Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer activating highly technical material

i am doing the photoreading steps accordingly , however i am still finding it hart to activate the material that is highly procedural and technical like MAthematics, Computer Programing etc as described in the book using superreading and dipping and skittering. To gain comprehention about the material i still need to read it and analyze it the normal way.

In that sense what benefit do i gain doing the photreading step? Do I reduce the potential effect of photreading by activating the material in a "traditional way".... it that is activating at all. Although I do actually slow reading to understand the material i do stick to some suggestions mentioned in the book. First of all. sometimes some material is harder to understand and when this happens i skip it and move forward.. when thei is possible. I also do mindmapping as a way to train myself to retrieve that information from memory. I do multiple passes of reading and sometimes i even skip chapters and move from one type of problem to another.

Do you think without the actual PRing step the material would be more difficult to understand and to store in memory? I don'f know but i feel that PRing has a tendency to make me memorize things faster and I could usually learn.

For ecample i am doing my exams at university and with just one sitting prior to the exams I am learning what we did during the whole course. I had only PR severtimes before bu never spend much time activating it.

In a sense you are benefitting because in your own words you are holding it in your memory better.

Technical stuff from textbooks can take as much as 50 hours to learn by the regular method. so you would still be looking at 10 to 16 hours working through that sort of book. Since photoreading puts the information into your inner mind you have more data to help understand formulas better. While the conscious mind still needs to see the workings the inner mind helps move the understanding of the working to a more successful level.

Remember to Photoread your chapters for your study session. Give them a quick Superread and dip or 2 and turn to rapid reading when you feel it necessary (that might be for each chapter but thats OK). You are already gaining more benefits than you would be regular reading by having a better memory of it... that alone saves you having to 'review' too much of the textbooks later something regular readers wind up doing more often.

Keep playing with it. Read for meaning, look for the main and important points of what you need to learn/understand. Move away from the unimportant stuff quickly. (Unimportant is often that stuff you allready know).

Alex