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I am still needing a lot of practice with photoreading, but that is, for a change, not the purpose of this post.

When reading a book that teaches how to do something, do you still just super-read and dip over everything as fast as you would in other types of books?

I am planning on being a computer programmer. I have learned the C language. I am learning C++ and the DirectX API. Later I will learn Java and Perl and maybe some others.

In books that teach these languages, there are snippets of code and sample programs. Should I study them as if I were regular reading them, or should I just super-read and dip as usual?

How should I go about learning this stuff?

Another question is this: there have been stories about people being able to recall the exact, word-for-word definition of words in a dictionary and the general position of that word on the page. How is this done? That can't be simple activation where you get a good concept of the text.

Do all the PR steps and get them out of the way then start study reading and actually using the new stuff your reading. Do everything every single night- do random PR steps very fast and get into state before you study. Multiple exposures for short periods of time is better than less frequent exposures for long periods of time.

[When reading a book that teaches how to do something, do you still just super-read and dip over everything as fast as you would in other types of books?] At first you do it multiple times but eventually you'll find what you need and slow down on.

[In books that teach these languages, there are snippets of code and sample programs. Should I study them as if I were regular reading them, or should I just super-read and dip as usual?] Spend your time on the important and not on the unimportant. Learning and remembering the codes is important. Look at what you already know every night for 5 minutes and preview what you'll learn the next day for 5 minutes. In the time most people spend just watching commercials you are learning something. I'm learning Spanish right now and I'm not struggling at all. I think I'm at the tourist level now but I want to be able to THINK in Spanish. It's the most dominant language on the planet. The PR doesn't seem to do anything but I'm not repeating things as much as I used to. In learning shorthand I noticed that bigtime. I would learn a sound or group of them like S,F,V (similar markings), I would do about 30 words and a couple days later its still in my head, I can almost see the page. If you can't get an instant skill from slow reading you aren't going to get it from PR. Looking for info for a specific purpose is not the same as learning something.

Andy, let me boil your words down:

- lots of small reading sessions, where you Preview, PR, and activate. Do you do this each time really briefly?
- lots of checking where you're at and where you're going (do you do this from a book, ie chapter by chapter?)
- do you photoread the whole text daily?
- brief daily activation/study periods
- do you use direct learning techniques?

I find I race ahead of myself and expect too much of the language, being very skilful and natural with English. What is your outcome statement like with Spanish? How do you specifically that you're at the limit of your knowledge?

Feedback appreciated!

pveitch

[- lots of small reading sessions, where you Preview, PR, and activate. Do you do this each time really briefly?]

Heck no. Preview and PR once. Mind probe questions and purposes constantly change. I repeat them before studying after I relax. Superreading, dipping, skittering, rapid reading and slow reading (repeating) is what you do every day after that.

[- lots of checking where you're at and where you're going (do you do this from a book, ie chapter by chapter?)]

I quickly review what I already know and also look ahead at what's next but that doesn't take much time. Chapter by Chapter- that depends. I can always skip and come back.

[- do you photoread the whole text daily?]

Just once mostly but sometimes I PR certain things before bed so I MAY get my mind to work on it while I sleep. I don't see the harm in PRing many times with different purposes or focuses.

[- brief daily activation/study periods]

reading something for 15 minutes a day is better than a couple times a week for an hour or so. That's an old idea.

[- do you use direct learning techniques?]

Not yet.

[What is your outcome statement like with Spanish? How do you specifically that you're at the limit of your knowledge?]

With spanish I just want to be able to USE it for the fun of it. I don't really have an outcome other than to mess with people- like answering people in spanish just to tick them off. I'm ALWAYS at the limit of my knowledge with it. It's like english, I still learn new words alot.

No one answered my second question. Previewing, Photoreading, and Activation would give you a good concept (sometimes better than when regular reading) if it worked. I am working on getting photoreading to work for me. My question is this: How do all those people get photographic recall of things like dictionaries? No amount of just super-reading and dipping could give ME a memory like that.

I've never been able to get that dictionary game to work.

Photographic recall of dictionaries? No, not at all.

The dictionary game uses your conscious mind to imagine where the word might be located on the page. Then you look the word up in the dictionary to see how close you came. Sometimes you'll be way off, sometimes right on, sometimes exactly opposite.

I remember the first time I did the dictionary in a 1992 PR seminar with Paul S. I flipped thru the book, let a word come to me, imagined a page in the dictionary, and I actually saw the word moved down the page and stop. I looked it up, and it was right on! I thought, "hey, this is a piece of cake" but my next several tries were way off. Good old performance anxiety.

Keep in mind, the dictionary game cultivates the channel between your conscious mind and your inner mind, so it can more effectively/efficiently respond to requests you give to it.

When I said that, I meant that you had a subconcious photographic picture of each page. But how are you suppose to know consciously where a word is on a page? I mean also there was a story of someone on a radio show who basically repeated word-for-word what a book said. How are you suppose to get that type of recall?

It sounds like that person had photographic memory. Has anyone done a "photographic memory" home study course and able to share their results?

Even though PhotoReading isn't photographic memory, it does deal with the same part of the brain responsible for photographic memory.

The Dictionary Game cultivates the channel between your conscious mind and inner mind used to 1. inprint all the patterns of text into your memory bank and 2. begin triggering it up at a conscious level.