Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer PR programming books

I am new to PR (just finished the tapes) and I am trying to PR at least 3 books a day. I wanted to try and PR a visual basic book (Visual Basic Bible) and see what happened. I have used this book as a reference book so the material was not alien to me.

I am wondering if I should activate the book? The reason I ask this is because I program in VB every day and my reasoning would be similar to a course text, the activation occurs in class. Therefore, manual activation is not necessary.

I am interested in a large number of topics, but I never really had the time to read. These topics would very from classic literature to cutting edge science. I would be reading this topics for my own interest. Would it be necessary to activate the material or would previewing, PR and postviewing be adequate? I would like to be able to know the material on a triva basis (jeopardy). Or, I would know where to find the information that I need.

Also, I am interested in the syntopic strategy. Say you read a number of books as part of pleasure reading and you come across a problem at work or in life that require some lateral thinking. Would books read for pleasure assist in the lateral thinking process? Has anyone had this experience?

Thanks...

Wow fenris, I too just finished the course SAturday. I am taking Java right now and I had a mid-term last monday. I'm not sure how well I did yet, but I photoread the first 1/2 of the book and then activated the last two chapters in the book before class. I used the mind map. That was great.

I too made a goal to photoread at least 3 books a week. The dictionary is one I plan to photoread every night. Then I plan to listen to the memory supercharger before bed. I can't wait to see how my vocabulary increases! :-)

I too would like to know an answer to this question.

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Originally posted by fenris:
I am new to PR (just finished the tapes) and I am trying to PR at least 3 books a day. I wanted to try and PR a visual basic book (Visual Basic Bible) and see what happened. I have used this book as a reference book so the material was not alien to me.

I am wondering if I should activate the book? The reason I ask this is because I program in VB every day and my reasoning would be similar to a course text, the activation occurs in class. Therefore, manual activation is not necessary.

I am interested in a large number of topics, but I never really had the time to read. These topics would very from classic literature to cutting edge science. I would be reading this topics for my own interest. Would it be necessary to activate the material or would previewing, PR and postviewing be adequate? I would like to be able to know the material on a triva basis (jeopardy). Or, I would know where to find the information that I need.

Also, I am interested in the syntopic strategy. Say you read a number of books as part of pleasure reading and you come across a problem at work or in life that require some lateral thinking. Would books read for pleasure assist in the lateral thinking process? Has anyone had this experience?

Thanks...

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