I never said you don't need a purpose. But in reading your thoughts on this I guess I've always gotten that step wrong anyway.
Purpose is an intellectual idea. I never got PR to work until I used emotional intentions.
I don't even PR anymore. I think what I do could be called "assimilation" more than anything else. I just pick up a book, look at the title and name of the author, get a read on who he is, get an overall feeling about him, flip the book upside down and just turn the pages and "scan" them into the subconscious, turn it back over and scan it forward in a superread/dip/rapid read fashion and bingo, all done.
You could say that this is wrong but then again I read most books while standing in the bookstore. I can' t do a 30 minute activation session complete with mind maps and trigger questions there.
What's my purpose? To get the main points out of the book without having to buy it. Is it unethical? Well, I could order the book through the interlibrary loan department and they'd have to pay shipping on it which would maybe be slightly less than buying it off of half.com so I guess in the grand scheme of things, it's not unethical.
If I find a book that blows me away- like Depock Chopra's "Ageless body, Timeless Mind, I read it very slowly, almost like poetry and program my dreams before I go to bed so I dream on the information.
PR and blast through what you need to do so that you can spend more time doing what you really like to do. Accomplish that alone and who cares if it "works" to your specifications or not. You got results.
