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by
Jim Kwik
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August 29 - August 30, 2020
HOW READING MAKES YOUR BRAIN LIMITLESS
Just as memory is foundational to nearly all brain function, reading is foundational to nearly all learning.
Reading kicks your brain into gear.
When you read, you’re using your brain for many functions at once
reading gives you an incomparable level of mental exercise, and the brain is always a “muscle” that gets stronger the more you challenge it.
Reading improves your memory.
Because you’re giving your brain such a great workout when you read, your brain fun...
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Reading improves your focus.
Reading improves your vocabulary.
Reading improves your imagination.
A great imagination helps you see more possibilities in your life, and reading keeps your imagination on high alert.
Reading improves understanding.
Your reading efficiency is made up of two main parts: Your reading rate (speed) and reading comprehension (understanding).
three of the barriers and obstacles that prevent us from reading more quickly.
Regre...
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By regressing, or back-skipping, it is very easy to lose the meaning and essence of your reading. Regression seriously disrupts the reading process as well as slows down reading speed.
Outdated Skills
Subvocalization is a fancy word for your inner voice.
Subvocalization limits your reading speed to only a couple hundred words per minute.
your reading speed is limited to your talking speed, not your thinking speed. In reality, your mind can read a lot faster.
President John F. Kennedy was a very fast reader, reading somewhere between 500 and 1200 words per minute.
For most of us, our minds think primarily in images, and not words.
words are just a tool we use to communicate our thoughts or pictures.
As you are reading, you can greatly increase both your speed and comprehension by ...
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Words are symbols as well.
It is the meaning of what the word represents that is important. And the meaning is usually better described and remembered in the form of pictures. Understanding this concept is the first step in reducing subvocalization.
Myth 1: Faster Readers Don’t Comprehend Well
This is a rumor spread around by slow readers, and it is not true. In fact, faster readers often have better comprehension than slower readers.
The key to better reading comprehension is focus and concentration.
some people read so slowly that they completely bore their own minds. A bored mind doesn’t concentrate well.
Your mind can handle vast amounts of information, and yet most people as they read feed it one . . . word . . . at . . . a . ....
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If you don’t give your brain the stimulus it needs, it’ll seek entertainment elsewhere in the form of distraction.
By reading faster, you keep your mind stimulated, find yourself more focused, and have better comprehension.
Myth 2: It’s Harder and Takes More Effort to Read Fast
Reading faster requires less effort, primarily because trained readers tend not to back-skip...
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Myth 3: Faster Readers Can’t Appreciate Reading
you do not have to study each and every word in a book, to realize its value.
One of the best things about being a trained reader is flexibility. Faster readers have the option of speeding through boring/nonessential material and slowing down or even rereading the exciting/important information.
Flexibility i...
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VISUAL PACER: GIVE YOUR READING THE FINGER
Studies show that the use of the finger while reading can increase your reading rate anywhere from 25 percent to 100 percent.
Reading with your finger also introduces another one of your senses, the sense of touch, into the learning process.
Much as your sense of smell and sense of taste are closely tied, your sense of sight and sense of touch are also very closely linked.
1. Reading Is Like Exercising
You can read faster, simply by training yourself to read faster.
2. Expand Your Peripheral Vision
skilled readers see groups of words (or ideas) and not the individual words.
Counting
When you have passed a certain rate (about 300 to 350 words per minute), it will be impossible to subvocalize all the words. As you hit this threshold, your brain will begin to make the shift from saying the words to seeing them more as images. Reading a book will be more like watching a movie.
Hold your book upright.
