Secrets from a Super PhotoReader

by Pete Bissonette

Would you like to bump up your PhotoReading skills?

Read this transcript of a teleseminar I led in 2005. It contains incredibly useful and important ideas and tips to take your PhotoReading skills to a higher level. It's long, but good. It looks at PhotoReading in ways you may not have considered.

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Myself, I've PhotoRead thousands of books since I learn PhotoReading in 1985, and while I'm not a teacher or an instructor, I'm a darn good PhotoReader. If you seen any of my television demonstrations where I PhotoRead a book and then immediately answer questions about it, then you know what I'm saying. Later in today's call, I'll tell you how I do it, too.

I have done my share of coaching over the years—actually, in our early days—before we had employees—Paul and I spent hours and hours each week on the phone coaching clients. And even today in our offices if the phones aren't answered in the first 12 seconds, then every phone in the place rings. This gives our entire staff the opportunity to talk with clients—including Paul Scheele, and me. I know how to coach PhotoReaders to get better results from the system, and that is what I'm going to do today.

I promise you will get enough practical and useful tips, insights, suggestions, strategies, and direction so that you will absolutely get better results when you put any of them into action—I'm even going to tell you how I do so well on TV. And if you are new to PhotoReading, you'll get a keen insight into this system of reading and learning that has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of people all over the world and in every profession. Over 500,000 people have the PhotoReading book, 200,000 the self-study, and tens of thousands have attended our seminars. It is all about using your brain in a different way so that you can use its incredible abilities to process information super fast.

When I sat down to prepare for this session I PhotoRead Lynne Twist's book, The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life. It took four minutes. She sent it to me as a gift a couple of months ago.

I thought it would be something you'd like, especially with chapters titled "Scarcity: The Great Lie" and "Sufficiency: The Surprising Truth." And, "Money is like Water." I saw the chapter titles after I did a postview on the book. We teach to preview a book before you PhotoRead it, but I prefer to preview after PhotoReading, which is called post viewing. (2011 note: This is now how we teach PhotoReading.) I seem always to get better results with it. You see the PhotoReading whole mind system is not a set of rules that you absolutely, positively must follow. They are guides that we have found work for the far majority of people.

If when using the PhotoReading system you are not seeing the progress you want, play with it. Experiment. That's exactly what Paul and I did when we first developed the system.

20 years ago this week Paul called me up and asked me, "What if you could get through a book as fast as you can turn the pages." I was so excited I nearly tore the cord from the telephone set. A huge smile came over my face. I started pacing back and forth so fast. I had always known that something like this was possible, but I had no idea how. Paul found the answer, and within a couple of weeks I was hauling my office furniture up the elevator—it was time for a career change.

In the weeks and months that followed we PhotoRead hundreds of books—that was even before we came up with the name PhotoReading—trying to figure out how to get reliably consistent results. We experimented and noticed what happened.

One night I PhotoRead a Travis Mcgee murder mystery and woke up a few hours later in a cold sweat. I dreamt I was chased by a gunman through the Duluth airport. And that morning that book loomed large on my nightstand. I picked it up and read through it. Sure enough, in the book Mcgee was chased through a Miami airport by a gunman. The contents of the book had transformed in my dream state into something that was relevant to me. A current day airport that I had been in.

That was the first time I realized that if I PhotoRead a self-help book, it would be transformed in my dream state into something relevant in my life. In other words, I could apply what was in that book, by simply PhotoReading it before bed, and letting my powerful genius mind help me learn—and apply—the author's expertise while dreaming. This is the best way for mental rehearsal known today. You can try virtually anything out safely and easily in your mind so that when you are out in the real world it is not the first time you've used it.

Have you tried that? And if not, why not????? It's in the PhotoReading book.

You know we have all of these wonderful processes and techniques and systems that can transform a person's life—that can literally help you maximize your potential—in virtually any way imaginable. But they have to be used.

I've talked to so many people who have called in for coaching. "PhotoReading isn't working." And I ask them, "How many books have you PhotoRead and activated." And they say one. If Paul and I would have decided after PhotoReading one book that it wasn't working—guess what? You and I would not be talking today.

The title of a little book that came out in 1988 says it all: How you do anything is how you do everything.

If you're not following through on the PhotoReading system, there are other areas of your life that you are doing—or not doing—the very same thing. You are short changing yourself. But guess what, change one thing, and everything changes. Follow-through with PhotoReading and you'll find yourself following through with other things in other areas of your life.

How you do anything is how you do everything.

PhotoRead a book and then activate it. If you are not getting anything after five to ten minutes, are you going to stop and say this isn't working? No, you're going to keep going. You see, it is possible to go a couple of hours with an average size book without feeling you are getting anything. And voila! it all comes together. If you haven't already, read the article in the PhotoReading section of Learning Strategies website called Works on All Material, make a note to do it. "Works on all material."

And because success breeds success, once you've successfully activated a book, it is so much eaiser to do the next one and the next one and the next one. (I'm sure Paul Scheele will touch on this in his teleseminar on the neuroscience of PhotoReading. Your brain is much more powerful than you probably give it credit for.)

Every once in a blue moon I'll PhotoRead a book that takes forever to activate, but that's the exception. The more you PhotoRead, the more you activate, the better you get. What may take the average person 10 hours to read, a beginning PhotoReader can do in three hours, and a superb PhotoReader can do in 20 minutes.

So, I took 20 minutes to activate The Soul of Money book, but guess what? I spent 32 minutes with the book. I dipped in and read more than what I needed to learn the teachings of the book, but that's okay, because the book was mind candy. I thoroughly enjoyed Lynne Twist's writing style and her stories—and, I'll keep it handy for when I have five minutes here or three minutes there to read for fun.

I've mastered activating a book in 20 minutes with a secret gadget.. I have this kitchen timer made by Barclay Geneve. Whenever I sit down to activate a book, I set the timer for 20 minutes. It beeps once at the 10-minute mark and again at the 5-minute mark. These are signals to me to look at how much I have yet to do in that 20-minute period, so I can speed up or slow down. After doing this a number of times, my brain has really tuned into the mission of getting everything from the book in 20 minutes.

When I need more than 20 minutes with a book—that is, if I didn't get everything I need from the book in the first 20 minutes—I'll still put it down, and come back to it the next day. By letting my brain incubate for a day, to process it unconsciously, to mull it over, when I come back to it, the second activation session is so much more powerful and I get more from it.

With the Soul of Money I didn't use the timer and guess what" It took longer! So I do recommend getting that timer. Again, it is a Barclay Geneve that I picked up some time ago at Target and it can help keep you on target.

When zipping through the book, I screeched to a halt as I read "Money Carries The Soul's Energy." When you reluctantly pay for something you want, when you see money draining from a strained checkbook, you're looking into your soul and seeing a strained soul. Remember, How you do anything is how you do everything. When you skimp on a tip after a great meal, you're getting a glimpse of your soul. Free up your soul through a spiritual practice or self-improvement, and watch the flow of money serve you. Or, allow money to flow in a way that matches your purpose and values—like generously tipping because you enjoyed a meal—and watch your soul open up—which allows the flow of money to serve you even more, absolutely, but watch it flow into all areas of your life. Even in your ability to get full value from PhotoReading.

Lynne's book is a great book to PhotoRead before bed. If dreaming doesn't happen automatically, simply give yourself the suggestion to dream about the book. And if that doesn't work, you might want to use the Dream Play Paraliminal program.

If you want to have fun, go to the library and get a stack of juicy romance novels and a stack of suspense thrillers—what a combo, eh?! Sure, PhotoRead these before bed, and you'll have interesting dreams, but I suggest something else...Go into a comfortable room with few distractions. PhotoRead one of the books, slowly. Notice the feelings and your internal sensations. See if you can notice when emotional incidents happen in the book. If it is a romance novel, see how you sense a love scene. If it is a thriller, see how you sense a murder. Do you feel it? hear screams in your mind? see a picture? One time while PhotoReading a novel my mind drifted to rembrances of a European skiing vacation past, so I stopped and read what was on the pages, and sure enough the Russian Czar and his family were skiing in the Alps. Another time my mind drifted to images of white tables on a grassy lawn, and sure enough, it was the morning of an outdoor wedding reception.

Playing games like this helps build the connection between the conscious and unconscious minds and it sure gave me a lot of confidence. It consistently showed me the power of PhotoReading. Try it for yourself, but get books with high emotional content when first trying it, because they tend to work the best. But anything can do.

So, as I wrote the outline for this part of my talk today I grabbed the book, We Are Lincoln Men. As I PhotoRead it, I started thinking about the Civil War, and sure enough that section was about the Civil War, but that's not that much of a stretch. Even though that book was not about the Civil War, that's what always comes to mind when thinking about Lincoln. Right?

Then I PhotoRead The Third Secret and got nothing other than a bunch of religious images, which would be expected from a suspense novel involving the Catholic Church. I started wondering why weren't dramatic images coming to mind that clued me into what's in the book? "What do I have to do to get this to work?" Then I thought, "Gee wilikers!" and I stopped to read the text on the preceding pages, and sure enough they were arguing about how to get something to work at the Vatican.

Then I thought of Jane Austen, which made me think of a darkened cabinet where I store hundreds of books. I reached in and grabbed a book from the middle of a stack in the back. The book was face down, and I didn't recognize the back of the book jacket, so I PhotoRead it—upside down and backwards. I was again thinking of Jane Austen, and sure enough on those pages the author Alice Steinbach was writing about her studies of Jane Austen.

Again, playing with books like this will prove to you that something powerfully happens when PhotoReading books. In Paul's teleseminar he will probably tell you about how in some of our classes we teach people to open a book with your mind (not physically opening the book), thinking of a page number, and imagining what is on that page—even without PhotoReading it. The results are awesome. Paul and I were at John Gray's house, the author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, with a bunch of other people. We were talking about PhotoReading, and Paul told everyone to get a book. Everyone tried it and got very cool results, but I didn't do it, because I had done it so many times before. But when everyone excitedly spoke of their experiences I felt left out, so I focused on a book that someone had in her hands across the room. I thought of a page number, and imagined a diagram of a triangle with words in the triangle. So I snatched the book from her, and that was exactly what was on the page.

We call it PhotoSucking … or PalmReading.

So what's the practical application this, besides simply being fun?? You tell me. How would you like to connect with information in books without having to read every word. Last year I sent an email to everyone about 14 incredibly powerful business books that can dramatically improve your business or career? Do you remember that email? Did you get the books? Let me breeze though the titles here, think whether they might be of interest to you.

• The Art of Innovation
• The Birth of the Chaordic Age talking about how success will depend less on the authority of the few and more on the judgment of many.
• The Deviant's Advantage where deviation from the norm is an inexhaustible font of new ideas, products, and services.
• Digital Aboriginal that says every relationship in turn influences every other relationship.
• The Experience Economy
• Free Agent Nation for if you are thinking about working for yourself.
• Free, Perfect, and Now offering how to prepare a customer-focused corporation for a future you can't predict.
• The Future of Success about creating a more balanced society and more satisfying lives (you don't reckon that participating in Learning Strategies programs has something to do with this?).
• How Customers Think which argues that 95 percent of thinking happens in our unconscious. Now, you know that, otherwise you would not be interested in PhotoReading, but how can this help your own career?
• New Rules for the New Economy. Forget supply and demand. Communication, not computation, drives change—again, does this make you think about this series of teleseminars.
• Surfing the Edge of Chaos about the parallels between business and nature.
• The Tipping Point about how ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.
• Weird Ideas That Work
• Visionary's Handbook.

There's gold in them there hills, wouldn't you say?!

I hear all of the time, "How do I use PhotoReading for my personal success?" One way is to PhotoRead self-improvement and inspirational books before bed. Let your brain process them while you sleep and enjoy wonderfully supportive dreams.

Another way is to get books like those I just mentioned and pull every ounce of information from them. A regular reader will have to spend 140 hours. Yea gads!

A beginning PhotoReader, 42 hours. That's also a lot.

What if I told you that you could it in just three hours? If you have our new 3-pack DVD program called PhotoReading Results Supercharger, watch the third DVD which is devoted to “Power PhotoReading.” Follow along to PhotoRead several buckets of books and absorb information from them like you never have before!

But just think of absorbing those books I just mentioned: The Art of Innovation, The Deviant's Advantage, The Future of Success, New Rules for the New Economy, Weird Ideas That Work.

If you are not already reading books like this, then you are missing out on one of the most powerful elements that can rocket your success.

How do you choose which books? One way is to get books that people like Paul and me read and recommend—check the recommended reading section of LearningStrategies.com. Another is to browse bookstores. Another is to check the bestsellers lists on Amazon.com. They even tell what books go well with those books. So, I just PhotoRead the book, Double-Digit Growth. If you look on Amazon, they suggest getting The Discipline of Market Leaders.

They tell you that people who bought Double-Digit Growth also bought: How to Grow When Markets Don't and Seeing What's Next. A neat way to get great books.

And, if you read Double-Digit Growth, you'll see why Learning Strategies has been as successful as we have. Our profits this year are ten times what they were last year. The book discusses—with many examples—six factors for sustained double-digit growth. And in just 20 minutes with the book, I saw one area that we can improve and I wrote up a page of notes. 20 minutes with one book will result in great rewards for us. Can it for you?

But what if you are more interested in Parenting, or improving your relationship, or spiritual growth, or your health, or doing better in school, or home improvement, or selling on eBay... The same strategy works for everything. Find books on your topic and suck information from them, and figure out how to apply them to your situation.

Cripe, take all of those books I mentioned above, and PhotoRead and activate them with the purpose, "I am PhotoReading this book to get ideas to help me be a better and more effective Parent." If you take a minute to flip through Double Digit Growth, you will see many principles that you can bring right to your family.

Purpose is key. It's absolutely vital. As a matter of fact, you should actively be saying to yourself right now as you're listening to this, "What is Pete saying that will benefit me? How can I use this information to further my goal of—let's say—increasing my income, improving my business, upping sales, inspiring my colleagues—I'm always asking "What's in here that will benefit me." During my ride home each afternoon, I'm listening to Marketplace on Minnesota Public Radio and I'm asking myself during many stories, "How does this relate to Learning Strategies, how can I use this information."

Remember, information for the sake of information is folly. It is what you do with it. That's the value of information. If raw information was so valuable—as so many people think it is—there would be lines at the library. So have paramount, as a purpose, "How can I use this information?"

But in the back of so many people's head is, that's fine for listening to the radio, but I don't have time to read. Make time! Let me give you a secret. You may know that we have a Spring Forest Qigong [https://www.learningstrategies.com/Qigong/Home.asp] session in our office every day at 11:30 to noon. Anybody can join us. You know, I seldom miss a day when I'm in town. Maybe three a year. Meetings stop, phone calls end, projects break at 11:30, because it is an important commitment that I've made to myself.

It is easy to break commitments to yourself, but it is less easy to break commitments to other people, like our staff. So try this:

Make a commitment that the first week of every month is read-a-book week, and tell others of your commitment. When you bring others in on your commitments, you are more likely to keep the commitment and more likely to get the benefit you want.

Here's what you do...block out a half hour a day for that one week. The best time is first thing in the morning. Maybe you have to get up a few minutes earlier, but try this any way. If you can squeeze it into your day at the office, have it be the first 30-minutes of your day—even before you look at a single email. It is easier to be compliant first thing in the morning. As the day goes on it distractions can suck you away from your commitments, so schedule it first thing. You'll have fewer excuses not to do it!

Monday: PhotoRead the book – Postview the book – spend the remaining 20 minutes super reading the book with the idea you will get through the entire book in that 20 minutes. So you may need to go faster than you would normally go. Don't worry about comprehension.

Tuesday: If you got enough from that book, get another book and start your week over. Otherwise PhotoRead the original book again—spend the remaining 25 minutes super reading and dipping through the book. You'll begin to build comprehension. Don't dip too much, because you need to finish the book in the 30-minute period of time. During the day, have your mind think about the topic of the book. Mind probe by asking yourself questions about the content that comes to mind. You might be surprised at your depth of understanding. Ask yourself how the content of the book benefits you. How can you use what's in the book?

Wednesday: PhotoRead the book again – Turn to the table of contents, and select a chapter or two or three that you would like to better understand. Go to those chapters and activate them for the remaining 25 minutes. I usually just super read and dip. You can skitter if you want. Again, allow thoughts of the book to bubble in your head during the day. Discuss them with friends or colleagues, especially those you told of your read-a-book week commitment. Bring up the book or ideas in the book in conversations.

Thursday: PhotoRead the book again. Repeat Wednesday's activation of specific chapters, or super read and dip the entire book again. If you already feel you got everything you need from the book, go to the Friday instruction.

Friday: PhotoRead the book again. Spend the rest of the period mind-mapping the book. You'll have to go fast. You only have 25 minutes. So you may only want to go two to three levels deep on your mind map. After one week with the book, if you need more time, play with it some more over the next couple of weeks until the next Read-a-book-week. Keep the book on your desk, so you can flip through it now and then to further your use of ideas in the book.

Can you do this? Can you make this commitment to yourself? That's 12 powerful books in a year more than you do now. Think of what this could mean for you? For your goals?

You can have a different topic each month. Maybe one week your reading on something for work. Another week the next month you want to add a deck to your house, so you get a deck-building book. Another week you want to improve your finances so you read a book about how to get a higher rate of return. Another week could be on spicing up your relationships (or finding one!). Another week could be a travel book about someplace you'd love to visit. The possibilities are endless. All you have to do is do it.

Will you commit? Will you at least try it out? I’ll tell you what. I'll make it easier for you.

Within a week, I'll send you an email with the outline of the read-a-book-week guidelines. As a matter of fact, I'll take it one step further. I'll program our computer to automatically send you a reminder email once each month to help you with your commitment. You will be able to cancel the reminders any time you want by clicking on a link in the bottom of the reminder email. Fair enough? Willing to do that for yourself? Cool.

An interesting thing will happen in about the third, maybe fourth month. Your activation abilities will improve significantly—even if you nothing else. This will happen for two reasons. First, practice makes perfect. Second, once your brain understands the seriousness of your commitment, it will give you the focus you need and it will open unbelievable capacities of mind to help you realize your goal. Your brain is incredible in its abilities.

In order to live a life that exceeds your expectations, that is joyous, peaceful, prosperous, challenging, rewarding, you need to act courageously. Step up and commit to yourself. Turn your mind into a sponge that can absorb any information any time...and use it.

Do you have a dog? My black lab Josie follows me everywhere. She always has a wag, a smile, and a sniff for me. It seems her purpose in life is to support me. Well, Paul and I and the rest of us here at Learning Strategies are like Josie to you. We spend our days trying to figure out how to help you maximize your potential, to use your genius mind to live an extraordinary life. Why else would we spend time doing these telephone sessions or live events, when it would be so much easier just publish self-study courses? We're really here for you, and we want you to be part of us.

Paul and his design team are putting together a spectacular event with enough skills and motivation to carry you through the year. To send your goals to the next level. To help you activate your life.  How? Paul's going to give you a new process—that he hasn't even named yet—that will blow away any hesitancy you might have for PhotoReading or for activating. You'll never be able to do this on your own, because it will involve a unique live Paraliminal-type process with three or four other people as well as the voices of every other person in the room. This will give you goose bumps as well as supercharged results.

I PhotoRead Start Late, Finish Rich, took a break to exercise, and then activated the book in 20 minutes. (Hey, remember how I want talking about compliance is easier in the morning? That's one of the reasons why people who exercise first thing in the morning are more likely to stick with their work-out routine—they are less likely to talk themselves out of exercise.)

First, let me say, I'm very satisfied with my financial situation. I'll be debt-free when my mortgage is paid off, which should be shortly, and my investments are performing well. I chose Start Late, Finish Rich because many of our clients have a lot of credit card debt and very little in savings (although 54% of our clients are considered upper income).

This book is full of information—quite worthless if you don't put some of it into action in your life—but I betcha that if you spent 20 minutes with it, you would learn enough to alter how you look at your finances. And you might even schedule more time to do the exercises and put some of the advice into action.

My purpose was "To find anything that could possibly help my financial situation" and while activating, something popped off the page that cause me to stop and take notes. Do you see my point? Do you see how using information in books can transform your life? Do you see how spending 20 minutes with a book can give you that boost you so mightily want?

I have three books in front of me. As I read the titles, think of whether there might be something in them can could benefit you, that might be worth the 20 minutes:

• How to think like Leonardo da Vinci: seven steps to genius every day
• The Future of Success: working and living in the new economy
• The Breakthrough Experience: A  revolutionary new approach to personal transformation

If you say "yes, there's got to be something in at least one of those books worth my twenty minutes," then you need to up your commitment.

Now right now I'm going to tell you how to get through magazines and trade journals in a matter of minutes. I love spending time reading articles in magazines, but like you there are a lot of other things I love doing too. So, I've devised this system to quickly absorb information from a magazine when I don't have to read for pleasure. You ought to try this because it works:

I quickly PhotoRead the magazine or journal. Then I flip through the publication to notice articles that interest me or speak to a purpose of mine. This doesn't take but a half minute. Then I go back to the articles I flagged beginning from the front of the magazine. I'll read the title, subtitle, bold type, first paragraph and last paragraph all in 30-45 seconds. If it is important to learn more, I'll take a minute or two—depending on the length of the article—to skim for the core ideas. If I need more, I'll read lightly and flexibly. I'll slow down when the information suits my purpose, when I find answers to questions—this is the tough part though; sometimes the information is mind candy—it is simply fun to read. But when short on time and I have specific material I want from the article, I resist the temptation. I keep my speed flexible, meaning I'll speed up to pass redundant or useless information.

Every now and then an article deserves considerably more attention. In those cases, I'll tear it out for later review. The time lapse becomes an incubation period that makes it much easier to get everything I need from the article when I later spend more time with it, which is usually over lunch.

If you say I want it all, I ask you to think of Citizen Cane where he had warehouse after warehouse holding priceless artwork he acquired, which he'll never ever see or enjoy again—there's just too much. You couldn't possibly use everything. Be judicious, selective, and purposeful, and that is when you truly enjoy a life worth living.

That's why I'm saying to find great books that can serve you and then suck the information out in 20 minutes—or if you need more time, do it on multiple days so that you get the power of incubation working for you.

Which reminds me of the book Reality Check, which I swiped from Paul's desk. An interesting title, isn't it? The subtitle, "What your mind knows, but isn't telling you." The author also wrote, Battling the Inner Dummy and Power Freaks. Whether or not he can write a book, he certainly can pen titles, but I gotta tell you he can write a book.

Spend 20 minutes with Reality Check and you will have no doubt about PhotoReading, whatsoever, you'll know you should be able to know everything in the book all at once, but you'll fully understand what gets in your way. I'll spend more time with this book—not because there is something in it I need, but because it is fun to chew the cud on the book. My next activation session for the book will be just before I go out to spend time in the garden. Gardening is certainly therapeutic, but it is also activatic, as is a walk on the beach, a rest in the hammock, or a hike in the woods...any time you can think about a book you're processing.

Now... "How the heck can I PhotoRead a book and instantly answer questions about it?" But first a request: If you're really good at PhotoReading books with spontaneous activation, drop me an email. I'd like to chat with you about your strategy and process and maybe you can come on TV with me sometime!

Here's mine.

First, before I do a TV demonstration I practice a lot of Spring Forest Qigong, listen to the Memory Supercharger and Personal Genius Paraliminals, and PhotoRead and activate dozens of books. This is all to get my brain tuned and ready to perform. Do I have to? If I want reliable spontaneous activation, yes.

Do I need it? No, because I can get virtually all the information I want in just 20 minutes of activation. Why spend all of that time preparing when I can do something almost as good in just 20 minutes. Actually, it is much better.

You see, during my demonstration I can answer all questions except one: what is the book about. But if the host would ask me 20 or 30 questions I would eventually figure out what the book is about. See, those questions work as mind probes to trigger the answer or draw out the answer.  Interesting, huh? I'd much rather spend 20 minutes with a book and get it all, which is what I do with most books I PhotoRead.

But when on TV, I PhotoRead a book, and then sit in anticipation of the first question. When it comes, a slough of images stream through my mind, and I simply and confidently describe them, because they usually contain information relating to the answer.

During one demonstration where I PhotoRead a book on the computer screen, the questioner asked me what the character compared his occupation to. I saw a man (an Abe Lincoln type) standing on a soap box in a public square talking to people. I said, "A Politician." I was absolutely right, but when I later read the book, the exact image in my mind was not from the book. But the answer was!

Remember when I told you about reading that Travis Mcgee murder mystery and how the story was transformed in my dream state to me being chased by gunmen in the Duluth airport instead of the Mcgee being chased in a Miami airport? Same thing. The brain is triggering images that you already have associated with—or something like that.

If you've played with our Genius Code course and image streaming, then you have a better understanding of the process. Now, when I draw a blank after being asked questions, I like to be asked true and false or multiple choice questions. I usually intuitively know the correct answer—consciously I don't know for sure, but intuitively it seems right. But guess what? That intuition is often the spark or trigger or cataylist that causes more information to flow.

During the taping of one show, I could only answer the multiple choice questions, but I couldn't elucidate. They stopped the taping and the director asked if I could expound on the answers. I paused. Nothing was there. I said, No. But what can you do, she asked. I said, "ask me the questions again." And as she asked the questions again more information came to mind and I was able to build on it and talk further. They couldn't get the cameras rolling fast enough!

Am I always right? Obviously not. Do I always know what the images mean that come into my mind mean? Nope. But it doesn't matter. So what if I get them wrong? You might say, "Well, I can't afford to get anything wrong. I need to get an A on the test." or "Well, I can't afford to get anything wrong. My rocket will veer off course?"

To which I say, don't rely on spontaneous activation. Spend time to activate a book to build up your conscious comprehension. So that you know it well enough to be tested on it or keep your rocketship on course. And, as you master activation, the time you need drops precipitously. I think—beyond any doubt—the way to do this is by activating a book over many days just like I outlined earlier about reading-a-book week.

Let's quickly review the five days: I think this can be very important for you.

Day 1: PhotoRead the book – Postview the book - spend the remaining 20 minutes super reading the book with the idea you will get through the entire book in that 20 minutes.

Day 2: PhotoRead the book again – spend the remaining 25 minutes super reading and dipping through the book. You'll begin to build comprehension. Don't dip too much, because you need to finish the book in the 30-minute period of time.

Day 3: PhotoRead the book again – Turn to the table of contents, and select a chapter or two or three that you would like to better understand. Go to those chapters and activate them for the remaining 25 minutes.

Day 4: PhotoRead the book again – unless you are satisfied with what you've absorbed from the book. Repeat Wednesday's activation of specific chapters, or super read and dip the entire book again.

Day 5: PhotoRead the book again. Spend the rest of the period mind-mapping the book.

This is similar to the 5-day PhotoReading test from page 76 of the PhotoReading book. It is a beautifully simple way to build confidence with activation.

I'd also PhotoRead 3 to 10 books every single day—even if it is the same book over and over—and I'd fully activate one or two of those a week. You want the process to become second nature, so that you simply pick up books and PhotoRead them without having to talk yourself into it or deal with self-doubts. (That Reality Check book deals with this.)

You can do any books you want, but I suggest you choose books that will help you attain your goals. Think of your three top goals for the year—and if you don't have any, then do our Clear Mind, Bright Future goal setting course and get yourself activated to life.

Think of one goal and go to the library and clear out the shelves of every book related to that goal. PhotoRead those books over and over and over until they make you return them. I guarantee that you will:

1. See a marked improvement in your PhotoReading
2. See your goal supercharged
3. Find that goal being foremost on your mind, putting the resources toward it to bring it to fruition.

Material from the books will begin showing up in your thoughts, conversations, writings, meditations, work you do, what you attract...you gotta try it.

Here are the points I made today:

• Try postviewing instead of previewing—adjust the system until your get the results you want.
• Let your brain process books while you sleep.
• How you do anything is how you do everything.
• Activate books in 20-minutes—get one of those Barclay Geneve timers is you have to!
• Do everything in short bursts so you can use the power of incubation.
• Play with PhotoReading highly emotional novels to bridge that connection with your inner mind.
• Have a purpose for everything in life. Be purposeful? What's here that can benefit me?
• Commit to the Read-A-Book week.
• Don't feel like you need to read every magazine articles—you can zip through them.
• Use gardening or hiking or resting as a way to activate a book.
• Don't get stuck on spontaneous activation when activating a book in 20 minutes is so useful.
• PhotoReading 3 to 10 books a day for a couple of months. Yes, bring home a shelf of books from the library.

What's next for me? Two books: The Universe in a Single Atom : The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama, and The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century.

Hope you're making the most of your life. If not what more can you do? How can PhotoReading play into it? How can we help you master PhotoReading and your access to your inner genius? Get your ticket now, and we'll see you very soon. Thanks for joining me today. I appreciate your willingsness to stay on the line with me and I send you my support, good energy, and probably another email or two.