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Originally posted by Michael S:
Thoug this message is for Alex and KWLee, but anyone is welcomed to answer and give me guidance.

Dear Alex and KW Lee,

Under your guidance and keep doing PR and activation, I have following observations.

1) Since my lecture notes for Maths are highly technical, esp the proofs and derivations. I can read through it very quickly. Then I usually read it quite quickly in the first time and then ask myself qu,'What are the tactics and strategies to construct this proof?' Then I read through the proof for another 2-3 times and amazingly things get gel very quickly.

Qu for Alex and KWLee: I have thousands of proofs in Algebra and Analysis and even Prob and Stat. I also practise old exam papers to improve ability to apply theorems and models. Hence, I lack of time. Besides, even I understand a proof very well , I may forget it the next week. I think I need to do several reviews. So I wonder how I can activate the whole textbook in every activation pass instead of doing 1 chapter a time, as time is running out!

Prioritize an know your purposes. PhotoReading helps you get you reading done in the time you have available but it doesn't help if you squander the time on unnecessary exercises. Know what you need to know and focus on that. Surely by this time you've completed most of the book so why would time be running out? If you're reviewing by all means activate the whole book in a pass. Consider what you need to know, how well you know it and watch out for the danger of playing at studying by doing only the stuff that comes easy.

If you've answered 5 experimental test questions or exericises correctly there is little point spending another 20 minutes doing another 10. Focus on applying what you learnt to other exercises to build your knowledge. That's what reviewing is all about. Checking that you know it enough that you can work it out.

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2) Though my 'dipping' is quite slow, I still find PR useful. Since I can sense which page of the book contains my required information while I have never seen it conciously before, this is a great evidence to prove PR works.

qu for Alex and KWLee: PR works as my intuition has proven my unconcious mind was working, but I hope my comprehension speed will increase rather than just being able to spot the required information. I mean this is ok if it's just a book for 'reading', but not for maths which requires 'analytical reading' and 'applicaitons'.

Mind probing questions. What are you going to use the knowledge for. It's about levels of personal importance. If I did bungee jumping I'd want to know the stretch of the elastic to determain how long it should be for the jump. However right now I'm not interested in bungee jumping so I could read the information or have someone tell me I would naturally promptly forget it. It serves me no purpose to know and is not a personal priority. However if I knew that I'm going bungee jumping you'll bet I'll find that out quick smart. I have a reason for knowing I know how the information is going to be applied in my life.

So what do you want to know the forumulas for? where are they usually applied, can you see yourself needing them in those situations?


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The last qu) When I PR a book, I do PR steps including prepare, entering als and so on for each individual book for the first time only. (I seldom do preview). Since I have several textbooks on each subject and I photoread them everyday before I start my activation. It is time consuming to prepare and entering als for every book as my purpose is the same,...

By now you should be entering your ALS and setting your purpose/intention with 3 deep breaths, that takes about 30 seconds if it's taking you longer than that, let up and start trusting that you are doing it more.

About your purpose

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which is to understand what the author is going to present to me, to understand the theorems and proofs so that I can apply them to solve my exam qu.

What for?

Where is your purpose? Solve exam questions? You won't have enough time in the exam if you come from that point. You want to accurately answer the exam questions do you not? The next question is why on earth would anyone want to answer exam questions, I can think of a lot more fun things to do than answering questions some 'know it all' prepared for me (not meant to be insulting more a point of view to help you understand that if you're only answering exam questions for the sake of answering exam questions you're wasting your life.)? What's the point? Whats the purpose? Why are you studying and how is answering serve your purpose for studying?

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So I just prepare and enter als 1 time and then PR all the books one by one without doing anymore preparation and als, is it ok and would it confuse my unconcious mind? But I PR books on the same sub each time so the info would be quite similar.

Simple rule of the thumb if it confuses you consciously chances are the non conscious can find a solution faster than the conscious mind.

If it makes sense consciously... why would it confuse you otherwise?

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P.S. Alex, haven't seen you online for ages. How are you doing?

I'm still around. MSN has been taking ages to create a connection lately. When it does I'm usually available to chat.

Alex