Hello All! Before I get to the meat of this, I want to say, I'll try to keep this as short as possible, but I tend to get long-winded sometimes - So I hope you will bear with me.
About a month ago, I heard about PhotoReading, and I've been intrigued, to say the least. Then, a week or so ago, I decided to research this (for $245, I'm not going to just leap without looking). In doing so, some questions have arised that I need some serious help with.
Here's my situation: I work in the Web Design industry on a full-time basis. My co-workers are, sorry to say, much more knowledgable than I in many aspects of web design. So, that would mean I should start picking up some books, and learning what they know, so that I'm on the same wavelength, right? Well, there's a catch... I also do free-lance web design. So, that pretty much eliminates about all of my free-time after work, less an hour to an hour and a half before I go to bed, to start my daily cycle all over the next day.
With that out of the way, here are my questions: First, if I PhotoRead a book on something I no immediate use for (for example, say I code mainly ASP pages, but XHTML is starting to become the big thing - But not in my office), how would my CONSCIOUS mind access (sorry for the computer-type terminology) the information I read? Would I pretty much just realize it if I sit down, and try to code something in XHTML? From what I understand from everything I've read, most people use PhotoReading to find the answer to a problem they are currently having. Would PhotoReading also benefit someone like me, who wouldn't mind knowing several other Web Design techniques, so that I could be more marketable? I guess I'm just missing how this all falls together, and how I could bring this information from my sub-conscious, to the fore-front of my mind, for easy accessibility.
Also, one last question - I'm someone who thirsts for knowledge (I just don't have time these days to increase my knowledge-base). Could I use PhotoReading to maybe, oh, I don't know, teach myself a second (and possibly third) language?
I'm sure many of you who use this technique might relate to my concerns, so I'm hoping that some of you can give me some useful information. If I am able to achieve some of the things that I would like to (given examples I stated above), then this would definitely be worth the $245 (or whatever it's price is - I haven't committed THAT to memory yet). I guess I just need to know if this would benefit someone like me.
Thank you for your time, and I do apologize for the long post here. I cut it short (although I have plenty more questions), due to the risk that several of you have probably just skipped past this post already. I hope someone can help...