Day 340: On Better Learning

第340天：关于更高效的学习

Research shows that people who follow strategy B [read ten pages at once, then close the book and write a one page summary] remember 50 percent more material over the long term than people who follow strategy A [read ten pages four times in a row and try to memorize them].

研究表明，采用策略 B [一次阅读十页，然后合上书并写下一页摘要] 的人比采用策略 A [连续把十页读四遍并努力记住] 的人记住的内容多 50%。

—Daniel Coyle

Books can change your life, but only if you read them with the intention to learn.

书籍可以改变你的生活，但前提是你必须带着学习的目的去阅读。

Merely reading a book from cover to cover, closing it, and immediately finding another book to learn from might work as entertainment when reading fiction. However, it doesn’t work with non-fiction. In order to learn, you need to exert a bit more self-discipline and read the book, along with noticing and remembering its key points. You can highlight important parts, make notes, or write short summaries.

仅仅把一本书从头到尾读完，合上书本，然后立即找另一本书来学习，这在阅读小说时可能会起到娱乐的作用。

但是，这对非小说类书籍不起任何作用。

为了学习，你需要更加自律地阅读这本书，同时注意并记住其中的要点。

您可以突出重要部分、做笔记或写简短的摘要。

What might be an even better idea than highlighting, making notes, or writing summaries is to make a bullet-point list of its practical applications in your life. A summary can be helpful if you need to memorize the information in itself, but a bullet-point list of practical implications will be more valuable if you’re after a real education — changing your life through what you read.

比划重点、做笔记或写摘要更好的办法是将书中的实际应用列成一个要点清单。

如果你需要记住信息本身，摘要可能会有所帮助，但如果你追求的是真正的学习——通过阅读改变自己的生活，那么列出实际意义的要点清单将更有价值。

Start today with this book. Grab a notepad or open a new document and make a list of at several practical applications of the advice you’ve discovered in this book. We’re on day 340, so I’m pretty sure you can make a list of at least 10, if not 100, possible changes you can introduce in your life to instill more self-discipline.

从今天开始，就用这本书。

拿一个记事本或打开一个新文档，列出你在本书中发现的建议在生活中的的几种实际应用。

我们已经到了第 340 天，所以我敢肯定，你至少可以列出 10 项，甚至 100 项，你可以在生活中引入的可能的改变，以培养更多的自律。