What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life. New Year's Resolution Reading List: 9 Essential Books on Reading and Writing. By Maria Popova Dancing with the absurdity of life, or what symbolism has to do with the osmosis of trash and treasure. Hardly anything does one’s mental, spiritual, and creative health more good than resolving to read more and write better.
Today’s reading list addresses these parallel aspirations. And since the number of books written about reading and writing likely far exceeds the reading capacity of a single human lifetime, this omnibus couldn’t be — shouldn’t be — an exhaustive list. If anyone can make grammar fun, it’s Maira Kalman — The Elements of Style Illustrated marries Kalman’s signature whimsy with Strunk and White’s indispensable style guide to create an instant classic. The original Elements of Style was published in 1919 in-house at Cornell University for teaching use and reprinted in 1959 to become cultural canon, and Kalman’s inimitable version is one of our 10 favorite masterpieces of graphic nonfiction.
On the itch of writing, Lamott banters: On why we read and write: OneLook Dictionary Search. JoeUser » Opinionated techie » [Brad' site where he mouths off about technology, politics, religion, world affairs, and all sorts of politically incorrect topics.] Ebooks, ebook, shareware-ebooks. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. Loneliness-as-a-Way-of-Life. How to read a lot of books in a short time - The Experiment. We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. -- Peter F.
Drucker As part of my self-planned Master's Degree in Personal Productivity I've been reading non-fiction rather voraciously [1]. For example, I usually have 3-5 books going per week, with replacements arriving regularly [2]. Naturally, because my goal is to learn, the reading involves work. Table of contents, glossary, index.Anything in bold, titles, and subtitles.First line of every paragraph.Entire book Here's the twist: Steps 1-3 should only take about 10 minutes.
After adopting his system with a slight variation (I dictate my notes into an inexpensive cassette tape recorder, then transcribe them into my system [4]), I've found it works great. I'd love to hear your suggestions and tricks! Related methods Following are related articles, each with its own twist. This approach allows gaining value in a surprisingly short time.
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