（转载）90％的内容都是狗屎，转化10％已足够。

在公交车上，45分钟的车程里，2年多以来我一直都会用扇贝阅读看2篇文章打个卡。

今天这文章的标题和内容，和汪晟米课的核心思想是一样的。

1. 请看标题。

2. 做事不一定从零开始。

3. 既然没时间读一本书，或者不知道如何挑选一本好书，那就Google读书笔记Quote 关键词好了，看看这些精彩的摘录可否成为自己的核心战斗方法，刻进DNA里。如果能做到，一本书就记住一句话也绝对值回票价。最重要的是，读很多本好书的精华，其实不用花一分钱。

（故事性小说还是要从头读到尾的，具体读书方法请参考《如何阅读一本书》。）

好，下面就是这篇文章，没有什么难度。祝大家阅读愉快。

The 10% Read idea is useful to everyone, but probably most useful to people who aren’t already reading 25 pages per day, and want to get value out of books:

Read 10% of a non-fiction book, and apply one lesson from it.

The 10% Read is meant to lower the barrier of reading a book so aggressively that you can’t help but show up. Then, apply just one lesson to apply to your life in some way. Most of us are taught to read cover to cover, and you may think it’s not worth your time to read just part of a book. But the truth is, even just getting one of a book’s best ideas is better than leaving it on your shelf and getting none of them.

Ideas are worthless to you as mere words on a page. They’re only useful after you understand and apply them somehow.

The Power of Taking Away Just One Idea

It’s so tempting to say, “If I’m not going to remember this whole book, I might as well not read it. Why bother?”

Curtis Jackson writes in Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter:

“After you finish this book, you might only take a few of the principles with you. Even just one. That’s fine. That was the case when I read Robert’s 48 Laws of Power. Ask me today what that book was about and all I can really tell you is, ‘As the student, never outshine the master.’

“There were forty-seven other laws in that book, but that’s the one that stayed lodged in my brain. And because it’s never left me, I’ve been able to apply it so many times over the years. ”

Similarly, when Joss Whedon admits to never finishing the Getting Things Done book, he still says that he applies the principles constantly. He says, “‘Next actions’ is one of the most important things that you can say in any endeavor.”

Both of these people took away one important thing from their books, applied it, and used the techniques to great success.

Each Application can Change Your Life

Imagine if Curtis had decided not to read The 48 Laws of Power until he had a proper note-taking system in place. Or Joss decided because he couldn’t finish Getting Things Done, that it wasn’t worth reading. Sure, they might’ve succeeded nonetheless, but they each would be missing an incredibly valuable tool in their belts.

Oftentimes, you just need one opportunity to exploit, or an idea to connect two dots. The more dots you expose yourself to, the greater the connections you can make, and the more value you can get from a book.

Don’t leave a book closed because you don’t have time to finish it. Open it, skim it, and get what you can out of it.

Of course, even in Curtis’s and Joss’s cases, you could say that they might be even more successful if they read or retained the whole book. That’s why it’s worth considering the next evolution after you’ve mastered and gotten value out of the 10% Read.

From 10%, to 100%

Without the 10% Read, How to Take Smart Notes would still be on my shelf, and I’d still be without a note-taking system. I wouldn’t have gotten any value out of it. But after my read, I know that there’s much more value that I can get out of it.

The 10% Read is all about starting at 10%. It’s not about staying there. And it certainly isn’t conflating 10% with 100%. It’s very clear I haven’t grokked some of the important ideas and philosophies yet. As Philip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, wrote, “Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.”