- Get very familiar with the table of contents first. Then note and filter out the sections you are less interested in or don't appear to provide the biggest bang for your buck.
- Annotate, annotate, annotate. Active reading is better than passive reading. I use a 2-in-1 chromebook and a passive pen to highlight in the adobe pdf reader.
- Write detailed notes in addition to annotating (i.e. in a separate notebook or markdown file). Cull/convert your notes into Anki/Memrise digital flashcards. Drill on your phone when you are lying in bed.
1. Ten pages a day
2. Do all the exercises, and redo all the ones you get wrong.
3. Add anki cards for all the key terms, ideas, formulas, etc. The best textbooks include a summary the end of every chapter that you can double check your notes / anki against. Prefer cloze markup to question / answer cards -- more cards per "fact" but longer retention.
4. Double check your cards against a source like Wikipedia for completeness / accuracy, since sometimes there's an author bias to content with.
Thought that was really interesting.
But gotta love goggins, dude likes taking the hardest path to success.
Quite a remarkable level of determination.
But, the focus is not on internalising the material, the focus is on producing something that makes sense in a different language.
I guess part of the problem is that the source material I am working from is from 1596, in blackletter, and pretty archaic "source language", so the actual process is "transcribe original", "translate transcription".
so I would say, try to find something you want to do that requires the information in the textbook. or else just don't bother reading the textbook and go do something else you actually want to do.