*** The fourth installment of the "Thought Organization" series, "Thought Organization Reading Method," has been published, surpassing 130 cumulative editions. ***
"From reading just for reading, to reading that becomes mine!"
If you change the way you read, your life will change.

'Why can't the contents of a book stay in my head?'
'What's the point of reading a book if you don't remember it?'

This is a concern that everyone feels while reading a book.
But you don't need to memorize every book.
Rather than trying to memorize everything in the book, it's more important to focus on what I feel and realize as I read.
What is needed at this time is a balanced 'thought-organizing reading method'.
In order to read something that will stay in your heart and be remembered for a long time, you need to do both of these reading comprehension skills: 'organizing the book' and 'organizing your thoughts.'
In order to properly understand and remember the content of a book, you must start by understanding how the author structured the content before reading the book.
You should summarize the main points of the book and use visual tools such as mind maps or mandalas to clearly understand the message the author is trying to convey.

To organize my thoughts, I need to write notes or questions in the margins of the book, organize my own ideas and insights that come to me while reading, and develop them into actionable plans.
It involves not simply accepting the author's thoughts, but adding your own thoughts to them and creating changes in your life.
Reading books should go beyond simply acquiring information; it should become a tool for creating change in one's life.
"The Thought-Organizing Reading Method" makes reading more meaningful and memorable through a balanced approach that organizes the content of the book and your own thoughts.

The secret to reading I've discovered is to think of the book as a person, and to think of it as a conversation with the author.
By changing your mindset this way, you will be able to become familiar with books and grow further through reading.
You too, please write down your feelings and thoughts about this article in the margins.
Then, a living reading experience completely different from now on will begin.

--- p.31

'To speak well, you must first think well.'
And you need to organize those thoughts well so that you can express them effectively to the other person.
Reading has a positive effect on all of these processes.
Reading allows us to generate good thoughts, organize them logically, and express them more richly.

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To make reading a habit, you must not think of reading as something special.
Sometimes, we think of reading as some grand ritual, like, "I absolutely have to read for an hour today," but this kind of thinking actually makes reading feel burdensome.

--- p.53

If you've gathered your thoughts through a reading list and reading notes, try writing a book review based on those thoughts.
Writing a review not only allows you to naturally organize the book's content and thoughts, but it also provides an opportunity to connect with the author.

--- p.70

To become closer to books, it is better to experience the various spaces where books are located, rather than simply reading them.
You will become more familiar with books in that space.

--- p.90

Humanities classics are not simply relics of the past; they are books that still contain meaningful stories for the modern world.
And those stories are deeply connected to the world we live in today.
Reading classics is not simply exploring old stories, but a process of deepening our understanding and broadening our current lives and thoughts.

--- p.104

When you have a problem, where do you look for solutions? The first thing I do is open a relevant book.
Books contain a wealth of wisdom and information that can help you see problems from a new perspective and sometimes even provide clues to solutions.
Every time I have an experience like this, I think, 'All roads lead to books.'

--- p.118

A book is a collection of thoughts on a particular topic.
Every book has a core theme and is comprised of supporting material.
Just as a building is completed by combining various materials based on a blueprint, a book is also composed by combining various materials and contents.

--- p.155

If you know how to summarize properly, you can condense a book into ten chapters, a chapter into one sentence, a chapter into one sentence, and ultimately, into one keyword.
--- p.179

Our brains can understand and remember the contents of a book faster when they are organized into pictures or diagrams rather than simply reading the text.
Even if you organize complex theories into images, you can quickly recall the core content of the book later just by looking at the images.

--- p.206

I felt that the margins were not just blank spaces, but spaces where I could organize my thoughts.
As I read the book, various thoughts come to mind, and I thought that perhaps these margins were there to help me organize those thoughts.
The margins are divided into four quadrants, and this is what I thought.
'The left side acts as the left brain, and the right side acts as the right brain.
The upper part acts as the head, and the lower part acts as the feet.'
--- p.234

I think the quickest way to become familiar with a book is through the 'comment reading method.'
Because you can communicate and engage in conversation with the author by leaving a comment.
--- p.242

Are you reading a book you'd like to give to someone? Think of that person and write a letter somewhere in the margins of the book.
A book will be the link that connects our hearts.

--- p.252

Want to become more immersed in a book? The fastest way to do so is by using "questions."
Look at the title of the book or chapter and write questions in the margins of the book.

--- p.258

Before reading the book, I thought, 'I can't do this.
I often thought, 'I can't do it.'
But after reading various books and learning the methods, my mindset gradually changed to encouraging myself, saying, "I can do it! Why can't I? Let's give it a try!"
This experience led me to believe that books can play a crucial role in changing a fixed mindset into a growth mindset.

--- p.279