My advice to you is: Relax. I see lots of posts on the board and like Alex says, people need to reread page 17 of the book and do two important things (among others): relax and give up your sense of urgency. PR promises to cut reading time by a 1/3 and so everyone picks up their advanced math book and expects to have 100% conprehension immediately.
"Have I used up my 1/3 of the time yet???!!!!
Oh no its not working!!!"
When they don't get it, they produce an even greater sense of urgency going faster and harder with more stress.
I'm using PR to learn probablilty theory right now. I've stopped caring about how quickly I learn it, only that i do learn it. I've stop trying to understand things the first time or even the third. I just accept that learning happens in layers and I will do as many layers as needed. This relaxed attitude does several things: allows you to learn faster because you are not overloading the concious mind and allows you to work longer since learning is more pleasurable instead of a stress test. I think of learning as chopping down a tree, each layer a swing of the axe. If I didn't understand it the first time, I just swing the axe again. If I swing enough, the tree falls. It's inevitable.
I still fight the urge to go "too deep" into the material too early, but you know you are going to go back and look at it again.
