Thanks for posting, Joe!

Your purpose for reading "Worldly Philosophers" is good. It sounds like you might need to work on formulating more mind probing questions with the trigger words you wrote down during your 8-minute Preview. And, it's common to dip at places that don't seem significant. Count on dipping in dozens of places to get to the good stuff.

I spend 3-5 seconds when I dip.

Yes, your first couple of activation sessions should scour the entire book cover-to-cover. Remember, you're going in for structure first.