Speed Reading: the Ultimate Guide on Reading FASTER and BETTER | Jim Kwik

welcome back quick student today's lesson is the basics of speed reading who does not want to be able to read more in less time and so that's what we're going to talk about now how much reading do you have textbooks how many books do you have on your shelf you haven't read yet you're being buried in information in school the challenge is how you're trying to read that information is back to when you were like seven years old because here's the thing are you born with the ability to read no of course not you weren't born and then you just go out to the waiting room and start reading magazines right it's a skill and like all skills it can be improved with what with training exactly what you're doing right now but when's the last time you took a class called reading not like a college literature class how old were you last time you took a class entitled reading probably six seven years old so is it fair to say you're still reading like you did when you first learned it absolutely yes and that's why you feel stressed a sense of information overload like the amount information is doubling at dizzying speed but how you read it is the same and that growing Gap creates that stress it actually has negative side effects to you and your schoolwork and in your life higher blood pressure a compression of fun Leisure Time more sleeplessness we're drowning information but we're starving for the techniques to be able to absorb and read it all so that's what we're going to do I'm going to give you a preview in this lesson of our full course many of you know that we have a full 21 days like this program 21 days to Triple your reading speed but not just your reading speed your focus your comprehension your retention and also your overall enjoyment because when you could do something well you enjoy it more right so here I'm going to give you one lesson of those 21 days so if you want further information you like to join that program go to quickreading.com k-w-i-kreading.com so let's get into it what I want you to do right now is to grab a book I want you to grab a book because I'm going to make this interactive pause this video and grab a book the kind of book ideally pick a book that's a little bit Light reading because I'm going to teach you a brand new technique to help you boost your reading speed 25 25 you may even boost it up to 50 percent but in order to practice get the easiest reading material you can just to start out because I'm going to teach you a brand new technique and I don't want to throw you into the ocean to learn how to swim I want to take you first in the low shallow yellow Waters so find a book pause it and then come back great now that you have your book what we're going to do is a quick reading assessment because I'm going to show you a technique that's going to boost your reading speed but how do you know it's going to work unless you test it so I want to find out right now we're going to find out what we call your base rate your base reading rate your current reading rate and how we're going to do it is I want you to take your book and I want you to start wherever you are in this book if it's in the beginning it's in the beginning but if it's in the somewhere in between the beginning and the end take a little marker or a pen a pencil put a little Mark in the margin so you know where you're starting and I'm going to time you to read for two minutes two full minutes and I want you to read how you would normally read for comprehension don't read any faster or slower than for full comprehension do you get it so I'm going to give you in a moment a two minute timer I want you to get right now open the book start wherever you're going to start put a little Mark in the margin and I want you to begin reading for full comprehension how you normally read begin [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you foreign [Music] okay and stop very good what I want you to do right now is take that same pen and put a little Mark in the margin where you finished and your assignment right now is to count the number of lines you just read how many lines did you just read in that two minutes now I want you to approximate so if there's only two words in that line it does not count as a line if you see two half lines you could put them together and count them as one take a moment pause this video and count the number of lines you just read okay welcome back now that you have this number I want you to take this number in your notebook you're writing it down and I want you to divide this number by two divide it by two because I had your read for two minutes count the number of lines divide by 2 because I want to know how many lines did you read in one minute divided by two now you could round up no problem you don't need to pause this we will do a session maybe on quick math also as well you have a number now that's the number of lines per minute you read now here's the thing we measure reading speed the same as typing speed in words per minute so how do you determine your words per minute Begin by counting the number of words in the average line so as you're looking at your book right now the book that you're currently reading count the number of words in one line or average them out between two or three lines and what you may find most books it's about 10 words per line and when you know the average words per line I want you to multiply that by your lines per minute you start out by reading 50 lines in two minutes you divide it by two to find out how many lines you read in one minute that's 25 lines per minute and then if you have approximately 10 words per line then you're going to multiply those lines by 10 and you're going to get 250 words per minute which also happens to be the average reading speed the average reading speed tends to be about 200 250 words per minute so take a moment and do that now [Music] okay so now you have your words per minute now these words per minute they fluctuate if you're doing this with a friend of yours you might see that the numbers are a little bit different and that depends it depends on how awake you are it depends on what you're each reading somebody could be reading something more technical it depends on your background information on that reading also as well it depends on so many different factors how distracted you are and how focused you are but this gives you a baseline idea of where you are in terms of reading speed now let's say it's 200 250 300 words per minute when we take students in our reading program we take them from 200 or 300 words per minute and on average triple your reading speed with better focus comprehension and retention little by little we do each day 10 15 every day and mass is to huge growth over the course of three weeks 21 days so let me give you an idea of how to do this what I'm going to do is I'm going to share with you a few obstacles to effective reading all right we already talked about one of them lack of Education you need to be trained because last time you took a reading class you were in elementary school so consider this like a little intro class number two lack of focus what keeps you from being what I call a quick reader somebody who could quickly read quickly comprehend quickly recall quickly Focus enjoy what you're reading is lack of focus now there's a lie that you've been told or a lie that you think that if you read faster if I asked you to read faster what do you think will happen to your understanding your comprehension you feel like it would go down right now in our quick reading program that I'm telling you about right now we have students in there from over 180 countries so we have a lot of feedback and we know what works and we find that the faster readers don't have less comprehension for the most part the action have better comprehension why because they have better focus I want that to sink in your brain is this incredible super computer but most people when they read they feed this super computer one word at uh time metaphorically you're starving your mind and if you don't give your brain the stimulus it needs it'll seek entertainment elsewhere in the form of distraction in the form of Mind wandering does that make sense it's kind of like driving a car real slow if you're going slow in your neighborhood are you really focused on the act of driving no what are you focused on you're drinking your coffee or texting your friend you're talking to your friends about the party that's going on you're doing all these different things you'll be doing five different things when you're going slow but let's say you're racing cars on a track right well supervised and you're licensed to do that you're racing cars and you're taking hairpin turns does that person have more or less Focus a little bit or a lot a lot more Focus they're focused on what the act of driving and what's in front of them and what's coming up that's a good reader a good reader is focused on the act of reading on what's in front of them and what's coming up because the speed allows that now I'm going to give you a third obstacle to effective reading this is a big one it's regression regression is back skipping have you ever noticed when you're reading something you go back and reread words mostly by accident you ever notice you'll reread a line unconsciously so up to 25 or more percent of our time to be spent with a bad habit of re-reading words it's just a poor habit a lot as you've seen with this program a lot of the accelerated learning is actually unlearning poor habits that keep you stuck habits of thought habits of daily routine habits of wrote men memory we're trying to discard and unlearn those bad habits and replace them with upgraded quick start habits all right so regression is a big obstacle and really you know what the biggest obstacle is is sub-vocalization this is the invisible one that holds you back the most and it is by far the biggest obstacle to effective reading what is sub-vocalization have you ever noticed when you're reading something inside your head you hear a voice reading along with you hopefully it's your own voice it's not like somebody else's voice inside your head why is it a challenge if you have to say all the words in order to understand them either out loud or inside your mind you could only read as fast as you could speak that means your reading speed is limited to your talking speed but not your thinking speed and my question for you is this do you have to say all these words in order to understand what they mean even most of the words I'm saying to you the and there because they're filler words right words like New York City you don't have to pronounce New York City take the time to understand what New York City is the best trained readers read by sight not by sound because 90 95 of the words you read in your textbooks or in your journals in your school material most of those words are words you've seen thousands of times and you don't have to pronounce them any more than you have to pronounce a punctuation mark you don't read something and say period or question mark you don't do that anymore then when you're driving you see signs and say stop you don't say it but you understand what it means that's what most words are to you so you learned a bad habit by pronouncing those words and I can't fix some vocalization or reduce it in this session I could help you with regression in order to be able to reduce the subvocalization and claim your your quick reading status where you could read two or three times faster because you could certainly understand that fast in fact here's perfect example how many people listen to a podcast or an audio book and they put it at higher speeds you can understand that fast you just can't speak that fast so if you want more information about how to take your reading to the next level go to quickreading.com and you can join it's very similar to this program but there's zero overlap it's a hundred percent focused on rapid reading and not just speed reading smart reading for greater Focus comprehension and understanding but here's your quick tip on how to get over regression and that needless back skipping and re-reading words I want you to use a visual pointer use a visual Pacer to help you to focus meaning use your finger while you read what does that mean it means this your eyes are attracted emotion and it's a survival skill that if you're a hunter-gatherer in a bush and you're hunting lunch maybe it's a rabbit maybe it's a carrot whatever your diet is if the bush next to you moves you have to look at what moves it's a survival skill because number one it could be lunch or number two you could be lunch so either way you have to look at what moves so when you're underlining the words while you read your eyes are pulled through the information as opposed to your attention being pulled apart does that make sense I'm not talking about traditional speed reading traditional Speedy reading is taking your fear and going down the page or making fancy s or Z formations but you miss big gaps and that's why it's more scanning and skipping words and skimming than it is really reading that's why traditional speed reading will yield the results of oh I just got the gist of what I read but our students are top student there are future Business Leaders they are future scientists you don't want your doctor just to get the gist of what she's reading right so you need to read for comprehension and retention but by using your finger and not skipping any words you'll boost your reading speed 25 if not 50 let me give you an example right now I want you to pick up where you left off and I just want you to begin underlining the words and I'm going to have you read for the same two minutes as you did before now remember you've never done this before I just want you to underline the words and your eyes are just following your finger your underlying the words you never even done that before but you're likely to get a boost in your reading speed practicing it for zero amounts of time all right so without any practice let's jump into it if you want to take practice before just pick up where you left off you could pause it at your own accord and just underline words get the feel for it but when you're ready I want you to pick up where you left off and put another timer on the screen for another two minutes just like we did before the only difference read using your finger are you ready begin [Music] [Applause] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] laughs [Music] foreign foreign [Music] welcome back quick student how is it the second time how was it the second time still it felt a little weird right because it's like tying your shoes learning how to type learning how to drive it feels a little bit different at first because you're pushing yourself but after a little while of practice it becomes second nature and I'm willing to bet you did better than you thought was there a boost in speed do you feel like you had a little bit more Focus imagine practicing that a little bit more each day and that's your homework assignment I want you to practice each day in fact share in the comments your before and after of using the finger now I'd prefer you actually now that you're used to it after trying it for a couple minutes it feels a little weird and that's okay if you did it right it should feel uncomfortable because who's good at something the very first time they try it but that's why I had you practicing the juggling the different things to get used to doing something that's different all right pushing you out of your comfort zone but just underlying the words and notice if there was a boost in Focus speed and if you have better focus you probably had better comprehension as well so again leave in the comments your before and after without the finger and then with your finger in terms of speed count the number of lines divide by two multiply by 10 if there are 10 words per line and your homework assignment practice using your finger while you read while you'll never get to double or triple your reading speed likely because that's subvocalization getting rid of the regression and the back skipping could help you claim back your 25 almost 50 percent of time remember this leaders are readers leaders are readers I want to thank you for going through this lesson with me I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Jim Kwik

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Length: 21min 48sec (1308 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 19 2022