{"id":182,"date":"2014-04-15T06:43:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T06:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2015-08-10T07:11:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T07:11:19","slug":"speed-reading-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/speed-reading-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed reading and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I like to read (like, a lot), I realized I should test my reading speed and as it turned out I’m at an average person reading speed of 230<\/strong> WPM. That was not a too big of a surprise as I always thought I read slow. Anyways, I decided to take one of those “increase your reading speed classes”, and here are my notes from these lectures:<\/p>\n

Inner voice makes us read at the speed as we talk!\u00a0Subvocalization is the root of all evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

RAS – Reticular Activating System (example when you’re looking to buy some new phone you’re seeing the phone commercials everywhere, but once you buy it the commercials ‘dissapear’)<\/p>\n

TV is passive medium, you can learn something, but you end up forgetting it quite easily.<\/p>\n

AVOID SKIPPING BACK<\/strong> – 30% skipping back, save 20% time! – imagine you can’t go back – you will increase attention after you read and thought to yourself “I didn’t understand”, and if the book is good it will repeat the premise.<\/p>\n

When brain is on 20 cycles per second then you’re in the “zone”.<\/p>\n

METRONOM + POINTER!<\/p>\n

First, when you start reading on a higher speed the comprehension drops, but if you force that speed the comprehension will rise up and exceed the previous one.<\/p>\n

Eyerobics<\/strong> – open wide, close hard, blink hard, left-right look, all around look, look to the window.<\/p>\n

MIN – MAX method – min 1 page per day, max 50, normal 15, but the point is to read everyday!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Check this out: Timothy Ferris: The 4-hour workweek<\/span><\/p>\n

Pareto principle – 80\/20 – 20% efforts => 80% results. 80% additional efforts => 20% results<\/p>\n

Tim Doner speaks > 20 languages! Benny Lewis – Fluent in three months<\/a><\/p>\n

I want to succeed in this course because:<\/strong><\/p>\n