# The Barbell Method of Reading • Zettelkasten Method **Covers**:: **Source**:: [The Barbell Method of Reading • Zettelkasten Method](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/barbell-method-reading/) **Creator**:: [[zettelkasten.de]] # Highlights ##### ^305310568 ###### ^305310568q Information is just an opportunity. Information means nothing if you don’t use it. If you are a fiction writer, reading a striking paper on false memory means nothing if you don’t exploit it, think about it, and make a thrilling story out of it. If you are an athlete and read about the Art of Learning and don’t re-engineer your training routine, there is nothing gained. If you are a journalist and read the story of Martin Strel and don’t connect it to research on meditation, other extreme athletes, or post-traumatic growth, you’ll only write a shallow story about him. ^305310568 ##### ^305310569 ###### ^305310569q True reading is not a passive process in which you just create an influx of information. It consists of deep processing, thinking and writing on what you have read and interconnecting it with you already know. ^305310569