Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour

by Kam Knight

I wonder if you have a name like this and your middle name starts with a K, whether you'd actively hide it or legally change it?

Introduction

I will be using this book as an comparison to How to Read by Mortimer Adler & Charles Doren I think fast reading will ultimately come down to cognitive capacity and practice. Childhood conditioning - practice reading early in adolescence - will also play a indomitable role in adulthood capabilities, too. This is also my first e-book, therefore, not only am I learning to read faster but also learning to use this Kindle.

it is the second most complex organ in the body.

2nd to the brain?

leading many to think they are an extension of the brain

This extends to my hypothesis that the brain evolved to process sensory stimuli.

This

The thesis statements in this book highlighted here. Summarized here: we are all capable of reading faster, the techniques taught in this book will help out with that.

we are all capable of reading better and faster than we ever imagined. We simply need to learn the correct ways to use our infinitely powerful eyes and mind.

With simple strategies that unleash the power of your mind and sight, the techniques in this book fill in the gaps teachers failed to cover to accelerate reading in ways you can’t imagine.

mindlily.com/ir.

Nice scheme to connect readerrs to your other books and profit more! Sly...

reading without comprehension is not reading.

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habits will keep you in them.

This harkons to my theory that free-will doesn't exist

Purpose

My purpose of reading this is to learn new skills to read faster and comprehend more. side note: I had a friend in high school who could read astonishingly fast but self admittedly retained very little

What can I get out of this material or How will reading it help me?

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1.

Things I have read: Science Magazines Articles in class YA dystopian novels History books Science books Comic books Online information articles Subtitles to films/videos Text messages Forum posts Reasons for reading the above: I started my reading journey to fix myself, as I was miserable and capricious. This drive later turned into a feeling of moral obligation to take advantage of countless books I've been privileged to have access to. There are other materials I've read to learn more about people important to me, especially in my life.

2.

I plan to read: This book How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler because I want to retain more of what I've read, continuing this discussion of meta-reading. Reddit discussions for entertainment Phone texts as they are important for life's maintenance

3.

Plan to read in the next month: Immune by Philip Dettmer for entertainment and a biology lesson, as well as maintaining my healthy hobby of annotating. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman as that title has been rent free in my head since high school, it is time to now explore this adolescent fascination. Why We Sleep by Mathew Walker as I want to know more about the science of it and how to improve it. I feel destined to read this book. then there are some other educational materials I'll buy and read :)

4.

In my next year reading list: The DC comics encyclopedia releases in November, which i am looking forward to reading to learn more about DC lore and gawkingly geek over the cool pictures! I plan to read more science, history, and cultural books, as well as informative but colorfully pictured books for entertainment. I don't have a particular direction with my reading. I think I am trying to cross pollinate ideas, whereby I notice connections where others do not

sections or parts.

What's the difference? A: sections are shorter more chunked whereas parts are larger and wider ideas?

Preview

Okay, so I just previewed this book

When

While reading Barbara Oakley's book, Mind for Numbers, keeps coming to mind. I also wonder how to reconcile speed reading vs. annotating, like what's taught in Dr. Carter's book? I thinking integrating techniques in all these will allow for a more fluid adaptive reading approach

Technical

Like this very book

Some people are used to reading textbooks;

Ummm, I'm being called out here! LOL!

Slow

Speed reading book teaching to slow read, the irony! lul

Space Reading

Time to get astronomical!

white space

Black space, white words on this Kindle, for me

Amazing, right?

Have to admit, pretty cool! Brings me back to psychology 11, with other visual illusions and techniques

This

This is hard to repeatedly do! But I see how useful this can be!

Kam Knight

Really quoting yourself, sir? M'kay

2.

Sometimes, i find that chunking doesn't really work, where, if this method is to be used, sometimes only one word fits a chunk

Practice Drill

I don't think I need to practice this, I'm already proficient in this technique

inertia

Cue AJR

Focus on control rather than speed

Reread

I don't like rereading the chapters, so instead, I practice new techniques on the new chapters

the brain processes information from the sides 25 percent faster than it does from direct vision, which is why the brain is able to react to dangers so quickly.

It does?

on a bus,

Now this is my kind of exercise! I dont like the exercises with props as I do not possess them :/

challenging enough?

I am finding these very challenging! I can feel my brain grow!

review,

I will leave a review when I've completed the book! :)

It begins with understanding the meaning of a sentence, then how that sentence fits into the paragraph, and then how the paragraph supports the larger chapter. Finally, how the chapter supports the overall piece.

This can be like learning how the human body works, starting with energy, to atoms, to molecules, to organelles, all the way up to the organism.

Practice

At this stage of the book, I've finally come to the point where I feel it is necessary to do the practice drills of rereading while using the techniques taught

However, by the end of the decade, America was sinking into an economic depression that left the country reeling.

Topic sentence

For many working people, it wasn't clear if they would have a roof over their head or enough food to feed themselves and their families.

Conclusion sentence, everything in-between are supporting statements ;P

topic sentence.

The topic and concluding sentence in this one are perfect mirror statements

repeated,

Something I need to pay more attentiokn to: repeated (synonymous) words or phrases

The following words, though, don't fall into that "iffy" category; they seem to be keepers, deserving of an entry in any comprehensive, or complete, dictionary.

This, is my initial guess for the topic sentence, as it has the transition, "though," and seems to be the most important assertion, governing why the person decided to write this paragraph in the 1st place

Don’t be discouraged if the last example proved challenging.

FUCK YOU, I got it right!

As vocabulary is reduced, so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify–Sheri

So true... That is why learning a second language is so important

To truly ameliorate the dexterity to subsume written material, one must possess a wieldy argot. Without a philistine vernacular, it’s perverse to elucidate any prose. You would be quixotic to speed read without the aptitude to antithesize the words. Otherwise, it will create a gnawing sense of ennui.

Here is where the Kindle shows its efficacy to translate, though it failed to find a definition on some words whereas for others like "philistine" it failed to find a suitable definition, unless the author was being anti-Semitic :O

replete

Love this word <3

Listen to Audiobooks

On my to-do list! Tougher without a smart phone, but I still think there are practical ways

The mind evolved to comprehend spoken words before written words.

I know the book gave the advice to eliminate subvocalizing, so it might have not included what I'm about to propose to avoid confusing the reader, but I think the author missed the mark by not adding the advice of practicing saying out load what you are reading - trying to inflect tonality, mood, pacing, etc etc to what the reader thinks the author is speaking through. Not only does this makes unfamiliar words an audible stimuli and making it easier to say later, but to try to get in the head of the author. It's almost like acting! A practice I've come to realize is of utmost impprtance to self-development ^~^

Learn Prefixes and Suffixes

This is what I've been doing as early as 2014! In my search to understand nutrition, I realized patterns in words, which meant words are sometimes broken down into 2+ proto-words ^^