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This message may or not have been addressed before. Nevertheless, I find that is wholly relevant to the Photoreading Mind System (if not what I perceive as the very first step) and therefore it must be asked, even though I'm sure it's been asked on this message board over, and over, and over again.

First off, I've just finished the taped course for the whole mind system. As a student at a university whose time during winter break is drying up, I'm having a hard time seeing just how I'm going to be able to employ the steps of the system over the school year. I'm taking 20 credit hours, which is almost as much as two students combined, in mechanical engineering, whose textbooks will not lend themselves to an easy Photoreading experience for beginners.

I understand that all this e-mail seems to do is justify my reasons why I shouldn't employ the system. This couldn't be further from the truth. My question is--how does one who perceives himself to have no time "make" time to practice the system with other types of reading material that will be better suited for a beginner's level of Photoreading? I don't think I'm ready to start out with literature like Catch 22, or complicated novels with a winding story. I'm mostly interested in starting out with biographies and self-help books.

In addition, page 59 of the workbook gives some information which I don't know how to work around. It states "Do not kid yourself into thinking that you are going to create time to practice. Most people will not. Just use it!", and yet, a few lines down, it states "Preview and PhotoRead from one to ten books each day". How can I "make" this time to do it?

-ProduceDpt

[This message has been edited by ProduceDpt (edited January 15, 2004).]

You've quoted my first comment, but don't seem to have heard it. You don't practice the system, you use it. The concept of practice has a belief associated with it. Namely, that you can not currently do it, whatever it is.

If you've learned all of the steps in the PWMS then you can do it. So do it. The more you do it, the better your results will become.

As for previewing or postviewing and PRing a book. That will take you 5 to 10 minutes per book. If you can't find ten minutes, well... Maybe 100 minutes may be difficult to find. This is the good, better, best idea. Just because you can't approach the material from the best (the recommended) practice, doesn't mean you can't approach it.

I believe the also suggest activiating at least one book a day with that formula. Make the room for at most a 20 minute session a day for the activation. If that mean 2 less books to preview and PR, so be it.

If you are previewing and PRing, why not try it on a few chapters of a text book. You can leave the more scary part (activation) for less threatening material. I suspect that you'll gain a lot of benefit for your studies by doing this.

You can do it. It just one of your choices. Where are you going to decide to send your energy?

You are perfection.
Iam2

Producedpt; if you did nothing but photoread the textbook you would have a advantage because now you are involving the other than conscious mind which can do 20,000 things at the same time and learning will be easier having photoread the text.

Having said that i would not recommend doing that. I would recommend you follow Iam2 & Paul Scheele advice and just use it and you don't have to be perfect forget about practicing go for it & let the chips fall where they may. Do all the steps & in time you will get better at them.

photoread4me

Since one or two books is 10 minutes you've got the time. Also the time you spend at your computer. Use the photoreading step of preview and photoread on the webpages. It's even relevant to chat. It's apparent you can find 10 minutes because you managed to find them to post.

Now those books that you preview and photoread can and probably should be your textbooks.

The activation process is best done on a few books that are not textbooks. If you did the home study course as advised then you've already worked through 3 books. One easy way is to set aside 15 to 30 minutes to activate a book of your choice, use the 5 day test and shorten it to 15 minutes if that's all the time you have. Since you've already done the course right through chances are that you could manage to work with your textbooks well enough so you come back to Pauls statement "Do not kid yourself into thinking that you are going to create time to practice."

So do as Paul suggest and grab your textbooks and "Just use it!".

The 1 to 10 books per day is just the preview and photoreading steps. This adds a nice polish to your skills. If you haven't really got time for it Just photoread your textbooks everyday (or one of them daily) for a couple of months. After previewing them the first time you don't really need to preview them again so you only need to spend 5 minutes photoreading. It's just more fun if you can grab 2 or 5 or 10 books a day and photoread them and then decide which one of them you want to activate that week.

Also remember to apply preview and S/R & dip to your emails, articles and magazine stories you read etc. That way you're using the skills and in a sense practicing them.

Alex

[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited January 16, 2004).]