But how can you do this? It is simply about creating images in your head as you read and visualizing the text rather than sub-vocalizing it (reading it aloud in your head). You need to practice and train it so using all your brain as you read becomes second nature. Sadly, however, you can’t just press a button to make the right-hand side of your brain work as you read! This is because the right-hand side of your brain is also working as it is a visual prompt that is likely to generate some sort of feeling in you. Think again about how quickly you can remember information in images. Whilst this is understandable as this controls learning and writing, you aren’t making the most of all the available brain capacity you have!Īctivating the right-hand side of your brain will help you to take in information faster and read quicker. Now, as many people read, they only use the left-hand side of the brain. It’s important to realize speed readers use both sides of their brains: the left which deals mainly with logic, theory, numbers, and words and the right which deals with emotions, feelings, and visuals, as well as memory. By getting to Lesson 3 of this course you have taken the first steps to becoming a speed reader, and now we can start to look at how to create the right mindset for speed reading.įirst, let’s have a quick look at how we speed read. Now I can’t say what level you will manage to reach, but I can tell you that everyone has scope for improvement, particularly if you’re just starting out. We are here, though, to make sure you do believe in yourself and to get you in the right frame of mind to apply the skills you learn to your reading.ĭid you know the majority of people read approximately 200 words per minute? That sounds pretty quick already, but you can go even faster.Īround the top 10% of people can read at 600 words per minute, whilst the top 0.1% can read 1000 words per minute. If you continue to believe you don’t have the ability to speed read, then you are likely to struggle to make improvements. Before starting this course, you probably thought that speed reading was a skill for a select few, highly gifted people, but everyone has the potential to read quicker. However, you may think this is much easier said than done. This should give you lots of encouragement as now you just need to do this with words as you read! How have you been getting on with those images? You should have realized by now that your brain is able to remember A LOT of information in a short space of time. Episode #3 of the course Speed reading: How to read more books by Jordan Harry
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