[QUOTE]Originally posted by jmbreland:
[B]Hey!
I am discouraged by my lack of success in activating the information in college textbooks that I PRed.
College textbooks were the only books I've PRed since I first learned the skill a couple months ago. Did I jump a little too far there? Were I supposed to start with easy books and work my way towards more complex books?
Hi there, i dont know if this helps but: I learnt photoreading days just from reading through the photoreading book alone. I did not buy the home study course because the cost is still a little prohibitive to me.As of this time, I still strongly feel I do not need to buy the course. After discovering I could photoread, I just started to apply photoreading whole mind system to different types of reading materials: from heavy academic reading stuff for classes as well as lighter readings such as fiction and personal interest non-fiction areas. I must say that the starting momentum I gained from 'just doing it', playing with it, and when doubts eventually coming out, noticing it, owning it, and playing with it and just staying with it kept me from getting discouraged at times. Anyway, I refused to get caught in a rut. Most of the time, my experience has been positive: including activating text book material for classes. Also, because this is a whole new way of studying for me, I also told myself to go easy on myself and take it easy: interestingly that only made me more determined to try new things for photoreading. I guess for myself, making lots of time to just do it and to see what happens did pay off. Now my reading and studying time is a fraction of what it used to be before: but changing old study habits means willing to take it easy on yourself, work at own pace and still keep working with the material and the system.
