In our earlier years of teaching PhotoReading, we would play the dictionary game in every class. You would PhotoRead the dictionary, think of any word, and know where it is on the page.
I remember my first word: canoe.
It was in the left column of the left-hand page two-thirds of the way down.
The second word was “armor.” Left column of the right page about one-third down.
I loved the exercise because it taught you how to trust in your nonconscious mind. To have the location of the word bubble up from your nonconscious and immediately be able to verify its accuracy, gave me tremendous confidence.
Your mind is extraordinarily powerful, and you’re probably not tapping it. We’re here to teach you how to tap it for reading, which you can then transfer to other areas of your life… for everything that you learn… for every decision you need to make… for everything you need to create… for every endeavor in your life.
Your mind is a gift. A tool. A resource. Use it to its fullest and you’ll never look back. Even though most people look at PhotoReading as a reading improvement program (Read with Speed, Comprehension, and Enjoyment), it really is for life improvement.
Please learn PhotoReading and embrace it with everything you have. Learn it through the self-study or through the seminar. Paul Scheele was behind the creation of both, so you know that both are very effective and receive high marks. Make the commitment now.
We’re going to shift the focus of our blog from PhotoReading to your memory in these next couple of days. We’ll keep the PhotoReading conversation going in our Discussion Forum where we have over 35,000 posts on PhotoReading already—there’s plenty more for you to explore.
Pete
P.S. – Yes, the dictionary game is part of the personal learning course. It’s fun! Check it out. (On our January 6 post we included a link to a radio show where we did a live PhotoReading demonstration. You can hear what one of the hosts said when he did the dictionary game.)
P.P.S. – How do you like our new blog so far? Should we continue with it? Please leave comments. We read them all!
Yes photoreading is a very powerful tool indeed. I have gotten all 3 courses, photoreading, memory optimizer and photoreading booster DVD reciently. Only if I had a job I would have also attended the photoreading siminar in Toronto to Master these tools. Oh well I guess for some other time in the future.
I love this blog! It is informative and packed with useful ideas to make my photoreading experience a better one!
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I’d like to add my voice to the chorus of people saying, “thanks for the blog – keep up the good work.” I know it may seem like an effort to do it, but you can feel heartened in knowing that it is valuable, and valued.
Today, I’ve PhotoRead the Macquarie Australian Dictionary (5th Ed.). It’s about 2000 pages long, and in light of Paul’s comment on one of the mp3′s on the blog about measuring amount of Photoreading done by weight of books, it’s at least 5 kilograms in weight (probably more), and would squash a person flat if dropped from a first-floor window. Will play the dictionary game with it tomorrow…
…when I first got my PR course several years ago (it was on cassette tapes back then), I did the dictionary game and got four out of five right, including one doozy (I guessed that a certain word was at the top of a certain column, then second-guessed myself to say it was the header word for that page. I turned to the page to discover that both were correct).
After completing the 5-day challenge with a number of books, I’m looking forward to deepening and integrating my use of the system – hurrah!
PS. It’s worth noting that the instructions Pete Bissonette gives for the five day challenge in his “Read-a-book month” emails (to which you can subscribe) is significantly different from the instructions for the challenge in the 3rd ed. of the Photoreading book (pg. 76 or 77), and in my view, more effective / easier to work with. So check those out.
Thanks!
Ken.
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I am taking the photoreading couse in March. I am sure it will be challangng but I am commited to staying with it. Nice to see that I will have a blog to guide me also. Please keep the blog going.
Thank-you
this is a very great idea to help photo-readers. soem times you tend to lag off and start to wander back to the traditional education way of reading, but comming here, seeing others reading, learning new infomation it stimulates me to want to learn and continue my photo reading life.
thankyou
Hi
Please continue running this blog!!!! It gives very useful insight into how to photoread & removes any doubts as to whether it really works. I actually had got the book & had almost thrown in the towel when the blog appeared & spured me to think that its me who is not getting the whole concept properly. I tried two or three times in my office.I am the accounts manager & wanted to locate the difference lying in a large volume of transaction. I breathed deeply & evenly & instructed my subconscious to guide me to the transaction which contains the difference. It did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Initially I thought it to be co-incidence but no it does work!!!!!!!!!
Please keep this blog going & it will let so many people clarify the doubts & get over the stumbling block.
I realy like this blog! It help’s me with tips and tricks so I can integrate PhotoReading skills in my everyday life. Thanks again and don’t stop bloging please :)
Regards from Slovenia!
I think the blog is amazing. It helps me to keep focused on the fact that I CAN learn to do this. So far I haven’t had any such success with PhotoReading. But I think it’s mostly becuase I haven’t been trusting my other-than-conscious enoguh, letting my conscious boss me around saying that “PhotoReading doesn’t work”. Well that’s over now. I’m gonna play with it till it works =) Thank you