Mental Photography - The Story

The story of mental photography began back in 1975, with a wealthy young man who owned a speed reading company and 'knew' that our brains were capable of so much more than just reading quickly.

That young man was Richard Welsh. Welsh had spent 15 years in the insurance industry and had become very successful in what he did. At the ripe old age of 34, having become quite wealthy from his work, Welsh decided to retire and moved to a remote location to ponder his future.

Welsh decided to buy a speed reading company and it was from here that things really took off. From the course in speed reading that Welsh's company provided, he invested many years and much finance into the research and development of speed reading techniques and brain management. Universities conducted studies and trials on course participants to test Welsh's techniques and the speed and comprehension of the participants.

The results proved to be amazing and it was at this time that Mental Photography became a topic in its own right.

The difference between speed reading and mental photography was that mental photography was an entirely different way of looking at learning. Instead of just teaching how to scan pages quickly, mental photography developed the natural skills that everyone has for photographic memory. Welsh believed that we were all born with the ability of a photographic memory, but as we grew and were taught to read, we lost that ability and began to rely heavily on what we read instead of everything that we see.