Well formed goals I see. Now a paradoxical question do the books that you used for the Direct Learning project actually provide some form of instruction or advice in concert toward your goal?
I'm sorry if you feel this is a reduntant question but as an avid reader of books I've discovered many do not instruct or provide specific 'how to' information. The recommended books that seem to work best are the "how to for dummies' and the like. Just because it say's how to on the cover doesn't mean the information is actually in the book in a usable form. For example Remote Viewing Secrets - A handbook by Joseph McMoneagle actually has no information as to possible procedure or how one could go about learning it. It doesn't even have a step by step set of instructions. So it would be impossible to gain a quantum effect on your life from that book.
So have you checked that the books do in fact teach the skills you wish to develop? Naturally you can compare what you are doing with what the authors suggest you should be doing and perhaps discover why you've failed to reach your aspiration.
Of course DL isn't going to to just magically show up in your life you have to set about placing yourself in situations where you can use the skill, and use it or lose it is very valid in the early stages of seeing results. Some skills like tennis, golf, chess, backgammon, communication and the like probably are easier to attain because we have a measure of these skills to start with. Others like analysing a NASA star map will be difficult to direct learn without having some sort of foundation in the skill.
Search the forums; this one and the PhotoReading forum you will find more discussion and successes with it have already been posted.
Alex
