[MOSAIC] Bill's thoughts

[ljackson]

Except my Statistics book.... My purpose was to survive!!

;-)
Lori


On 6/3/07 4:53 PM, "Bill Roberts" <krober15 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> 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 
> 
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