hi,
I used to read some of the posts at this forum, but I wasn't registered, and now I felt peaced off so I decided to post sth.
I am a PR beginner, and I noticed some good results, but that's not a reason why I am writing this post.
Obviously there are many sceptics and it's ok, but some of those sceptics spend so much energy trying to prove that PR doesn't work for anyone, just because it didn't work for them after they PR one or two books and expected to know every page by heart.
Does this sound imposible, to know every page by heart after PR a book and spending 20 min in total? probably yes, but it's possible, yes you read it right, it's possible and I will give you a proof of it now and even the greatest sceptics here will be convinced and everyone here will be much more motivated about PR.
just to mention, I have nothing to do with learning strategies.
so let's start, I live in Sweden and during a short period of time they were showing a very interesting program on tv. People in England will recognize what I am talking about, since the program originally comes from England and it's name is "Mind Control", and the main person in the program is Derren Brown, to all sceptics remember well this name.
Derren B. masters many skills that involve subconscious and as he says it took him a long time to reach that level. one of these skills is PR and in one program he demonstrated PR skill. He went to a library, I think it was in London, and he gave Oxford dictionary to a librarian (let's call him A). then DB (Derren B) asked A to open any page and to chose any row on that page. A chose a page and a row so he said to DB the page and row number. then DB told him what was written in that row. A was suprised, but even more suprised when DB told him that he spent only 20 min with Oxford dictionary.
Ok, maybe DB has spent 1 year learning every page of Oxford dictionary, we don't know that.
But they did another test, DB asked A to go around the whole library and to pick up some book. After some time A came back with a book, it was some book about history or philosophy or sth similar. Then DB took a book and spent with it 20 min. They showed him in photo focus state how he was flipping the pages.
After 20 min DB and A met again and they did the same
thing as before. A chose a page and a row and DB
told him what was writen in that row. Then A chose another
page and row and DB told him again what was written there.
Second time he made a small mistake, he pronounced
wrong one word in the row and A told him that, but before
A told him what word that was DB corrected himself and said that the word
was written in French and that it was written in
cursive style. Then DB explained for A that the amazing
technique he uses is called PhotoReading.
So all sceptics who want proof, you can buy a CD with Derren B. program and see with your own eyes what I described above.
And to Learning Strategy stuff you can also get this program and put this clip somewhere at
your web page, I doubt you can get better commercial for PR.
take care
Lule
