Time to think - 05/14/07 11:04 AM
I am new to photoreading and the challenge I need to overcome doesn't seem to be described in the book:
When I read the "traditional" way, what slows me down is not the physical act of reading, but the time spent thinking. When an interesting new concept comes along I take a little bit of time to consider it, toy with it, synthesize it with other things I know, then move on.
In many of the phases of photoreading (not the photoreading step itself), I am confronted with too many ideas too quickly and get overwhelmed. There's no time to think through each idea. The challenge is exacerbated by the number of books which can be photoread in a short time. All of a sudden I am getting ideas from 10 books covering different subjects in the time it used to take to go through one-- and I am, at this point, simply unable to process the information effectively.
How should I deal with this issue? How do I get the benefits of good thinking time (which has served me well over the years-- I was valedictorian at a prestigious university) and also effectively photoread?
Thanks!
When I read the "traditional" way, what slows me down is not the physical act of reading, but the time spent thinking. When an interesting new concept comes along I take a little bit of time to consider it, toy with it, synthesize it with other things I know, then move on.
In many of the phases of photoreading (not the photoreading step itself), I am confronted with too many ideas too quickly and get overwhelmed. There's no time to think through each idea. The challenge is exacerbated by the number of books which can be photoread in a short time. All of a sudden I am getting ideas from 10 books covering different subjects in the time it used to take to go through one-- and I am, at this point, simply unable to process the information effectively.
How should I deal with this issue? How do I get the benefits of good thinking time (which has served me well over the years-- I was valedictorian at a prestigious university) and also effectively photoread?
Thanks!