Hi Alex,
"If you don't know the exact information you need you probably need to check your purpose for the book. The big picture is good, now see the book as one of the sub-goals that will help you reach that big picture. What can you learn from the book? How do you see yourself using that information. What information is it that you see yourself using? Now your purpose is to get that information conscious so that you can use it and move on the path toward your big picture."
Actually this is exactly what I have done. Maybe I expressed myself imprecisely.
My problem is that I still have a conventional concept of receiving answers to my questions.
e.g.: I read a book about persuasion and one of the trigger words I noted was "first impression".
So I asked: "How can I make an excellent first impression?"
In a conversation with a person I would await a more or less vast explanation.
But now I'm communicating with a book.
- All the information is printed and won't adapt to how I formulated my question - I say to myself.
And this is my mental block.
I'm able to find my trigger words, but I'm not able to get the answers to my MP questions because every time I think: "All the information is printed and won't adapt to how I formulated my question."
As I lack of confidence in the books ability to answer my questions I would need an advice that tells me how the book will communicate with me, how it will answer my questions.
Will I be traced to the paragraphs or sentences (or phrases?) that contain my answer or will I pick something from here and something from there?
Some writers are so friendly and offer a summary at the end of each chapter while others blather and blather and one has to read the whole chapter to get the information he needs.
Maybe I'm acting stupid but it's not so easy to overcome a long lasting concept.
Thank you for taking time to respond to my question, Alex.
Korsakow
