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Let me start by saying that I am a healthy skeptic of any capitalistic endeavor . . .

My fear is that you get the book and don't get the results you are looking for and are then "recommended" to take seminars to "clarify" and "break beyond" those pesky "prepatterned" cognitive abilities.

I'm not so sure that everyone has the same cognitive or learning potential and have a preconcieved notion that PR involves mastering transferance from short to long term memory in ever larger chunks of stored short term info. The simplest example that I can think of is trying to memorize the number 149217761865 vs. 1492 - 1776 - 1865.

Anyway I have always seen myself as right-brained and have always had to dogmatically jack-hammer away at worded information while others seem to swim through the printed word as if on a warm summer's day. I wasn't smart so I had to work harder-translated: I spent more time than others.

What I am looking for should I be convinced to by the PR book is a good investment. Will the time and $ invested be less than the time and $ returned on my investment?

There are many pieces to the puzzle of my fulfillment that I am lacking simply based on the fact that my time, money, and cognitive abilities are lacking.

As an artist/personal trainer I want to learn anatomy inside and out.

Programming languages are something I want to learn.

Very specific high $$ computer animation programs along with the specifics of animation itself.

(The art of)Photography is high on the list as well.

Obviously, I am looking to absorb and retain some very specific info. here.

At 28 after doing a little soul-searching-I know what it is that I would like to do, ideally. I just want to get out of my own way and do it . .

BTW for those of you looking for an educational component here-

The book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" can teach anyone how to visualize and draw-the techniques work. It would be interesting to see how PR and this book coincide.

Reply to your heart's content!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by phatkatt73:

"What I am looking for should I be convinced to by the PR book is a good investment. Will the time and $ invested be less than the time and $ returned on my investment?"
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I don't think anybody can answer that for you, it has to be something that comes from you. I'd suggest getting the course (instead of the book) mostly because it's more in-depth. They have a return policy and payment plan if necessary. You *MUST* give it a chance before you decide it isn't working. Your results are directly related to the amount of time you spend initially to fully learn the system. If you spend the time PR'ing books (rec'd is 305 a day, initially) then you will likely do very well. If you do it hapzardly and not use it then your results might not be so great. It really is up to you. PR'ing is a tool to HELP you attain your goals. It's not the entire solution.

"As an artist/personal trainer I want to learn anatomy inside and out."
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As a massage therapist, I wish that I had the skills of PR'ing when I was studying Anataomy & Kinesiology. It seems that it would be perfect for knowing all the muscles/functions. It's something I'm going to use to refresh my memory and further cement my skills.

"Programming languages are something I want to learn."
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You can search the archives for programming languages and PR. I'm going through the same things. I purchased PR for learning programming languages and other technical subjects. I posted earlier about things finally starting to gel for me. I've been studying (off & on) Perl for 2 years now and never really grokked it, and last night the pieces started falling into place after PR'ing several books on the subject. I've taken courses in C/C++, etc but again, lacked something that made it impossible to do.

Namaste ('.')/~

The course has a 30 day guarantee and I think you can have that extended to 6 months if you ask them.

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Originally posted by phatkatt73:
My fear is that you get the book and don't get the results you are looking for and are then "recommended" to take seminars to "clarify" and "break beyond" those pesky "prepatterned" cognitive abilities.

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You would certainly learn it better if you have an instructor (in a seminar) - it's the same with learning anything. That's why the seminars are recommended, but there are people here who have learned entirely from the book (not a bad investment at ~GB£10!). The course is a half-way step between the book (where you have to learn it all with no help at all) and the seminar. I'll admit that I personally had no success with the book (purely because I couldn't set the time aside to learn, and that I had no great need to learn it at the time, although I'm just about to start a new course, so it will come in handy there!), so I've ordered the course which should hopefully arrive in the next week or so. Why am I so sure that it will work? I have an interest in the mind and its learning abilities, and have read and (more-or-less) understood what Scheele says about how PR works.

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I'm not so sure that everyone has the same cognitive or learning potential and have a preconcieved notion that PR involves mastering transferance from short to long term memory in ever larger chunks of stored short term info. The simplest example that I can think of is trying to memorize the number 149217761865 vs. 1492 - 1776 - 1865.

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The difference between regular reading and Photoreading is that with regular reading, you mainly use the conscious mind, which means you have instant recall of everything you read as you read it. Photoreading is different in that you use the subconscious (or other-than-conscious) mind to absorb information. The subconscious is a heck of a lot more powerful than the conscious mind.

Your preconceived notion of PR is incorrect, as the information bypasses the short-term memory completely - you do not recall any of it immediately, but you then work on activating the information stored so that you can recall it when you need to.

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Anyway I have always seen myself as right-brained and have always had to dogmatically jack-hammer away at worded information while others seem to swim through the printed word as if on a warm summer's day. I wasn't smart so I had to work harder-translated: I spent more time than others.
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I know what you mean there - I'm in the same situation. But I'm also pursuing PR as an interest, as well as a learning tool.

There is no 'ONE' side to the brain it is proven that both sides of the brain need to act in harmony to produce the desired results - look at da vinci!

There's more info in the book than on the tapes- the difference is TIME and impact. You're forced to do things right on the tapes where with the book you can screw things up. If someone receives no benefit from something a seminar ain't going to help. Some books are BLATANT teasers for more garbage- that "Rick dad, poor dad" is exactly that. This PR ain't like that but there's no way of knowing without doing it and there's no way one company can separate themselves from the rep's of similar companies. It is extremely impossible. I knew this was SOMETHING ELSE when I couldn't find it on ebay. That is THE sign of success now a days.

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Originally posted by lespaulsarecool:
There is no 'ONE' side to the brain it is proven that both sides of the brain need to act in harmony to produce the desired results - look at da vinci!

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hm..... that makes the most sense of any statement I've seen or heard within the last three years.

It would be a better situation, in which a person had both sides.

However, in some cases due to severe epilepsy, half of the brain needs to be cut off -

One example that comes to mind is of a boy named "Nico." This mute kid was 10 years old when he had a portion surgically removed.

In the 6 years of his post-operation, he now has capabilities far better than the average student, in all aspects. Furthermore, his language learning disability (due to being mute) has now almost completely disappeared, and he is able to both speak and write with excellent structure.

Now, as most of you may think - certain functions like creativity may be correlated only to one side of the brain, it has appeared in his case that those vital talents/regions had converted to his remaining side.

The only thing he suffers - is a minor limp, and that was probably caused by some small defective manuever in the surgery, or just the complication of the removal.

Thus, this entirely proves that functioning at normal-optimum level is entirely possible, with only half a brain.

Another interesting story:

A baby in China only slept 30 minutes to an hour each day, so his parents took him in for an MRI.

Apparently, he has "two brains," and they work in rotations.

[This message has been edited by AssemblerCT (edited August 31, 2001).]