Digesting difficult books with Holiday's reading method
Blogger and book master Ryan Holiday wrote an article in which he describes his personal way of reading books. His method builds heavily on note-taking and is optimized for recording thoughts, associations and interesting quotes during reading. These notes can then be used for further research or as writing material. After stumbling upon Holiday's blog post, I wanted to try this method for myself.
What better way to test Holiday's method for reading books by testing it out on one of his own? So I went to the local bookstore and obtained a copy of "The Obstacle is the Way", a book about the philosophy of the Stoics. Then I followed the method as described in Holiday's blog post. Here are my experiences.
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