When people first learn about PhotoReading they fear that satisfactory conscious understanding is elusive.That’s an interesting fear because information that eludes you is everything that your non-conscious mind is processing bar 2000 bits per second which your conscious mind has access to.
What the mind is capable of
It is known that the 300 million nerve impulses of the corpus collosum are capable of receiving 400 billion bits of information a second. The eye is capable of seeing 1 trillion bits. The mind lives in a sea of 400 billion bits of information a second and your mind only responds to 2000. If you had to deal with all that information consciously we wouldn’t be able to function.
Nothing really eludes you. You are just selective of what you are consciously aware of. Your conscious awareness is affected by a number of things. When it comes to learning, your self-image, self-talk and beliefs. These become perceptual defences. They act as barriers to what the mind decides to process. Even on the processed information before then can become conscious we have to have an expectation and need to know.
PhotoReading
PhotoReading allows you to have the same or better comprehension of what you read in 1/3rd 1/5th or even 1/10th the time of traditional reading. So for starters nothing more would elude you than already eluded you with traditional reading.
Your ability to understand what you are reading with traditional reading techniques is inhibited by the same defences.
What I learned
I’ve noticed in my own experience that with traditional reading my perceptual defences hindered me more because I didn’t know what I needed to know and it eluded me while reading the book the traditional way. My censor was at work as I read. Setting barriers to understanding the next part I read.
Before PhotoReading I was an avid reader but I never got anything useful from my books. I’m not referring to rote learning for passing exams. I’m referring to books that I read just to learn what could be useful to me based on the interest the book aroused in me when I picked it up. Often I would finish the book and feel like I missed something.
It wasn’t until I learned PhotoReading that I discovered just how much information was eluding me through traditional reading. Because I had a okay image of myself as a reader the information I PhotoRead gets processed and then based on my needs and expectation I have discovered many more useful and life changing suggestion from these authors. I get more out of my reading with PhotoReading.
Moreover I have discovered that a lot of information was eluded me through traditional reading. When searching my mind for information, even when I just obtain the gist of subject, I find it easier to locate the book and the page of the book, I had PhotoRead, to quickly clarify the details. Something I didn’t do well with traditional reading. With traditional reading it was rare for me to be able to explain the content of a book a week after I had finished reading it. Talk about information being elusive.
Often knowing where you learned something seems to be more important than what you know.
It’s interesting how someone can demonstrate what they know by talking about it and yet many are asked to prove it. Where did your information come from? The ability to quickly point to the book, books or research on the subject is highly regarded.
It’s paradox that this is true for people investigating PhotoReading. I can tell them about PhotoReading and they say prove it. I’ve taught many people how to PhotoRead yet it is only when they have written proof that can prove this information that some people are willing to allow me to teach them.
With that information I advise anyone reading or PhotoReading to know where they can find the information. It’s only elusive if you cannot find it.
© Alex K Viefhaus