Learning and discovery is all part of life.
I challenge you to be careful when you say that a step or process in the PhotoReading whole mind system is unnecessary or ineffective.
We taught PhotoReading to thousands of people over eight years before we released the first edition of the PhotoReading book in 1993 and then created the self-study. The system was originally based on modelling people who were able to blast through information at incredible speed with thorough comprehension in many situations. It was not based on theory. We went to theory to reinforce what we learned or to find answers to missing pieces.
Paul Scheele thought mind mapping could be very important to PhotoReading. Pete Bissonette thought it was dumb, but he did it any way. Several years later Pete had to go back to notes that were partially taken linearly and partially with mind maps. It took Pete some effort to reconstruct the information represented by linear notes, but zero effort for those taken mind mapping.
When you think something to be dumb, do it anyway and see if you can discover its value.
That said, the PhotoReading system involves a set of guidelines that work for most people who apply them. When something is not working, and you have certainly applied them as we suggest, then tweak the system until you get the results you want.
