I dont superread. I only skitter and find it more promising because it offers more and slower conscious exposure of the text. Even though, I have to speed up to meet the timer. This affects comprehension. And when comprehension gets affected, I find myself yawning amidst activation. This makes the entire process tedius and boring even after a sound purpose and focus.
This clues me that you are passively reading, Not asking questions. When you have a question your focus is on getting the answer. You don't read all the pages of the phone book to find "peter Potter." You don't even read all the pages for the section relating to Peoples names starting with P. You would scan to find the section (open to the relevant pages / section of the book) then superread near the area of the book. Yep you would still superread, dip and skitter for more clarity, and avoid over-reading. Over reading is as daft as correcting yourself and reading a section again because you noticed you read a word wrong.
It didn't take me years. Took me 2 hours to discover how easy it is to get information from a book with the PhotoReading step alone. Within 6 weeks of learning the system I experimented with PhotoReading 40 books in 2 hours. 6 of the presented some spontaneous information at a later time.
but how can you produce a similar book having attended only 4-11% words is still beyond my understanding.
Because you're limiting it to the belief that unless the conscious mind has
SAID the words as you read them you haven't actually read it.
The thing is you read for meaning, with your purpose at the heart of the reading process, you ask questions of the author.
The 4 to 11% carries meaning. The rest don't disappear off the page. They add to the meaning without vocalisation.
And to be clear, in my study of comprehension I found subvocalisation is necessary
to a degree in order to comprehend with the primary, but miniscule tip of consciousness. The rest is at a deeper level (think of an iceberg) and so if you subvocalise only 4 to 11% you are reading faster and reading for meaning because you are hovering over the peripheral awareness working working with the preconscious processor that has already processed the information when you PhotoRead it.
Yes there is a level of trust involved because we learned through a history of not trusting our own mind. Our beliefs create blocks, as do our doubts that "cannot allow you to understand that it's possible to attend to only 4 to 11% of the word and know that you know it." A bit of a paradox students I know have thrown at me. To my mind, how can the doubt their mind is capable of such feats when they study, with the TV going, listening to music singing alone even, while writing a history report. Copy and past and plagiarising might be involved but consider for a moment the sheer brilliance of a mind that knows even what to copy and past (4-11%) in order to hand in a paper with all that going on.
So part of the steps of the system. Glossed over by most unfortunately even if in the beginning it's important to include this. Enter the Accelerated Learning State before PhotoReading. This is where you drop to a lower brainwave. A brainwave level at which it's easiest to suspend doubt and give oneself positive suggestions. And if you've listened along with the audio course, you'll notice, your purpose is part of the positive statements. It serves to lower the mental resistance you might have to PhotoReading. And side step the false belief that it takes years to learn or master.
As mentioned. Took me two hours. The shock of realising I could have been reading that way a whole lot sooner, like when I entered high school, took me two weeks to get over before I started learning the system proper.
Alex
