Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Method for photoreading educational material?

So im a bit puzzled here.

I have read about Direct Learning and the reading technices described in the whole mind body system.

But atm. my goal is to study, and i have some really thick books with math stuff, grammar and normal fantasy books to read.

Is there any general rule of thumb for which method to use in these 5 cases?

*Mathematics books(Fairly hard books, not alot of text, rater examples)
*Fantasy books(Harry Potter for instance)
*Grammar
*History stuff
*Technical books(About about computers, for instance)

How much can be done without manual activation? This stuff is mainly for use in classes, and i have had little success with manual activation.

Thanks in advance.

Hi.

It has been shared many times on the forum not to try to learn photoreading on school material and to learn photoreading on something that does not have a grade attached to it say for example a self help book. Then after you know how the system works then transfer that skill to school materials.

After we have given the above mentioned advice some people choose to ignore the advice and insist on trying to learn photoreading on school material

I will leave that decision up to you whether you choose to follow our advice or ignore our advice.

I am going to give some information and in this example the person that is activating the material is assumed to be a experienced photoreader who has already mastered the photoreading system and knows how to activate.

First let me start with purpose because without purpose the system will not work. I, or anyone else for that matter cannot establish a purpose for you anymore than that i can eat your food for you or breathe for you. You have breathe for yourself, you have to eat your own food so that you can receive the nutrients and nourishment. Your purpose comes from within you. So you need to know why you need to know this information and you need to have a outcome, in other words you need to have a understanding of how you will use the information you are learning.

Your purpose is not set in stone. Your purpose can and may possibly change as you activate.

Your mind-probing questions should definitely be related to your purpose.It is probably best to begin with 3 mind-probing questions. As i cannot tell you what your purpose should be i cannot do your mind-probing questions for you that is something you need to do for yourself. Your mind-probing questions are related to your purpose.

For material that is academic in nature skittering would be ideal. You may want to consider a combination of skittering and superreading.

Your post says nothing about a mind-map. You definitely want to do a mind-map it will help you focus with activation. Do your mind-map after you have done a activation pass of skittering or superreading. With a textbook chapter you should spend 20 minutes skittering then working on the mindmap for 10 minutes. You should probably begin with doing 6 different activation passes and make sure you take a 5 to 7 minute break after you are done activating.

Textbook material wil take much longer than a regular book.

Photoread4me

Hi photoread4me.

Thanks for the clear answer.

I did have the thought that photoreading maybe wasnt ideal for educational stuff, because you wanna get really detailed with the text, and know it in and out.

But the countless videos about people who photoread educational material and got A's made me think otherwise.

So which things is photoreading ideal for? Anything not marked with grades?

Hi Chadk.

I never said that photoreading is not for educational purposes.

I could tell you stories about the photoreader who used photoreading to get his degrees in physics and quantum mechanics and how instead of having to stay up all night studying to keep up with his courseload he only had to study for 2 hours instead of all night.

I could tell you about the photoreader who used photoreading to get his degree in economics from Cambridge university using photoreading to study complex mathematics.

I never once said do not use photoreading on schoolwork.

What i did say was that new photoreaders, beginner photoreaders should first learn the photoreading system on basic books first. Get a feel for how the system works on regular books. Learn how to activate on something that does not have a grade or a consequence attached to it.

Then after you have learned how to photoread and know how to activate on just regular books then after you have developed some proficency and skill in photoreading and activating regular books then transfer that skill to schoolbooks.

First we learn to crawl, then we learn to walk, then we learn to run.

I think sometimes people's expectations are out of whack. Throw it in the microwave zap! instant success, minimum effort. It does not work that way.

Learning Strategies guarantee to photoreaders is that they will be able to get through books in a third of the time it takes them to get through a book now. If it take 10 hours to get through a book now photoreaders can expect to get through the same book in 3 hours or less. If it take 90 hours to get through a complicated textbook now they can expect to get through the same complicated textbook in 30 hours instead of 90 hours.

And the more complex the subject the more time is required.

Photoread4me

I too am interested in being able to learn educational material, especially software books, more rapidly. I got the cassette course in 2002. Preparing, previewing and reviewing has helped me a lot. Photo-reading doesn't seem to help at all.

Anyway, I do think getting a whole "picture" of the book by previewing every page causually, but quickly, and then letting that gell, and going back and reviewing it casually and quickly and getting another whole picture of the book, and then reading in great detail, parts I need (sometimes the whole book) gives me more comprehension and speed than if I just read the book from start to finish, without preparing, previewing and reviewing.

I also find I comprehend a book quicker if I can have an audio verision, or even video version of the material as well. In other words if I want to learn how to use particular type of software well, I learn it better by reading a book about it, listening to audio about it, and seeing a video of it, and hopefully taking a class or classes on it. I would like to be able to learn to use Logic Pro 7, Final Cut Stuido, Photochop, etc.

Hope this helps, and hope to get help. I'm very pleased there is a place like this to learn how to learn. I have the Genuis Code as Well, but haven't been able to get much out of it yet.

Thanks again,

Tim

Hi Chadk.

Let me give you an analogy. Let us say we have a person who knows nothing about motorcycles and has absolutely no experience with motorcyles whatsoever but became interested in motorcyles and this person decided that he or she was going to learn how to drive a motorcycle, take a motorcyle safety class,and take a test to get a motorcycle drivers license to be able to drive motorcyles.

Our begineer should not get the most powerful, heavy sports motorcylce to begin to learn how to drive a motorcyle. No what they should do is get a much smaller, lighter motorcycle to learn how to drive a motorcyle. After our begineer has become accustomed to and gotten used to handling and driving a smaller, lighter motorcycle then they can get the much more powerful sports motorcycle.

Do you see where i am going with this analogy? The powerful sports motorcycle is the textbook and the smaller, lighter motorcycle is a basic book. Just as you would not take a novice someone completely new to motorcyles and put them on a very powerful sports motorcycle to begin learning how to drive motorcycles you should not put a brand new photoreader on textbooks to learn the photoreading system. No what you do do is put the person who knows nothing about motorcycles on the smaller, lighter motorcycle let them get comfortable with learning how to handle and drive the motorcycle then when they have mastered the smaller motorcycle then let them move up to the more powerful, bigger sports, motorcycle.

And the same principle applies to photoreading. You let the new photoreader get comfortable with and master photoreading and activation with the regular basic book then when the photoreader has developed the skills then you have them move up to the textbooks.

I hope this analogy helps you.

Photoread4me

I wish I read this post a week ago before I figured it out for myself. Still, as I learn to photoread, I am using some of the valuable techniques on reading textbooks such as surveying, trigger words and rapid reading. The rapid reading comes after I fully read the book. I decided I cannot afford to waste time trying to get photoreading to work on textbooks when I have to get studies done. I am however spending time on trying to photoread smaller, lighter material in the meantime hoping that I'll catch on. I'd love to practice reading 3-4 books a day but with full-time work and full-time school, that's just not an option right now.

JJese

Textbook. Once you've learned the system on a few regular 200 to 250 page non-fiction books you can move on to applying the system on learning material like textooks.

Treat each chapter of a text book like a book in itself. That means activate the chapter until you have finished with that chapter.

Textbooks take longer than light non fiction books. You can expect to spend 25 to 100 hours with them when traditionally reading them (that's why you usually have the one book for the year and sometimes 3 years).

The steps for textbooks. PhotoRead the whole textbook at the beginning of the school year (when you first get them.) You may PhotoRead them once a day for a couple of weeks. Some of it will be activated in the classroom other will be activated as assigned.

When it comes to activating assigned chapters PhotoRead tthose chapters again just before activation. Include 2 chapters before and 2 chapters after the chapter/s requires. Activate until it gels using layers and mind probing questions. You might find skittering or a combination of superreading and skittering works better for academic writing.

Alex