Your purpose for choosing a book. Written By M'reen
Choosing an appropriate book is a lot simpler than choosing a dress.
Broken spines are a thing of the past for book lovers.
How to turn pages efficiently.
Photos by M’reen
Your purpose
for choosing a book.
Your broad purpose may be to ‘help save
the bee population’ and this causes you to choose a book about bees. The purpose for
a particular book may be practical and achievable such as ‘to understand the
behaviour of bees’. Subsequent books, or within this book, you may find other
relevant purposes. Therefore one book may have different purposes as
you may want increasing levels of usable knowledge from the book ranging from a
general over view to detailed knowledge and these different levels require
another ‘charge through the book’ at the access (into your conscious mind)
stage of Turbo
Charged Reading.
These levels of knowledge (how much you want from this material) depend
on whether your interest is that of a curious observer to that of a global
expert on bees.
Choosing an
appropriate book is a lot simpler than choosing a dress.
When choosing a dress you need to follow a number of
rules of colour and shape that apply specifically to you – until you dye your
hair something really spectacular.
Like a lot of things in life you start with
the big picture and slowly work your way towards the specific.
When you combine the specifics you become like a
ballerina performing with style and fluid ease.
I want to make a million pounds and someone else has
already nabbed the idea of selling 1 pixel for $1 and I haven’t dreamed up a
Harry Potter or realised that a dirty unmade bed is worth a fortune. Gosh, am I
challenged or what?!? Business, now that’s the way to go.
What am I good at? Do I sell a lot for a little or a little
for a lot? And how? Etc.
Off to the internet or book shop I go as opposed to some
other option – my first active choice.
But why? What is
my purpose in making this particular choice?
If I don’t know my purpose then I don’t know what’s my
next best step; I’m playing lucky dip.
I arrive at the Business section and find The Attila the
Hun approach to business (a good book and that is all I remember!), NLP
(concerning everything known to man), How to Interview Skills etc and even more
etc. Baffled I go to the section I feel most comfortable with; as the next step
in anything
in life is based on confidence in where you are now. Therefore I’ll
start with general business skills
as opposed to specific skills and thus my selection has
narrowed as I’ve actively taken the next step, however it would be far more
useful if I brought that intuition into my conscious awareness.
Looking at, say, 10 books and realising that (at this
time) I may only read one I intuitively choose
a book. Of all your innate
skills your intuition is the one to trust and Turbo Charged Reading
will
actually help in this area – but not now – as there are more pressing concerns.
Taking the book Business and the Beautiful Game;
I know
that at least I’ll understand the terminology and that is a good first step.
I read the front cover – it says what’s in the can. The
back cover; Oh my goodness,
it’s endorsed by some heavy hitters I recognise and
it promises to be at the level I need.
Next I look at the Table of Contents and find they are written
in language that is accessible
to my understanding and covers areas that I
really think will be of value to me.
(I couldn’t help but sneak a peep at the
authors and found that these are people I want to converse with– not a curious
phrase to an Turbo Charged Reader)
Finally I flick through to see how the book is laid out and
find that it has understandable chapter headings with lots of bold sub headings
within the chapters, and an end of chapter summary described as ‘Tactics’.
I’m buying.
Oh and it’s not that expensive and at 143 pages it’s an
easy slow read, maybe, sometime, eventually.
However after a half hour investment of time an
experienced Turbo Charged Reader could
probably quote the book chapter and
verse.
Broken spines
are a thing of the past for book lovers.
From the state of my books you can see I really wish that
I knew this little trick years ago.
Whenever you find a book that doesn’t lie flat when open
then you ‘prepare the spine’
for a lifetime of reading enjoyment; it also makes turning
pages when Turbo Charged Reading easier.
Simply open your book in the middle and bend the pages
right back then bend the quarters right back before you take every 10-20 pages and
rub your finger or thumb tips up and down the crease until the book lies flat
on the table.
This is easier if the book wants its pages to be turned
and that is one of the reasons for preparing
the spine.
However, I have to admit that some pages turn more easily than others so
don’t feel frustrated or that you are not as proficient as others.
The reason for using a book rest is twofold; at first it
makes the pages easier to turn and secondly
if you are reading a great many books in a day then with
your elbows on the table it helps to prevent muscle stress in your neck and
shoulders.
To turn pages: Being predominantly right handed, I slide
my index or middle finger from the bottom
of the central crease to the top
right hand corner. My middle finger is followed by my thumb which hold down the
page as the first crease of my middle finger catches over the top of the page
and pulls
it forward sliding the pad of my finger under the page to draw it forwards.
My left hand fingers keep the pages open. It doesn’t
matter if you turn over a couple of pages
in a clump but at first you will probably find that
impossible to do no matter how much you believe
it isn’t necessary to view each page in
order. 
Turbo Charged Reading: Read
more>>>Read fast>>>Remember more>>>Years later
Contact
M’reen at: read@turbochargedreading.com
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A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
How
to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?
Perhaps
you’d like to check out my sister blogs:
www.innermindworking.blogspot.com gives many ways
for you to work with the stresses of life
www.ourbusinessminds.blogspot.com
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just for fun.
To
quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will
know.
The
more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”
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