Dear Braxton,
Im sharing what im practicing ,so dont treat this as advice as im no expert at the same time i have the joy of sharing my experiences.THe more i take time to explain the ideas it gets crystalised in me and i see that i use my skills better that way.So thats the real joy im in this forum for and im picking up related articles where im building my skill.Do read on my friend...
My idea for you:Notice it,Own it ,Play with it and Stay with it.
NOPS
Photo read Natural Brilliance.
Use the concept of release,notice ,respond and witness.
Read 2 important articles on photoreading by Paul Scheele in the 3rd edition of the photo reading book.
1. Written after Paul introduces mind mapping.An article on how our mind creates memory
2.The spirit behind Photo reading.He talks about a pioneer on Accelerative learning and how paul has used the same model to design photo reading.
It reinforces what you can expect by photo reading and the principles it is structured on.
Alex advised me dont worry about spontaneous activation,thats a good advice.Just be with the process and keep improving your comprehension so that you keep applying the system.
Make small course corrections---->just as Paul advices in natural Brilliance on how to come out of the spin!!!.If you dont have natural brilliance its worth buying.
I think every ones experience on photoreading is unique so you will not get a ready made model on what kind of results you should expect.
I have set up the game in the following way:
"If i am getting the spirit of the book very fast---then im improving my skill"
so my rules of the game is simple,i dont bother if i get down to normal reading at times, and i also observe 2 to 3 super reading sessions of any book i have photo read along with the mind probe questions and mind maps...i observe that i have chunked down the whole book into ideas that supports my purpose...im enjoying it .
The beauty of the process is chunking the whole book into a group of ideas that support a main idea and all these ideas are supporting my purpose.My questions either build or reinforce this structure i have created about my book!!!
Paul also talks about studying with the whole mind in the 3rd edition of the Photoreading book.Use it its wonderful and there are many suggestions by Alex in the forum...activate the text chapter wise ,build on,chapter wise!!!And if it contains lot of important material what is your purpose...how and what level do you want to use the concepts ,get clear if you get a purpose read everything...Photo reading complements regular reading,i believe its not an escape route ,but what happens is you condition your brain to be super effective with written text.Have you built on a structure of an idea in a book the way paul explains with the example of a train...say you are looking out for an answer for a question ,once you find the relevant passage ,build the structure while super reading,what is the main arguement,what are the supportive ideas,what is the authors style of explaining,by doing this on all other ideas pertaining to your purpose you build a structure and easily build comprehension.Do this conciously until it becomes second nature.
Hope this helps too.
Have a nice Day,
Regards,
Adarsh
