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The Origins of
PhotoReading

 

PhotoReading at 25,000 words per minute means you could "mentally photograph" this book in fewer than three minutes. Although this may sound like a radical new idea, the concept existed hundreds of years before I coined the term PhotoReading. You can find evidence that such mental processing is possible and has been used in diverse settings from military training and martial arts to ancient religious traditions.

The challenge is not in deciding whether PhotoReading is possible. The challenge is how to teach you, as an individual reading this book, to effectively transfer this natural ability into daily applications for reports, journals, newspapers, books, web pages, or whatever you want to read.

My background in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and accelerative learning gave me a way to meet that challenge. The PhotoReading whole mind system has been learned by others around the world, and now the time is right for you to learn it too. The story that follows explains how it all started.

Seven years after graduating with a science degree from the University of Minnesota, I took a speed reading test. I scored 170 words per minute at 70 percent comprehension. I was embarrassed when I realized my 16-plus years in public schools left me below average in reading skills and an expert at putting off reading.

I thought that to read properly I must start on the first word of a text and slog through to the end. I must concentrate on seeing all the words correctly, make sense of them as I went along, and remember what they said. I also believed the ultimate measure of

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