dcromagirl; "My purpose for using the PR system is because I expect miracles. Im a junior in a college and I dont have good grades. Im scared Im going to fail out of college.
The miracles that I expect from the PR system are the following: I want to be able to learn and comprehend materials quickly.
I want homework to be a breeze for me. Im tired of taking hours and hours to do one homework assignment. It frustrates the hell out of me. Im tired of failing my tests it makes me feel dumb as a heck, specially when i know for a fact that everyone else around me is getting excellent grades. Im tired of listening to professors speak and being confused when they are giving lectures. Im tired of usually being the only student that spends the most of her time in professor's office hours. I basically have no life because I can't grasp things quickly enough. AM I am expecting too much from photoreading????"
Yes you are expecting too much from photoreading. Years ago i remember watching a photoreading video by Pete Bissonette the president of learning strategies corporation and one of the things that he said that would stop people from receiving the benefits of photoreading is someone expecting a miracle from photoreading. I would say if you had a textbook for a school normally with conventional reading that textbook would take you anywhere from 50 to 100 hours to learn it. With photoreading you probably could learn the same textbook in 20 to 30 hours instead of 50 to 100 hours.
"The miracles that I expect from the PR system are the following: I want to be able to learn and comprehend materials quickly." I would not consider that an unreasonable expectation. Photoreading will help you learn things more quickly and accelerate learning and make learning easier because you will have information operating on both the other than conscious level when you photoread and the conscious level when you conscious activate the material. But you got to have a purpose photoreading will not work without a purpose. If you try to activate a book that you photoread and you have no purpose it won't work.
"Im a junior in a college and I dont have good grades. Im scared Im going to fail out of college" Fear and stress will interfere with learning. Fear and stress becomes a distraction and instead of focusing on the task at hand learning you get attention focusing on failure instead of learning. That is why entering the relaxed accelerated state is taught in photoreading classes because Paul Scheele understands that for learning to take place you need to be in the optimal state for the learning to take place.
"Im tired of taking hours and hours to do one homework assignment. It frustrates the hell out of me. Im tired of failing my tests it makes me feel dumb as a heck, specially when i know for a fact that everyone else around me is getting excellent grades. Im tired of listening to professors speak and being confused when they are giving lectures. Im tired of usually being the only student that spends the most of her time in professor's office hours. I basically have no life because I can't grasp things quickly enough"
It shouldn't be that way. You should and need to have a life outside of school. There are people succeeding in school and they don't spend their whole life doing it. They may have a full time job and go to school and succeed or they may be parents taking take of children plus going to school and succeeding. If they can succeed you can too.
I think it all comes down to techniques. The processes you are currently using are not working for you. You definitely got feedback on that that they are not working for you. The good news is that you can change what is not working for you now and replace it with techniques that will help you to succeed in school.
I strongly recommend that you send Alex a email and go over with her the current processes you are using now, how you study, how you take notes.
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