Speed Reading vs. Reading:
a short synopsis of some basic differences and misconceptions
How to gain the most from the written page is not found in the technique you learned to use to gather information. The
rote-memory system is failing you. Reading teachers around the world say the same thing,
“If you do not read every word verbatim, then you are not getting the information”. Their statistics tell a different story.
Reading
Imagine pulling open a good long novel while sitting in your favorite
chair in front of an open fireplace for a good long read. Taking your
time to absorb yourself in the plot as it thickens, the evening wears
on. You find that even though you have been reading for over an hour,
you have only gone through about 40 pages. If you do the same thing
every night for 10 days, you finally be at the end of your 400 page
novel. That’s fine, if you have plenty of time to burn.
Now, imagine what your employer would say if you told him you would
be happy to peruse a 400 page report over the next 10 days and get back
to him then. What if you were to speed read instead?
Reading Doesn’t Work!
Speed Reading
It is no secret that when you
speed read, you are
neither reading everything, nor are you taking it all in for accuracy.
How do you feel about your skill with speed reading? Do you feel that
you have missed a lot? Even if the document now only takes you one or
two hours instead of 10 hours, do you feel your accuracy of information
is there? Are you confident in presenting your findings after just speed
reading? Probably not.
Let’s look at the statistics. You have been told that reading is the
most accurate way of dealing with information, right? Did you know that
you will immediately forget 50% of what you just read? Can you imagine
how ineffective reading is when you forget 95% of what you read, in only
48 hours? Did you know that if you were given a comprehensive test
covering all the topics you passed tests on in school that you would
most likely fail miserably as an adult?
But when you look at speed reading, you would probably think that
since you are using fewer words to get your information that you would
be even worse off. Right?… Wrong! Statistics prove that speed reading
has higher comprehension of information, and even a longer hang time of
the information than reading.
So why would people that learn speed reading, and know the
statistics, go back to much slower ineffective reading for their
information? Most people do not have confidence in speed reading. Even
though the statistics prove otherwise, people were taught form an early
age that reading is “the way”
. Speed Reading Fails!
Dyslexia
There are an amazing number of people that suffer daily with reading;
dyslexics. 25% of the population has
dyslexia.
Since there are 7 types of dyslexia, and if you are a dyslexic, you can
experience 1 or more of them at varying levels, the school systems are
not equipped with specialists to properly diagnose the different types.
In reaction, many dyslexics get diagnosed with
ADD and
ADHD instead.
For dyslexics, dealing with written information can be painful to impossible. There is a different way of dealing with the
dyslexic
aberration; bypass it all together. The way this can be achieved is by
reteaching dyslexics to access their eidetic memory (photographic
memory) instead. #Dyslexia does not inhibit the photographic memory.
Photographic Memory
There is another way to gain information that is much more effective
that reading or speed reading. When you were born, you had a
#PhotographicMemory. It isn’t limited to just seeing either. It is a
photographic memory on all senses. It is called the
eidetic memory. Better yet, it is completely natural!
There is a new way to learn that uses that
photographic memory you misplaced. It is called
Mental Photography. It was invented in 1975 by
Richard Welch from speed reading. There is still hope for those that find reading and speed reading painful to impossible.
For more info.
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