Hi
I should have seen the PR challenge coming when I saw Pete snooping about the book racks. I must have looked pretty dazed when he later informed me (between interviews) that I was going to do the challenge! Anyway, the book he chose was on developing leadership.
We all did the 30 minute challenge - 30 minutes only with a book a partner chose for us. The only difference was that 5 of us did it on stage. As far as I could tell, everyone was talking intelligibly about the stuff they'd PRed. Interesting thing is that the methods of activation varied - they seem to be the main determinant of how well you do not just in the PR challenge, but also in everyday use.
I spent some time mind-mapping the book first to get an idea of the material and also some structure I could hang the info about. The remaining 20+ minutes were spent in the book which superread and dipped about 4 times for that book. Imagination helped to bring everything together so that a clear idea of how the thing fit appeared. It's quite interesting to watch the thing gel in your mind.
Dr. Michael Bennett did the interrogations, and by the time I went up I was feeling a little uncertain of myself. Still, when they came, I found that most of the information I had on hand immediately. It's quite amazing how superreading and dipping something brings important facts to one's attention and dumps the rubbish. I could never have done that before learning PhotoReading. In fact, thanks to the mind map and imagination, I even managed to elaborate on the stuff. :P For the parts that I found more challenging to answer, I went with what came to me, and they were right!
It really was an empowering experience, with a great audience, to affirm the power of PhotoReading. Personally, I believe anyone could have done it given the willingness to play and to challenge the paradigm. Of course, I had special help changing my paradigm to begin with! 
(Thanks, Alex. Again.)
KWLee
[This message has been edited by KWLee (edited February 24, 2004).]
