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I've recently got my photoreading learning course. I have a question about how to find trigger words. I do as the tape says, but to me, it's like any word can be a trigger word. So I end up with few or too many trigger words. Can anyone tell me how to go about pulling trigger words.

Hi.

1. Limit yourself to, say, a dozen trigger words. If you got more, cross some out.

2. You ARE right: any word can be a trigger word. Perhaps something at first glance off topic is a way for you to relate yourself to the topic at hand.

3. To begin with: look at the cover, in the foreword and/or at the table of contents. Some word/phrase that is repeated?

4. Look at the glossary: Some definitions that seem more important than others?

5. Look at the index: Any words/phrases with a LOT more page referred to than others? Any words/phrases with long sub-anythings (for example: word: activation, subs: mind probing, super reading, skimming)?

6. Try to lay out your trigger word graphically (for example a mind map or a cluster). Do you see any connections yet? During activation, you can fill in gaps, add on to this graphic or rebuild it from ground zero.

Hope this helps,

Jens

My question is with previewing. When previewing are we supposed to wait to write down trigger words until after we preview or can we write them as we find them?

Thanks
Brett Wells

I write them down AS I preview the book the first time. If you miss any important words you'll pick them up in the mind map.

Some books are wierd. As I previewed "Rich Dad/Poor Dad" I wasn't getting any trigger words at all until I got halfway thru the book and then I got 23 of them in the last half of the book. As mundane as it feels doing it, it helped, even when I didn't feel the word was important. For some reason some words jump out even if I already know what they mean. I still write them down because my hunches tell me they relate to THIS book.

For that book I wrote trigger words on the top 1/3 of a piece of paper and on the bottom 2/3 of it I wrote my purposes, a short summary and mind probe questions and on the other side I put the mind map. I did the mind map as I rapid read and those were the last 2 steps I did.

My Trigger words were:

Rich
Corporation
Game
markets
RIO (return on investment)
Inspire
Risk
Action
Capitalist
Accounting
Investing
Asset
Financial Literacy
Myth
Reality
Tax Advantage
Cashflow
save
Strategy
Law
fear
time
taxes

Almost every single one of those words I was already familiar with but by looking at the whole list you can almost get a sense of what the book is about.

From here I do something different. I write down ONE main purpose, in this case it was "What can I learn from this book so I can get started today on whatever the heck the author is going to talk about?" I know it's vague but I didn't care. I'm going to add more after I PR. Then I PR the book and sleep on it. The next day I had more purposes so I wrote them down along with a summary of what I think the book is about. Then I superread and dip and then write mind probe questions. I don't really have complete understanding of everything yet but here I have a vague feeling of what I want more of. Then I rapid read and at the same time I do the mind map. My rapid reading pace is fast over stories, supporting ideas and "fluff" but I slow down and map the important ideas.

I was amazed at how the trigger words that I wrote down when I knew nothing about the book matched up with the core concepts of the book almost exactly. Makes me not want to skip steps in the future. I'm sure gathering trigger words is something alot of people skip.

Off-topic but,

Andy: ehehe, you're an informercial buff like me...I'm seriously thinking of doing a book about infomercials.

Anywoo, in reference to Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I checked on it after I saw the infomercial (I usually do this to see what the feedback is...in fact, half the reason I got PhotoReading was because I couldn't really find negative stuff about it). I found a guy who REALLY REALLY hates it (he's also a financial expert). He does, however, support his view pretty thoroughly...here is an excerpt:

<<"Kiyosaki says, “I keep my holdings private. You know why that is? Lawsuits. If you have money, you get sued.”

Let me get this straight. Kiyosaki says he is rich, that he “makes millions of dollars,” and is about as high profile about his wealth as you can get about it—best-selling how-to-get-rich books, appearances on TV shows like Oprah, interviews to daily papers and national magazines. Yet he won’t disclose any details because he doesn’t want people to know he has money. Huh? Not only is the guy a B.S. artist, he insults our intelligence in the process.">>

It can be found at http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html

Lemme know what you think...I'm curious what the perspective is of someone who has the book...plus I know nothing about real estate =P

-Ramon

Thanks for the link, histerical stuff!

I posted earlier that I hated that book. I forget what post it was but it was one of the first books I Photoread and I was having a hard time getting the book to "gell" so I slow read the whole thing and figured out that I hated the thing so much that obviously my subconscious wouldn't let it in!

With that said I think that motivationally it's not a bad book. It does get you thinking about aquiring assets BUT BUT BUT it's not as easy as he says. I'd throw Kamasutro or whatever the heck his name is on the same pile as Ken Roberts or Tony Robbins- it's alright stuff, enough to motivate you but the truth is none of it is easy.

I personally know alot of people that buy and sell real estate and rent places out and they work FULL TIME at it. I know of a guy (my wife's former boss's husband) that owns 12 rental properties and it's his only source of income and he's well off but he works a good 20 hours a week keeping them up. He does all the work- carpentry, electric, plumbing etc- and makes around $50,000 a year at it and although he doesn't have to answer to a boss he does have to answer to 12 families when they bark. He had the properties given to him by his dad and that's how he learned to fix all that stuff- his dad was doing it too for years and was probably glad to get rid of it. I wonder if he would be in the position he's in if he had to start from scratch?

I had 5 teachers in high school that were real estate schmucks that bought, resold plus rented out what wouldn't sell and they're constantly dealing with the properties and none of them can quit their teaching jobs.

What bothered me most about the RD/PD book was when he threw "Intellectual Property" in the mix with the "income producing asset" column. That's like something out of the blue that he didn't explain. Well, he did but he said it's "music" or something like that that you're getting royalties from. Why didn't he say "books" too? Uh, duh. That might have put the spotlight on what he's doing now. And what's the likelyhood of ANYONE having 'intellectual property' reading his book?

I don't think there's anything wrong with writing books but to tell someone to buy "income producing assets" is like telling someone to save money. Everyone already knows that! The problem is it's hard to do.

I worked for a guy that I consider to be 10 times more successfull than Komatsu (or whoever he is). He worked for Domino's in high school and stayed on when he graduated, worked and saved for 10 years and bought his own store and from then on has had others run it for him. $70,000-$90,000 a year since then working about 10 hours a week. Then he bought 2 more stores and figured out that having to deal with them wasn't worth the extra money or time so I think he's trying to get rid of them. Can you imagine being 30 years old making a secure $70,000+ a year for 10 hours worth of work PLUS having the WISDOM to know that more money is essentially pointless?! Geese. He should be doing seminars.

I also got his book on investing. Once again it's not really that bad but you got to have money to start with and that's the hard part. Also, it's the same stuff the stock exchanges will tell you for free because they want you to trade. The Commodity exchanges give free trading info to anyone that asks for it and it's exactly the same stuff "guru's" are putting in their courses. There are no 'secrets' to success and the reason most people aren't successful (drum roll please) is because of CHILDREN! We have kids and lo and behold WE WANT TO BE WITH THEM so we say heck with "success" and throw baseballs at their heads and hope they'll catch them and all that other stuff we can't do if we're out chasing money.

My dad worked 40 hours a week "no more no less, dammit" because he had 3 kids. If Komoto was my dad I'd be a disfunctional Prozac chugging crossdresser on Springer fighting with some guy (or girl) trying to take away my 14 year old pregnant girlfriend because I was neglected because my father was never home and I felt abandoned and had to cling to whatever I could get my hands on. No one ever talks about that- all the stuff you can't do when you're out working Overtime to make more money so you can then take the time to look at all these real estate deals or go to seminars.

I learned alot from my "Rich Dad/Poor Dad" experience... selling information about doing something will make you more money than actually DOING that SOMETHING.

Sounds like a good thing I only PR Rich Dad / Poor Dad

Anyway thanks for the previewing advice it is much appreciated!

The funny thing about the book is it's actually motivating me to do what he's saying. I don't like 80% of what he says, the other 20% I think is true but it's common sense, so common that I'm not doing it right now so I'm starting.

My personal opinion stemming from my own home buying experience plus working for those that buy/sell/or rent is that if you were to put 40 hours a week into your own real estate business, a $50,000-$100,000 a year income is not unrealistic. However THERE IS NO SUCH THING as "Retiring" from it after a few deals and you are NOT going to make millions, no yachts, no helicopters, no interviews for FORBES, none of that stuff. Instead you'll be patching holes in the basement, replacing pipes, painting and sweating your *** off for your money.

The house I live in was a gift from God, a once in a lifetime thing. Paid $13,000 for it, thru in a $4000 heater and maybe $1000 more of paint and stuff like that and now it's appraised at $30,000. It took my wife and I about a month to get it ready and move in and we did it all while working at our other jobs and I learned SO much from that experience.

1- Doing that as my main job is about as fun as doing the job I'm doing now.
2- It wouldn't be that bad if that was my only job but IN ADDITION to working full time to pay bills? Very tiring. Impossible to have any other life whatsoever.
3- If it wasn't such a fixer-upper it would have been alot easier but of course it probably would have sold before we found it so it's a catch-22 type thingy.
4- Doing 3 or 4 of these types of deals would be realistic and if the profit is in the $5000 or higher range for each one then that's $20,000 a year extra and that's not too shabby.

Given the fact that most working people make minimum wage the reason most don't do this type of thing is because they can't save the money to get going.