Okay so following yesterday’s post I am a little more enlightened on the subject of photoreading. In principle, it isn’t reading at all in the conventional sense, but effectively the opening up of the not-conscious part of the mind the absorb pages of text. This allows the much more powerful part of the mind process it. It also utilises right-side brain processing, by functioning on the “space” between text, rather than the text itself, which is processed by the left side of the brain.
Then, information about the text is extracted from the not-conscious mind using activation, that is, prompts and triggers in the conscious mind. A good way to extract the relevant information, apparently, would be to mind-map the content that you have photoread.
Now it doesnt appear that it is common not the refer back to the text - it does depend why you are reading it, of course, and what level of information you wanted to extract. But should you return to the text consciously, you will be familiar with it and be able to access the information you require quickly. If you are interested, check out My photoreading mind map.
So, my next challenge is to photoread a book and see if it works. I’ve chosen “The Art Of Speedreading People“, by Paul Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger. The book suggests practicing on the same book for five days to get acquainted with the tips and techniques. So, if in five days I am swallowing information like a giant swallowy thing, then it works!
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July 27th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Matt,
Is that your brain pictured on the right. Boy, the mind mapping is really working… LOL. I bought the
tony robbins book last year it’s pretty good. He isn’t giving away for free in the states? You need to have
a chat with him…
Matthew
The Winning Attitude.com
July 30th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Hehe my brain would appear to be very left-side heavy if the photoreading is anything to go by. I suspect that Tony Robbins is trying to break in to Europe, as the book is being distributed by a British promotional company. His brand of self-improvement programmes doesn’t really have any representation over here, and only Paul McKenna as competition, so if he can mould his image to the more cynical British market I’m sure he will do well.