What do you think that signing your initials at the end of the chapters accomplished?
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Re: What do you think that signing your initials at the end of the chapters accomplished?
Very true!

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It seems many people felt the same way.

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I agree!Mercy Bolo wrote: ↑04 Nov 2018, 08:01 The author asks readers to sign their initials at the end of chapters to help them stay accountable and have the will to follow his advice. The signing makes it look like the reader is sending a note to oneself. Thus the will to follow through will be stronger.

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True, but it sounds like you would have initialized it if you could.k2kelliher wrote: ↑04 Nov 2018, 17:07 I think the purpose of signing your initials was to make some sort of commitment to the information. But, where I read most of my books on a kindle, signing initials is a little difficult.

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Personally, I found this feature annoying since I could not physically sign, but I still understand the reason it was there and find it generally effective as a concept.
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Thank you for putting so much thought into the question-I think you're right, signing your initials makes one concentrate more on what's being read.Storm+ wrote: ↑05 Nov 2018, 02:12 For me, signing my initials (or the idea of doing so, since I didn't actually sign due to having an electronic copy) served a few purposes. First, if I was reading a paper version of the book or if I had wanted to type my initials in my kindle, it would have made the impact of the words I was reading much greater. By making my agreement solid and concrete, the author kept me from reading his words and immediately forgetting them. Second, doing this made me make sure I was holding myself accountable. Thirdly, the fact that I needed to "agree" to better myself made me pay particular attention to what I was reading. My instinct is to not sign anything I don't understand, so writing the book in this style encouraged me to read and re-read until I really understood what I was agreeing to.
Personally, I found this feature annoying since I could not physically sign, but I still understand the reason it was there and find it generally effective as a concept.

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Journaling your impressions and progress would have been a great idea!

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I think that was probably the point, to make the agreement with yourself to contemplate and integrate the author's ideas into your daily life.TheRVMom wrote: ↑05 Nov 2018, 18:27 No, I didn't sign. Even had I not been reading in Kindle I wouldn't have signed. I didn't see the point. There wasn't anything saying I was signing an agreement (with myself I suppose) to carry out any specific instructions or abide by any specific rules. I just really saw it as the signal the chapter ended.

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