

Practice makes perfect, and honestly - depending on the material you may or may not be able to do it. Can you get good comprehension using various techniques of your choice in 90 minutes total? How about 60 minutes? Then try 30 minutes. If your goal is to get really good with doing a single 30 minute session, you might want to try a few other sort of "stepping stones" first. You can still do mind probing, too, but you should be doing it (if you ONLY have 20 to 30 minutes) on an intuitive, conscious basis instead of taking the time to write questions down. Remember that purpose is knowing exactly what you want out of the material. I would still go with doing a postview and formulating a good purpose - purpose is the driving force of good comprehension during activation. Waiting 24 hours is good because it allows your mind to process the material during sleep. Still, if you NEED to dive right in because of time constraints, there is nothing that says you can't! It's simply ideal not to do so if you have the time. The idea behind waiting 20 minutes is that it is long enough to make a difference with your subconscious processing of the material, but short enough to prove practical. Incubation simply shows to give better results because the mind has had more time to organize information. The act of actually asking questions after a first 20 to 30 minute activation session can serve as part of activation itself. Incubation is important, but it is not absolutely necessary. For your school textbooks - PhotoRead those suckers once a night, followed by PhotoReading whatever chapters you're studying at the time in addition to the entire textbook. Incubation is recommended to be AT LEAST 20 minutes and ideally a nice 24 hour period before coming back to the material. That is not to say that I haven't successfully activated novels in 30 minutes or less - it's just a rarity for me because of a number of reasons. I tend to have a tougher time getting good comprehension (or enjoyment) from a novel doing a single 20 minute activation pass, but for any nonfiction book that can be all I need. It probably consists of SuperReading - going through to get the key information from each chapter. Prepare can take seconds, PhotoReading step 5 mins or less, and then that leaves 20-25 minutes for a nice single activation pass to get the core information from the book. Once you get it down to Prepare/PhotoRead/Activate, 30 minutes actually makes a lot of sense.Īll you're going for is to get the core information out of the book. Incubation is not totally critical to the process, and Preview/Rapid Read are two steps that are actually completely optional.
