These days, I read two books with great concentration and at a very high speed, one is "Grotesque Behavior" and the other is "Deliberate Practice". The reason why I read it so quickly is mainly because I have read the former before, and I have seen about 68% of the latter, and only a small part of the latter is left.

The experience is completely different.

"Grotesque Behavior" is a work of behavioral economics, and its essence is science. So it has a lot of scientific experiments, there are research and discovery findings, and the author is not in a hurry to make some kind of conclusion, but shows us how he and others in the field are exploring the truth. It's fun to read and extremely informative.

Deliberate Practice, on the other hand, has the same qualities as a chicken soup book: it's extremely simple to summarize, but it stretches it into a whole book by telling countless small stories and persuading you with large ones.

It's not good.

My personality and thinking are basically scientific, I can be persuaded by logic, and once convinced, I need a method or strategy that works, and then I will implement it.

But what do books like "Deliberate Practice" and "The Virtues of Human Nature" do?

It starts with a little story to make you understand the dangers of not doing it.

You are convinced by it.

But you'll have to watch 3-5 more short stories to get to the point, and it will teach you how to avoid something or do something.

You have to look at 4-6 more short stories and find out how it re-emphasizes.

Then it continues to try to convince you in other ways, to repeat the points it has been repeating, and to try to silence your doubts in every way. In this session, you will see 6-8 short stories.

That's great, but I'm a man of action, and I don't question it once I decide to act.

But in order to know and act, I have to waste my time in endless little stories and gushing persuasions, which is pointless.

So in the end, I understood, and I decided.

The chicken soup text uses the reading method of the chicken soup text, skips the short story, only reads the effective content, and completes the entire operation within an hour.

A scientific book is read in the same way as a scientific work, following its research ideas, reading every experiment they do in its entirety, and thinking about how it relates to their own real life – rather than having the author guess and tell you.

Chicken Soup Wen will assume that its readers have a low level of education, low interest, and poor self-discipline, and continue to be strongly helpful in all aspects. Of course, in reality, this is true for most people.

Scientific works generally assume that the reader is educated enough and interested in the topic, and naturally draws inferences without much explanation, so they appear organized, concise, and informative.

Yes, I'm writing so much just to say, I hate chicken soup texts.

Even when I'm in a bad mood and my mind is bursting, the effect of a scientific book is far more effective than chicken soup like "The Virtues of Human Nature". Chicken soup only reminds me that I am still anxious, and scientific writings make my mind full of scientific experiments, completely forgetting myself and my troubles.