Top secrets

I specially placed this part of the book at the end in order not to test my reader’s strength. Impatience in conjunction with a tempting offer can play a cruel joke if a person is at the beginning. This chapter is the quintessence of all the described methods and exercises. After reading and learning several exercises, the speed of your reading will increase after 20 minutes of training! Having a knowledge base in the form of the ability to separate the most important from the secondary, to concentrate on the text in the right way and memorizing important facts, to increase the indicators dozens of times will not be difficult.

Ready? Then let's go!

Fewer stops

While reading the text, the eyes don’t smoothly slide along the lines, but make a kind of jumps. The end of the jump is indicated by fixing attention on a certain part of the text. Most often, this segment is a quarter of a page. At the time of stopping, a visual image of the read text is performed.

Imagine the highway with rushing cars. Feel the car picking up speed and accelerate to one hundred kilometers per hour! As objects rush past, as the road glides under the wheels! Now imagine the city traffic with a lot of crossings and traffic lights – the car barely picks up speed, as it has to be slowed down due to restrictions. From this ride does not seem so free and smooth.

The same thing happens with ordinary reading. Just imagine, that you spend from ¼ to ½ second for each fixation. Now calculate the temporal passage at which your stops cost you if you read Hemingway’s novel?

In order to feel this process on yourself, close one eye with your fingertip, and slowly slide along the lines. The horizontal line of the text slows down significantly, like a conveyor belt moving in spurts.

Do not come back

Regression in the process of reading takes up to 30% of precious time in the process. Return to reading can be both conscious and unconscious in nature. If the reversion occurs unconsciously, then the subconscious self regains a glance at the place where control over attention was lost.

Concentrate

Thanks to the lessons on concentration, the transition from medium to high rate reading speed will be realized much faster. This will help not only the use of the central focus, but also horizontal peripheral vision. Thus, the concentration of perceived words increases in one leap of view.

Divide and rule

Starting a workout, arrange classes in categories, not mixing them. For example, if you want to increase the speed of reading up to 300-400 words per minute, do not strive to assimilate the text one hundred percent, first master the technique of the expanded field of view, and then proceed to the exercises for attention and analysis. Perception reflexes should be maximized, so that later you are not distracted by adapting to an increased pace.

During the course, you must go through three stages: understanding the principles of technology → application of the studied technology in practice → fast reading at the level of text understanding. Constantly increase the speed of the text in the "readers" to develop addictive to automatism.

Extend the field of view

You shouldn’t concentrate on one word, if you can see the whole page (personally, I use this postulate as a motto for my own life). The wider the viewing angle, the higher the reading speed. Train your peripheral vision to increase your pace by 300, 500, 1000 times! Remember, that if you snatch only one word from the text, ignoring its surroundings, the speed drops by more than 25%. It turns out, that only a small part of the capabilities of the visual apparatus is involved in the process of slow reading, i.e. the efficiency of reading is reduced by almost half.

Imagine, that the text, revealed before you, is a rope ladder, where the steps are the words located along the vertical of the text. Rely on the words-steps with a direct look, but don’t lose the ropes themselves from the side view. By the same analogy, exclude the so-called "empty fields", i.e. avoid unnecessary eye movements – start reading the sentence from the third word and finish last. At first, the meaning of the text will completely elude you, but with each article or book you read, you will see how the black lines make sense.

“Think about the meaning, and the words will come themselves,” said the fabulous Lewis Carroll’s heroine. All the words are already in your head, project your knowledge on the text, and you will see how an endless ocean of subtexts, wordplay, metaphors, which previously eluded, are revealed before you.

Down with tricks

Yes, our brain is full of surprises. For example, reading our whole life as we were taught in school, we had no idea that a direct look is not the only reading tool. Our peripheral vision helps to see the entire text, covering entire paragraphs.

A defocused look (not scattered, meaningless), as if by a lasso, “catches” that amount of information that is impossible with a slow reading of a direct direction. Using the techniques given in the book, you’ll be able to master the defocus technique and see the world in a completely new way.

Having defeated the attitudes that were initially laid in you, “having reprogrammed” the whole way of thinking, you can get immeasurable pleasure from the reading process, and re-experience the taste for knowledge.

Turning off the internal dialog

Pronunciation, articulation, inner monologue or dialogue – all this prevents quality speed reading. Exercises related to meditation and concentration will help remove all the “rubbish” from the thinking process, so that an endless uncontrolled flow of thoughts does not “interrupt” the waves of useful information.

Yes, you’ll not get rid of the internal dialogue and pronunciation completely, but will learn to control and suppress interference. Just imagine that there is something in your body that is beyond the control of your will! Imagine, that the disobedient organs, the movements, that are beyond the control of the mind, are wayward horses that need to be curbed. Once you learn the methods and techniques of control, you will gain complete power over yourself and your own life.

Emotions – yes, emotionality – no

Of course, we experience emotions while reading. And not only. Every moment of life is associated with one or another experience – hundreds of thousands of times psychologists from around the world have spoken about this. However, the debate isn’t about whether a person is emotional or not, but about whether emotions are amenable to control. This question is closely related to the previous one, but I would like to put it in a separate rule. Excessive emotionality prevents the reader from consuming information. Instead, there is a moment of experiencing the resulting material, which is not related to the fact that you are upset from reading or fall into euphoria.

It’s difficult to experience the delight of reading while looking through the statistics report. But nonetheless. Perceiving information, it’s necessary to focus on its quality in the semantic aspect. Compare it, comprehend, digest you have time, when you familiarize yourself with the desired segment of the text. The cold mind, directed at the outer shell of the text, will not allow emotionality to overwhelm the thought process and lead it away.

Do you want to know if your job is vocation? Imagine yourself without her!

Beating unnecessary thoughts

If speaking of itself slows down the pace of reading, then a high concentration of unnecessary thoughts leads exclusively to a loss of interest and a decrease in the efficiency of reading. An endless internal dialogue makes you constantly distracted by unnecessary items – how to answer a colleague's unpleasant comments, how to cook dinner... the list is as endless as the stream of thinking.

By practicing meditative exercises to stop internal dialogues in conjunction with breathing techniques, you can not only control your thoughts during speed reading, but also focus entirely on the important points of life – during a business lunch, on a romantic date or an official celebration.

Concentration depends on the goals with which you proceed to reading this or that material. Be clear about what you want to get from the text – new information, entertainment, useful data. Reading aimlessly is the same as rolling a bicycle in an unknown direction. On the way to the bakery, you can easily turn the wrong way and find yourself in another city. Adventure scenes in real life rarely turn into practical use, so choose your books wisely, relying on your own needs.

Evaluate books for their worth

A completely logical continuation of the usefulness of books follows from the previous secret, basically – theirs content and characteristics. Any text has a kind of image, which can be seen by previewing it. The daguerreotype of information is imprinted in the brain, which in the process of speed reading will help to recognize words and not to read them.

Studying the content, reading reviews and a brief description will help to understand useful and “empty” chapters or parts of the text. Brains will tune to the desired wave and will not allow interference.

Systematic training

The systematic approach is one of the main guarantees of the success of speed reading training. Each exercise and methodology in this book were selected in such a way that, after passing through each of them, not only the quality of reading, but also the quality of thinking would increase.

Stop is automatic degradation. Imagine, that just one day of laziness (assuming that you don’t have enough will power) can reduce many months of training to zero.

If you feel tired, reduce time on the exercises, pay less time for classes, but be sure to read the text every day – novels, newspapers, articles, essays, personal memoirs – the information will not allow the thinking mechanisms to “rust”.

I brought trainings to more than four-hour process. For beginners, I recommend the maximum of 2-3 hours, so as not to overstretch the visual system.

Also, I want to warn about one danger. One day you’ll not see improvements. You’ll have a feeling that you are stuck. No progress. This may take some time, but another day you’ll make a breakthrough. It's unavoidable. The main thing – at the moment of weakness, don’t give up. This time is necessary for your brain to adapt to new conditions and pace. As soon as neural connections get stronger, progress will amaze you with its scope.

Intense training

Our brain is a muscle that requires constant exercise. Thanks to constant exercises, new neural connections are formed, providing a high intensity of thought processes. Just like our body, the brain may experience fatigue after intense exercise. If after passing the exercises you experience headaches, do not be intimidated. Remember that if, after classes in the gym, you notice painful sensations in the arms, legs or the press, it means that the training was successful. There is a period of progress.

Give yourself a rest in one or two days. Wait it out. Catch your breath. Do relaxation exercises. Neural connections will be strengthened, and you will be able to continue at a qualitatively new level, striving for even greater heights.

The right mood

The energy field is equally important in the reading process. A positive attitude helps achieve more tangible results. If you are positive, the text will turn into a source of endless joy and fascinating information for you.

Be sure to try on all sxercises to achieve maximum results. Set all new and new records.

Exercises "Green Dot" and "Focusing of Attention" are very important exercises, and when you will be engaged in speed reading skills training, don’t ignore them. The viewing time is 15 minutes, but sometimes it is useful to try one hour. Only then you feel how attention and concentration have improved. Master of martial arts Bruce Lee forced himself to look at a burning candle for 2 hours to improve concentration.

It’s necessary to train about 2 hours a day, but I sometimes trained more than 4 times, thanks to it I discovered new abilities and moved to a new level.

In order to get rid of pronunciation, it’s necessary to tap the rhythm from 20 to 100 hours. It depends on the individual psycho-emotional characteristics of a person. You can, of course, not tap out, and force yourself not to pronounce words by force of will, but it’s very difficult. In the reading with mode of automatic flipping pages, you can read books and at the same time knock out the rhythm on the table or even on your own lap with both hands.

Use all the features of the exercises to the maximum. Try to read books during workouts with a speed exceeding yours three times, thus you set yourself up at a higher pace. Understanding at the first stage is not required, it will come later.

Exercises are reading weights. Catching on them and going to the plain text, your reading speed will automatically increase gradually. Don’t regret time for training, you will gain a skill that will stay with you forever. You can develop it using the proposed program to incredible heights.

A very effective method of "lasso": You try to throw a lasso to the text and extract the whole meaning and the main idea from it. Continue to read on and on. Soon you’ll understand, that it works and it is not so difficult to undergo training.

The most important and effective weapon is to read the text as if with the tip of nose, and while concentrating on the crown of the head, press the tongue to the teeth. Your nose is a pointing stick, information, the meaning of the read should fall from the text directly into the brain in the upper part of the head into the crown. The look should be a little distracted, defocused, the reader should try to cover the maximum paragraph for himself, both in width and height, constantly increasing it. While reading, to catch this state, by force of will, to force yourself not to pronounce the text, but to extract from the text only the meaning, thoughts of the author. Read the next, throwing a lasso to draw thoughts from the text, and so on. Reading is a continuous stream. In order to easily catch such a state, daily meaningful training is necessary. Only then, after the work done, you will be able to receive not only benefit from reading books, but also pleasure, reading turns into a pleasant pastime, your eyes don’t get tired when working with a book. You read hundreds of pages without fatigue, the lesson can drag on for hours. The main thing is to believe in yourself and in your own strength, and you will definitely succeed. Reading quickly is not a myth. The law, when quantity goes into quality, hasn’t been canceled. Good luck with your speed reading skills. I hope that the time spent on classes will not be in vain and will help you succeed in any field of activity, no matter what you choose. Never give up.

After very intense training, you may have a little headache, the upper part in the area of the crown, don’t be intimidated by this state, take a break for 1-2 days. Your neurons are searching, breaking through new connections. That’s happens after physical training – muscles can also hurt. Recovery will not take long, and after the rest you will move to a new level.

While reading, there must be a positive attitude that you quickly read, memorize the necessary information and store it in long-term memory. First, spend some time adjusting, and then proceed to reading – this will help to greatly improve the result. During reading, there should be a goal, that you quickly read and remember and that you need this information very much.

Remember, the path of change is the way to the victory pedestal.

Another very effective and efficient way to focus attention before training is not very intense exercise, holding your breath, laying down and other physical exertion causing mild fatigue, they help you learn to concentrate better.

Spend some time adjusting before exercises. Calm the breath, bring it to the correct rhythm. Do some training – squats, pushups, the bar – endorphin from physical exertion will allow the brain to relax and better absorb the resulting material. A few minutes of meditation on concentration and attention will facilitate the acquisition of information.

Believe in yourself

Belief in yourself is almost the most important engine in the direction of success. I wrote this book with faith in each of my readers. And I want to convey at least a small part of the self-confidence that I feel at the moment!