1.) How long does it take to get through
the course or book
You could do it in one day but you will want to go thru it several times. When I got my course I did 1/2 of it (almost) everyday and by the time 1 month was up I had gone thru it 10 times.
2.) How long does it take to get used to
the photoreading technique and how much
daily practice did you need to reach
your current photoreading level skill
The PR step is easy and there's no "getting used" other than believing you have the Photofocus gaze WHEN you actually do have it. There are enough "options" (blip page, 4 corner technique, "X" technique) that anyone can do it immediately. Using the course someone could realistically get to where I'm at in about 2 months. The course is JUST alot faster than the book. It would be best if you wouldn't compare yourself to anyone else because everyone's different. We hear that all the time, so much that the idea is diluted but it's still true. Do what you can in the time you have you WILL get better and better everyday- even if you don't notice it initially.
3.) How soon can we start seeing results
I saw them the first night I had the book- my dreams were really vivid and I knew something was going on. Every single result I got after that was the result of me doing something else "right" and letting go of something that I was still believing or doing "wrong" so technically the more willing and eager you are the faster you'll see results. I had a strong speedreading backround so I had more to let go of than most people. You can probably learn it faster than I did, because I KNOW you can't be as stubborn as I was.
4.) Does this technique really work on
technical journals as the seller claims
or does it only work for "luxury" reading
It works BETTER on technical stuff than it does on pleasure reading. That's what it's really FOR. It's funny you should ask that because I think that the belief that it's not for pleasure reading actually MAKES it difficult for me to use it on novels and things like that. That's the belief that I'm currently working on breaking down because I want to start using it on philisophical stuff and novels. Photoreading can be done immediately on books that you want information out of. I think it takes more practice to use it on other types of books.
5.) What's there a difference between
"getting through" (a term the sellers
repeatedly use) and "reading" a book?
"Getting through" is all you have to do to most books. "Reading" is what you'll do to what you WANT to read. It doesn't mean you'll go back to slow reading with what you want to read, though. For instance, when I got the book "The Einstein Factor" I wanted to read it but first I wanted to just get a few ideas out of it about Image Streaming. I did that in a couple minutes but later went back and did all the steps on it. When I got to Rapid Reading I got incredibly bored because I already got what I wanted out of it so I just said heck with it. My favorite book of all time is "Johnathan Livingston Seagull" and I slow read that all the time because I like the adventure of it. Sometimes I'll just read a few pages and then sit there and "reflect" on it. Books like that are so rare though. If I were to Photoread it I would get to the point of it quickly but in that case it's not what I want. If you want to get to the point of a book you run thru all the steps and from there you'll have the choice if you want to go thru and enjoy it. With novels, PRing won't spoil it but you'll have "hunches" as to what's comming next. Plus, some novels waste time and it's nice to be able to vary your rapid reading (or even slow reading) speed from time to time.
The most important #1 thing you can do to see results RIGHT NOW is to spend more (than you want to) time creating purposes and mind probing questions because that makes reading PERSONAL. A billion people may read the same book and get different things out of it. Purposes and Mind Probes tell your mind specifically what to "suck" out of the book. If you have no purpose and no questions it will all be a blur.
Another thing to consider is what you want today may change tomorrow. If I read a financial book and I want to know about Option Spreads then I can't complain if I skip over a bunch of information about Mutual Fund Moving Strategies. Your purposes may change as you read because you're learning more. As you learn, YOU change. Someone once told me that your awareness of something makes it real TO YOU. Your unawareness of something is the same as that thing not even existing. So if you PR a book and miss something, you're not ready for it. This is a problem that's not unique to PR though. We all have slow read books only to remember only 1 or 2 things from it. Then someone tells us what we missed and then we go back and WHAM, there it is, but why didn't we see it? I have no idea why that happens but at least with PR we can get past that quickly.
