Reading Habits
In gaining more knowledge, reading is essential. It came to me to start again my reading habits when i read "Success Built to Last" by Jerry Porras last night. According to the book, talent is built and not gifted. Coincidently or not, I find it very true. People say that i'm good at computers and stuff but it came not because i was talented in the area but the interest and neverending effort to learn new things in the area of concern. It took years before i could type without seeing the keyboard as it took a longer time to grasp the way how to keep up with the current changes of computer technology. It took patience and due diligence to read and find how to self-learn and gain the skills such as repairing computers, setting network system - hardwired or wireless, graphic / web design, computer word / data processing and many more.
In short, reading is the most resourceful to achieve that purpose to my opinion. Although people may learn from observasion, experience, learning from mistakes in life, attend classes / lectures or etc but some are just unthinkable or even not even related to begin with. For example, if we were to know about multimedia programming languages such as HTML, PHP or mySQL, most are written which needs to be read as it maybe impossible to teach in a class everything from A-Z which would take forever. And for most cases, people available to us are specialized in an area and may not be able to teach us in another subject.
In short, reading is the most resourceful to achieve that purpose to my opinion. Although people may learn from observasion, experience, learning from mistakes in life, attend classes / lectures or etc but some are just unthinkable or even not even related to begin with. For example, if we were to know about multimedia programming languages such as HTML, PHP or mySQL, most are written which needs to be read as it maybe impossible to teach in a class everything from A-Z which would take forever. And for most cases, people available to us are specialized in an area and may not be able to teach us in another subject.
Hence, reading is crucial. Although i've been fazed by books of self-esteem and self-improvement along time ago, i have forgotten that in reading there is also a need of planning. The plan that i refer to is how many books to read in a year. I am not much of a novel reader so i guess one book a month should be alright. Besides that i should plan what books should i read and think what is the area of expertise that i want to gain from those reading. No point reading pointlessly.
My Reading Plan Identification Guide
- What is the knowledge that i would like to get from the readings?
- What books are relevant to read?
- How many books to read?
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