Seasoned,
Forgive Alex, she does a lot of work and posts many responses to many messages, emails included.
That's fine. I, for one, don't think I will EVER get addicted to forums again.
She meant once you understand the system and can easily apply it to books.
I knew that, and that is why I continued...
The brain almost being like a muscle is sort of true and untrue. That's like saying the lungs can be muscles, because they can grow stronger with more cardiovascular activity.
I was talking about how you can't always exercise it, and expect to just keep growing...
Though, the brain, like anything else, can get better at performing tasks once it is exposed to it enough and can FIND ways to get better at it. The more you do anything, the better you get. Lifting weights, running, performing mathematical activities, and reading included.
That's a given.
Now, on the brain being ignorant of its capabilities, I don't know if you can necessarily say that with certainty.
Don't you see? You just DID!
Now the human body can do much more than humans believe it can, the brain included. Though it is our beliefs that limit what we actually DO do. So yes, while the beliefs are coming from our brains, it's hard to say whether or not it's IGNORANT of what it can and can't do. I'd rather not get more into detail with that, if you just believe you can achieve something, you will. But you must believe it, otherwise it'll be impossible or next to impossible to do.
-JackTuff13
Well, I don't believe belief itself will make ANYTHING impossible. AND, if it is hard to say, then it is ignorant!
I am simply saying that you could study spanish, for example, for a year, and think you learned nothing. One day you could wake up, hear spanish, and know what was said. And you learn best if you try to recall. It seems that trying to recall after a period is MORE effective than studying the item.
Of course, you DO have to study to be able to recall it. Then again, the idea of photoreading is to bypass the conscious study, and activation is the conscious attemp to recall.
Steve
