[Talkwithforeigners] 서양의 대학생이 쓴 일기를 통해 "회독" "단권화"는 동서양에서 똑같이 중요하다고 여기는 걸 알게 된 "jake" - jake다이어리

아래 내용을 읽어보면 보통 고등고시 준비할 때 책 기본서 한권을 정해서 그걸 여러번 회독해서 책의 내용을 이해하고 본질적인 부분까지 알게 되는 그런 내용과 같은 것 같은데.... 일전에 강용석 변호사가 대중강연쇼에 나와서 말한적이 있죠. 기본서 한권을 정해서 계속 회독을 하면서 내용을 이해하고 암기하게 된다고...... 그것과 같은 내용인데 외국 사람도 wise한 사람의 경우 똑같네요 ^^

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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. ( Bruce Lee).

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On a number of occasions, people have asked me for advice and after giving it to them, I usually refer them to books that would further help them grow. Some people however would say that they had already read certain books I would recommend. This really bothered me because I had expected such people to behave a certain way after reading certain books. In short i expected them to have answers to their questions because the book they had claimed to have already read had answers to the question they were asking. I would always ask myself how 2 people can read the same book and yet behave differently.

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I then started looking back at my own life and realized I had actually been a culprit of the same. Years back when I was in University i used to read just to pass exams and that was it. I would forget the stuff afterwards because I wasn't really interested.

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Now imagine being told that there is a restaurant that sells very tasty food and you are taken there one day, would you eat your food in a hurry or would you eat slowly so that you taste every flavor? You would definitely take your time and chew slowly. Infact we get more nutrients when we chew the food than swallowing big pieces which most of us do when it comes to reading and this makes us get little from the food.

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Just like we get little from food when we swallow big pieces, we don't get much from books when we read just for the sake of reading. We have people who read just so that they can tell their friends that they have read a certain number of books in a short period of time but meanwhile there is nothing much they have gotten from there. It is better for one to read a chapter and chew it slowly than 1,000 chapters in big pieces. This Is what I used to do during my University days and sadly that is what many people are doing today. If the meat is hard, spend more time chewing it in your mouth. More work should be done in the mouth to make the rest of the body have easy digestion. If a chapter is hard, it's better to spend more time reading it over and over again than rushing to the next chapter without getting anything from it.The more you spend on it and try to analyze and attach pictures to it, the easier it will be to remember so take your time. Remember you are not in competition with anyone.

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