I'm not questioning why other people do it because I know why. I've been struggling with it for 2 years and I still try. My original question was "is there anyone else that feels the need to resort to rapid reading in order to truely 'read' the book?"
Also, Photoreading has not made me 3 times as fast, it has actually slowed me down. Depending on the text I can vary my rapid reading speed from 3000-7000 wpm and the best I've ever done with Photoreading (all the steps) is 1700wpm. I'm not going to complain too much though because I've only spent $18 on a book.
Self improvement books aren't always easy to read. Natural Brilliance isn't easy to read and no way was I happy with getting 10% out of that. I read it normally, as I do most of the posts here.
-I don't know where you get taking an hour for 10%. I mean 10% is not even mentioned in the course.-
The book actually says that only 4-11% of the text actually carries any meaning. I averaged it out to 10% just to simplify. And yes Paul does say that PR teaches you to read for "core concepts" so if you put 2 and 2 together you're supposed to Photoread and then just read for core concepts and that's called 'reading.' Numerous times on this forum people have said to activate in sessions of 30 minutes, and to do 3 passes if necessary. Now we're up to almost 2 hours on a (average) 300page book and even more if you have to rapid read. I can rapid read a page in 15 seconds (which is my average if I want to understand as I go) I can do a book in 1 hour and 15 minutes and I didn't miss a thing. That gives me plenty of time for previewing and Photoreading if I want to do that beforehand. 6 months ago I had a problem with the PR step, now I'm questioning and pondering activation techniques saying that rapid reading is the king. If the Photoreading step enables me to understand on 1 pass, isn't what I'm saying a good thing to everyone here?
I'm just lost in limbo when I sr/dip. It just seems to me that speed increases with the amount skipped over, not by increasing speed or understanding faster. The more you learn the more schema you have enabling you to go even faster, as you've stated with self help books, but that increase in speed is because of you not what you're doing.
In the photoreading book itself, name one page that you could just supperread? There isn't one. It's all worthy to read normally and that's exactly what I had to do to it.
