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#27537 04/06/02 06:26 AM
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Hello!

I was wondering how PhotoRead can handle history books. I mean, studying an history book (medium-sized, say 250/300 pages) in a traditional way (to remember names, dates and so on) requires at least a month of costant studying.

If I photoread the history book several times, do you think that I can achieve a comprension level identical to normal reading? I mean photoreading the same book every day for about 10 days, followed by activation. What do you think about?






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Depends a little on what your looking for...

If you want to know it in such a way that your remember names, dates, and so on, it gets tricky...see, it's one thing to know who killed who, as opposed to knowing when. Numbers are tricky to remember, even in traditional studying...heck, even facts in general are tricky to remember in traditional study.

What I would do is PR the book and activate a couple times, doing this every day for 10 days (the time span you allotted). Use mindmaps, and I would also use memorization methods (eg Harry Lorraine, pseudonumerology) to memorize factual stuff like numbers and dates.

They're both pretty effective, though someone trivial except on tests. I mean, it's becoming less and less important to remember facts nowadays, as more people are just willing to write the bloody thing down. Using pseudonumerology, I've memorized over 200 digits of pi in a day or so (half-as*ed attempt, probably could have gotten more), but there's really no point to it.

Summary:
Photoread and activate with a couple sessions every day for ten days.
Use memorization techniques like Harry Lorraine's and psuedonumerology.

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com






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Thanks for the reply. well, I done some memory courses and I can remember numbers by phonetical conversion. it's a pretty good system, so the dates are not a real problem indeed. But I need to recall the events, the characters, the cities and so on.

I signed for a Photoreading seminar but it will take place in June, so I'm investigating a bit the argument to go to the seminar with the right expectations.

But I understood that studying with PR is a real deal, because I put the information directly in the long term memory without stress. I think that I will able to cut by 1/5 the normal study time.






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All I can say about PR is that it is amazing. I hope you either get to a seminar or do the home study course. I just finished it and wow it was great.

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Originally posted by maucent:
Thanks for the reply. well, I done some memory courses and I can remember numbers by phonetical conversion. it's a pretty good system, so the dates are not a real problem indeed. But I need to recall the events, the characters, the cities and so on.

I signed for a Photoreading seminar but it will take place in June, so I'm investigating a bit the argument to go to the seminar with the right expectations.

But I understood that studying with PR is a real deal, because I put the information directly in the long term memory without stress. I think that I will able to cut by 1/5 the normal study time.










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