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Reading, reading, reading.
These words are following me since three weeks.

This was the topic of the third lesson.

During the lesson i could see, that i already use some of the skills and methods of the fast and
"excerptive" reading-technique, which Ms. Doshi taught and explained to us.

I was glad of that and i had the impulse to deepen this techniques more, because i noticed them as very useful and
time- and energy-saving skills. Because of this i ordered a book on the same day. The title of that book is "Visual Reading",
and the literature promises that is a good course to learn very fast and intense this kind of visual reading techniques.

During the lesson i remembered that i also use special techniques in reading, especially for scientific chemical papers which i had to read
during the time when i was working in the environmental institute.  After a time an many papers and pages,
I was used not to read just single lines, but more waving through the text in the manner of a serpent, or another kind of lines, like waves or zick-ziack-lines, grabbing the words and the content in a free and "flowing" way.

 I heard after a while, that his technique which i naturally explored by myself,  is taught in reading-seminars. But i never tried to enhance that
skill which came in my mind and reading-habbit naturally. So, i hope that book i ordered will help me to speed up and deepen my reading-skills
and to save my time and energy and also to bring more joy in reading and to overcome the threshold to say: okay, now i read this book
in an hour, or one and a half.

I think, the problem could be to deal with that methodes when i read in a foreign language, or read a book which material is not connected to a basic knowledge i already have. something really new, so i guess could be difficult to read even with that techniques. but time will show.

As an example, when reading a sci. chem. paper, over 20 pages, even in english language, i just used five or ten minutes and i had the content and the regulations in my mind. But that was due to the fact, that i already knew a lot of the formulations, vocabularies, expressions and also the basic content. So the input was more easy for me.

anyway, i was glad to be remembered on that topic during the lesson and
glad, that we were pointed with our noses to that topic and it´s importance.
When i look on my bookshelf, ... i can see half a meter of books i should read.
"Hopefully i will find the time i think, ...", when looking on that staple of books,
but better to think would be: I will read that books in a short time and looking forward to train that techniques.