Take a look behind the scenes at my office, where I optimize for my different thinking.
For those with dyslexia, it can feel like reading is not for us, but that just is not true! That is why I am sharing one of my methods of adapting the reading process to fit my way of thinking.
What do you do to help yourself through the reading process?
Transcription:
Hey, so today I’m gonna let you behind the scenes. We’re in my office, and I have just gotten a bunch of new books in, and being the incredible different thinker that I am, when it comes to learning I have found a really great shortcut for me is to have a book in a PDF form, a searchable PDF form, so that I can take out the um pieces that I think are really good and add additional comments of how I found that valuable, how it might apply to my life, how it might apply to clients. I put it- those book notes I then put into an easy-to-find document, and so it’s all searchable, and so I can pull up things when I want to send them off to clients, to talk to people, all that kind of stuff, but let me show you kind of what that looks like.
So, I purchase an actual physical book cause you cannot buy just a PDF, and then I deconstruct that book. So, I actually tear out the pages and then- hang on- so here’s a book as an example. I typically buy hardcover, and there you go. This does not have a binding anymore, and as you can see, it’s really rough, so I can’t send that through the scanner. So, what you wind up doing is, I wind up taking these chunks. I bring them over to my little cutter over here, get them lined up, and then whiz bang boom we just we do that, and that’s how I get a nice smooth edge, and if you can’t tell, this is not a fast process. This takes a little time, and it is so well worth it for me. The notes that I make, the ability to search them is just incredible, so that’s a little behind the scenes sometimes of my different thinker brain, and ways that I’ve navigated to make things easy for me.
I’m JoyGenea international neurodiversity coach and unconventional leadership expert, so reach out if you want to learn some more tips and tricks for working with your brain and not having to work so dang hard. Bye now.