Hello Hypertext, I am raleigh199 and would like to respond to your
question that you must have posted
a day ago!

hypertext
Member posted February 01, 2006 08:00 PM
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Hello ,raleigh199 , I see you stated this previously above:
"I agree with all other posts on this thread, but I thought I'd clarify my two cents, as I have always been a STRAIGHT A student! "

My point is, how natural did this photoreading come to you since you appeared to have always been a "straight A " student like you said?
Sheer discipline or above average intelligence or both?
How did photoreading affect your "learning ability" so to speak, ie, were you learning just as much before but quicker or did PR revoluntionise your whole way of learning? (seeing as you were already acustomed to high achievement study beforehand)

It would be interesting to clarify what type of apitude picks up photoreading quicker and applies it more effectively than others. Undoubtedly there must be variations.
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from Raleigh199
OK-- this is my response

I was always a precocious reader and would go to the library amd read books like Dune by Frank Hebert, Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, and the Oddysey by Homer, when I was in grade school and could do trigonemtry and geometry as a fifth grader (8 years old). I also fell in love with Ian Fleming's James Bond books, before the 007 movie craze had even began! I read Arthur C. Clark, Don Pendleton, and Shakespeare a lot in elementary school, also. None of the books I mentioned were ever assigned to me or suggested to me by anyone, but I stumbled across them in the library, as a kid.

However, up until ninth grade, I made only Cs, Ds, and an occasional B in school, because I was very undisciplined and bored with the standard school curricula. Until I joined High School Sports and applied the self discipline of sports training to the classroom, did I start making all As.

I went to undergraduate school at a leading University and made straight As, in a premed curriculum. I was accepted into medical school, but wish I had learned photoreading back then (early 1970s). I was disenfranchised with medical school's emphasis on waiting for clients to be in crisis, before really applying their skills and knowledge. there was no energy into preventive proactive health care, except in the field of the chiropractors. back in the 1970s, chiropractors were not as highly esteemed as they are today and my parents and friends would not emotionally or financially help me out in any way to go into the discipline of chiropractic medicine!! If I had it to do over again, I would have gone into the chiropractic field, despite the pressure to eschew the field, by all the naysayers!!
If I had PR back then, I could have read my medical school assignments faster and spent more time exploring alternative practices, rather than feeling I had to DROPOUT to follow my bliss!
I lost all motivation to do well in traditional medical school, and promptly dropped out my second year of medical school !


Everybody thought I was insane to give up a promising career.

Instead I turned to social sciences and felt that I could best be of help preventing problems as a social worker and/or therapist! HOWEVER I WAS BURNED OUT FROM SO MUCH SCHOOLING, as I studied the hard way (SQ3R) as author Gordon Green discusses in his book How to Get Straight A's...And Have Fun at the Same Time . Please go PR Gordon Green's book to briefly understand SQ3R, if you do not know it already. SQ3R = Survey, Question , Read ,Review, Recite (with book closed)---the basic activation phase of PR! You can borrow Gordon Green's book at your local library or just PR it on the spot in ten minutes and activate it at a later setting! . That book was not even written when I was a student, but I learned the methods he has now written a book about, through my own trials and errors.
The methods in that book is how I achieved my As in the past. It was hard and required much time and discipline, compared to PR!

OK--THIS PART IS VERY IMPORTANT!
I became anti-intellectual and anti-bookish, when I left medical school, in the mid-1970s. I hated everything about academia and would not touch a book. I drifted from job to job, in fields ranging from construction to telemarketing. I began taking up martial arts (MA), just to have some structure, and have been doing MA since!

I drifted into a job working with troubled adults at a halfway house and although I had minimal training, my heart and compassion for the work drew me to the field, despite the extremely low pay
( less than minimal wage but you had room and board as a live-in staff member). I worked my way up in the field and struggled in the early 1990s to finally get my Master's Degree in Social Work! WOW WAS IT A STRUGGLE!
My great academic skills were lost from 1980 through 1990! Luckily, Social Work is relatively simple compare to a MEDICAL SCHOOL curriculum, and I ended up getting all As, but it was hard!

NOW EVEN MORE IMPORTANT! IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE I HAVE SAID SO FAR, PLEASE READ THIS PART! With my Master's Degree, I still hated reading and studying. I would not even read magazines!!!

My people skills were really good however, and I kept moving up in my field. The reckoning day came in summer of 2003, when I was told I had to take an intensive recertification exam (an all day affair) to keep my job. I would have to review everything in my graduate school curriculum and pass the exam! I had a PANIC ATTACK and assumed this was the end of the line for me! I took several practice exams and failed MISERABLY! I tried to review the materials using the old SQ3R methods and I could not do it! I was resigned to return to telemarketing and construction work or maybe pushing a broom at Wal-Mart!

Fortunately, I was introduced to PHOTOREADING! PR is so different from standard reading. My past mastery of SQ3R methods were irrelevant atthe beginning. However, after a few months of PR, it seems my brain cells woke up. Old memories of the SQ3R began flooding back into my head. My enjoyment of reading returned, as when I was a little kid! I began reading books on all subjects again.

Needless to say, I scored extremely high on the certification exam and have been reading again, like never before! My salary increased and my productivity in both my personal and business life exploded into high gear!

OK , there is much much more to my story and subsequent success with PR, but I think I have said a lot for now. I will continue to post and help others, as I love LSC and all that they offer! We are all so lucky to be able to have these tools available. If I had these tools in the 1970s, I am sure I would have become an innovative physician stressing PREVENTION over PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND SURGERY! I would prescribe more Tai Chi, QiQong, healthy nutrition, meditation, and living the stress free-follow your bliss life that the Natural Brilliance curriculum espouses!

I hope that helps answer your questions. In summary, I do not think a person needs to be brilliant to benefit from PR, because I was the most dull minded person when it came to books, when I started PR. I was burned out from books. I thank PR for giving me back a love of books, that may have never resurfaced otherwise!!

Raleigh199

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