Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer How long b4 U felt comfortable with FR?

Hello everyone,

I am new to this board and have been looking for place where I can find other people who are interested or even better yet have progressed with FR.

I am sure this question has been asked many times here, but I was wondering if I may ask it again openly to everyone.

How long has it taken you to feel comfortable with FR? In other words, how much effort did you put into FR (every day, couple times a week, several hours a day, ect) before some of you have come to the point that you felt you could FR information or a fairly large book and feel comfortable with you ability to absorb information from it?

I understand that FR takes time and a lot of practice. I have no problem with this. I can't afford the course at this time right now so I have been learning from the book availible. I have given my self about a year to practice and learn this, but am hoping that in 6 months I can see improvements in my reading skills.

In my line of work I need to read large amounts of information, and all of it is extremely technical, and much of it is not something you can learn anywhere else but from the books. I am currently going through some very indepth material and am reading about 3,000 pages in the span of a month and half to two months. I am currently reading the material normal, but when I am done I try to FR everything I read to help absorb more. What I am finding difficult is the ability to Preview and then scan and dip. How do scan and dip for key words when so much of what is being read is so important and needs to be understood? I am also finding it difficult to ask my self questions with anything specific. I feel like I can only ask very vauge and general questions...Like... what information can I gather from this part of the book I am reading from.

I was wondering if anyone else had any success in general. I have not met anyone else who has tried FR, and would love to know that there are people out there who have progressed beyond my state of learning and, could offer any suggestions.

Thanks

[This message has been edited by Ezra4no1 (edited August 29, 2001).]

I started on July 9th with the book and just got the course this week and am on my second trip thru it. I had my first "gelling" experience Sunday night (the course came on Monday- nice timing) so it took me just under 2 months to understand a little bit of it.

I was doing most of the PR tech's exactly right, the problem was I wanted to be like the guy on TV and remember what I read on the spot. I also wanted results I couldn't even get with regular slow reading. So after I got over all that and started comparing my reading now to what it was like a few months ago- I saw a huge difference. Most books would take me a month to read because I would drone over the meanings and words and only read a page or 2 a day before I got bored. Total read time would be around 4 hours. Now I make multiple passes with different techniques each time. After about 20 minutes (most of the time over the course of a few days- 5 min a night) I have this big broad "feeling" about what the book's about and the last thing I do is rapid read the whole thing in about 30-40 minutes- most of the time I'm skittering past stuff I don't care about and SLOW READING what I do care about. Going from 4 hours to 1 hour is cool.

My first impressions were "I'm not remembering anything" and now I'm seeing that most of the book (ones I practiced with at first) is useless to me and if I would have slow read it I still wound't have remembered much because it would have made any impact on my memory then either.

When I do find a GOOD book that I want to slow read I'll do that.

The course forces you to do things you may have skipped over from the book. I'm glad I got it. I didn't have the money either and had to beg for overtime.

Oops. That should say "if I would have slow read it I still wound't have remembered much because it wouldn't have made much impact on my memory then either."

Andy, just click on the pencil to correct your stuff.

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Originally posted by Andy030:
Oops. That should say "if I would have slow read it I still wound't have remembered much because it wouldn't have made much impact on my memory then either."

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Thanks, I didn't know that.