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Originally posted by MarkP4:
-If you use speed reading techniques with a purpose/outcome statement after doing the PhotoReading step, they actually function in reverse, as they will begin triggering up the information you absorbed during the PhotoReading step.-That's exactly what I do. So am I still doing the "whole mind reading" if I jump right into rapid reading without sr/dipping?
Exactly. You'll cut down your Rapid Reading time if you go through it with SuperReading & Dipping, one, or two, or three times.
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In my case where I missed the info about blood type (earlier in this thread) by skittering/sr/dipping, how could I have gotten that without RapidReading?
Mind Probing/SuperReading/Skittering & Dipping would have brought you to the pages which contained all the info about the blood types. Then you would create individual branches for each blood type on your Mind Map. When you're ready for all the specific detail about the blood types, then shift into Rapid Reading back in those places and adding more and more trigger words and phrases to your Mind Map.
Keep in mind, too, for technical material, you are better off creating a Mind Map for each chapter. Treat each chapter as a book itself, activating it all up consciously, from whole-to-parts.
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Is there some way I worded something wrong like a question, purpose, affirmation or something? I mean, I skipped over some pretty important stuff in many books during a syntopic reading session. It's stuff like that tick me off and send me back to just reading fast.
This is why I've been wanting you to pick a new book and share exactly what Mind Probing questions you create, so we can see how you are doing it, fresh.
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Along the same lines I was going to ask you what you would do if you were looking through a pile of documents or books looking specifically for a "clue" or something that you don't know about yet that is the key to understanding a situation.
That's what you weave into your purpose/outcome statement in Prepare.
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I don't mean a needle in a haystack but several needles in a pile of needles where you're not sure which is the right trail. Imagine your boss throwing a book at you and saying "I want a full report by tomorrow" and there's no cover or anything and he runs out the door and you can't even ask him why you're doing the report.
Does he or has he done that?
Consider the promotion you could earn by accomodating such a request, by using PhotoReading.
In reality, the material doesn't need a cover or title.
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Also, what about deep philosophy or the bible where meaning is hidden within metaphors or stories. How do we understand that fast? What about information where in order to understand it you have to be put in another persons shoes? NLP says there's an underlying story, there are presuppositions, rules and patterns governing people's behavior. Grabbing the authors main points is one thing but how do we find their motivation for comming to those conclusions?
It all stems back to your Purpose/Outcome for reading it in the first place, which automatically shifts you out of a passive reader into an active engaged reader & learner.
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A journey leads to the conclusions and it's the journey may also include missinformation or other problems that they overcame and part of the overall explaination is an example. Another way to put it is, what if the author is trying to dispell a myth and has to give pages and pages of examples before stating the new conclusion? This may happen several times in a book, in fact, it may be the WHOLE book.
You'll discover the theme and discern whether it is true or a myth, spending 1/3 to a 1/10 of the time you would normally use with normal reading.
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The urge to overdip has been explained here before by not having a clear purpose, but in the above example the purpose could have been clear but the myth in fact may have taken allot of reasoning in order to conquer it. You may even have to read between the lines.
This is the reason for the time limit on each activation pass. You'll know in advance you can't spend a whole lot of time in each place you Dip, because you have to reach the end of the book when 30 minutes have past.
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Even in interoffice memo's allot of emotion can be grabbed out of them. It says, "Do the inventory by Thursday and make sure it's accurate" but it also says, "We are losing money" but without saying it.
So, have we exhausted your questions (analysis paralysis) yet, so you are able to move on to developing your PhotoReading skill on more books, more intelligently? 
