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| An Introduction to the PhotoReading Whole Mind System | |
Do in one hour what it takes others 12 hours to do
The PhotoReading whole mind system is not a replacement for regular reading. It is an enhancement. Another set of skills to add to your repertoire, or weapons to add to your arsenal. There are times when you will want to regularly read – -or analytically read. But you want to create that happy balance. We will help you in the class to determine when to analytically read and when to use the whole mind system. When you get this happy balance you'll become an active, purposeful, questioning reader. You will be able to stick in your thumb and pull out the plum of whatever it is you are reading.
One of our goals is to get you to read as you would grocery shop.
Have you ever gone grocery shopping? When you want a can of plums, what do you do? Do you, "A," start at the front of the store and pick up every single fruit and vegetable in the fruit and vegetable section, every spice in the spice rack, every soup in the soup aisle, every snack in the snack aisle, until you come to the can of plums?
Or do you, "B," walk into the store, build a general awareness of the store, walk up the can of plums, pick it up, and walk out maybe taking a couple other things with you?
"B." Of course. And that is how you should read.
It is ridiculous to think that if you want something from a book, that you have to start at the beginning of a book and put every single word in and out of your conscious mind until you come to something useful. Most of the words have nothing to do with what you want to get out of the book. Only 7-11% of the words on the printed page has anything to do with the meaning. The next question is which 7-11% and how do you find them?!
Are you going to read each word and then determine which is of value. Or are you going to PhotoRead the information into your more powerful other-than-conscious mind which is bubbling away at 20,000 pieces of information at a time?
Back in 1985 when we were developing PhotoReading, Business Week said that by 1990 the average professional will have to read 10 times as much information just to stay current. The spooky news is that 1990 has come and 1990 has gone and the deluge of information continues.
How you are handling it? By using reading skills you learned in kindergarten and first grade. These are elementary reading skills. Chances are you have grown up, but has your reading? No.
You now have much greater amounts of information to read and it is more important to you. It is time to grow up and learn advanced reading strategies so that you can approach any type of material, pull from it what you need, in the time available. Get in, get useful information, and get out.
They say that the human brain is more powerful than the most powerful computer on earth. If this is the case, wouldn't you think that it could read more than 212 words per minute? Of course it can. The only reason you aren't doing it now is that when you were born, no one gave you a user's manual for the brain.
That's what PhotoReading is. It is a user's manual. It is like college for reading.
For comparison purposes, if it takes you 12 hours to read a book to get full comprehension (for the average person, full comprehension is somewhere between 40 and 60 percent), you'll spend an hour to an hour and a half using our system of which only a few minutes is actually PhotoReading. The rest of the time is activating the information. And you'll get at least as much information.
The part of the mind we use for regular reading processes information sequentially, ABCD, 1234, one word at a time, left to right. So, when you get to chapter seven, and there is something in chapter seven that relates to chapter one and chapter 13, will know how it relates to chapter one? Will you remember how it relates to chapter one? That was probably four hours before. Will you have any idea how it relates to chapter 13? No! You haven't even gotten there yet.
The part of the mind we use for whole mind reading processes information spatially. It doesn't make any difference what order you put information in or what order you take it out. As a matter of fact, we teach you to PhotoRead upside down and backwards-because it doesn't make any difference. Your brain can certainly handle it.
(It is often handy to PhotoRead upside down because in the library you'll find many books so worn that you won't be able to comfortably turn the pages fast. But if you turn it upside down, the pages are crisp. No one has done that before!)
Let's say you PhotoRead the book and turn to the table of contents. You are drawn to chapter seven-maybe it is intuition or maybe the title suggests information, which will be of use. When you start to play with chapter seven you are getting it as it relates to chapter one, as it relates to chapter 13, as the author intended you to get it, as the author knew the information in the first place.
I think that is the true beauty of PhotoReading. The richness and fullness of the information you learn from the whole mind reading system is unsurpassed. When it comes to making informed decisions, to really understand something, nothing compares. To get that type of understanding using regular reading you'd have to go through the book two, maybe three times. The time saving with the whole mind reading system is incredible, but I think the value is in the value of the information you get from printed materials.
We even teach you the ultimate application of PhotoReading: synoptic reading. On the last day of the course, you will bring in three or more books on a subject you choose. That afternoon, we'll guide you through processing all the books simultaneously. There is no better way of learning a new topic, a new industry, or preparing a paper or a speech.
Knowing about PhotoReading isn't enough
Some people are content knowing that they are indeed capable of PhotoReading. But that won't get you anywhere. You have to act. You have to figure out how to take PhotoReading right now. Only then will you be able to use your God-given, natural capabilities to its fullest extend.
Click here for a schedule of classes and/or to enroll. Since a lot of attention needs to be given by the instructor to each student, classes are small. This will ensure that you get full satisfaction with PhotoReading. But, act today to ensure there is a place for you.
Visit the Official PhotoReading Website to order the PhotoReading Personal Learning Course or enroll in a PhotoReading seminar.
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