I agree with Andy...in fact, you can learn a lot about Photoreading by doing a search on all of Andy's posts and reading his insights.
I'd like to compare Photoreading and learning how to walk. My son is 16 months old. He was a little behind developmentally because we were afraid to put him on his stomach (any new parents can understand that) so he only recently learned how to crawl. For him, crawling is were it's at!!! He can get around to wherever he wants to go, he has gained a sense of independence and freedom like he has never seen before.
He has only recently started to pull himself up to stand. And my wife and I take his arms while he is standing and encourage him to walk. He tries to take a few steps, but then gets extremely frustrated and threw a mild tantrum until we give up the walking practice and let him crawl. I thought this was particular until my wife realized that he does want to walk because crawling is so much faster to him. He will only realize through practice and experience that there is a limit to what he can do and where he can go when he is crawling. Then, once he realizes that through his experience, he will begin to want to walk.
The same is true for me in Photoreading. I took an Evelyn Wood class years ago and have since comfortably read at high comprehension at speeds over 2,400 wpm. I breezed through high school and college. I was fascinated with Photoreading, however, because Pete seemed to effortlessly breeze through materials at speed more than 100 times my fastest speeds....
Until I got the program. I was so used to speed reading being a conscious mastery of mechanical skills that the whole deep breathing, visualization, relaxation, neuro-linguistic, sub-conscious processing, accelerated learning hocus-pocus seemed absolutely bizarre. The first time I tried to "get into state" and maintain Photofocus it took me 25 minutes....in that time I could have read the book that I was trying to Photoread. Man was I frustrated. I was happy with my current reading and this Photoreading thing was too slow. But for some reason I continued to try to Photoread. Why? I couldn’t tell you. I just thought maybe I was missing something
Then, one day, I decided to stop crawling and started walking. I started noticing little things too... things like my dreams started to be about the texts I was Photoreading or I had an even greater command of language or that I was aware that I was using more of my natural genius (an experience that cannot be explained only experience) or mind mapping started becoming useful... and then, Photoreading clicked. I knew a book inside and out in less than 30 minutes....incredible.
For me, it took a complete reversal of everything I knew or thought that I knew about how to read and learn for me to get Photoreading. And I was able to accept the changes in my paradigms and do it. Photoreading was everything I didn’t know that I didn’t know.
That being said, I don’t think everyone can Photoread because everyone is not willing to challenge or accept changes in their paradigms of anything. If you are one of the fortunate that can, however, then successful Photoreading is only a matter of time.
