![]() It will most likely take a few months for things to “click.” ![]() What’s more, even after teaching these powerful memory techniques, we tell students not to expect to read quickly overnight. This is because if you don’t have the proper foundation for actually remembering what you read, there’s no point in reading faster. In fact, in our popular speed reading and accelerated learning course, we spend 70% of our time on improving memory. As I said before, it’s easier to understand than it is to implement - especially with high comprehension. So there you have it! A simple process that anyone can use to read quickly. If you’re reading a text that you need to break into three columns, it might look like this. You do this by fixating on the middle of each column, as opposed to the beginning. In our speed reading course, one of the final adjustments we make is teaching people to optimize their fixations. If you start reading on the first word of each line and end on the last, you are reading the margins. When most people read, they unwittingly waste time reading the margins. Once you’ve mastered the technique of taking in larger “fixations,” it’s time to make them more efficient. In my bestselling speed reading course, Become a SuperLearner, I call this “breaking the sound barrier.” It’s tricky to do, but once you have, you will unlock a new level of speed! 4. As you practice, though, you’ll find that you’re eventually able to read quickly without much of a loss in comprehension. At first, your comprehension will suffer. Learning to do this while you simultaneously pay attention is tricky and takes time. If you’ve ever stepped out of the way of a moving object, you know this to be true.īy reducing the number of words we read using the voices in our heads, we increase our reading speed. Research has also shown time and again that we can process visual information much, much faster. If you’ve ever tried to listen to a podcast or video at 3x speed, you know that there’s a limit to how fast you can process sound! That limit is around 450 words per minute - roughly twice the speed of an average reader. This is because we can only process as fast as our brain can process the sounds. When we read by processing the information as auditory information, we are limited in speed. ![]() While research has shown that you can never completely eliminate the “voices in your head,” there is truth to the idea. You may have heard speed reading experts talk about “eliminating” the voice in your head. This, in turn, means that you can take in a larger number of words in one fixation while speed reading. Over time, you’ll discover that you can make out the fuzzy numbers. Schultz Tables train your brain to look at the center, and without moving your eyes, pay attention to the numbers in your peripheral vision. With that said, research has shown that the best speed readers make extensive use of the area outside of focus, the parafovea. The area in focus, known as the fovea, is physiologically fixed by the structure of our eyes. You cannot actually expand your peripheral vision. More time taking in information means a faster reading speed.īut that’s only one step. This generally means consuming the text as one or two “columns.”īy making fewer movements on the page, speed readers spend less time in saccadic blindness. We make larger saccades, taking in a larger number of words at a time. When we learn speed reading techniques, one of the first things we learn is moving our eyes differently. Did you actually see what was between your hands? Of course not. Now, shift your eyes in one saccade from one hand to the left. To try this out, put your hands in front of your face a couple of feet apart. This is called “saccadic masking,” and it’s there to prevent us from getting disoriented every time we move our eyes. ![]() When your eyes fixate again, your brain stitches the pictures together. When your eyes move, your optic nerve switches off for a split second. This means that they make one “saccade,” or movement of the eye, and one “fixation” for each word on the page. When most people read, they look at one word at a time. Let’s start with the actual mechanics of reading: moving your eyes. Moving your eyes more efficientlyīefore you learn how speed readers read, you must understand how the average person reads. The original course to learn faster & more easily using the skills of the worlds fastest readers & memory record holders | By Jonathan Levi, Lev Goldentouch, Anna Goldentouch, SuperHuman Academy® Explore Course 1.
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