Align:start hey guys this is Gaurav and today we are going to make you familiar with something that your school teachers never did reading faster technically we learned how to read and kindergarten and since then we haven’t improved on that but that sad isn’t it do we walk out of the same way as we did when we were six then why the hell do we read the same way in this an academy video Roman who is a medical doctor who has read more than 500 books and is just 24 is going to teach us how to read faster with better comprehension hey guys what’s up this is Roman here today I am going to teach you something which has had a drastic impact when it comes to my professional as well as personal growth that is the technique of reading faster and comprehending better at the same time now I am able to apply this knowledge four to five times faster in diverse fields and I want you to do that as well my aim with this particular tutorial is that you at least double your speed or increase it to more than 600 words per minute so before I actually teach you the technique let me resolve some myths first you can quadruple your speed in 15 minutes wrong you may be able to learn the basic principles but it will take you a hell lot of practice before you can actually start to see some consistent improvement if you are a slow reader meaning thereby you are reading at 5200 words per minute it is impossible for you to take it to beyond 600 or more but in reality you can if you would actually believe that somehow if they read at a very fast pace it will destroy their brain or damaged their neuronal connections but being a doctor I know it’s not the case you can always come back to slow reading whenever you want to people think that you need an extremely high IQ to become a speed reader the thing that you need to be son and daughter of Einstein or Tesla but in reality that’s not the case even if you have an average IQ you have an equally good chance of becoming the fastest reader on this planet as your reading speed increases your comprehension will necessarily go on just a little bit of practice your comprehension will either stay the same or it might even go up so it is a nonzero-sum game as a child your teacher might have forced you to sit down and remember 100% of the content but obviously it is impossible to do since you and we are not robots in reality even if you do 60 to 70 percent of it your job is done so before moving forward just try and read this para I am 100% sure that all of you are able to comprehend this paragraph as you must have realized the letters or not in a particular sequence yet your brain filled in the blanks similarly even if you don’t focus on all the words your brain will still fill in the blanks so you don’t need to read the trivial words and you can just focus on the key words so before you actually proceed ahead with the exercises you need to find out your existing speed for that I want you to click on the link in the description below take the test and you will find out exactly how many words you are reading per minute so the rate which you have got is the number of words divided by the time taken that is why it’s called words per minute but more importantly than that you also need to focus on comprehension because comprehension and speed are the two sides of the same coin they go hand-in-hand so if your comprehension is below 55% then your reading speed does not matter at all it should be at least 55% it’s decent if it’s between 60 to 70 it’s awesome if it’s above 70 so it’s very very important that you record your progress otherwise you’ll not be able to understand whether this exercise will help you or not or that I need you to make a graph on x-axis you’ll have the number of attempts for example the first time second time third attempt and so on and on y-axis you will have the reading time how much speed you are generating for example 500 words per minute or 400 words per minute and then you need to plot a curve so that you check your progress so now actually let’s start with the exercises which will make you read faster and comprehend better the first step is called a survey method or the preview method in this you have to resist the urge to read the book word by word from page one itself you need to glance through the contents you need to basically understand the context you need to go through the summary the heading subheadings and you need to go through the key points and phrases so all these steps will give you a holistic and comprehensive picture of what the book is about and this is the point where you decide whether to read the book or not the maximum number of books which were ever read by a human being was by mr.
Kim Peak the mega savant on whose life the movie Rain Man was based he was able to around 12,000 books with recall so it is impossible for you or me to read all the millions of books out there so we have to choose wisely so after the step one you need to develop some questions which you want the text to answer so for developing them this rhyme will help you a lot I keep six honest serving men they taught me all I knew their names are what and why and when and how and where and who for developing questions like what is this chapter about where am I going to apply this knowledge how is it going to be beneficial to me when was this incident happening all this is part of active reading and not passive reading so in this third step we will actually learn to control our eye movements whenever you read your eye attempts to move back and forth this movement is called Socratic movement and it is bad for your comprehension as well as reading speed so for controlling the saccadic movement what I want you to do is just take a pacer it can be either a pencil or a pen or even your fingertip just move across the line smoothly and shift from one line to another and do not give more than a second per line just do it for three minutes pause the video and I’ll be right here so now I want you to focus for half a second per line do it for two to three minutes and come back by now you have finished two exercises and I know you are not comprehending at all please please do not worry about comprehension or understanding at this particular point now once you were able to follow your eye along the pacer now I want you to focus on group of birds this is called as chunking which will help you expand your peripheral vision so despite focusing on me your peripheral vision can still make out this colored background and this object so in the first two exercises we were basically wasting half of our peripheral vision by focusing right from the first word to the last word of the line now I want you to skip those two words that is the first in the last word and you will realize they’re automatically covered in your peripheral vision so do this third exercise for three minutes and get back so for this fourth exercise I want you to expand your peripheral vision even further try to skip the first two and the last two words of the line and don’t stay for more than a second per line do it for two minutes and get back to me so now for the fifth and the final exercise I want you to just skip everything and focus on the middle word so for example if there are seven words in a line just skip the first three and the last three and focus on the center but if there are more than seven words per line you have to focus on two words the basic M is you have to delete the first three and the last three words from your focus while you are doing this fifth and final exercise I want you to focus on one line for just second just half a second and move on I know your comprehension will be absolutely zero but right now that is not our concern right now I am trying to control your eye movements and remove lifetime of bad habits to do this exercise for two minutes and get back so from the above exercises you must have realized the fact that you do not need to read every word for comprehension to be better and through those exercises you have also mastered the art of removing these three bad habits first is vocalization or speaking out loud as you must have realized while doing those exercises it was virtually impossible for you to speak anything please remember that you do not need to speak the word out loud in order to comprehend its meaning so for example if you go to Italian diner you don’t say out loud pasta in order to understand its meaning this is because from our past experience brain has associated various neuronal connections and it now knows that pasta is a concern food item now the second and the most important mistake which each and every one of us make is subbhu collision I know as an adult when we read a book we don’t say it out loud most of the time but we have a tendency to speak it in our head see in order for you to break this speed barrier of 300 words per minute it’s extremely crucial that you eliminate sub bocal ization you can use the techniques like chewing gum or counting from 1 to 10 because the basic idea is you do not say anything while reading the text so after oka lies ation and cervical ization the third most common mistake an average reader makes is regression do you remember the last time you read that biology chapter you always tend to go back to the first line of the or the first line of the paragraph because you tend to forget what was written there see regression is not at all essential the loss of comprehension is not more than 5% and even if you regress you will be able to gain only that 5% on top of that even without regression you can compensate that particular loss and comprehension see whenever you are reading a textbook which is full of jargons in that particular case you might regress but only after finishing a particular topic or a particular page in general please do not revert back please do not regress the only time you are allowed to go back is when you are finishing a particular line and you are starting the next line so reading at a rapid pace keeps your brain interested and hence its focused while I was reading biology in my high school I used to read it at a very slow pace so imagine I am reading cardiac cycle one moment I am imagining this beating heart and the next moment I am imagining diffusing Vaman counter strike it was because I was reading at suboptimal level and I was not able to engage my brain hence it was finding other ways to get entertained so guys although we are done with the exercises here are some tips which will come in handy while you are trying to speed read avoid distractions best reading efficiency for most of the people come when they are in a peaceful and a quiet environment you need to focus on your vocabulary get a notebook write down all the hard words that you encounter write their meaning and try to use them in the form of a sentence subvocalization it is helpful if you want to commit something to memory verbatim that is as it is for example remembering the order of the planets you cannot speed read that or remembering the phylum or remembering the presidents or the capitals of the states try to read as much as you can while you are in the zone and don’t break your rhythm but also do not read for more than an hour at a stretch take 5 to 10 minutes short break to relax your brain anticipate what the author will write next this will help you in keeping your brain engaging and focused you have to have flexible speeds speed reading is like driving a car on a highway you know you will cruise near top speed for most of the time but you will need to slow down during curves or when hitting a rough road you should have multiple weapons in your arsenal see if the content is information oriented and data rich then you should read at a relatively slower pace well if you are reading a novel you can unleash the true power of your brain it really gives you a lot of flexibility always focus on active reading and please refrain from passive reading please do not read word by word your brain is more than capable of filling in the blanks on its own please do not be disappointed if you are reading at a very low speed it means that you can improve a hell lot from using these techniques find out which technique is working best for you and exploit it after watching this video you have not reached the finish line rather you have just started keep applying these principles and you are short to reach much higher speeds so guys I hope you enjoyed the tutorial containing all the different exercises tips and tricks on how to actually increase your reading speed and improve your reading comprehension do let me know in the comment section if they actually work out for you or not also check out a platform and Academy dot in where we have the top educators and they create educational content our goal at an academy is to make sure that accessible free and quality education reach the masses we will continue making videos on YouTube that’s why please share the video please subscribe to the channel there will be a subscribe link down the bottom and and do visit on Academy lotin thank you and thank you Roman for the brilliant video thank you watching the tutorial Evan awesome day you
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