The Read Smart Tag!
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The Read Smart Tag!
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Read Smart Tag questions:
1. What is your strategy to stay focused and engaged while reading?
2. How does your environment influence your focus and what can you do to optimize it?
3. What methods do you use to retain and recall information from what you've read?
4. How do you approach difficult or challenging material?
5. What role do note-taking and annotation play in your reading process?
6. How do you balance reading for pleasure with reading for personal or professional development?
7. What is the importance of setting reading goals?
8. What are some strategies for overcoming reading slumps or lack of motivation?
Steve, You always give us something to ponder. I like your suggestions of disconnecting from notifications etc. For me, I have to be in a certain mood for certain books. If it's a denser or technical book (Business or Data Related), I need to have enough energy or bandwidth to absorb it. If I have a more "fun" book like a cozy mystery or a romance novel, my energy reserves can be much lower.
Prompt 4: "No material is challenging." - Steve Donoghue. I have a few math books that would short circuit the neuronal network that produced this verbal mistake (to use the materialist lingo).
I am able to read everywhere without distraction. I have read on an airplane, a cruise ship, in a parking lot, in Kohl’s, at the Disneyland Hotel, in church, outside of church, at work, walking in a parking lot without needing to look where I’m going, recently in the Home Depot while my folks were buying lumber, at work around people who were talking, in cars, on a pontoon boat, at campgrounds, in a crowded airport. I read strictly for pleasure and not professionally. I read this morning at a doctor’s office, outside of the doctor’s office.
Steve, thank you for your response to our tag. You always make me laugh. ☺ Have a great day.
Man, you are so fast! (I love the hate-to-love pipeline-just gotta dedicate a whole video to someone, that'll surely turn things around!)
"boot-strapping" - lovely term! I do that in about 20% of the books I read, but never could think of a way to describe it. No question that finding a term, character, act, etc. that I see a tie to is fun. Sometimes it's so easy ("GrandMaster Sir Lyon Gandolphus Grey" = "Gandalf the Grey"), sometimes it's sometimes that's purely personal, but how do I explain it. Now I have a way to do it.
I manage the distractions of my devices by not using them to read. The only thing I like about them is you can expand text which you can't do with paper but I have another device that solves that problem called a magnifying glass
Hello Steve - on the contrary, your answers to this tag provide delightful counterpoint - thank you!
Loved the answers... really. 👏👏🙌
Yeah. I’ve always thought the reading process is miraculous, for want of a better word. Didn’t someone once describe it as a ‘gentle madness?’
What is wrong with distractions while reading. I read all day long at work in tiny bursts… I get good reading done that way but that’s VERY distracted
This may sound like a dumb question, and I'm only 16 minutes in, but how are your eyes?
Do you know which of your screws is loose?