With regards to the PR step .. you aren't reading word for word everything in a book.
you should be "super-reading" which is just looking down the center of the page and moving quickly from page to page UNTIL something catches your eye. At that point you would dip into it and read normally. You would normally feel the need to continue SR'ing until you felt drawn once again to the text.
This differs from regular reading because it's done much faster and more focused.
For example, if I reading a technical book on using perl with dbi's, I wouldn't need to know all the information in the book that deals with "how to use perl" if I already knew that. My mind knows what it knows. I could SR all that information very quickly and not feel any urge to dip into it. Lets also say that I'm familiar with database syntax and don't really need to read that, I would SR right past that. I would only dip when I reached information I didn't already know. Basically, when you dip it's because you needed that information. That's the purpose of those mind-probing questions and trigger words.
I also want to point out that even if you were to do all these stages within the complete system you are still spending FAR less time "reading" than you would if you read traditionally.
Does this make sense?
Tracey~
[This message has been edited by tracey (edited May 24, 2002).]
