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Half of what we know today, we didn't know just fifteen years ago.
The amount of information has doubled just in the last fifteen years and some experts predict it will be doubling again every two years. Everyone has books on the shelf they've never read because they didn't have the time. Some even find reading a slow, laborious task because they read slowly, their mind wanders, they're often having to go back and re-read what they just read.
You cannot control the flow of information to you and if you don't increase the rate at which you read, you are seeing less and less of what's out there. The average person spends about two hours per day reading at the rate of about words per minute.
If you can double your reading speed, you can cut your reading time in half. What takes two hours can now be done in one hour. An extra hour a day for you. Seven hours per week and hours for you over the next year. That's the equivalent of nine free workweeks over the next year to spend time with your family or hobbies or work on those important tasks that are being neglected. Let's look at this in terms of dollars and cents.
If a group of just eight employees can save just one hour per day, gain one more hour of productive time, that's the equivalent of adding on one new free staff person, without a salary, without benefits or overhead costs. It can be done. Easily and with a lot of fun!
Don Wetmore, the country's leading expert on Personal Productivity, offers the most comprehensive Dynamic Speed Reading seminar anywhere. At the end of our one-day, six-hour class, you and your participants will double your reading speed and significantly increase your comprehension level and reading pleasure. Imagine reading a book in one sitting! Or reading those books you bought, never read, and placed on the shelf. How about going home each night with all the paperwork done, with a clean desk for the next day!
What better way to insure your career advancement and success? What you will learn: How to easily read beyond the way you were taught in the first place How to eliminate the blocks that cause you to read slowly How to avoid losing concentration when your mind wanders and you have to go back and re-read the same material Time Management tips to provide you with several more hours in your week to read more of what you want to read Tools to maintain your new skills and to continue to improve your speed and comprehension Multiple reading techniques for different materials Improved memory tools And a whole lot more!
Speed Reading is just a "skimming technique". You will read significantly faster and read every word.
You will learn how to eliminate the blocks that slow you down. Speed Reading requires a lot of formal education. Unfortunately, this is far from the real situation. The average reader is five times slower than the good reader. Things are even worse if we consider reading efficiency as well as speed. Thus, an efficiency ratio of seven divides these two categories. Compare the results of the average reader to other areas. We may imagine a sprinter practicing every day for several years on the running track and then just calmly walking for a race.
We can also picture a racing driver never exceeding 30 mph or a pianist playing every day of the week for 20 years and only able to play music like a beginner. Unfortunately, since the age of 12, most readers do not substantially improve their efficiency and never reach their full capacity. Every computer-user who is also a slow typist is aware of the benefits he could obtain with a typing course, but nearly no one suspects the much higher profits he could reach by improving his reading comprehension and speed.
The rapid improvement of voice recognition may gradually make typing virtuosity obsolete since a good typist performs well under the speed of speech. On the other hand, human or computer speaking, with an average speed of wpm, will always remain many times slower than a good reader, without any consideration of the skimming and skipping possibilities.
There are three possible ways to improve reading. The fastest is probably a speed reading seminar based upon good materials and animated by a dynamic instructor. It is quite usual for a slow reader to double and even triple his reading efficiency during a two-day class offering a positive atmosphere, carefully selected texts and comprehension tests. However, as this rapid and encouraging improvement is not sufficiently anchored, it often fades with time. A book about speed reading is the second possibility.
Such a book usually provides speed and comprehension tests as well as techniques to improve reading.
Browse through over 50 products and services to help you get more done in less time. Have things changed for you? Literacy Adult literacy features. Tim, Most of the material I read these days is digital. On the other hand, human or computer speaking, with an average speed of wpm, will always remain many times slower than a good reader, without any consideration of the skimming and skipping possibilities. FReader software is perfect for you. Find a book or journal, which content offers you absolutely no interest.
It often includes more general information about concentration, interest stimulation, skimming techniques and ways to approach a text. Some methods may include audio or videocassettes. The average person reads around words per minute. But there are people who can read at ten times that level words, and the world speed reading champion Anne Jones can read at words a minute. Imagine how different your life would be if you could read just twice or three times as fast?
How much extra time you could have to read more or do other things. You could learn twice or three times as much in your lifetime with the same retention rate.
How much more could you learn? What kind of an advantage would that have given you at school? Did you know its possible to read any book in under 1 hour? So far this year March 11th I have read about 30 books and I can explain how I learnt to do that and read at a rate of around words per minute. How to read any book in under 1 hour. Sub vocalising the words puts a huge limit to how fast you can read at words per minute.
Your eyes are designed for images. Converting images into sound is not efficient. Imagine if your computer converted every image on your computer into sound for you to process it! To break through to higher speed reading you need to start seeing the words rather than making the sound in your head. But this method is is slow and inefficient because your reading speed is limited by how fast you can move your eyes.
To fix this, you need to make fewer fixations per line, and start using your peripheral vision. Your eyes have a huge amount of peripheral vision that you can learn to use. First you should start by doing some exercises to read by using your peripheral vision. You can use this programs online to learn to expand peripheral vision. One such program is:. Many people read a book from the first word of the first page and move to the next word and continue throughout the book. If you start with your eyes on the first word, you are wasting a lot of peripheral vision on the margin area which is blank.
You can first start small by starting from the second word and finishing at the penultimate word of each line. Over time you can learn to look at each line in two or three fixations by taking snapshots. You need to have a target of what you want to read for.
Normally you want to read something that will help you to do something or understand something. The first step is to be clear about what the purpose of reading is. Is it to help you to grow your company? Help you to understand a scientific problem? If you are reading for sheer pleasure then what is it that you find pleasurable about reading?
First start by writing this goal down or have it in mind. Someone who is reading for to understand the how a car works will read in a very different way to someone who is reading to help generate ideas for a business problem they are facing. You can then skim through the chapters you think are most important and read the first line of the introduction and conclusion, and take some snapshots of individual words that jump out and interest you.
You can think of questions that will pique your interest when you come to read it a second time.