Prove PhotoReading worksSummer Reading and Developing the Art of Procrastination.

Prove that PhotoReading works and I'll learn it. This is what people often want from experienced PhotoReaders before they are willing to learn.

Who can blame them. Reading is one of the most challenging skills to teach and learn. And at the same time it is one of the most needed skills if we want to succeed in school,business and life.

PhotoReading looks like a mystical skill that only a few can do and yet there is research out there that can show our mind uses the skill we teach in PhotoReading in other areas of our life everyday.

As science continues to do research of the mind and more and more discoveries are confirming that we can do more than we are doing. While looking for confirmation we can still teach and learn this valuable skill.

Science is only an assurance that it is humanly possible it still takes time to learn. With so many others showing the skill, it must humanly possible.

One can point out pages and pages of research. Yet we need to ask, do we even have the ability to create and understand  research is telling if we had not learned to read in the first place?

What is reading anyway?

At school we learned to read one word at a time. This continued throughout our primary or elementary education.

When we started high school this all stopped. We had to discover a faster way of  reading on our own. Many of us also had to develop our reading comprehension on our own. It seem more work than it it was worth and most of my classmates avoided reading where-ever possible.

Why? Because it's boring. It's a skill developed only by repetition. Doing it over and over. Hoping one day to discover the secret for understanding what we are reading and then hoping that knowing this secret enough help us read faster.

Did anyone teach us how to understand what we are reading? The accidental student figured it out. The majority do not.

While the majority of students are able to read to their grade level to about 13 years old. High school students fall behind. Current research shows less than 40% of the US high school students are capable of reading to their grade level. Google the current trend on Reading Skills. The rest are struggling

The solution offered is "Keep Reading". Summer Reading programs. This is the only way to hold onto and "hopefully" improve our reading skills. Yes. If you don't read during the summer your reading skills decline. Or is it just the way to bring it up to the next grade because no time is spent on developing reading skills during the school year?

So summer reading is a must... AND another complaint is people are becoming obese. Does anyone else see a problem here?

What a great way to encourage exercise; make them sit down and read. When it great to be outside and exercising. It's summer!

Is it a wonder that as children we develop the art of procrastination? We don't want to be bored to tears reading a book that doesn't interest us (and the majority of books they gave us were that kind). So we read it but don't understand it which causes boredom and frustration.

It creates a cycle. It often slows us down even more. So why start reading if you know you're not going to get anything out of it?

There you have why people are looking for faster reading methods. Not only to read faster also to understand better what they are reading. PhotoReading teaches fundamentals that a fortunate few learned in school. Add to that the PhotoReading step and you have a way of reading three, five and even 10 times faster than the old primary school reading techniques.

Some people want to know is not, "Is PhotoReading possible", but, is it cheating? And am I allowed to do that because it wasn't taught in school?

There are so many rules we learned when we first started to read. They were right for learning to read. Are they still all valid now that you know how to read?

When we started high school we were ready for the next level. What we had already learned was time-consuming and learned the time it took to read and the time we had available didn't match. We knew we had to read faster yet the solution, Read More doesn't fit either. If we need to read more then we definitely must have a way of getting the understanding we need from the text a whole lot faster.

We don't need proof that there is a better way of reading, we need to give ourselves permission to let go of those old reading habits that hold us back.

(c) Alex K. Viefhaus.