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How to Improve Your Reading Speed: Use My Techniques and Follow These Easy Directions What you'll discover inside… The way to recognize and eliminate one of the biggest bad habits that slows people down when reading. The secret method at the core of many famous speed reading programs, like "Eye Q", Howard Berg's "Mega Speed Reading", and more… An easy ‐to ‐learn speed reading method that will force your eyes to adapt to a higher reading ability.
How to 15 books a year with hardly any effort.
INTRODUCTION
In this newsletter, I'm going to show you some speed reading techniques that I've discovered to be extremely effective. There are three parts to today's newsletter, and I urge you to read each one very carefully.
Part of my philosophy is that it's easier to learn something right the first time, than learn it wrong and try to correct yourself later. I learned speed reading wrong the first time, and it took me a long time to correct all of my problems. Luckily for you, that's given me good insight into all the things that can go wrong, and a vast knowledge of what works and what doesn't.
So you're going to learn a bit about that here, and you're also going to get some easy‐to‐follow directions on a good speed reading method to try. Hopefully,
you'll be able to take these tips and techniques and apply them to your normal reading routine. This stuff will work especially well if you've already "internalized" the tips and techniques from the previous newsletters, but even if this is the only thing you really pay attention to, I think you'll still make some great improvements to your reading ability.
PART 1: REGRESSION
Regression is one of the biggest bad habits that slows people down when reading – and you know what worst part about it is? It's hard to tell if you're even doing it.
Regression is the habit of skipping back while reading to re‐read something. When you do it intentionally, it's probably for a good reason. When you lose focus and stop following the material, then yeah, it's probably a good idea to skip back to where you lost track, and restart from there. But you'd be surprised at how often regression occurs unnecessarily. For a lot of people, regression is such a huge problem that as soon as they get it solved, their reading speed goes up by 100wpm.
There are two ways to solve this problem. The first way is just to tell yourself to not regress. This actually helps a lot. Once you start to pay attention to your
regression, you'll notice how often you do it, and how often it's actually unnecessary.
The second way is to actually help your eyes avoid regression, and this is what I'm going to show you how to do in this report.
The reason we approach it this way is that a lot of the time, regression is not caused by loss of focus, or weak comprehension – it's just because your eyes are not very good at reading. I know this sounds a little strange, but it's truer than you think.
It is extremely common people to "lose track" while reading. This happens all the time, in all kinds of ways, for almost all readers on the planet. For example, maybe your brain will just stop concentrating on the text, and your comprehension will start to drop off. Or maybe you'll actually lose your place while reading, and you'll have to scan around the page to find out where you left off. Here's another example: if you wanted to count something – like the number of lines on a page – how well do you think it would work if you just used your eyes (without a finger or a pencil to help you along)? Obviously, it wouldn't work very well – your eyes aren't very good at that kind of stuff.
What your eyes ARE good at is darting around, scanning, and following motion. So the solution is to simply incorporate those things into reading, to make it a more enjoyable, more exciting experience for your eyes. (I know that your eyes are not sentient – I'm really talking about the vision centres of your brain, but it's easier to just say "eyes.")
SO HERE'S THE SOLUTION:
Focus Point Guiding. This is actually the basis of a few of the famous speed reading programs, like Eye Q, Howard Berg's "Mega Speed Reading", and a few more. The reason this is so popular is that it WORKS!
Creating a focus point will help you guide your eyes, making sure that they read in exactly the way you want them to AND making it easy for them to read in exactly the way you want them to. So let me explain what exactly Focus Point Guiding is, so that you can know what I'm talking about here.
The idea is to guide your eyes with your finger, or a pencil, (or whatever,) as you read. So if you're doing left‐to‐right reading, then you just go along with your finger where you think your eyes should be looking. Just underline the words as you read, and let your eyes pretty much follow your finger.
Take a look at this diagram for a little visual explanation:
This image was actually taken straight from the Speed
Reading Manual, which talks about this same sort of stuff,
but in more detail…
Key points to remember: keep a steady rhythm, don't slow down, read as fast as your comprehension allows, and don't skip back.
So let me tell you why this helps. When you guide your eyes with your finger, a few things happen:
Your reading speed will become more stable.
Your eyes will have an easier time keeping track of the text.
You won't regress nearly as much.
Your reading speed will increase.
Those are all good things, and they work with each other to strengthen your reading ability as a whole.
So that's all great, but how would you like to use that very same "focus point guiding" method to improve your reading speed even more, and give yourself an even bigger reading speed boost?
Introducing…
PART 2: THE "RUN/WALK" METHOD
This technique involves alternating reading extremely quickly (running) and reading at your regular speed (walking). I got the "Run/Walk" name from marathon runners, who use this method to stretch out their endurance and travel extremely long distances.
I find that this works extremely well in reading, but only if you do it right. So right now, I'm going to show you how to do it right, and how to use this method to drastically improve your reading ability.
WAIT! This method makes heavy use of focus point guiding. It's a very
good idea to practice that up a little bit before trying this. If you want to
make some big progress using the run/walk method, then I seriously
recommend that you pause reading here, get a book or a newspaper, and read at least one article or one chapter using your finger to pace and
guide your eyes. Focus point guiding is a core part of the run/walk
method, so you need to be comfortable with it before continuing
First let's define the "walk" in this method. Walking is reading at your best, most comfortable speed. It's the speed where your comprehension is at 100%, and where if you go any faster, your comprehension starts to drop. If you've got a page of text handy, then try reading a paragraph or two in your walk speed (remember to guide your focus point), and remind yourself of how fast that is. Your "run" speed should be way faster than your walk. If your walk speed is around 250wpm, then your run should be 750wpm – aim for triple your walk speed. It's at this super‐speed that focus point guiding is going to become useful in a very obvious, very observable way. If you try to read at this kind of speed
without guiding your focus point, you'll find that it's almost impossible to keep track of the text… But when you've got your finger underlining every word, and your eyes working to follow the finger and not fall behind, it's a whole different game.
Your comprehension at your "run" speed should be very low. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't pay attention to the text. What you want to do is try your hardest to catch as many words as you can. It will feel like you're flying by the text, and only picking out a few words as they pass by, but that's the point.
When "running", something very interesting is going to happen… Your eyes will begin to adapt to the new speed. Your eyes will get better at recognizing and identifying the words, and your comprehension will slowly start to increase.
And that right there is the crucial piece of information – your comprehension will increase even if you don't slow down. It's probably BECAUSE you don't slow down. What you're doing is presenting your eyes with information input at a faster speed than they're used to. The mistake that most people make in this sort of situation is to adapt their behaviour for their eyes. All you need to do is let your eyes adapt for your behaviour.
If your comprehension at 600wpm is 5% today, it can increase to 10% tomorrow – BUT ONLY IF YOU PRACTICE READING AT 600WPM. Let your eyes adapt. You just need to give them some time and practice, and they will.
So here's how to do the run/walk method: read for 2 full minutes in run speed (use a timer!), take a quick break, then read for 2 full minutes in walk speed. Then start again: run, walk; run, walk.
The results of "Run/Walk" as a reading method are even more significant than they are as a marathon running method. Every time you complete that run/walk cycle, your "run" will increase in comprehension, and your "walk" will get a little faster. And it's that second result that's actually the most exciting. Remember that your "walk" is the speed where comprehension is 100% – so that's the one that really matters.
This method blew my mind when I first tried it on my own. Most people never even try to "run". They might just do it for a second, but then say "oh what's the
point! I can't comprehend anything at this speed anyway." What they don't realize is that "running" challenges your eyes, and demands them to improve and adapt to a new speed.
PART 3: READ 15 MINUTES A DAY
The benefits of practice can never be overstated. Practicing reading will improve your vocabulary, increase your comfort with the material, quicken your rational‐thought processes, and a whole lot more.
Think about how much some people are able to improve WITHOUT any help, when all they do is read a ton of books. In your situation, with all of these tried & tested tips sent to your inbox every couple of days, and with all of the other resources you have on the internet, think about how much YOU can improve, just by practicing a little bit every day.
If you're not doing so already, then from now on try to set aside at least half an hour every day for pure un‐interrupted READING. You can read anything you want ‐‐ the point is that you spend that full half‐hour practicing the techniques you've learned.
If you spend 30 minutes a day (starting today) reading with focus point guiding, the run/walk method, and a few of those other tips you learned in the other newsletters, I think that within the week you will start to notice some significant improvements in your reading ability.
But maybe you don't have 30 minutes a day to spend on reading… So let's say you only have a maximum of 15 minutes to spend per day. Let's do a bit of math, and see how much those 15 minutes can help you in the long run.
If your reading speed is 200wpm (a full 50wpm below the average reading speed), and if you read for 15 minutes every day 350 days a year (taking 15 days off for whatever reason), by the end of the year you will have read FIFTEEN BOOKS.
That means that every minute you spend reading per day equals a whole book finished by the end of a year. If you read 20 minutes a day, you'll read 20 books. If you read 30 minutes a day, you'll read 30 books.
And don't forget, that's at the meager reading speed of 200wpm. The average reading speed is 250wpm, and the fact that you're reading this probably means that your reading speed is getting at least a little faster than that…
So think about it: how many books did you read last year? More than 15? If so, great. For most people, that's not the case. But either way, you should be ADDING these 15 minutes onto your current reading schedule. You should always be reading more and more.
At this point in my reading ability, I'm reading a few books every week. A couple times a month, I go to my University library, and get a new load of books to read. Getting to that level is actually easier than you think. I did spend a few years getting there myself, but I was making all kinds of silly mistakes and I didn't really have a very good idea of what I was doing.
You, right now, have an enormous advantage. You have access to some of the best, most reliable speed reading tips that I've ever learned – during my huge long training period, I picked up a huge amount of knowledge on this stuff, and
I'm happy to share it all with you. My goal here is not just to teach you how to speed read, but to save you all of the time‐consuming trouble that I went through when I learned how to speed read.
The techniques that I'm showing you in these newsletters are really just the tip of the iceberg. I have so much more – so many powerful techniques, and so much valuable information – that I can't possibly share it all in these short newsletters.
If you want access to my full speed reading system, with step‐by‐step methods for reading with maximum speed and maximum comprehension, then check out my Speed Reading Manual.
You can find it right here:
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The book is available for instant download, so you can download it to your computer an start studying from it right away… and it's got pretty much all of the best speed reading techniques that I know packed into just 40 pages.
If you don't see amazing improvements in your reading ability within the first 7 days of using the book, you won't have to pay a dime. Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Click here and see what I mean:
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I'll do my best to keep this newsletter going, and I know you'll keep an eye out for my emails. I really hope you click on that blue link above – I think you'll like what you find on the other side.
Thanks,
Stephen
IMPORTANT LEGAL INFORMATION: The specific improvements that I mention in this report are not typical results. You may be less successful or more successful. I am not in any way implying that everyone who reads this report, follows my advice, or buys any product will improve their reading speed, or gain any benefits whatsoever. To my knowledge, there isn't a product in the world that works that well. Learning how to speed read involves practice, and training. And sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you don't get the results you expect. So please, don’t take any mention of my success or the success of an associate as a promise or implication of your future results.。