Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Impatient to get started

Woohoo! My course has arrived. I'll crack it open tonight and Look-out weekend, because Photoreading is about to start.

Then Dana the real questions will start coming. LOL

Bring em on....but first, here's what to do:

1. Plow through tapes 1-6. Do all the exercises best you can. Tapes 1-6 teach you each technique separately. Go back and play the dictionary game from time to time.

2. Set aside 3-5 non-fiction/non-technical books that you haven't read yet for tape 7. On tape 7, you'll put the whole process together for the first time as you begin PhotoReading your own books!

3. Your first goal is to master the basics of the whole system. All five steps and each technique.

4. When you finish, the best way to integrate your skill is by committing to Preparing/Previewing/PhotoReading 7-10 books a week for that first month. And, each week, go back and Activate/Rapid Read a couple of those books until they "gel" and you have full comprehension.

Good luck!

Okay, I want to keep it easy. But non-fiction and non-technical.... they publish stuff like that?
Kidding. But Bios are not to interesting to me. I could pick up some history books. Not number one on my list.

How about science and math for the layman. You know big on the ideas and low on the equation. I have a pile of those. Books like "Fearful Symmetry", "Superstrings", "A short history of science", "Men who made a new physics", "The Mathematical experience" and things like that. Those are some of the "light" reading on my self. Constantly plaqued by good intentions.

How about if I read the bood 10 or 15 years ago. Should I take it off the list.

Why non-fiction?
I understand non-technical... so that there is a single thread and far few entry points and new ideas.

If I'm way wrong, let me know. But it's important to me to know WHY I'm doing something, not just WHAT I should be doing.

Thanks.

>Why non-fiction?

I think it's because it makes it easier for the beginner to preview since non-fiction will usually have a table of contents, titles/subtitles, etc...

Am I right here guys?

rP

Right on, Pete!

I'll make it easier for you. Your first 3-5 books can be anything but computer certification manuals, high school and college text books, US Patent Law, Tenets of the Constitution, ...you get the drift. You can tear into any type of printed material after you have the basics down for doing all of the techniques.

If you PhotoRead a novel, Prepare and PhotoRead it right before going to sleep at night. Activate it by Rapid Reading the next day. With novels, you are going in to enjoy the story, and wouldn't want to build comprehension from "whole-to-parts" as you do in Step 4.

Thanks, I have maybe two books that fall into that category. It math, science, unstructional or pure fiction in this house. Okay, the wife has some, but I want something I can honestly be motivated to read, so it's off to the library I go.