Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Going off to College (hopefully with PR skills!)

Hey everybody,

First off, from what I have read, everybody here is with good hearts and intentions. It is great to find a place where everybody will help eachother especially with a topic/skill as astonishing as PhotoReading!

SITUATION:
Now, on to my questions/problems (not sure what they are:confused . I am 18 years of age and just managed to graduate high school with excellent grades, 4.33 GPA . I am going away to college in the fall and will be majoring in Computer Science/Secondary Education with a minor in Mathematics and have been hoping to bring the skill of PR with me. I have been studying speed reading and photoreading for a while now and have purchased the Personal Learning Course as well as a good number of speed reading books as well. I know I will be embarking on a journey that will leave me with endless piles of reading material, especially books when I go to college.

PROBLEM/QUESTION:
I am very open-minded about discoveries and things such as PR. I am positive that it is possible (for others). But, I keep fealing like only I am not able to do it . I need visual assurance that it is possible for me, as well as everybody else. Therefore, I ordered the free video of the news broadcast that was done on speed reading thinking it might help. I feel that it did a little. But, for some reason I still feel like something isn't right within myself about the whole PR system.

COMMENTS/QUESTIONS:
After spending time doing all of the steps wouldn't it take just as long as it would to speed read a book? Prepare = 5 mins., Preview = 10 mins., PR = 5 mins., Activate = 20 mins. (give or take), Rapid Read = 10 mins.

Can anybody help me with this? As you can see, I am very hard to convince and over analyze everything instead of just letting go and trying it for fun.

Maybe I need psychological help?
Better yet, maybe Learning Strategies Corp. should pull me in and take me under their wing (which would be perfect) or run tests on me or something. I would go to a seminar but I don't have any money after college fees and I also live in Philadelphia, PA where there are not any seminars.

I could just be trying too hard....
It drives me crazy just thinking about how much I want to learn PR! I have almost 100 books in my bedroom that I would love to be able to read but can't get too or just don't have the patience.
HELP!!!!!!

I hope somebody from Learning Strategies replies to this message.....

Thanks,
Randy

Sorry Everybody, I mean the news broadcast on PhotoReading not speed reading.

Hi Gyroni,
were all a little crazy, of course some are more so than others .

Sounds to me like you're trying too hard. Relax and play with the system. If you force it or put pressure on yourself to learn the techniques you hinder your progress or make it very difficult to learn. If you can read out loud you can learn the PR system.

The first text book that I PR and activated took me about one quater the time it would've taken me to read it the "normal" way. The system works. Be patient with yourself. Also expect to make multiple passes through the material. You will not pick up all the information you need with only one pass through the material (very few people can do that with "regular" or speed reading). Pete shows what is possible. He has been doing this for 15+ years now. Don't expect to be able to do what he does when you start learning the system.

Have you gone through the whole course once? If so go through it again. You will pick up information that you missed on your first pass through. If you have already gone through it twice, might I suggest a third time? I completely went through my course twice and read different parts of the book several times. Check out the following two links. They might help you understand the process a little better. http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000884.html http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000909.html

Those 100 books you have will make for easy practice when you start PRing.

Hope this helps, if not, ask more questions on this DF.

Sincerely,
Gregory