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Let's say I have a 5 chapter book. The whole mind reading system seems to suggest that we initially answer one main question per chapter and then going back for more if more questions arise.

Let's say that from the start you have more questions for each chapter. What's wrong with plowing through each chapter to answer all your questions aka reading the chapter?

What is the technical answer to why whole to part learning helps us learn more effectively. In my example, whole to part learning is answering general questions first and then getting to more specific questions if necessary. My goal is detailed information from the chapters.

Thanks.

Jon

for technical books the idea is to treat each chapter as a book on its own. So you would keep doing activation passes on that particular chapter until it gels. When it has gelled enough you move onto the next chapter.

While not a technical answer this idea might help you to understand the Whole to Part concept.

When painting a landscape an artist will sketch the whole scene first. You can recognise the picture from this sketch yet it feels incomplete. As the artist adds the colours they are applied in broad strokes placing in the untertones or main colours first. With each additional pass of the brush the artist starts filling in the finer details in different parts of the picture. When you stand back and look at the 'completed' painting you notice that all the information was there in the original sketch yet now we are able to appreciate the finer details of the individual portions of the painting if we desire.

Alex

Okay, last thing first. Not all artist paint that way. Many oscillate betweeen fine and broad detail. They are usually taught broad to fine, so that scale and proportion are captured porperly, since focusing on detail too early "can" but isn't necessarily fatal.

Going to the first question, I first thought "oh yeah whole to part again". Then I the "treat each chapter as a book" idea kind of messes that up.

Now, I know AlexK and many others have more experience than I but I thought back to the material I've learned in the past. Sometimes as you learn the question, you start to think of the big questions. These a questions you wouldn't have thought of until you had enough detailed knowledge.

Other areas, I thing that broad to fine is natural. Also for technical material, which is often poorly presented, PWMS is ideal for getting the whole picture. Computer technical material very often dwells on the detail, which is perhaps why some think they need to memorize everything. Information is easiest to remember when it is acquired in context, namely broad to fine. Oooops I'm rambling.

So I think that even though we are told to treat each chapter as a book. I would recommend PRing the whole book, and work on the activating a chapter at a time. However, I suspect that it would be good to try and do the big picture / big question on the whole book. The sooner you have a framework, the sooner you will have something to attach those ideas too. Ummmm I guess that's learning and not just reading.... but then don't I hear that "accelerated learning" phrase around here.

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Originally posted by jpc1804:
Let's say I have a 5 chapter book. The whole mind reading system seems to suggest that we initially answer one main question per chapter and then going back for more if more questions arise.

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You can have as many mind probing questions as you like before a pass of SuperReading & Dipping.

*Tip - Each time you stop and Dip, as soon as you get the gist of the paragraph, or page, then immediately fire off a question about it in your mind. Be curious about the content within each place you Dip.

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Let's say that from the start you have more questions for each chapter. What's wrong with plowing through each chapter to answer all your questions aka reading the chapter?

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It will always depend on your purpose for reading the book in the first place, and the time you have available.

It's like, when you're driving on the freeway and the speed limit is 70 mph, you could drive as slow as 45 mph. But, wouldn't you rather get to where you are going, so you can spend your time doing other things you'd rather be doing?

PhotoReading develops your abilities as a skilled "learner." You learn how to determine in advance how any printed information is important to you and how much time you need to spend on it in order to demonstrate competency with that knowledge, so you can achieve your goals.

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What is the technical answer to why whole to part learning helps us learn more effectively. In my example, whole to part learning is answering general questions first and then getting to more specific questions if necessary.

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That's how activation works.

The Prepare/Preview/PhotoRead steps get all the information into your other-than-conscious processor. Then, the Activation techniques trigger all the information up into your conscious mind according to your purpose/outcome statements in the Prepare step. You learn the material better, understand it more deeply, and retain it longer, and you spend a third to a fifth of the amount of time you'd normally have to spend with regular reading & re-reading & re-reading.

If your goal is to memorize the entire book, then consider the "Memory Optimizer" course, which captures the latest brain research from the 1990's on how memory really works.
http://www.learningstrategies.com/Memory/Home.html

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My goal is detailed information from the chapters.

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So you can accomplish what?

How high a level of comprehension do you need from each chapter in order to achieve your goal for reading?

How many activation passes have you spent on your book?

How are you measuring your comprehension?