The biggest reason that "you can do it if you believe in yourself" is that if you photoread something and doubt that you're getting any information, telling yourself you learned nothing, then your brain "deletes" the information because you told it that it wasn't needed. It's not just a belief, it's how the brain works. Sometimes I guess the brain is so beyond us, it seems like something magical to be taken on 'faith'. A big basis for NLP is that your brain fulfills your own prophecies.
