As I reflect on how far I have come as a person, the one factor that has been key to my growth in different aspects of life, has been reading. I recognize like the preacher in the book of Ecclesiastes 12:12 that to the making of books there is no end, which encourages more reading and writing of books and more of which will add to knowledge and growth of the mind.<\/p>\n
My offices both at the workplace and at my house have one thing in common, there are several shelves that are full of books that I have bought and read over the years. My appetite for books is so high that I could be accused of instinct buying of books because I am so apt at buying any good book that catches my attention. So when it comes to reading books, I am sure that I rank somewhere among readers but I also listen on radio, television and recorded messages from many speakers. I am also good at browsing and reading from the internet and other sources of reading materials.<\/p>\n
While I have made all these accomplishments, I realize the great unrecognized need that I had of understanding how to read books. I’m now excited about the next book on line to read because now I’m better at reading by reading Adler’s book, “How to read a book”. It was easy to understand the level of reading that I often operate at in reading the books and how much knowledge that I have missed out from the books that I read. I have done more of the inspectional reading and little of the analytical reading but not the syntopical reading. It has become a habit for me to read the preface of the book and the publisher’s blurb, and then to jump straight to chapter one\u00a0 without paying attention to the contents and the index. I have rarely approached reading by first skimming through the book and doing the superficial reading, I read the books once and add them to my list of books. While I’m thorough in reading through the chapters and make some sketchy notes as I read, i realize that I have been driven more by my desire to and superficial knowledge and vocabularies than being a keen reader. I’m thoroughly disappointed that Adler’s book is not widely used, I should have read this book at my undergraduate level but or even at high school but now I’m glad that I’m a better reader. I believe it will be much easier to read books and get more information from the books and this has greatly increased my appetite for reading.<\/p>\n
The ultimate aim of reading is to increase your knowledge in the subject of your study or interest, which will grow your mind. It is so clear from that having the reading skills is critical to successful accomplishment of the task of reading and acquiring the relevant knowledge that helps to grow your mind. Knowing how to read as you seek to read on the relevant subject, you have to identify the books that are good in that subject out of the bibliography of books that you identify. Through inspection reading and superficial reading one is able to determine the books that relevant to the subject of interest, and you can eliminate the books that are not useful from the bibliography. Analytical reading helps you identify the relevant paragraphs that talk about the subject of interest and helps you reduce the time taken to read each book and ensures that you’re able to read as many books as possible. It is the inspectional and analytical reading that helps us determine the books to read syntopically and to extract the relevant knowledge and information effectively and within a reasonable time.<\/p>\n
It is important to read books that stretch you if we are to add to our reading skills rather than reading books that amuse or entertain. I believe that this is the task ahead of us in our studies and practice of the same knowledge in the stations that God has put us to serve Him, to grow our minds and be better at fulfilling our obligations in kingdom building. It is good to realize that as we grow in our minds and we increase our reading skills that we shall find some books that we read before irrelevant because we will have grown beyond them, but there will also be books that will still seem to be higher. As we reread these higher books, they\u00a0 will still add more knowledge and thus the necessity to read such books multiple times and seek read others. Being that there is no end to addition of books, I feel better equipped to realizing my dream of authoring a book or multiple books.<\/p>\n
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