Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Subvocalizing

I was reading in a previous post about the process of subvocalization, but I still have a few questions left unanswered.

I know that subvocalizing is slowing me down big time. In the activation phase, my pace is greatly diminished by the fact that I'm going through it all so quickly, but it isn't really registering in my mind. So I feel the need to go back, and pick up a bit more, which makes my super reading and dipping more like rapid reading aka, speed reading.

It was mentioned to subvocalization goes down with time, but I was wondering if there are exercises, or any perticular method of activating that will allow for pure ideas, void of limiting words, to jump out of the page and into my mind.

I have one book on the Evelyn Wood speed reading method, and the idea presented in this book was to just go as fast as you can such that you simply wouldn't have time to say each word in your head. But in doing so, I for one, got a headache, and two, got little to nothing from the book.

Without subvocalization, "normal" reading, closely akin to rapid reading, would more than double, and thus it would make sense that the whole activation stage would also see a great increase. Does this come naturally to most people, and I just need to work (play) on the activation stage a bit more, or is there something more that I might be missing?

First star on the right, and straight on till morning. (good-bye, or talk to you later are much too dull, I prefer my method, the random comment that is terribly out of place that signals the end of a conversation) Think happy thoughts.

Tim,
I really think it will diminish in time. Mine did.

Skittering helped me considerably. I was actually skittering b/f reading the 3rd edition of PhRing. Once i read it, i was really heartened & put more effort into getting it down.

There's so much valuable info in the PhRing course that we tend to skip over in the effort to get the technique down. Like: going down the middle of a page w/ the eyes or just looking at the top of the letters.

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Originally posted by Tim_with_a_T:
I know that subvocalizing is slowing me down big time. In the activation phase, my pace is greatly diminished by the fact that I'm going through it all so quickly, but it isn't really registering in my mind. So I feel the need to go back, and pick up a bit more, which makes my super reading and dipping more like rapid reading aka, speed reading.

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Really? That's comforting to know.

Yeah, we sort of skipped over the whole skittering step at my PR seminar. We had a lot of fun, but a lot of sidetracking. Easy to do with only three students and one teacher.

I need to look at my playbook. And PR the 3rd edition again.

Chat, chat, chat, I should just get to this stuff already. Fear of failure... fear of success... ahhhhhh, begone! In the name of Photoreading, begone!

So as I was saying, the elephants in Austrailia are quite delicious this winter. Besides the fact that there are no elephants in Austrailia, that no one but the tigers eat them, that they probably are quite untasty, and that it is summer in Austrailia, that was almost perfectly accurate.

And yes, if you must know, I did have nightmares about the deranged elephants in both Winnie the Pooh and Dumbo. But I have repressed those so very deep inside me.... why must you bring back the pain? Why....?