SPEED READER X SPEED READING MADE EASY PLUS

I find it hard to believe I'm subvocalizing when I read at my normal pace on 'average' text (i.e., not academically-dense), on the grounds that I can't read aloud at anything even remotely resembling the speed with which I normally read, no matter how hard I may try. Or, they’ve established experimental conditions where the reader cannot help but think about it, causing it to occur. I suspect the studies referenced have simply not studied those who don’t subvocalize, akin to studies missing the phenomenon of aphantasia until 2015.

If you do not normally subvocalize, you become painfully aware of it when you drop into it, feels like slamming on the brakes, and very difficult to let go of again. Even if you don’t, if you ask about it, then you do (like asking someone to not think about their breathing). I’ve seen this argued elsewhere, and am not convinced they’ve found readers who do not subvocalize to study. To further that, expert speed readers who were studied also subvocalized, they just did it faster. So reading faster means being able to use this inner voice faster, not eliminating it. > It’s simply not possible to comprehend what you’re reading and avoid using that inner voice. It makes me hesitant to recommend any text I've enjoyed for the richness of it, as I fear a superficial read somehow does it less justice than just not reading it at all. My SO reads very quickly, and I often wonder how much of it is being deeply considered as she makes her way through something. Even with fiction, I find I'm relating the current occurrences I'm reading with whatever world the author has built up, and considering ramifications. It's as the author says, comprehension is often the bottleneck. So perhaps for this reason, speed reading has never really clicked for me to the point that I've always been 'suspicious' of it. Younger me was less able to do that and would often blurt out a second response to nobody's particular benefit, or hold off on a response to the point the moment is lost. This leads to interesting social stuff sometimes, and sometimes a kind of short-duration l'esprit de l'escalier social anxiety.Īs I've got older, I've learned that in a lot of cases the initial reaction is fine, and I can suppress the desire to issue a follow-up correction once the brain has caught up. It's like it takes some time to 'dial in' on what my response to a particular stimuli is going to be, but often the situation demands a response faster than I can provide one that I feel is properly considered.

I've noticed I often have an initial reaction to things, then a 'slow reaction' that is sometimes quite different and factors in more things I know. My perception speed is normal, but the gray matter ticks over at a very slow rate of knots and my comprehension of what I'm seeing/hearing/feeling unpacks over the course of several seconds. I'm what I've come to call a 'slow thinker'. I found speed reading worked fine though in my business career I doubt that I used it more than once a year.īottom line my personal ROI would have been much higher if my Mother have hired a tutor to help me over the summer learn to paint or play blues harmonica instead. So what value did I receive from the course? After college there have been times I needed to quickly get the gist of a document and was under extreme time pressure.

I was a kid who loved to read and had no problem doing it for hours on end without tiring.Īfter the course I quickly discovered as I suspected that my real world comprehension suffered greatly by speed reading.

SPEED READER X SPEED READING MADE EASY PLUS

Plus I noticed that I tired quickly doing speed reading. But my comprehension was based on the test they gave me. In the course I did theoretically more than double my reading speed. First they test you and my reading speed was already on the high end of normal. My mother thought that it would give me an edge. I took a speed reading course one summer when I was in college.

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