Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer A novice desperately seeking help and advice

Hi All
I have been very excited by what I have read so far. I would really like some help and advice from anyone who can give it. Perhaps an explanation first. All of my life, when doing a course, I spent my time studying much harder (and longer) than many of my contemporaries. My exam results have never reflected this. Other people always seemed to end up with the better grades and me with the average or failing ones! I know there is a big difference between working harder and working smarter but I have never managed it. Speed reading has been a particular problem for me and I haven’t yet managed to break the habit of sub-vocalisation. It doesn’t help when you keep reading that others find this an easy habit to break and don’t have to study very hard to get their great grades! At the age of 40 I want to go back to beginning and learn how to learn from the ground up to prove to myself that I CAN really tap into what I hope is a huge ability to learn. I would be REALLY grateful for two things. Firstly, can anyone advise me which materials AND in which order they would suggest that I should use in order to access and use what I hope is a vast learning ability which we are all suppose to have? Secondly, is there anyone out there in the United Kingdom (where I am based) or elsewhere that I could chat to, as a buddie, that could help me achieve some of the great results that I have been reading about in this forum? That you for taking the time to read this and I hope to hear some positive suggestions.

David

Hi David

Have you noticed, that we humans seem to have, more thoughts, going on, that are not altogether helpful?

Now one of the really self incriminating things we do, is we compare our selves, to everyone else, and we are trained, through our education system, through the radio, through adverts, magazines, that this label, means your apart of this group or that group, if you have this or that, your better than him or her, and we are trained to look out side of our selves, and to be overly self judgemental, because we are training to get what, everyone else wants, and as everyone seems to want the same, then we seem to have created, a impoverished, mind set, that being there is not enough to go around, so we need to create labels, and classifications, that embodies, a victim, mentality.

Now I know that is a set of generalizations, yet it fits for so many people, I know it was my grounding for a very long time, I was always looking to others for gratification and I never got it, It took some very self destructive, behaviour for me to wake up, and know, that the only person, in this world that is going to look after my needs, was me, and the only best that is important, and I have to compare too, is my own personal best, if you do that with yourself, and you know that your giving it you all, then pass or fail, you would have learned something.

So what’s the point of my rambling, you have to find, your own path, consider doing self comparisons, get your head out from your past, its happened, you did your test, and exams, and you got the scores, you did, them and now you’re here.

Can you learn faster? Yes, are you going to allow your self the time, to mess up? As that’s an important part of learning adventure.

Now I will add more to this, in a little while, as I have had a bit of a brain fog, for a while. And am getting back into life again.

Yet if you want to send me e-mail I’m in the uk. And would be happy to chat.

“ I have a gift, of putting my foot in my mouth, and in doing so I have found flexibility”

Davidjames23; "All of my life, when doing a course, I spent my time studying much harder (and longer) than many of my contemporaries. My exam results have never reflected this. Other people always seemed to end up with the better grades and me with the average or failing ones! I know there is a big difference between working harder and working smarter but I have never managed it."

Davidjames23 you are in good company. There was a man in England who found himself in the same predicament as you. The more he studied the longer he studied the less he learned and he got average or failing grades. This man's name is Tony Buzan. Tony Buzan has spent his life learning how the brain works and how people learn. I strongly recommend you read his book the Mind Map book.

"Speed reading has been a particular problem for me and I haven’t yet managed to break the habit of sub-vocalisation." Photoreading is not speedreading. Speedreading is simply moving your eyeballs rapidly across the page. Photoreading is mentally photographing 1 to 2 pages a second exposing the book to the other than conscious mind by changing your field of vision by using your peripheral vision and bringing the material you photoread to conscious awareness by activation techniques.

"At the age of 40 I want to go back to beginning and learn how to learn from the ground up to prove to myself that I CAN really tap into what I hope is a huge ability to learn."

You have that ability to learn. It is innate. You were born with it. Now it is about applying the right techniques so you can get the results you seeks.
Photoread4me

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Originally posted by Davidjames23:
Firstly, can anyone advise me which materials AND in which order they would suggest that I should use in order to access and use what I hope is a vast learning ability which we are all suppose to have?

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To learn and accelerate your learning you'll be looking at three courses. Not that you need all three however they are the ideal student collection.
PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer and Genius Code.

I would start with PhotoReading. And with PhotoReading start with the PhotoReading book. Read the book as instructed on the very first page. This is an interesting experience right there. Then do the course. The course will guide you through the right material to use first. Then work on a couple of non-fiction books of your own using the 5-day test. By then you'll have enough experience to be comfortable with applying the system on textbooks.

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Secondly, is there anyone out there in the United Kingdom (where I am based) or elsewhere that I could chat to, as a buddie, that could help me achieve some of the great results that I have been reading about in this forum? That you for taking the time to read this and I hope to hear some positive suggestions.

David

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My contact details are available in my profile.

Alex