Learning is a subjective experience.

Just as we can understand that it’s possible to identify Family history through DNA It’s not something that you can actually do for you until you actually learned to do it. So on one hand we have knowledge and on the other, we have knowledge with the ability to apply that knowledge.

To learn a new skill someone first had to figure out what they did and how they did it and then develop a way of instruction to show others how they can do it too. This is only part of the learning equation. There is still the part that relies on the learners ability to apply to the training.

The courses often have specific material used to demonstrate the method that ultimately, one must apply the method to learn through practice how it is done. The material selected is usually what has proven to be the most useful for the majority of learners. Some will require more and others less.

There is one part of learning that is still being researched because all learning has a subjective element that cannot be explained or shown. No one can explain the shifts and levers that must be pulled in our brain before we “get it”. Those moments where we say ‘oh, now I get it’, are purely subjective. It’s an essence that no one else can touch or see.

Think about it. When you learned how to tie your shoelaces. You weren’t taught what to think, you are shown a sequence of tying shoelaces there are many parts that no one could explain, like how tight to tie them or how hard to pull. You only learned this through doing, and it’s still subjective because you too can only teach the sequence not the part that comes with experience. No one could tell you when you got it and at some point you did get it. Your shoelaces stayed tied. If you learned to ride a bike you might want to ponder, how do you keep your balance, how can you explain it? You just do it, don’t you? That’s because part of the knowledge is only learned through experience, and it is subjective.

One challenge to face is findings the subjective point where you can say, ‘I have learned this. I have accomplished my goal’. We never really do, we just know that we know.

Learning is not just memorising information. When you learn something, rather than just memorising it you develop a new skill. Riding a bike, learning to walk, trying laces, buttering bread, building computers and fixing cars. Training can be given, grades and tests set to measure your memory of these steps. However, only the learner knows when they have learned something so that it is a skill, something they can do, rather than a memory back and talk about. It’s something the own.

Ultimately, the subjective experience can only be achieved through doing. The theory of riding a bike can be explained. And skill can only be acquired through doing, so that the individual gains that subjective experience.

That is why if someone asked me to prove that PhotoReading works, I have to say, “Try it and see”. No-one can give you that subjective experience. It is earned through doing. Just like you learned to read and write in the first place. When you learned to read your repeated the action until you understood what you were reading . It was through your subjective training that reading became possible. Now, if you choose to learn PhotoReading you need to allow yourself to have that experience again. Learning by doing. Analysing the system can only take you so far.

The PhotoReading Course is designed to take you through the course in a step-by-step way. Ultimately, it will become a natural ability like tying shoe laces. It becomes something you know how to do, because you acquire the subjective knowledge through doing and gained a unexplainable understanding of what it is to be PhotoReader. You know it works because it implicitly, you know how to what to do. This is true for anything that you have ever learned.

© A Alex Viefhaus 2007