We have already mentioned in past writings and fundamentally in “READING-WRITING-DRAWING: VIRTUOUS CIRCLE” that these 2 reading and writing activities potentiate and feed each other. We have also mentioned that every persevering, permanent and enthusiastic reader manages to be a writer in the future.
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We must be clear in our minds that the only thing we could achieve, by implementing this WALK-RWD system, is to be a “dynamic reader”, an “authentic writer” or an “expressive drawer”. To pretend more of this would be an excess on our part. Dynamism in the reader means being frequent, lasting, enthusiastic, practical, but not intense; the authentic in the writer represents a confident, positive, serious, certain, practical and firm individual; the expressive in the drawer includes the two previous ones. Drawing involves the two activities of reading and writing, in a graphic way; that is, being a “dynamic reader” leads to being an “authentic writer”, but being an “expressive drawer” implies the two previous personalities, in a graphic way.
It is ideal to write – precisely – all the good ideas that are generated by reading, because to that extent more information is required. This virtuous and continuous circle produces the real driving effect of the information we require in both directions.
Now, there are various means that we can use to facilitate and organize our reading; it can be done in e-books or audiobooks; also through Smartphone or your Tablet. The Lap Top is not recommended because of the difficulty of carrying it while walking.
You can read in the Mobile Apps for iPhone and Android, and listen on WiFi.
The daily reading of the newspaper in any of the forms: printed, Tablet, Smartphone, etc., or listen to the news by Smartphone while we walk.
Writing can also be achieved through a recorder that is recorded as you walk.
Music is an important element in life because it “moves” our body, our cells, our moods. That is why it is also advisable to listen to music when we walk.
Each individual can process that information and data according to their natural rhythm of creative spirit, with their particular and singular literary genre, each human being is unrepeatable in art as Edel C. Piñera expresses us – in his book Method to releasing the artist that we all carry inside– and produce their own work, according to the processing of the selected information -consciously or unconsciously-; let our spirit process the information that is being introjected and let’s do it by storing the information that we should keep in memory, mentally processing it, to generate the literary products that our creative being decides. We do not grieve if we observe that the product obtained is not an aesthetic beauty, if we do not like how it was written, even if it resembles (much or little) something we have read, in terms of content or style.
Edel C. Piñera in his book presents a novel method to meet and release the incognito artist that we all have inside, suggesting concrete steps to achieve it; it reveals the way to discover that creative seed and energy on art and discover that creative nature and the unlimited possibility that each of us have to be able to perform as artists, causing us a true liberation, which can transform -through its reading- the future of who accepts the challenge. Through its pages it gathers part of its concern and its own experience about the artistic potential that every individual possesses and shares his knowledge to manifest them. Invites the reader to reflect on the multiple possibilities of an artistic type that could be developed, without distinction of age or sex, with the conviction that everyone can achieve it, just by proposing it, with the consequent accumulation of discoveries and satisfactions, because to Piñera we all have an artist inside. Through his method, she guides the reader in the problem of his inner freedom and self-knowledge, confronting him with his creative nature, which is the distinctive characteristic of the species, stimulating him to discover and express his aesthetic essence, without external conditioning.
I want to clarify that here I do not intend to advise anything about the quality of the writing or the intensity of the reading, nor about which books and authors are recommended; plain and simple we must do it according to our tastes and needs. It is not a study program or a literary creation workshop. We must read with the speed we want, with the care and interest we have. We must read according to our tastes and take advantage of those moments by acquiring knowledge, and if desired, write as well.
Many books distract and teach; all enrich our knowledge and improve our ideas and thinking. Each book can be transformed into a dialogue with the author, and the synthesis obtained from it can be transmuted into a compendium of ideas that we can always organize as a new work written by us. This dialogue is carried out with oneself and the author serves as an intermediary and pointer. You talk to yourself, considering that the author may be listening to you in your reinterpretation, and you can address him as if he were present with your thoughts. Remember: it is not a study program, nor a literary creation workshop, but you can make it work as you wish.
For both activities – reading and writing – we can facilitate its development in terms of the difficulties that arise for its practical execution. In the case of reading we can acquire the appropriate device to listen through headphones, of course it is necessary to have the work in the audio-book system. This way you will run less risk of tripping or falling by reading or writing during your walking exercise.
For writing we can recommend that you use a recorder during the walk and then transcribe it in any word processor and incorporate it to the objective that is pursued, or use the digital equipment that allows us to write on a screen – while walking – and directly It is recorded to the processor. With regard to audio-books, as well as having the advantage of facilitating reading they also have several drawbacks from my particular experience. However, these disadvantages do not determine their elimination to avoid considering it as a valid option. It will depend on everyone and especially on the difficulty you have to make the reading without the risk of tripping or falling.
In my personal case, I like to review some texts that reinforce my understanding of the ideas presented in the respective book, which can also be done in the audio-books although with more difficulty. I am also inclined to periodically review some parts of the book that I am reading, such as the names of the chapters and countless needs that are presented to me when I am re-reading, which we could also do in the audio books, even with some difficulty. In addition, there is in me the urgent need to underline and cross out words and phrases from the books I read and in addition to writing notes all over the book that falls into my hands, a situation that can hardly be done in audio- books.
However, these are a real option for those who consider it a risk to read when they walk. The annotations (notes, marks, apostilles, references, data, etc.) that we make on the texts, help us to locate the specific places in the text of our observations that we are making, however, if we need more space to develop better our own ideas and comments that we have generated by reading the text, we must use a special block of notes for this, where we can keep a record of all those ideas that occur to us as we read the text. There are also the computer books (e-book or electronic book) that through them we can store a fairly large number of books and read through the digital screen, with the convenience of being able to carry out the same activities – and even more easily – what can we do with traditional books: review texts, underline and cross out words, write notes, etc.
Now, we can ask ourselves Why read and what for? In the generality of human communities that have historically had access to reading, there has always been a percentage of people who like to read and who wish to read, which by the way, has been a low percentage; as well as another percentage that they can’t or don’t like to read; this has been much higher. See writing WHY READ AND WHAT FOR?
The purposes pursued by those individuals who read are varied, however, there is a group that does so to know how they think or what other people think. This activity can be done without the need to generate a discussion or confrontation of ideas and without the obligation to go to an enclosure to be able to listen to them. It is really simple to take the thought of an individual anywhere and be able to hear it at the time we want it; carrying with us the book where that person poured his thoughts; we can open it and close it when we want to hear it; those ideas, speeches, experiences, poems, in short, any thought that the author had exposed, described or referred to in his work.
Now, why does a sector of the population need this type of information? There is a fundamental reason in people and that is that they require these experiences, that information. Either consciously or unconsciously the human being seeks answers to his inner self; that is, the chosen work is part of the answer they are looking for, but they really want their interiority to respond to them. In a group of people who belong to the same culture and with a similar socioeconomic level, we find individuals who are inclined to read and others do not, and the essential reason is that the former have the need to know themselves better (Nosce te ipsum: know yourself) and reluctant to read prefer to live life without questioning anything. Marco Anneo Seneca, the Latin philosopher of the 1st century A.D., in its Morales Treaties, expressed the following regarding reading and writing:
“Come here, turn into your hands those works that are celebrated with much work of your ingenuity; the verses, I say, of the two authors that you translated in such a way, that although they did not have their composition they have left their grace; because in such a way you passed them from one language to another, which (being such a difficult thing) all the virtues followed you in others. You will not find in all those writings any book that ceases to give you many and varied examples of the human variety and of the uncertain events and vain tears that, already for this, and for that cause, are shed. Read what with great spirit in great things you sang, and you will be ashamed that it will soon be over and fall so high in style. Do not do so that those who have little admired your writings ask: how is it possible that such a fragile spirit has conceived such great and solid things? Look over these things that torment you to the many who comfort you, put your eyes on such good brothers, put them on your wife and your son. For the health of all of these, fortune was agreed with you for this portion: many of you have to be still. ”
I strongly recommend that the person be internalized in writing or reading, as much as possible, so that walking develops unconsciously. Walking is one of the motor activities that the human being performs instinctively, that is, it is not necessary to be attentive to perform it.
Finally, I would like to say that we often observe, through the various print media, that new devices are designed for girls and boys, of school age, to study while on the move.
These equipment are provided with platforms and mechanical circuits that invite the infant to walk or exercise by means of pedals, which allow him to set in motion some of its members, alternately, both arms and legs. All these devices are at the top of a table so they can do all their work, homework and learning that include school programs, since they can place all kinds of notebooks, books and other teaching-learning articles.
Educators promote these means and devices – in some schools – because they have already experienced it in previous years with high rates of achievement and are convinced that with greater movement of the body children learn better and faster.
Another stationary equipment could also be designed for the same purposes and to walk, but we can explain this in a future writing “OTHER MEANS AND DEVICES TO MAKE A WALK”.
This specialized type of equipment has been classified under the name of
kinesthetic desks or tables, from gr. kineo: move, kinesis: movement; statos: stationary, stay.
No matter what means we use to implement the WALK-RWD system, let’s read and write while we walk.