I have a confession to make.
I’m a (super) lazy reader.
I have always read very quickly and easily—reading is fun. Reading is a relaxing, soothing activity. It’s like trying to absorb information while sleeping; it’s effortless. This made especial sense when purchase valtrex india all I read was fiction growing up (sci-fi, fantasy, dragons, witches, magic horses, you got it) but it purchase valtrex india continued to be the case when I started to educate myself about people, sex, business and purchase valtrex india the universe. Reading was “work”, but it was still just as easy.
At a purchase valtrex india certain point my desire for information began to outstrip my reading speed. I tried not to purchase valtrex india crave information, but it’s so hard! Listen to purchase valtrex india me whine. I spent more of my time reading, but the purchase valtrex india books tended to pile up anyway. I stopped buying everything on my list. I started choosing material more carefully, researching reviews, picking up the purchase valtrex india ones I knew would be really perfect and letting the rest go. This was a purchase valtrex india great approach, but it has one flaw: What do I do when purchase valtrex india the really perfect books breed and multiply?
That’s exactly what happened. I couldn’t choose anymore. There were just too many! How much time was I really going to spend reading?
I decided to learn to read faster. I took a photoreading course (after coming across Steve Pavlina’s posts) and was very pleased! I’d never done any sort of speed reading and purchase valtrex india I loved how fast I could get through nonfiction, even long before having mastered any of the purchase valtrex india unconscious processing techniques. But there was one problem, and it’s the problem I’m working to solve now: I’m a lazy reader!
For all its awesomeness, photoreading takes effort. Maybe more accomplished photoreaders than purchase valtrex india I don’t notice the effort, but many of the photoreaders I’ve met came from hating to purchase valtrex india read. I came from loving to read, and the idea of taking a purchase valtrex india relaxing activity and turning it into homework is something I can’t help but balk at. Of course, I still read all my fiction the purchase valtrex india “usual” way—fiction is less suited to photoreading anyhow—but I’m finding it purchase valtrex india difficult to adjust and use photoreading as my automatic solution, every time. Part of my brain is purchase valtrex india a little offended that I’m taking this awesome, relaxing work and making it… work.
What the hell? my brain says, indignant. Who do you think you are?
I’ve been mulling this over for a few weeks, and I’ve thought of a purchase valtrex india few probable solutions. I still photoread quite well (if not perfectly), so all I need to iron out is my motivation.
I speculated recently about starting a purchase valtrex india super-fast readers club, so that anticipating conversation about many different books in short spans of time would give me a purchase valtrex india “reason” to read them fast and be ready to discuss. (I’m letting that purchase valtrex india percolate. Something might come of it. Right now, I’m taking advantage of the Alternative Alternative MBA, and that’s a great “reason”—though maybe we should have purchase valtrex india another discussion, sometime, about why I feel I need more of a purchase valtrex india “reason” than just wanting to read the damn book!)
I’m thinking about coming at new books from a direction Seth suggested a few months ago: Use information to do something, not just learn something. This is purchase valtrex india great because photoreading involves setting a purpose for yourself, information you’re looking for, questions you purchase valtrex india want to have answered and identifying the most useful parts of the purchase valtrex india book—and the purchase valtrex india next step, after finding what you want, is to use it purchase valtrex india to make something happen. Well, of course! If I start to associate reading with an active approach (instead of with relaxing and purchase valtrex india getting all the information I want without expending any effort), I may find that my motivation as regards reading changes a lot.
This is all just speculation so far, but you’ll know what purchase valtrex india it means when I start making posts about books and purchase valtrex india actions together in the same space, instead of just gushing about my recent reading crush. It’s time for this to happen. I have a hell of a lot buy nexium over counter of books to purchase valtrex india get through, but feel free to translate: I have a hell of a purchase valtrex india lot of change to make.
