Speed Reading Tips: Supersonic Readers Use 4 Key Concepts and Skills to Read Super Fast

In the last 4 posts I have described 4 Key Concepts and naturally occurring skills that super fast readers apply in order to read faster than the 600 wpm threshold of traditional linear reading. This post summarizes and illustrates graphically these important keys to help you remember and encourage you to apply to your reading practice. Keep in mind that super fast readers seldom discover this on their own accord. The vast majority have needed to be trained. The good news is that you too can learn how to do this. You have these abilities naturally within you. You just haven’t learned how to apply them to your reading.

These Four Key Concepts are:

• Knowing that the mind can understand meanings even when the words appear out of expected grammatical sequence.
• Knowing and applying the fact that we can understand the text upon seeing them and not needing to say hear them in our mind before we understand the meaning. This is called Visual Reassurance.
• Knowing and using our natural dimensional sight experience of moving the clear area of our visual experience of about one to three inches in diameter as we move down as well as across the page seeing overlapping areas of print as we move in a generally downward direction.
• Knowing and applying the powerful learning concept of Whole-Part-Whole that is using “Gestalt” as an organizing principle that enables the mind to understand and retain facts and details, once the bigger picture is in mind.

These key concepts are not necessarily sequenced. They operate together. If there is one that initiates this new approach to comprehension it is the fourth key – Gestalt. Always cue your mind up around the topic first.

Here is an info graphic to help you “see” it all and help create your memory of these critical elements to read super fast and comprehend.

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Tap The Potential Your Own Mind with Speed Reading

Today, with the internet revolution, the world is changing faster than before. Students and young professionals find themselves in a fix wondering how to keep up with the changing times. Following the traditional study system, by the time we graduate from school, much of what we learn becomes obsolete. So we need to spend time learning how to learn and unlearn to keep up with the times.

Thankfully we have techniques for accelerated learning that can improve our learning curve and we can learn more in less time. This is the need of the hour since so much information is available to us in such a little time. The person who has the most updated knowledge rises in academics as well as at the workplace. Study skills matter more than ever and it is not just the hard work but also some smart work that is needed. Everyone has the same 24 hours a day but different people utilize them differently to get different results. Study skills apply to working professionals, not just students. To remain current and competitive, we must all learn continuously.

Speed reading is a technique that one can learn to get super fast results. The concept is simple. Our mind does not think or understand in the form of words. Through speed reading training, anyone can learn how to read faster. The results are astounding. It is hard to believe how much time a person can save just by reading faster. You can read and comprehend the same amount of text in half the time simply by applying some speed reading tips.

Accelerated reading techniques are scientifically proven and are based on extensive research done on the functioning of human mind. Speed reading courses are now available to help students and professionals from around the world to save their time and become more efficient. It not only improves the quantity but also the quality of your reading. If you take one of the courses available, you can see the difference for yourself within a few days. This is one of the greatest discoveries of our times and we must make the maximum use of it to get ahead in life.

The treasure house lies within you in the form of your own brain. Human brain has much power but most of it is often underutilized. Learn how to use the most of your brain that you already have. Learn how to comprehend better and read many times faster. All this is possible and help is available to find out how. Mastery learning is a great way to get ahead of your peers and get the jobs and promotions you always wanted.

For getting different extraordinary results, we have to do something that ordinary people would not. This different something could be a good online speed reading course which can change your life forever for the good. Use your own mind to work for you and not against you. Look for some of the finest speed reading courses online and get yourself registered. With an improved memory you can hold the information that you read and this will help you perform better in exams as well as at work.

Mastery learning is adopted by more and more professionals these days and if you don't want to be left behind, you must start tapping the potential of your own mind from today!

Speed Reading Tips: Going Beyond Individual Words to Comprehension

In many studies of the reading process and the nature of linguistics, it has been established that the reader knows well over 90 percent of the words. It is therefore unnecessary to have to pronounce each of the words to oneself as you have already learned them.

Before comprehension can be understood we must understand the relative importance and unimportance of words. Words are signals that call forth a response in the deep-well storage banks of the minds. If the words stand alone, the response may be incomplete or erroneous. Words only stand for things we know. The larger the word meaning group, the more accurate and complete comprehension may become. As it is not possible to see large meaning groups at slow rates, the advantage of faster rates for building comprehension becomes apparent. You never have totally accurate comprehension until you have seen all the words. The idea, or the concept, gives the meaning to each word and delegates the relative significance of each word.

The Master Dynamic Speed Reader must also understand the function of the eye in reading. The eye is an extension of the brain. The delicate tissues of the brain must have some protection. The eye offers that protection. The eye makes it possible for the mind to receive image impressions from external sources. The eyes are to the mind what feelers are to an insect. The eyes are to the brain what antenna is to radar. The mind constantly tells you what is in front of you. Sight, in the sense of understanding, is in the brain. When you have mastered the Dynamic Reading method, your mind moves your eyes down the page searching for meaning.

There can be no comprehension if there is nothing in the mind with which to associate the words viewed. Thus, as we generate our thinking, comprehension begins.

Thousands of words must have been placed in the storehouse of the mind before it can be of much value to you. Meaning is in people, not in words. Reading is seeing it with the eye and knowing it with the brain. Reading is thinking with an aid; the aid is the printed page.

This is a good place to again ask the question, how fast should I read? You should only read as fast as your mind can respond. Pre-Reading is the best way to develop high efficiency.

You should therefore be able to read anything as fast as you can think it!!!

The critical questions for a beginning speed reading student is: How fast can
I think? Also, how do I get my mind to think/respond faster in relationship
to the print?

The answers are in the training you do.

Speed Reading Tips: 3 Mind Traps That Will Hold You Back From Your Speed Reading Success

Whether you are beginning your search for a program that can actually help you achieve speed reading success, or, whether you have already tried and failed to master speed reading, you should know that it all starts with examining your mind. Your mind is the place where reading takes place.

Yet the mind is filled with “thinking traps” which filters and shapes how you process new information. Most of the time these traps work “behind the scenes,” of our conscious awareness. Yet, because of their work, our well-intentioned behavior fails.

The first trap is probably where the largest group of people falls into. This first mistaken type of thinking is a belief in magic. Unfortunately the people that believe in magic respond to marketing gimmicks like “Double, triple, quadruple your speed in 15 minutes – Guaranteed!” Anyone who falls for that type of marketing ploy is plainly immature and does not understand a thing about how complex the skill of reading really is. An alternate description is wishful thinking. “Please, can’t I just take a pill?”

Reading is perhaps the most complex and awesome set of cognitive skills the human mind can achieve. To keep it simple, the brain has to do thousands of interconnected firings of various biochemical’s and neurons in extremely sophisticated ways for you to be able to understand the sentence you are reading right now. If that is the case, then consider, if it has taken you a lifetime to develop your skills to the unconscious level of habit where they are right now, does it really make sense that you can permanently change those habits in 15 minutes? What kind of magical thinker are you?

So, if you’re looking for a quick fix, the magic pill approach to learning how to speed read – forget it! Be aware that is a false claim. Before you throw any money down to learn to master speed reading, ask yourself if you are willing to put consistent effort into it. If you are, speed reading can change your life.

The second biggest type of thinking mistake is low self-esteem. Self-esteem means you believe in yourself and believe that you have the power to learn new things and get things accomplished. If you suffer from low self-esteem, you will not learn how to speed read because if you don’t believe in your ability to learn, you will unconsciously do everything in your power to prove to yourself, once again, what a loser you are! Beliefs drive all of your thinking, and your thinking drives all of your behaviors and decisions.

As Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” The mind rallies to keep the belief system in place.

For many years, as people started a speed reading program I gave them a short questionnaire asking them: What do you believe about your ability to learn? What do you believe about your ability to learn in an accelerated fashion? Invariably, if someone was struggling with the skills, I looked at what they wrote, and of course, those questions were answered with negative beliefs. They were creating the results they believed to be true before they started their training.

Forget about learning to speed read if you don’t believe in your own ability to learn. However, I do need to put a note of caution on this one. Many times people do struggle to learn in academic or school situations, not because of their ability, but because of poor instruction. So look outside of your school experience to validate your learning ability. Most educational systems teach with one style of learning. We now know from educational psychology that there are at least 8 different learning styles. Your school experience may not have been geared to your learning preference, or style.

The last type of flawed thinking trap is the skeptic. The skeptic type of thinking is a mind-trap habit of viewing every situation through the lens of looking for what is wrong, or flawed in the situation. If a situation is absolutely not perfect, the skeptic discounts everything in the experience. Also, the skeptic looks at things as unproven until “I’m convinced.” The truth is: no one will ever change your basic beliefs (see above discussion about beliefs) but you. Entering into a learning situation with this frame of mind is doomed from the outset.

The skeptic type of thinking is also immature in that it fails to understand the true nature of learning. Most “genius” inventors will state they accomplished their creation through a process of trial and errors. The human mind learns best by failure! Expecting great things to be perfect with one first try is just plain dumb.

When learning to master speed reading, I clearly tell people, they will have lots of struggles and mistakes initially. However, if you take a look at your behavior and compare it to the model of the ideal behavior, you can learn to adjust. That’s the path to mastery of any worthwhile skill.

Another problem with skeptical thinking is that it pulls the skeptic out of the process of direct learning and into an “observer” status. That is all left-brain dominant thinking. Learning is experiential. You have to jump into the “mosh pit” in order to truly understand the experience. Watching from a distance will not bring understanding. Neuro-science has demonstrated the fact that tactile experience involves more parts of the brain and thus learning takes hold better. This engages both left and right hemispheres. From that, I suppose one could say that the skeptic is a half brain!

The strength of experiential learning is another good reason why almost no one learns to master speed reading by reading a book. If you want to master speed reading, destroy your skeptic hat. Jump into the mosh pit!

If any of these types of thinking are true for you, you will be disappointed in the results you will create with your flawed attempts to learn a very complicated set of skills. What you hold to be true in your mind, will be manifested in your life. The good news about flawed thinking is that it can be changed. So I tell these types of thinkers, “Pretend it is possible” From that perspective, you can freely experiment without the mind-traps and then achieve the outcome of mastering speed reading.

When someone enrolls in our Masters Online program, they are assigned a personal coach. The coach understands these mind traps and can help the new learner overcome them. This kind of support is crucial to succeeding in mastering speed reading as a lifelong skill.

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Speed Reading Tips: For Super Fast Reading Focus on Meanings, not Grammar

How fast do you read? Have you tried to speed read and only get frustrated because you can’t seem to get through certain speed limits?

I’ve noticed that new students to speed reading often meet speed plateaus when developing their skills. The first speed plateau appears at around 500-600 words per minute (wpm).

The reason why this rate appears so often to hold new learners back is because they are still trying to comprehend the material using their traditional approach of linear sub vocal reading. This kind of reading relies on the grammatical sequence to be heard in the mind, before the mind accepts to meaning. Grammar is the driver. 500-600 wpm is the limiting number as that is the speed at which our brain can understand spoken language.

One of the key concepts and skills to what I call “supersonic reading,” (above the 600 wpm threshold) is accepting meanings without regard to grammatical sequence.

This will allow you to read above those 600 words per minute threshold especially for informational types of reading. Reading is a thinking skill, or cognitive skill. How often do you think in grammatically correct sentences? Thinking is comprised of images, feelings, ideas, and concepts. Seldom do we need to think in grammatical sequence. When learning to speed read, this becomes a challenge merely because of habit.

Understand me you do? Yes, that sentence is purposely out of grammatical sequence to demonstrate that we can understand meaning outside of expected order.

So as you practice to develop your skills, free your mind to interpret the print and not rely on the grammatical sequence. Put the meaning together in your way of saying it. Or, better yet, sum it up with key words as you move over the print.