u/PassengerTasty8061

hope all is well, I've just recently started getting into philosophy (it is a great interest of mine however I will not be doing a degree in it), and I'm not exactly sure how to approach it. Is reading all I'm meant to be doing to try and bolster my philosophical thinking? When reading philosophy, am I meant to read along or am I meant to explicitly try and extract the premises and conclusion and study the arguments? For each (major) belief I hold, should I have a formal argument for why I believe it, ready to articulate it promptly - or would it suffice just to have some sort of intuition for it? Any help would be appreciated :)