Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer IS PR GOOD FOR TEXTBOOKS

Most of my reading is textbooks for schools. Ihave the course and it appears that the parts of the WHOLE brain learning process that work the most is everything, but the PR step. When I preview, superread, and rapid read I get the most info into my head... Flipping through the pages has little value....... PR borrows from other reading strategies.

My process for t-book are:

I read all the headers and definitions. I turn the defs into notecards. Then I spead read the the chapter. Go back and pull out the main ideas, studies experiments etc.

So you dismissed one of the most powerful things about Photoreading which is photoreading. Did you read Paul Scheele's book on Photoreading. He address this in the photoreading book. He basically says not to dismiss or not give credit to the photoreading step.

When you photoread you are exposing the book to the other than conscious mind which is far more powerful than the conscious mind. The conscious mind can attend to about 6 to 8 bits of information at the same time. The other than conscious mind can attend to 20,000 things at the same time.The other than conscious mind outweighs the conscious mind 10 billion to one. When you photoread you are having the book operating on both a conscious level and other than conscious level and that in turn makes it easier for you to learn your textbooks. I would not be in such a hurry to dismiss the photoreading step. You definitely would be losing major benefits by not using this powerful process.
Photoread4me

Yes the PhotoReading system includes the effective reading techniques developed from research. Using those steps alone will improve the results obtained by many in reading.

However people who have had to resort to the PhotoReading step alone because their other commitments didn't give them time to do the other steps. And then passed exams based on the knowledge they got from PhotoReading alone won't agree with you that flipping pages has little value.

For others the difference in understanding the information is worth the 2 to 5 minutes of flipping pages.

Alex

yes, especially when im studying, it not only cuts down study time, but dont u know the feeling you get that u could have studied more? well, this completetly eliminates this.
also i pR a few chapters ahead, note my trigger words, and let the info activate in class, PR rocks

Hello!
Yeah PR is excellent for textbooks because they are so predictable, meaning the way they are organized is easily seen and it is easier to super read and activate. I think the chapter vocabulary words serve as excellent trigger words. I suggest PRing the whole textbook, then activate each chapter as you go, but that is not set in stone. But photoread4me is right about how powerful the PR step is. I always feel different after I have photoread a bunch of books, like the information is just waiting to be released!

[This message has been edited by Ryan (edited October 02, 2005).]