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Season 02 - How to Read a Book!

12 episodes3h in totalLatest November 11, 2023

You might wonder why you need to learn how to read a book. After all, you have been reading since you were a child. You know how to read words, sentences, and paragraphs. You know how to follow a story or an argument. But do you really know how to read a book?

Do you know reading including a thorough analysis and evaluation to understand main arguments and ideas of a book? Do you know how to criticize and question books to challenge their assumptions and perspectives? Do you know how to synthesize and apply books to integrate their knowledge and wisdom into your life?

If you are not sure about any of these questions, then you need to learn how to read a book. Reading is not just a skill. It’s an art. And like any art, it requires practice, discipline, and guidance. It also requires different levels of understanding and engagement depending on the type and purpose of the book.

Most people read books at the lowest level of understanding: elementary reading. They read for information, entertainment, or escape. They read passively, superficially, and uncritically. They read without much effort or attention.

But there are higher levels of reading that can transform your reading experience: inspectional reading, analytical reading, and syntopical reading. These are the levels of reading that will help you become an active, critical, and creative reader. These are the levels of reading that will help you master the art of reading.

In this series, we will learn, God willingly, how to read at these higher levels of reading. This series is based on the book How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, which is considered one of the best guides on reading ever written. I will also draw from my own experience and research on reading, as well as from other sources.
If you are ready to take your reading to the next level, then join me in this lecture series. You will not regret it. To sign up for this lecture series, visit Patreon page, the link is on your screen and in the description below.

Remember: Reading is not just a skill. It’s an art. And you can master it.

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Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 12·Nov 11, 2023

Be an Enlightened Reader | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E11

A complete understanding of a book requires the final work of criticism, the work of judging. Till now you have been following the author, keeping your…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 11·Nov 10, 2023

Analysing a Text | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E10

The first stage of analytical reading is finding what the book is about. Rule 1: You must know what kind of book you are reading, and you should know this…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 10·Nov 9, 2023

Become a Demanding Reader | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E09

A demanding reader asks a book four questions as and when he is reading and by the time he has finished he knows the answers precisely and accurately…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 9·Nov 8, 2023

Inspecting a Text | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E08

The second level of reading is the true level of reading – Inspectional Reading. You cannot read at inspectional level if you cannot read at elementary…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 8·Nov 7, 2023

From Literate to Educated | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E07

The common knowledge and the common experience of this generation is entirely based upon propaganda from previous decades. These “well educated” ones of…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 7·Nov 6, 2023

The Educated Are Ignorant | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E06

I am afraid I must say that I am talking about professors, lecturers, lawyers, journalists, researchers, editors, writers and all the flag bearers of…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 6·Nov 5, 2023

Students Can't Even Read | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E05

The failure to develop the habit of reading or to read effectively at all has reached epidemic proportions. This hasn’t just swept our part of the world…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 5·Nov 4, 2023

Author Has Hidden Intentions | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E04

In judging the theories that are put forward, in a book or otherwise the reader must identify the identity of, or the discrepancy between, his own basic…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 4·Nov 3, 2023

Theoretical Versus Practical | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E03

Fast paced life has made people’s minds prejudicial towards philosophy, which people see as “all theory” with little or no significance in real life. This…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 3·Nov 2, 2023

Become a Thinker | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E02

The first and by far the most neglected aspect of acquiring knowledge is that of “thinking”. Without this faculty being applied all that remains is…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 2·Nov 1, 2023

Information Destroys Learning | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S02E01

The fundamental problem that lies beneath almost every issue plaguing the human society in these days and times is somehow related with the ideas of…

Season 02 - How to Read a Book!·Ep 1·Jul 23, 2023

How to Read a Book | Trailer

Link to the series: https://www.patreon.com/sullkaak You might wonder why you need to learn how to read a book. After all, you have been reading since you…

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