I don’t think it helped me in particular because I have always known how to read fast and keep comprehension but it lays out all the variables that go into it, you get out of it what you put into practice basically. Speed reading is the equivalent of 2x speed videos but works much more often in real life.
Dang that exercise is tiring. My vision actually tunneled in just to be able to keep up. Unfortunately i forgot where I stopped lol so I guess retaining what I spped read needs more practice. But yeah quieting the mind to read faster and faster to keep up with that exercise and not scanning the whole word takes more practice for me.
holy shit that’s cool! wowowow I was always blown away by how fast some people can read but I think I get it now, I’m shocked that I think I actually absorbed most of that last bit at 900wpm
Yeah speed reading and visualization, two massively useful underrated skills to improve that can save you loads of time if you do the right things.
For visualization there is what are called memory palaces where you basically create a symbological image or story (series of images) that are so absurd that you just simply remember them in great detail, and you can use each detail to trace back to something else more important, that’s how you get people reciting hundred of didigrs of pi or whatever else, they have just created a system that encrypts digits of pi into a more rapidly accessible format that makes it feel like you are finding information rather than it bubbling up from the depth fo your mind.
The trick there is that it feels slow and tedious and hard at first but the more practice and experience you have with encoding things, the more quickly you can just remember the most insane amount of shiz with little to no effort.
Thats actually a perspective thst hadn’t clicked for me until just now, that even learning basic words in kindergarten classes and they have funny images of anthropomorphized letters or whatever else spanning across the room, that’s subtle but powerful memory techniques being ingrained in us.
I think I understand the mechanics and intuition of how it works enough that I could apply the techniques easily enough if I wanted to but I otherwise don’t just go around spending time memorizing random mildly useful things for fun because I have other things I can do with my limited thinky power, I don’t really know how I got decent at this stuff in the first place but it just be how it be I guess, I don’t think I compare skill-wise to anyone that has actually practiced it more seriously but i can defenitely be very flexible with this stuff if I need to be.
Evelyn woods speed reading book
I don’t think it helped me in particular because I have always known how to read fast and keep comprehension but it lays out all the variables that go into it, you get out of it what you put into practice basically. Speed reading is the equivalent of 2x speed videos but works much more often in real life.
Here is a quick test to prove to yourself how fast you can go
Dang that exercise is tiring. My vision actually tunneled in just to be able to keep up. Unfortunately i forgot where I stopped lol so I guess retaining what I spped read needs more practice. But yeah quieting the mind to read faster and faster to keep up with that exercise and not scanning the whole word takes more practice for me.
holy shit that’s cool! wowowow I was always blown away by how fast some people can read but I think I get it now, I’m shocked that I think I actually absorbed most of that last bit at 900wpm
Yeah speed reading and visualization, two massively useful underrated skills to improve that can save you loads of time if you do the right things.
For visualization there is what are called memory palaces where you basically create a symbological image or story (series of images) that are so absurd that you just simply remember them in great detail, and you can use each detail to trace back to something else more important, that’s how you get people reciting hundred of didigrs of pi or whatever else, they have just created a system that encrypts digits of pi into a more rapidly accessible format that makes it feel like you are finding information rather than it bubbling up from the depth fo your mind.
The trick there is that it feels slow and tedious and hard at first but the more practice and experience you have with encoding things, the more quickly you can just remember the most insane amount of shiz with little to no effort.
ahhh that’s cool to put a name to it. I know that’s the method they use in Mandarin Blueprint, a system for learning Chinese characters.
neat that it’s an abstract concept that can be applied to other things, do you use it yourself?
Thats actually a perspective thst hadn’t clicked for me until just now, that even learning basic words in kindergarten classes and they have funny images of anthropomorphized letters or whatever else spanning across the room, that’s subtle but powerful memory techniques being ingrained in us.
I think I understand the mechanics and intuition of how it works enough that I could apply the techniques easily enough if I wanted to but I otherwise don’t just go around spending time memorizing random mildly useful things for fun because I have other things I can do with my limited thinky power, I don’t really know how I got decent at this stuff in the first place but it just be how it be I guess, I don’t think I compare skill-wise to anyone that has actually practiced it more seriously but i can defenitely be very flexible with this stuff if I need to be.