Since my last photoreading post I’ve been very busy photoreading as much as I possibly can. Unfortunately getting in to state is still something that takes me a few minutes so I can’t switch it on and photoread everything in sight. However I am getting some photoreading in every day - not the 3 books a day but not at all bad. I did manage to photoread and process a John Adair book “Not Bosses but Leaders” on the train in a couple of hours last week, which was very impressive. You can check out my mind map here to see what you think of the content I extracted in a very short period indeed.
The most profound experience I had during that exercise was wondering what page was the most important for my purpose for reading the book (which was to understand what the key characteristics of a good leader are in Adair’s opinion), I immediately got a number in my head, and when I turned to that page, there it was, a summary of the key characteristics, on a page that I hadn’t even read consciously.
So this experience has given me additional energy and conviction in developing my skills in this area, and relaxing and letting the information come to me rather than wondering if this process really works.
I’m now working through some denser books to see how quickly I can get through them. I’m certainly not only processing books a lot quicker, but I’m also enjoying the process and getting through books that I wouldn’t normally finish, which has to be a good thing.
If you want to learn more about photoreading, check out this page on the site. Damn I wish I’d known how to do this when I was a student.
