Source: 📖 How to Take Smart Notes ch.11

Good readers read beyond the frames of a text

The difference between good readers and poor readers; good students and poor students, is the ability to think beyond the scope of the text. Those who are better at reading read with questions in mind and try to fit the ideas being read into their own model of thinking, they don't take the text in at face value. They spot what is missing from the text just as much as what is present.

See also:

• Ideas can exist in different contexts
• Ask yourself whether what you are reading adds to the slip-box
• See through the context of the original text