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Does anyone have any suggestions for Superreading and rapidreading more complex text?

thanks

More complex ==> super read and do more layers.

I can't see as how rapid reading lends itself. Directing your reading to those areas that are most interest, at the moment, may help. However, that sounds like super reading with long dips.

Iam2

How are you defining complex?

Do repeated layers perhaps chapter by chapter after the first pass through the entire book.

Alex

Thanks
can someone please explain what they mean by layers...cant think right now

Kaiden, by complex i mean biology (University Level)

I have wicked memorization with regular reading (for bio text), however i cant comprehend much with PR but i wont give up without giving me best effort.

id just like to read the stuff faster so i can do other fun things.....

With layering you don't try to get all the infomation in one activation pass. You get what you can in one 30 minute session. You already have the idea you may not have gotten it all so you come back to it with another 30 minute session doing that as often as necessary till you reach the level of comprehension you desire.

The repeated exposure in this way often helps to make sense of it even faster than one really slow read.

This reminds me of a saying my mother had "The lazy donkey carries everything at once, to his death" She was referring to our childish method of "saving time" by trying to lug all the tools at once back to the shed in one go. She felt we would have gotten the job done faster and easier if we made a couple of trips.

The thing is we do get things done better and faster in smaller lots rather than all at once.

Alex

I'm kinda sliding into your Mind mapping thread, but my own experience is that Biology, more than anything else I've study is a progression of linked knowledge. It is a pile of facts that can be overwhelming. In biology it is hard to see how one bit of information gives rise to another, which is one of the charms of math based sciences. However, I've always found linkages (need to know) / (detail of understanding) / (explanations of causal effects) with biology. And as such it just becomes one body of related knowledge, or one big Mind map if you will.

In my experience other sciences lend themselves, more naturally, to a linear exploration / explanation. For me the trick to biology was about the connections or layering of detail.

Good luck,

Iam2

On another note: "wicked"? "University level"?

Flow, are you from Canada?

-Ramon

Canadian girls. I've only had the pleasure of meeting one, but let me say I know from firsthand experience that her husband is a lucky man.

Anyway, for memorization you'd probably want to invest in a memory enhancement system. "Mega Memory" is in my library system multiple times, so it may be in yours. The important thing with biology, art history, and other things that involve lots of pictures is that in the PhotoReading stage, tell your mind to treat both pictures and text as one thing - 'data'.

Good luck to you.

[This message has been edited by Dana Hanson (edited February 17, 2003).]