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July 13 - July 16, 2018
The first and most powerful lesson of speed reading is that it is a skill to be learned – not an ability you’re born with.
most people don’t have such levels of concentration!
Reading faster actually means understanding more!
your mind sees the written letters, thinks about the sounds those letters represent, and then connects these sounds to the meanings. This process is called subvocalization.
This process of subvocalization can actually slow down your reading speed, because you’re trying to pronounce each word in your mind.
Reading silently is easily five to ten times faster than reading out loud.
Remember that sentences, not individual words, have meaning.
The key is to practice reading at a pace where you simply cannot pronounce words or think about their sounds.
“visual span enlargement,”
