音频链接： 时间管理100讲
Today I want to talk about an important new topic: reading.
今天，我来分享一个新的话题——阅读。
Reading is a way to relax the body and expand the soul.
身体和灵魂，我们都要在路上。
In other words, if you will travel ten thousand miles, you should also read ten thousand books.
读万卷书行万里路，是很多人的追求。
Reading is a great way to improve your skills by learning from another’s knowledge and experience.
阅读，是透过书籍，透过别人的显性知识，让自己获得进步的很好的方法。
Reading is a form of studying and a great way to master the knowledge you have read is to teach others what you just learned.
最好的学习是教会别人！
Let me share with you how I am able to continuously learn.
分享一下我是如何持续学习的：
First, I learn through reading and taking courses. Then, I take action and practice those new skills. Next, I reinforce the information I’ve learned by sharing it with others. Finally, I teach it to other people. Teaching information to others requires a mastery of the subject matter. If you can teach it to others, you know have truly mastered the material.
通过读书、实践，以及参加培训课程，不断地分享，总结别人遇到的问题，然后归纳，演绎，总结，教给别人。
The steps I follow to read and train myself are a cycle of learning that I continuously practice. It represents absorbing information. Then I do the opposite and release that information to others in the form of coaching and teaching. A strange thing happens when you release it – you actually retain and master the knowledge rather than lose it.
我把这些称为自我的自转和跟别人在一起的公转，最终形成自我的“裂变”。
Reading plays an important role in this process.
阅读在这个过程中是非常重要的。
Most people don’t know this reading method much less have mastered it, so I’m going to talk about it today.
许许多多人读书没有掌握方法，所以今天我先来谈一谈读书的方法。
We can divide reading into a few levels:
我们可以把读书分成这样几个层次：
The first level includes those who make no time to read, or read without a purpose. This is wasted opportunity.
有的人要么没有时间读书，要么就会找本书漫无目的地读，这有点像蛮荒时代。
The next level includes those who set reading goals like reading one book a week or one book a day
有的人会给自己设立读书的目标，比如每周读一本或是每天读一本，一年要读多少本等等。
Many people are like this in the beginning – focusing on the number of books they read.
刚开始，大家会注重数量。
In my opinion, this is the wrong way to learn.
我认为，追求数量是不可取的。
But, like I said before, a bad beginning is good to create an interest in reading and develop the initial habit.
不过，作为初期培养读书兴趣和习惯来说，烂开始总是好的。
Yixiaoneng advocates having a bad beginning and shaping that into good results.
易效能倡导大家能够烂开始，好结果。
Here is how you can develop the reading habit.
你可以先用这种方式来培养读书的习惯。
I will talk to you about a special book in my life: How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. It was the beginning of my reading life so to speak.
纵观我的阅读经历，《人性的弱点》，这本书让我开始了读书的生涯；《从如何阅读一本书》，让我进入了高效的阅读时代。
About 20 years ago, I encountered some interpersonal problems.
我大概在20年前遇到的一些人际上的问题。
When I first started working, I paid more attention to studying and learning, and less on making friends and developing interpersonal relationships. I think this is because I grew up in the countryside and favored work over friendships.
当时刚刚工作，由于我是农村长大的孩子，比较关心自己的学习，不太关心交朋友和人际关系的发展。
Afterwards, I happened to find this book titled How to Win Friends and Influence People. In it there was one sentence that really caught my attention: “15% of a person’s success depends on specialized knowledge while 85% depends on interpersonal communication.
后来偶然之间，我看到有本书叫《人性的弱点》，书上一句话就让我顿悟了：一个人的成功，15%靠能力，85%靠人际关系。
Reading this book was like discovering a precious treasure. The feeling was so great that I read it several times. It has left a big impression on my life.
这本书让我如获至宝，我读了很多遍，到目前为止还印象非常非常深刻。
Later, I wanted to improve the skill of reading so that I could learn more from other authors.
后来，为了读更多的书，我就开始寻找怎么来读书。
I read a booked titledHow to Read a Book and learned many techniques from it.
在《如何阅读一本书》当中，提供了几种阅读方法：
Skills include intensive reading, skimming, fast reading, theme reading, and on-demand reading.
精读，粗读，速读，以及书中提到的主题阅读法和按需阅读法，都非常有用。
Skimming means to read only the important parts of a book. Intensive reading means focusing on each and every word for maximum absorption of the material. Combining the two, theme reading uses both skimming and intensive reading on books of a specific topic that you wish to increase your knowledge in.
主题阅读法，就是你在自己想进步的那个领域，开展大量的粗读和少部分的精读。
Currently, there’re are too many books to read, and not just books but also information on the internet, articles on social media, etc. Finding the right material to read can be difficult.
当前书籍实在太多了，也不完全显现于出版物，还有互联网上的信息，微信公众号的文章，博客，以及百度百科等等，这些都是我们广泛学习的类型，开展广泛的阅读。
For instance, whenever I participate in a training course, I usually look up the teacher’s biographical and other information.
比如，我参加培训课，一般会去检索老师的资料。
I then buy the teacher’s books on Baidu or Amazon.
通过搜索百度百科，买老师的书籍进行阅读。
By reading other people’s books, I discovered the three-dimensional reading method.
同时我会触类旁通，去找这个领域内其他人的一些书籍和资料，这样我就找到这一领域的立体阅读法。
The three dimensional reading method refers to studying about a specific topic using three learning techniques: training, reading and searching.
一般情况下通过培训、阅读及检索，就可以快速的对这个主题进行学习。
I also document information using a technique called mind-mapping.
与此同时，用思维导图做笔记，这就是我学习到的主题阅读法。
Remember, we cannot do everything and we cannot read about everything… we need a healthy balance of the two.
时间是非常宝贵的，我们不可能做所有的事，我们也不可能读遍所有的书。
I suggest you read lots of books, skimming the material for the important information you want to learn. This way you can cover a lot of ground.
各种类别的书籍，进行广泛涉猎的同时，也要有所聚焦，有所侧重。
Choose themes that are important to you and that you want to develop your skills in.
对于一些常规的主题，我们进行主题阅读是要去夯实人生的基础。
Even after you master a topic, we still need to read to ensure we remain an expert in those areas.
对于一些重要领域的主题，我们进行主题阅读是要不断深入学习，成为高手。
For example, when I decided to teach myself time management, I found all the books that I could in this field. I skimmed for the important material and then intensively read the areas that were very important.
比如：我学习的时间管理这一领域，就把这一领域的书籍全部都找到，广泛阅读，发现其中的经典，深入进行学习。
During deep learning, I made powerpoint slides summarizing the knowledge I wanted to master and began sharing it with others in order to reinforce the material.
在深入学习的过程当中，运用阅读方法，做笔记，做PPT，分享给别人，不断让自己的知识更加牢固。
Then I began to apply what I learned in every part of my life because only by applying the knowledge we learn can we hope to master it.
发现问题后不断解决，这样我们就会成为这个领域的高手。
Peter Drucker, the father of management, also promoted theme reading and even said we should read themes at least once every 7 years.
管理学大师德鲁克也推崇主题阅读方法，他甚至还要求大家把主题阅读每七年重复一次。
This is because times are changing so fast that the knowledge documented in books becomes outdated and obsolete quickly. We need to keep up with new information and methods by reading over and over again.
因为这个时代变化太快了，许多书籍随着时代的变更已经没有用了，能留下的都是经典。
Yet some material is timeless. So we need both. We need to study both classic books as well as read themed books in order to keep up with the changing of time.
经典性书籍我们要学习，同时也要把当前时代该主题下最新变化的书籍拿出来读。
I believe you’ll enrich your lives and expand your capabilities to unimaginable levels if you read in this on-demand way. In future lessons, I’ll talk more about different reading methods and how you can use them to increase your knowledge. Until then… open a book and get started!
我相信如果你能够按照这样的形式去开展按需模式下的主题阅读，那你的人生会变得越来越精彩，我们将在后续的课程展开具体阅读的方法以及工具的推荐。
