How to Cultivate Discipline in Reading Software Books?

About a 1.5 ago,

I have noticed my big mistake in not reading Software Books in my career.

I am not diving into to details of “Why we should read Software Books for the learning process” in this article.

But long story short: A good article aims to learn how and why to use the piece of information. However, Good software books allow you to look at Software development processes from a broader perspective with a piece of information. In other words, the importance of pyramid stones is shown through the outcome of the entire pyramid you build. Thus, what’s more critical is not just the information itself, but also where that information best fits within the larger structure

In this article, I share my mistakes while striving to follow a software book reading schedule rigidly. By reflecting on these challenges, I hope to help other developers a more sustainable and enjoyable learning approach.

Naturally, my initial step was to set a rule to gain discipline in reading books.

The initial strategy involved setting a daily page count goal.

It was not bad in early.

I read the the book daily, I recovered some subjects to assumed I knew before. Every sentence was great information for me.

But after a while, I have noticed a drawback of this approach.

Process: I read a book, and the writer mentioned something either idk or idk enough.

Instead of stopping reading and researching it, cover that and continue rereading this part. I was focused on reaching my daily goal. Seldom, I stop to read and research what idk(Only if I really can’t understand) but it makes me tired because as I said this way tends to skip your daily goal.

I know it sucks.

After thinking short, notice is not a useful way, I directly stopped using this approach. I have to start another approach.

-The second strategy is setting a rule daily hour count goal.

This approach is slightly better but not perfect.

Now I don’t care how many pages I read, instead, I put one one daily reading time.

If I couldn’t understand something or some terminology I don’t know clearly. I stop reading and continue via the internet to cover the subject regardless of how long I will spend time to understand it. After understanding, I continued to read where I left off.

Very good,

In reading one page, I cover the side subjects as well. Sometimes I spent a few days to finish one single page.

Sometimes I read 20 pages in one day.

Because all matter. Did I understand the page and the subject clearly or not?

Conclusion

No conclusion, every approach has drawbacks and benefits. Moreover, every approach can be improved forever.

I will continue within this approach for a while to be more disciplined (it is difficult for me)

Hopefully, I will come back with a new conclusion and better ideas soon.

Stay touch.