{"id":7610,"date":"2018-10-31T14:29:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7608"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:29:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:29:03","slug":"a-helpful-guide-to-reading-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/31\/a-helpful-guide-to-reading-better\/","title":{"rendered":"A Helpful Guide to Reading Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2>What to Read<\/h2>\n<p>Knowing how to read is only half the battle. Too much of what we consume these days is the mental equivalent of junk food. Quality matters more than quantity.\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/what-you-spend-time-reading-changes-your-brain-ee2ab4f2aa17\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Pot-Belly of ignorance<\/a>\u00a0talks about the importance of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2013\/08\/choose-your-next-book\/\">selecting your reading material wisely<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2015\/08\/schopenhauer-on-reading\/\">Arthur Schopenhauer\u2019s timeless advice on reading<\/a>\u00a0is also worth reading (be quick to start books,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2017\/09\/shouldnt-slog-books\/\">quicker to stop them<\/a>, and read the best ones again right after you finish). Montaigne\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2016\/01\/what-did-montaigne-like-to-read\/\">rule with reading<\/a>\u00a0was the promiscuous pursuit of pleasure.<br \/>\nWhatever you do,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2013\/04\/if-you-only-read-the-books-that-everyone-else-is-reading-you-can-only-think-what-everyone-else-is-thinking\/\">don\u2019t read what everyone else is reading<\/a>. Rather than read new books,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2012\/06\/c-s-lewis-on-reading-old-books\/\">focus on old ones<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/reading\/\">A Helpful Guide to Reading Better<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to Read Knowing how to read is only half the battle. Too much of what we consume these days is the mental equivalent of junk food. Quality matters more than quantity.\u00a0The Pot-Belly of ignorance\u00a0talks about the importance of\u00a0selecting your reading material wisely. Arthur Schopenhauer\u2019s timeless advice on reading\u00a0is also worth reading (be quick to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/31\/a-helpful-guide-to-reading-better\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Helpful Guide to Reading Better&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}