Much of the motivation that I have to learn the system is broad and sweeping. Ultimately, I would like to get through my schoolwork faster and more efficiently, and learn more from my textbooks and lectures. Alas, because I'm not in school right now, I can't practice the steps using this particular medium. Getting through more books and doing some more pleasure reading is also nice, but I'm having dismal results with the Rapid Reading step because I find it difficult to gauge when to slow down and speed up because it's difficult to tell what's important and what's not.
Though purpose is good, and that's a good suggestion that I'll try using more, it would also be good to get feedback from other people on this board to see how they went about learning the steps and applying them, so I can get a good feeling of what works and what doesn't. Did you have to practice it every day? How many books? Something like that.
-Eric D.