[MOSAIC] Bill's thoughts

[Bill Roberts]

Lori said
> I think I would say that to get more out of reading, it has to be
> purposeful.  Reading enjoyment is a potential purpose. So is figuring out
> how to repair your car, hook up a computer, research your position, etc.
.

I agree, but doesn't reading that technical book ultimately bring you 
pleasure?  Reading a cookbook brings me pleasure once I bite into that 
chocolate chip cookie.  Technical reading can still be "fun" for the person 
reading it.  Reading that chapter in the text may not bring pleasure, but 
passing the chapter test and bringing home a good grade does.  Sometimes you 
don't even know it, but have you ever had one of those moments where you 
remember something you read weeks or months ago and it suddenly has meaning 
for you?  If you look at the strategies, many of them create pleasure! 
Predict something in the book?  If it happens, you feel pleasure....if it 
doesn't happen, you still feel pleasure because you didn't see it coming! 
Making connections creates pleasure.  Inference also. It's the pleasure 
derived from that "AHA!" moment, but it does add to the experience.

It's almost Freudian, but it still comes down to pleasure versus pain...

Bill