
  • Remembering What You Read: Beyond the Book
    • Forgetting Curves & Spaced Repetition
  • Choosing Reading Material
  • Applying What You Read
  • Reading More
    • Positive Feedback & The Boredom Filter
      • Establish the Process First
    • What Is Possible?
    • Finding Time to Read
    • Create Positive Affordances
  • On Implementation
  • Resources
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Applying What You Read

Remembering & understanding is not enough. How do we convert theory into action?

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Last updated 7 years ago

Note: Everything here is still under construction.

  • Both Seth Godin and Nassim Taleb recommend making bullets as you read and then converting these passages into ACTIONS. This is similar to David Allen's recommendation for converting tasks into actionable todos.

  • If you believe that action comes from mental models (which I do), then any reading that updates your mental models will, indirectly, affect decisions that you make.

  • Check out . Daniel is one of our friends at , and they're doing some cool stuff.

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