Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Questions about the importance of the photoreading step and the Pete Bissonette ad

I was wondering if someone could explain the significance of the photoreading step...all of the information I gain from any books I photoread comes from the super-reading, rapid reading, or previewing steps. It seems like the photoreading (which I believe is supposed to be the main step of the system) is actually the least important step (as far as comprehension goes). I would appreciate it if somebody could explain exactly what it is that the photoreading accomplishes towards comprehension of what is read. This also ties into a question about Pete Bissonette's paid programming Photoreading advertisement...when he photoreads, it would appear that the only step he actually uses is the photoreading step. I didn't see him preview, super-read, rapid read, or any of the other steps aside from sitting down, relaxing, and photoreading. Yet he still manages to answer specific questions asked to him (such as the peddler-politician comparison). I am a beginner compared to most of the people on this site (at least I hope so!) and I was wondering if somebody could help me try to understand this. Do you eventually get to a point where you can fully comprehend books by the photoreading step alone? Was the Pete Bissonette program legit? Please post a response if you can help me understand the answers to these questions in any way (this has been bugging me a lot lately).Thanks.

You could also look at amazon.com and epinions.com and search for photoreading, I think there are reviews and shared experiences on those sites that would help you answer your questions. Oh, and you would have to type photoreading in the search on those sites.

Hi
I also was a little disturbed when I saw Pete on TV doing the photoreading without any of the other steps (as far as I could see..but remember:I can't read Pete's mind, so I don't know what he is doing internally!!). Worse yet, without any prereading, he gave out *detailed* information from his photoreading.
I can't even begin to photoread that way, and it's my understanding that Scheele says that photoreading is not *meant* to function that way!
In all fairness to the opposition, I've had a number of phone conversations with Pete. He seems to be a straightforward guy, so I'm inclined to believe that, after years of doing photoreading and learning about it, he developed additional internal resources for doing it that you or I would not have at this time. I *want* to believe that, anyways, since the alternative would mean that Pete was a liar--which is possible, of course, but is something I prefer not to believe at this time.
Concerning the photoreading step:I always approach a new book with a certain amount of trepidation and the feeling that it's going to take "so long" to get through the book that...why bother? Photoreading, for me, helps me to get through that anxiety by giving me some knowledge, maybe a scanty bit of knowledge but still *some* knowledge, of the book in, virtually seconds!
Further, if you want to do syntopic reading in order to put together a report, then photoreading the various books a number of times, while each time putting to yourself one of the questions that Scheele details in his book, is (as far as I am concerned) the *only* way to do it! I get things done in a tenth the time, and in a way that instructors readily appreciate!

best wishes,
Mike
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I saw the infomercial, as far as the book goes you actually see him do 2 steps. He first photoread the chapter, and then he went back and rapid read the chapter. You could see his eyes go across the pages the second time he flipped through the chapter. In either case he did do the chapter quite quickly and would be vastly superior to regular reading.

I am somewhat skeptical of the online book demonstration he did on the computer though. Because the infomercial showed only 1 step and the screen was literally a blur. I have a hard time believing it but wouldn't say it was impossible. Once you say impossible to yourself you have biased your thought process and have created your own limitations to what you can accomplish. I would just feel better about it if I knew he rapid read it also but they didn't show it on the infomercial. My skeptism comes because he did 2 steps on the chapter, but they only showed 1 step on the computer. The computer thing seemed much more difficult and he appeared to PhR more content on the computer than the book. If he had to rapid read the chapter, I would think he would have to do the same for the computer demonstration. But for now I will give him the benefit of the doubt since I want to attain this ability also in time, so I don't want to sabotage my own potential abilities with negative thoughts such as "impossible".

Jimmy

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