If I spend an afternoon on CliffNotes, I haven't read a hundred books in a day. This isn't one weird trick to accelerate your reading, it's entirely missing the point. If any book could be summarized in a few points, there would be no point to writing anything more than a BuzzFeed listicle.
Socratic method usually refers to a questioning process, which is what the poster above is getting at in their terminology. Imo
And cross your fingers it didn’t make them up?
Yes. If it can get me through 10 books in the same time it takes you to get through 1 I am fine with an extra 1% error rate or whatever.
If I spend an afternoon on CliffNotes, I haven't read a hundred books in a day. This isn't one weird trick to accelerate your reading, it's entirely missing the point. If any book could be summarized in a few points, there would be no point to writing anything more than a BuzzFeed listicle.
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