So you have this huge, boring textbook you have to study.

You open the textbook, read the first 5 pages, write important information down — you know the drill.

You don't want to skip important information, but there's that feeling that you're just re-writing the whole textbook again. 

You try summarizing the thing, but you feel like you're paraphrasing too much and it just takes a tremendous amount of time.

It's either your take NO notes or take notes on the ENTIRE thing. You can't seem to find this happy middle.

Next thing you know, it's taking you HOURS just to write notes on those 5 pages.

The worst part: When you study for exams, you'd have to re-read them all over again.

All of which take an INSANE amount of time.

That's why in this module, I'll share with you a reading strategy called the Bracket Reading Strategy that will allow you to read 2x faster. 

By "2x faster" I don't mean actually being a "faster reader" or doing that speed reading BS.

I mean eliminating the wastes in the reading process that make you read twice as long:

• Having to go back to what you've already "learned"
• Re-reading entire sections because it went right over your head
• Taking notes for 5 hours just to finish 5 pages
• ...etc.

The secret is to take advantage of textbook structure.

Textbooks are filled with "instructional design elements" to take you from knowing nothing about a topic to a higher level of understanding.

By taking advantage of these elements, you'll be able to snipe those important concepts, understand them deeply, and walk out of your reading session confident that you've absorbed everything important.

You don't need to take an endless amount of notes. You'll still use your Lean Cornell notes method here, so you can say goodbye to taking hours just to take notes on a single page.

And if you're one of those people who highlights an entire page? Well, you'll live a different life from now on.

We'll follow three steps:

• The Goalpost Technique: Know exactly what's important before you start reading
• Bento Box Thinking: How to easily understand the key ideas from walls of text
• The Bloom Test: Make sure you're actually going to remember what you read

And let this sink in: 

This strategy helped me read 1 chapter per day (40-60 pages) in just 2-3 hours and NEVER have to go back to it ever again.

The latter part is important, because when you can make sure that you've actually learned the thing and you have a way to retain what you've learned, then you've effectively cut ~50% of your study time.

Move to the next lesson when you're ready.