Heck yeah. The course just takes you by the hand and makes you do the steps one by one. You can still screw it all up using the course by skipping steps OR you can do all the steps right from the book and get great results. I think we've heard from both types of learners on this board, namely ME. I skipped mind probes in the beginning and once I started using them (because of the tapes) I was like, "Oh, duh." The book talks about the 4 levels of learning; unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence and then unconscious competence. Making the mind probes is on the level of conscious competence because we are actively going and getting something but eventually it will become second nature and what we want will come to us quicker and quicker the more neuroconnections we create. That's probably why Pete could PR on the spot and we can't (yet). That dude's just done it 10,000+ times.