Try asking yourself: Do you really have no time for a minute and a half every day? If you can spare half a minute every day, you can read at least three or four pages a day, one hundred pages a month and four or five books a year. In addition, you can't just read three or four pages a day during the holidays. It's not a question of time, but a question of determination. There are many people who are much busier than you. Many people's knowledge is acquired in busy work. Example: Franklin and Sun Yat-sen.
What are the benefits of reading?
If you don't advance, you will retreat. It is particularly important to develop the habit of reading and find interest in reading. In the future, you will be more resistant to temptation than others, and you should do it early, because you can't find this interest now and you will never find it in the future. Mortals become more and more numb with age, and now you are not as curious and interesting as a child of three or five years old. When you are one year old, your keen interest will certainly become dull. For example: Darwin.
Don't school textbooks and handouts count as reading
Not exactly. First, although there are many kinds of classes in the school, the scope is extremely narrow. Your genius may not be close to all the courses in school, so you study outside class to find books that are close to you or that are more helpful to cultivate your interest in courses. Second, reading handouts and textbooks will inevitably be subject to some restrictions, so it is quite difficult to cultivate interest. Interest should develop freely, such as interest novels. If you read it as a textbook and prepare for the exam, it will be boring.
What books are worth reading?
There is no need to read new books published in modern times. I mean books that don't need to be read, not new books, but books about books, because many popular new books only cater to temporary social psychology, and books that stand out after being eliminated by the times are permanent and worth reading twice or even countless times. Everything else can learn fashion, but you can't learn fashion by reading and studying. For example, instead of reading ten thousand volumes of poetry, it is better to read a book called National Style or Nineteen Ancient Poems. It is better to read Plato's Republic than to read thousands of books on Greek philosophy.
What books do middle school students read?
The most popular books in the youth reading department of British public libraries can be divided into four categories: (1) adventure novels and travel notes, (2) myths and fables, (3) biological stories, (4) biographies of celebrities and patriotic novels.
However, the situation in China is different. It is suggested that education after 15 and 16 should focus on development and understanding, and education before 15 and 16 should focus on development and imagination. Therefore, junior high school students should read more fictional words, and senior high school students should read words containing theories.
You don't have to blindly follow what you have to read or something. You should consult the experts you know and ask them to specify three or two books for young people to read within their own study scope. You should know that reading is like exploring, and you can't rely entirely on the guidance of others. You have to try to find it yourself. Others can only introduce, choose to see yourself.
About the method of reading?
First, every book worth reading must be read at least twice. The first quick reading focuses on awakening the theme and characteristics of the whole article. Read slowly for the second time and critically measure the content of the book. Second, after reading a book, you must write down the outline, wonderful places and your own opinions. Taking notes can not only help you remember, but also force you to be serious and stimulate you to think.