PhotoReading - Day 20 - Pieces of Eight

Day : Day 20

So the weather here in the UK is terrible. Wimbledon is rained off. No surprise really. Is that rain coming from the sky or is the water come up from the ground? I don't think, anybody is quite sure anymore.

Therefore what to do? I could quite happily have a few too many cheeky beverages all in the name of human science and personal development. Then again, I do have an assignment to complete. OK, how about a deal...do the assignment and then have a cheeky few. Done!

What can I tell you? I was really excited to get started. Very much unlike University days! I've an assignment to complete, the weather is bad. The beer is chilling. PhotoReading here we come.

Already I've photoread the PhotoReading book today. After all my assignment will involve me PhotoReading many books in one siting. I just felt it would be to my benefit to read the book again. I focused my post viewing on the synoptic reading section.

My books today were (covers at end) :

The Structure of Magic II: A Book About Communication and Change - Richard Bandler

Ericksonian Approaches: A Comprehensive Manual

Principles of NLP - Joseph O'Connor

Training Trances - John Overdurf

Understanding Neuro-linguistic Programming in a Week

Instant Rapport - Michael Brooks

Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide - Tad James

The Sourcebook of Magic - Michael Hall

I've read all of these previously, never just given them the PhotoReading treatment. My purpose was pretty much set by the assignment question. I just further defined my PhotoReading purpose by asking what, where, when and how. My original assignment title was to describe X. Describe is pretty general a term I think. I didn't really need to preview as I've already read these books. I just went over the back, front covers and the table of contents.

I got into state before each book and then flipped through the books. All in all they all took me about half an hour to 45 minutes to go through. I then went away. I walked the dog...oh the excitement. Yet, it got me away from the books for about half an hour.

I then began to go through each book with my how, what, where and when questions. Sometimes I knew which book to go to for the answers. I grabbed what I needed looked at the table of contents or index, read and left. Others, I wasn't so sure of. I guess I need to pay more attention to my own internal signals. I was able to mind map each section that I needed to answer. I did go on to Wikipedia to see if there was anything else I could add to my mind maps. Aside from a few references, there wasn't. I then just sat down with my PC and began writing my assignment up. I writing came quite easily and rather fluidly. I was impressed. Although I'd made mind maps of the areas I wanted to cover. I didn't need to refer to them much. The first draft is done. I'll come back to it in a few days. When my mind has had further time to ponder my assignment question and add detail if required. I'll also be able to check over the spelling and grammar etc.

The assignment wasn't that difficult to complete, yet I still had to be motivated to do it. After all I don't, in theory, have to hand it in until early December. Now it is done. I can now begin planning more important things... October, my next piece of travelling, catching up with friends. In addition it is time to really putting into further practise the ideas of Tim Ferriss. Who at the moment doesn't appear to have caught on too much over here in the UK. Only a matter of time. By then, I'll be back on one of my favourite beaches.Thankfully I've got somebody over here who is able to chase me and quiz me on that side of things. Cheers Dan!

If I've not had too much of the amber nectar. I'm going to play with Direct Learning tomorrow.

Happy Travels

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