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#35607 03/19/03 06:12 AM
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hi, i have been having trouble keeping and or finding a good purpose for when i pr and superread and dip, i know i want to aquire the knowlage contained in the book, but any purpose i come up with doesnt seem good enough. this tends to lead to anxiety for me and i end up putting off my pr sessions.
any help or advice is appreciated
thanks






#35608 03/19/03 06:53 AM
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Purpose should be pretty easy to find. If you just say, "to get the information in this book," that typically isn't compelling enough. I would suggest making it more specific to the book you're reading: "I want to learn how to recognize and apply chart patterns to my stock trading," "I want to understand the world situation that caused World War I," "I want to understand the proper way of exercising using plyometrics to increase my strength."

That said, if you are having trouhle, I'm assuming that you are having one of two problems:

1) You aren't really interested in what the book's about. Possibly you're using it as a "study" book to help photoreading. If you have a book you don't care about, you're not going to do a good job PRing.

2) You're still anxious about the whole program and that's getting in the way. I.e. you're taking it too seriously. If you're worried about being perfect with a given book, you'll experience anxiety. If you're anxious, you won't PR well.

The solution to the first one is to get a book that you are generally interested in. The solution to the second case is to not take it so seriously (i.e. not sweat over it). PR a book that you want to read, even if you won't get all the information you want out of it. If you get anything out of it, it seems that you'll be doing better than you would previously and you'll get better. If you're worried that you missed some information in the book, simply activate it again. Or in smaller sections. Or Rapid Read it. Make your purpose to understand the content of a chapter instead of the whole book.

Hope that helped.






#35609 03/18/03 11:43 PM
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Remember that your purpose might change once you become more familar with the book. It is a matter of recognising that you have a purpose for going through the book and making sure it satisfies your purpose.

Alex






#35610 03/20/03 11:09 PM
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Considering that you could read the book or you could do any of countless other things, why are you reading the book?

The important thing is to have your purpose be on the meta-level. For example, I read a large number of books (a little under thirty) on ethics, biology, behaviorism, neurology and so forth in order to paint a coherent picture of human evil. Painting that picture wasn't my purpose, though. My purpose was to put the behavior of myself and others into a context. Sort of like asking, "Why do people do bad things to me?" All purposes have to be self-relivent and self-enhancing.

You can always use the purpose, "to increase my skills with PhotoReading," which is of course a self-enhancing goal.






#35611 03/21/03 02:25 PM
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thanks for the advice guys, i think i was just taking things a little too serious. i have to get away from my "all or nothing" way of thinking...
thanks again






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Life is too silly to take seriously.







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