Last night I was photoreading the legendary book called 7 good habits by Stephen Covey for the first time and my purpose was/is to assimilate the 7 good habits in my life in order to utilize my own full potential.
Before I felt asleep I remember that I was thinking about being more proactive (a term from the book), what it means and how I good advance in general.
This morning I had the word Pareto on my mind. I knew I had seen it before. After a while I went to the index of the book I PRed the night before and there it said: Pareto page 145, and I went to the page. And suddenly I remembered, it is the guy who defined the 80/20-rule. Covey used the rule when scrutinizing the 3rd habit. Quite fascinating since it deals with moving on to tasks of a more preventing nature. At the moment I have some deadlines and when I finally have time I do completely unecesarry stuff like surfing the internet to long. The chapter of the 3rd habit is about avoiding these non-activities.
But for the rest of the book I have some questions to you guys. Should I have a goal stated for every session of activation? I find it rather difficult to have goals stated for every session of activation. The other day when I was activating a technical book about economy I was planning to have goals stated for every session, but I forgot about it since it was rather difficult. I have not got the book gelling yet (done about 6 sessions of activation), and that made me wonder if I should have goals stated for every session.
But what should the goals of the sessions be like? "I expect to become more aware of the book this session" ?
When activating I normally come up with questions. Sometimes I know I have found the answer, but the answer may be so techinal that I have to dip in to almost 2 pages. Is that a problem? And if the answer brings up another question and another and I have to be reading maybe 4-5 pages, should I chose to go on and find new stuff and eventually come back to it when I have layered more? I am afraid of reading too much, it would almost become like regular reading and that is not the point of super reading and dipping. But it also seems that it is what it takes to fully understand the answer to my question.
[This message has been edited by Cremio (edited April 21, 2005).]
