One thing that I didn't pick up on my first trip thru the tapes is you aren't going for comprehension during your first couple activation steps- whether it be superreading/dipping or skittering- the first couple times you do them, and you are meant to do them multiple times before even considering rapid reading. You're meant to go for speed and letting certain words and sections of the book make an impression on you based on your purpose(s) and mind probe questions. That was my big problem. I was PRing, superreading/dipping, skittering then rapid reading the whole books and my time wasn't that good- but still better than in the past. After I started skittering a book 3-5 times and adding/deleting purposes and mind probe questions I noticed my rapid reading was getting faster because certain paragraphs jumped out at me and ones that didn't, I flew thru confident that I wasn't missing much.
Today I had 5 minutes to kill before I had to do something so I just started reading some book the way I used to before and I got this strange "stuck" feeling. After reading 2 pages I was so irritated I had to stop. I looked at the clock and 3 minutes had passed and I was reading pretty fast but I was stopping and going over certain sentences. It was the first time in 2 months that I didn't read for a reason, didn't relax, didn't preview or anything and I didn't like it. I wasn't even remembering anything- which was why I had to keep going over certain sentences. Then it hit me: I've been reading like THIS for 29 years! No wonder school and college was so tough. Even though I didn't feel like I was improving that much compared to what I wanted in then beginning, (I mean, who doesn't want to read like Pete on that infomercial?) I am reading not just alot faster but I'm remembering the MOST important things. In the past every idea was given the same time and attention no matter how important or irrelevant it was.
I'm slow reading Natural Brilliance right now trying to see if I missed anything during just Pring and activating it and I'm seeing that I missed just the supporting ideas and really did get most of the book in the hour I spent with it - I used it twice when I went thru the course twice for a total of about an hour. To me that's encouraging because Natural Brilliance is one of those rare books with alot more than "11%" relevant information.