Now moving on to the speed reading techniques.
We're going to talk about some fundamental techniques to begin with and then we're going to go through
them explain them and give some bonus methods.
So you guys can master speed reading so we have the scanning motion training timing so vocalizing using
a pointer rereading and print reading.
Limit distractions and skimming main points starting off with the scanning motion training or the scanning
motion training is all about is you training your eye movement working on proper eye movement for speech
reading.
The goal is to train your peripheral vision.
You need to be able to move from reading one word at a time to reading one line at a time.
And it basically involves looking at the center of the line and using your peripheral vision to read
the rest of the line.
So if you do the entire page like that you just use your peripheral vision on every single line.
You'll find out that you've finished the page really quickly while understanding everything on it.
The goal is for you to eventually develop this peripheral vision to be able to read phrases instead
of words.
And this will make the process of course faster.
It will also help with the third fundamental technique that we're going against get to which is to vocalizing.
But we'll get to it in a few.
I don't want to talk about timing and we didn't mentioned that before one of the best methods to develop
speed reading is to time it put a timer for one minute and see how many words can you read every single
week do it once and track the progress.
This will ensure positive self pressure on yourself which can push you to new boundaries and help you
in your journey to be able to develop these speed reading mechanisms.
And there's gonna be a lot of different exercises throughout the course that can help you with the speed
reading.
So don't worry if I go through any of the fundamental techniques without mentioning exercises that you
can do to work on it because they're going to be included in the course.
So for the scanning motion training there will be a lecture about vision peripheral vision training.
So no worries.
All the different points that we have there are going to be practice examples for them for you to be
able to master them properly.
Some of them will not have exercising material simple for example like timing you don't need exercises
you just need to make sure that you're doing your timing right time it for one minute how many words
can you read and keep repeating every single week.
So for those that have exercises their will they will be included for those that don't have exercises.
It will be enough to follow the instructions and the information that I'm giving while talking about
it.
Now we move to some vocalization.
It is basically you repeating what you're reading inside it's an inner monologue you're talking to yourself.
And this is extremely common among readers.
You speak the words as you are reading them whether you're speaking them out loud or you're speaking
them inside your head.
And this is one of the biggest obstacles when it comes to speed reading.
Now what's really interesting is that the average reading speed that a person has is almost the same
as the talking speed.
So if you can read 300 words per minute you can probably just say 300 words per minute.
And this is where one of the limitations would come in and you'll be able to notice it really quickly
when you're reading.
You will notice that you have a voice inside your head most of times repeating what you're reading.
And unless you're Eminem singing the verse in Rap God that is extremely fast EV all the time you will
not be able to read in the speed that you desire until you overcome some vocalization and the inner
monologue.
How fast can you speak and to make sense and comprehension out of what you're saying.
And this is usually similar to your reading speed.
Now when you're reading speed gets better you're talking speed doesn't get any better.
Because what we're doing is we're limiting the inner monologue we're limiting the sub vocalization and
we're focusing on reading without vocalizing.
This is a habit that trace back to school when teachers used to read texts or somebody used to read
something and we would follow the text while they're reading it.
This is what had the bad impact on it.
This is what had this habit established in our minds.
And now whenever you want to read something rethink that it is essential to sub vocalize.
Otherwise we can't really comprehend it.
And what you basically need is something to block this inner voice in your head that is repeating every
single thing you're reading.
And the best way to do so from my personal experience and from many different references is using music
but not any type of music you don't want to listen to heavy metal or R.M. B where there's lot of raw
politics.
You need to listen to music.
Instrumental music binaural beats are also a suggestion for those of you who don't know binaural beats
are like auditory brainstem responses that would originate in inside the brain's hemisphere.
There are different auditory impulses that comes out of them.
And when you listen to by neural beats or you listen to classical music instrumentals that will keep
your mind busy that would keep your mind between the ears from thinking and analyzing and some vocalizing
everything you're reading you will be able to of course to a certain extent control the soul vocalizing
system and then you'll find yourself reading faster and faster and faster.
And once you know how to avoid some vocalizing you'll not be reading every single words you might read
and some vocalize words that are new words that are new to your vocabulary that you haven't heard about
or read before.
And this is normal this is fair reading words that you see every single day like and but more normal
again against words that you're really familiar with.
You'll be able to read them without some vocalizing but you might encounter some words that are that
are formed by a lot of different letters or some words that are new to your vocabulary and you might
want to stop and so vocalize it to be able to comprehend it properly when you do so vocalize it you.
And of course you need to understand it.
You can add this to your vocabulary.
One day you might use this word and I'm not saying if you do this you'll memorize every single word
but you will be able to memorize and get some more out of your vocabulary.
Moving on there is also one of the fundamental techniques which is using a pointer when looking at a
page that is white with words written in black lines piled up one on top of the other.
And a lot of the times you're going to have pages where there's not a lot of space there's not a lot
of different paragraphs sometimes you might have two or three paragraphs one after the other spread
over 10 15 pages and it's very easy to lose where you're at whether you're using your peripheral vision
and you're reading one line at a time or you're not and you're moving your eyes you have this eye movement
that's going from the beginning of the phrase to the end of it and going down and up again sometimes
you might not know where you are exactly especially if there was something that caught your attention
for one second something that made you lose concentration for one second it will slow you down and most
people by the time they find where they were before they need to read a bit before to be able to follow
the idea and link it all together properly.
So using a pointer would help you avoid this problem again even if you're using your peripheral vision
at first when you're still not at that level you might be reading with with regular eye movement.
He used a pointer going with you from the left to the right down and then all the way up when you get
to the second page you make sure that the pointer is following you not as you are sub vocalizing.
And this is really crucial.
You don't want to use the pointer to some vocalize it's not that.
Once the pointer is at this word I need to read this word.
The pointer needs to just be something that is swiftly that has this swift pace of moving around while
you're reading the words in your mind's eye without some vocalizing.
And once you use the pointer and you have music instrumental music that you're listening to you'll be
automatically helping yourself in avoiding some vocalizing especially when you start moving the pointer
at the speeds that your eyes can follow and not your brain.
And when I say brain I'm not talking about comprehension.
I am talking about sub vocalizing because the comprehension of the thoughts is coming from a different
source.
It's coming from these information emitting light hitting your retina and then the analysis is happening
through your vision and not through your brain.
The primary source of analysis that's taking place is going through with the nervous system through
the retina through your eyes.
What you're reading.
So when you move the pointer in the piece where you don't have the time to sub vocalize and adding to
that the instrumental music or whatever you're listening to you will be helping yourself a lot of people.
They don't feel comfortable listening to any kind of music while they are reading.
And in that case using a pointer can also help a lot.
When it comes to some vocalizing because if the pen is moving or of course any pointer you want doesn't
have to be pen.
If the pointer is moving at such a speed that your mind cannot sub vocalize what's going on what's going
right in front of the pointer but your eyes can keep up and therefore your mind your analysis that's
going on in your mind.
New nervous system can take place so vocalizing will be limited and it will be put aside until you face
something that you're not familiar with or something that is complex and complicated.
If you are using some study material not just like a regular book you're reading and math theory for
example and then you get to the formula.
You can probably read through the theory very easily because it's made up out of words that you are
familiar with but then you get to the formula and then you might notice that your sub vocalizing E equals
M.C. Square.
Maybe when you read the explanation of the formula you read it while using the speed reading mechanisms
but then you get to the formula and you start so vocalizing because E equals empty square your mind
is analyzing the formula.
This simple formula has an entire text behind it so don't freak out and don't start to sweat over so
vocalizing some things because sometimes it is essential and crucial when the material is fresh when
the material is complex so vocalizing can help a lot.
So I would recommend that you do use the speed reading mechanisms and methods.
Most of the times but when you have something complex like physics or math you don't want to speed read.
You need to know what you're doing speed reading would help you avoid details and books that are unnecessary.
If you're reading a book about finance or you're reading a book about personal development but if you're
going through physical theories and math formulas and equations that needs a lot of thinking and a lot
of mental and cognitive energy it's better to avoid or limit the speed reading mechanism.
Now a lot of people when they do use the point or method they can't help it but read every word they
are pointing out.
It might even get to a point where they are sub vocalizing and reading out a very very high speed that
they're not actually so vocalizing they're barely still vocalizing the words.
And the reason why this is happening is because they are used to it.
It's a habit.
Ever since we were kids teachers in school would point out at a word and we would say it.
We would pronounce it.
They would point out at something they want to read or they point out something they want us to read
when they write something when they write a long paragraph or a phrase on the on the board.
They would usually follow it through with a pointer while they're reading it.
Or point at it with their hand and point out it while they're reading it basically and through neuroplasticity.
What became wired in our brain is when we're pointing out a word when we're pointing at stuff we're
reading.
We're not just reading in our mind's eye we're sub vocalizing.
Most kids are not aware of this at their young age of course but when a teacher writes a phrase on the
board and they're pointing at it and they're reading it while they are pointing at it even though the
students are not reading it with him or her you are so vocalizing it with him or her and it becomes
a habit.
And when it does when it does become a habit through neuroplasticity it's gonna become something that
you can't easily avoid.
And the last thing that using a pointer can help you with is what's coming next is to avoid rereading
and ensure pre reading a lot of people have this habit of re reading phrases even paragraph that's because
they thought that they didn't really understand it well or they got distracted for a couple seconds
and then they just need to figure out the link again.
But people reread a lot.
There aren't any stable and fixed statistics about it but most people the majority of people would admit
to rereading at least once every time they're trying to read a book.
And this especially happens to people who are reading on a regular basis.
People who read every now and then how this tendency have this difference actually when you read every
single day.
The purpose is to get more information in.
You want to learn faster you want to read faster.
And because it's a habit sometimes it kind of becomes automatic and you just lose focus for a second.
And that's when you need to go back to concentration in fact sub vocalizing is is very much installs
in a proper way in our system that even if you're not comprehending or focusing or concentrating on
anything you sometimes find yourself while reading thinking about something entirely different.
But you notice that you just read five lines five phrases and you have no idea what they talk about
but you are aware that you read them you are aware that you sub vocalize them don't try to do it consciously.
You can not do it consciously when we're talking on a conscious level.
We can only do one thing at a time.
We can only focus on one thing at a time.
If I asked you right now to think about an orange and while thinking about the orange keeping the orange
in mind thinking also about something completely different it is biologically impossible the human brain
can focus on one thing at a time and I'm not talking about multitasking.
I'm talking more in a sense that if I ask you to close your eyes and focus on your breathing and at
the same time you're focusing on your breathing.
I want you to pinch yourself in the leg and feel the pain.
Be conscious of the pain and be conscious of the breathing at the same time you will not be able to
do it.
So how come people are able to think about something else completely different and be conscious and
deeply thinking about something while they are running through the paragraphs running through the lines
and the words and the book and so vocalizing everything they're reading.
Well it's because of neuroplasticity of course sub vocalizing became the habit that is installed and
wired in your brain and every time you read so vocalizing would happen automatically.
And when a behavior transforms into an automatic behavior which means habit you will see when we get
to the section that we're we're talking about habits that becomes automatic.
In a sense that your brain would stop working.
You're not conscious about how you're driving anymore.
After two years of driving you just do it.
You don't think about it.
It becomes natural it becomes subconscious.
You're not conscious about it anymore.
It's automatic.
And that's exactly what's happening was with some vocalizing it is happening on a subconscious level.
That's why consciously you don't remember any of them any of the information.
You don't recall or memorize any of the information you have no idea what it's about but subconsciously
you're still able to sort vocalize all of this and read it even if you're not understanding anything
out of it.
So use a pointer to avoid rereading.
But of course you need to keep some kind of logic to it if you're using the pointer to go super fast
that you're able to follow all the information with your eyes but your comprehension is not that good
and you're using the pointer method to also avoid rereading.
Yeah you might end up finishing the book in two to three days but you'll probably not understand anything
or comprehend or memorize anything from it.
You want to use the pointer at a speed where you don't need rereading because you already got the information
you need rereading because the pointer is helping you stay focused and that's the last advantage of
using a pointer so that when you're following the pointer you're focusing more on the text because there
is something pointing at it and you are deliberately following this pointer when you're just when just
have the book open and you're holding it with both of your hands with no pointers whatsoever and just
following it with your eyes if your eyes got distracted for any reason you will lose your focus and
concentration.
But when you're pointing it'll be easier for you to keep the concentration flow going.
Now another thing that can help you when it comes to rereading is prayer reading when you want to read
a new book.
You don't just want to pick it up read the title and start reading it.
People avoid the introduction.
People don't read the summary on the back.
People don't read the author's biography.
They don't read what other people said what's what's basically on the book.
These things that you avoid and you just get straight to the book it's good you are you're not wasting
your time but in fact you're there's a huge difference between reading a book that you only know the
title of and reading a book that you know the title.
You know what the book is about the big image you know the summary.
You know who the author is.
What's his background and what's his ideology.
You'll be able to understand and and no more because of what people said.
When people say they are a lot of personal experiences that help line then you know that personal experiences
in the book are actually important.
They taught people a lot and also freer reading chapters and the index.
It's one thing to open a page and read the chapter.
Let's say an introduction to or not neurology and just reading the entire chapter to realize that Chapter
2 talks about the link between neurology and biology and then get to Chapter 3 where they talk about
the link between neurology biology and neuroplasticity.
But if in another hypothetical case you read the chapters and you saw that first we're going to talk
about neurology then we're going to talk about biology and or algae and then we're going to link them
up in the third chapter with neuroplasticity to then be able to explain all the different situations
and different mechanisms that are involved in the process of neuroplasticity.
So instead of starting the book knowing nothing but the title you will actually have a lot more information
in your head before starting which will make the process way easier.
It will help you especially with comprehension and retention.
You will know what is important and when you knows that something is important you will most probably
link it to another pathway in the brain that says this information is more important than the others
and therefore you'll be able to memorize it more quickly more effectively.
Now another thing that happens is that a lot of people they start reading a book only to realize that
they don't really like it.
A lot of people they buy books a lot of them and they never read them because they don't find them as
actually interesting.
And nobody just gets to the page 150 to realize that the book is boring.
Usually they realize that the book is boring after reading 10 20 30 pages even less and you'll be able
to tell if the book is interesting or not.
Reading the five first pages of the book you'll be able to instantly tell if this is something that
you would read and follow through or not.
People waste a lot of times reading books that they don't like only to stop after reading 30 to 40 pages
and they just drop it.
And this could have been time invested in reading and analyzing and comprehending something that you
actually want to learn something that you actually want to read.
So whether you went to the bookstore and bought a book make sure to read the title the summary some
information whatever is on the covers and the index the chapters and also try to read the first three
to four or five pages maybe if everything was good then this is probably a book that you would love
to read.
Otherwise if you read the summary and you're like this is not really what I was expecting out of the
book or you read the first four pages and you're like wow this is really boring.
The guys way in writing is just not me.
I can't read it.
I find it boring.
I find it unpleasant even though this is not a speed reading technique.
This is something that would help you in the reading process when you avoid wasting time.
You are gaining time and therefore your speed reading and I'll give a I'll give a really quick example
about a book related to neuroplasticity.
The book is called The Brain That Changes Itself.
Now let's say you are somebody who knew nothing about neuroplasticity.
You know we heard about it before and you read the title The Brain That Changes Itself.
You will think about a lot of different things you can never be sure what this book is actually about.
And most of the times titles on books are made to sell and not to actually give you the information
and give you the purpose behind the book.
The Four Hour Work Week For example the title for our work week is not just to explain that in the book
the author will teach you how to and what mechanisms and processes and systems to use to save up a lot
of times in the week but to also get your attention to actually buy the book because you're doing the
work of the week in four hours.
Now is it a hundred percent accurate.
No it's not.
It's not accurate.
Of course it's not.
It depends on each and every person.
But the title is there to sell.
So the brain that changes itself.
Okay then you read more New York Times bestseller.
Norman Doidge M.D. as featured on PBS the brains fitness program.
Now you know that the author has a lot of credibility which will give you more confidence in the author
and his information.
And then you read stories of personal triumph from the front trip frontiers of brain science.
Now you know that the author is going to put a lot of personal experiences and mixed them up to make
you understand brain science and you now understand that the brain that changes itself.
We'll talk about these personal experiences and the brain science to change the brain.
And then there's a comment by The New York Times the power of fathers positive thinking finally gained
scientific credibility mind bending miracle making reality busting stuff straddles the gap between science
and self-help.
Now you also understand that one of the main things that the book is going to focus on is positive thinking
backed up by science.
You carry on to read the back of the book.
And for those of you who are wondering where I'm reading this I have the book myself and you can also
find it online and read what I'm reading.
This is one of the books that I first read that opened my eyes on the concept of neuroplasticity.
But I read a lot more books because this was not enough to make this course.
This course is actually a mix of a lot of different books articles blogs videos lectures and even courses.
I took a school but this book itself is the brain that changes itself is one of the most fascinating
I've read.
But moving on on the back cover Oliver Sacks wrote fascinating Deutsche book is a remarkable and hopeful
portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
And then the text on the cover the discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function
of our brains even into old age is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.
In this revolutionary look at the brain.
Bestselling author psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge and d introduces both the brilliant
scientists champions this new science of neuroplasticity and the astonishing progress of the people
whose lives they've transformed.
Introducing principles we can all use as well as a reviling collection of case histories stroke patients
cured a woman with half a brain that had rewired itself to work as a whole learning and emotional disorder
overcome IQ raised an aging brains rejuvenated that brain that changed itself has implications for all
human beings not to mention human culture human learning and human history.
This was said by the New York Times and then the Washington Post said readers will want to read entire
sections allowed and pass the book onto someone who can benefit from it.
Links scientific experimentation with personal triumph in a way that inspires this.
The Chicago Tribune said lucid and absolutely fascinating Deutsch explained with clarity Grace and vividness
and satisfies in equal measure the mind and the heart.
And lastly phantoms in the brain probing the mysteries of human mind.
The author of the book said superb brilliant.
I devoured it so if you pause for a second and we reflect the difference between just reading the title
The Brain That Changes Itself and not understanding anything and then reading and understanding that
the book is about personal experience mixed with brain science that can explain how our brain physical
and chemical structure can change through the power of our thoughts and that we will see principles.
We will see past experiences and examples and scientifically based and proven methods and principles
and examples that can help us change the brain itself.
Whether it's a physical or chemical structure and adopt a lot of different things including positive
thinking that was mentioned on the cover.
So now we know that it is a self-help book with some scientific explanations and experimentations into
it.
And by the way even if you're getting the books online.
If you're saying I can't go to the bookstore and buy a book because I want to buy online.
First off the front and the back cover are usually included when you want to buy the book online and
more than that.
Websites like Amazon for example can give you a look inside the book on Amazon.
You can actually read through the book.
You can read some pages the first few pages or the last pages and you can make sure that this is the
right book for you and this is something that you would want to read.
Now moving on to the next fundamental technique limiting distractions there is nothing that can help
you with speed reading as much as limiting distractions.
One of the main things that would waste our time the most while we're speed reading and make us slow
is distractions.
And one of the mains sources of distractions that we have is our cell phones smartphones.
The majority of people would get distracted by their smartphones while they are reading whether your
notifications are on or not.
When you're reading with your eyes and you have your phone on your right or on your left hand you have
the book in your hand as soon as you get a notification and your phone flashes your eye will switch
from the book to the phone.
And even if you gather the willpower to not look at the phone what's what's the purpose.
If you're not going to look at the phone why.
But the temptation right next to you where it will be used to drain your willpower and limit your your
levels of concentration and focus if you're expecting something important an important phone call that
you're getting don't read because if it's that important that you have to keep your phone next to you
every single time you get a notification on your phone you are going to look at your phone to know if
it's that thing you're waiting for or not.
And it doesn't need an expert to tell you how many random notifications you'll get every hour.
That has nothing to do with the phone call or whatever you're waiting for.
You gotta limit distractions to be able to focus on the reading properly especially if you want to do
speed reading.
If you're speed reading you need your concentration you need your focus you need your attention.
You can not be distracted.
So the next time you sit down you're reading try to figure out what are the things that are distracting
you and make sure to eliminate these.
One of the best ways to do it is to create and make a corner just for you for your reading.
Pick a spot at your house or in your room where you can sit down away from your computer and your phone.
You put everything on silent mode and you sit in this corner and you read it don't get distracted.
You limit all the distractions.
There is nothing next to you that can distract you and you just read with full concentration and focus.
And lastly skimming main points.
This is a bit similar to pre reading but it's a bit more proficient skimming happens as you're reading
not before you're reading.
The best way to do skimming is to every single time you finish a chapter and you start a new one.
You can use your skimming technique.
You are basically going to be reading a text quickly to get a general idea of meaning around it.
Sometimes chapters titles would not really tell you what the chapter is about How to Win Friends and
Influence People has a chapter entitled How to make people hate you if I'm not mistaken.
Something similar.
While you understand to the chapters talking about some things that if you do make people hate you but
you don't really understand what's going on and if you do skimming you'll be able to understand a bit
more would the chapter is about which will eventually ensure more comprehension and retention.
When you are speed reading so take some time to read.
Overall the main points read the table contents read the subtitles read the chapters the index what.
And to understand what every chapter is about and then do the skimming for each and every chapter as
well for each and every section.
Skimming should not take more than two three to five minutes depending on how big the chapter is.
It is not a long process.
It's a short and easy process.
The goal is to just understand what the chapter is about to get the general idea using all of these
different techniques can help you with the speed reading process.
So to recap quickly for speed reading you need to first focus on the scanning motion training and there
are gonna be exercises in the course about how to enhance your peripheral vision and how to train your
scanning motion.
The goal is to develop proper eye movement for proper speed reading.
You also need to make sure that you always got your timing that you're always making sure and keeping
track of the progress that's taking place.
Understanding some vocalizing and learning how to avoid it using a pointer a pointer as we said can
be stick can be pen.
Or it can be for example a card when you get to a point where your peripheral vision is developed.
You might not want to be using a pointer to follow all of the entire line.
You might just be using a card and just going down down down down down down and then up on the next
page you're pointing at phrases entire phrases instead of groups of words and to get to a point where
you overcome so some vocalizing and you can actually use your peripheral vision to read the entire phrase
using a card as a pointer can be really helpful because it's going to enhance the motor and sensory
output system and ensure of course that the neuroplasticity is working effectively because you are using
the total immersion method that we talked about in the learning strategies.
You are blocking the possibility of sort of sub vocalizing whether it's by using this method or by using
all the other methods that we talked about using a pointer and following the phrase using music and
all the other techniques that we talked about.
These are these are basically there to block sub vocalizing.
Also rereading and how should we should avoid it pre reading and how it's encouraged how to limit the
distractions and just avoid everything that can let you lose your focus your attention and your concentration
and finally ensure proper skimming after finishing the lecture.
You might go and try reading and you're going to realize that the methods the fundamental methods are
not as easy as you think they are even if you're using the methods to avoid some vocalizing you will
find yourself every known then sub vocalizing even on non complex phrases and whereas in paragraphs
and sections because you need time Your brain is wired in a certain way and it needs time to be rewired
in a way that ensures speed reading so don't get frustrated and keep in mind that neuroplasticity is
all about repetition.
Neurons that fire together wire together and the more you use them the better the link between the neurons
and the better the neural structure and as this lecture is coming to an end there are two bonus methods
that I.
From personal experience will include in this course.
These are methods that I found them to be very very effective specially when you're first starting off
for the first technique and for the use in school and when it comes to learning for the second technique.
The first one is the audio visual complementary assistive reading most of the books have audio books.
And if you don't want to buy and pay and buy the audio book because sometimes it's expensive to buy
both the book and the audio book It's usually available online whether on YouTube or on other websites.
A lot of online resources.
Most of the times you can find the book in an audio form.
So the way this helps is you put your headphones and you put the audio book but doubled the speed so
you are blocking all the sub vocalizing because you are hearing what the person is saying but you are
reading with your eyes at the same time.
This will not only help you to voice of vocalizing in the long run but this can ensure very high levels
of comprehension and retention because more senses are involved in the process and the bonus part is
that it's faster if you are increasing your comprehension you are increasing your retention and in the
same time you are increasing your speed in the reading process so try to put the audio book on double
the speed keep the pointer with you and move along as the person is speaking.
Move along and read with your eyes without some vocalizing and the last method is the mind mapping speed
reading technique later on in this course you will understand the concept of mind mapping properly and
how it works and how to apply it.
We talked about it before and you're going to see a lot more about it later.
But just to understand the basics of it my mapping is usually starts with a core idea and then you have
branches which are details and then sub branches which are details of the details you can use mind mapping
for speed reading to ensure comprehension in school and we'll give neuroplasticity as a subject that
is taught to you in school as an example to explain how the mind mapping speed reading technique would
work starting with the core it's the main idea which is neuroplasticity.
So you're right that in the middle.
And as I said you're going to learn more about how to do it effectively.
Later on the course and once you do learn it go back to this lecture and hear this lecture again and
you'll understand the mind mapping process better.
After circling the main idea which is neuroplasticity you start branching so as you're learning you
realize that neuroplasticity has an impact and an effect on different things.
And this is where you start branching out the details neuroplasticity is the middle and then you have
all the lines going up and other circles for some ideas detailed ideas concerning the main idea and
you can add learning you can add emotions you can experience you can add memories all the things that
are involved in the process of neuroplasticity what neuroplasticity would would affect or would work
on neurology can be one neuron structures can be one trauma phobias can be one psychology can be one.
So now you have the main idea in the middle which is neuroplasticity and you have the sub ideas around
it and now you do the same process for the sub ideas.
So now every sub idea is a main idea and you need some ideas for this sub main idea.
So for emotions you will have positive emotions negative emotions control emotions effect of emotions
for memories.
You might have erased memory you might have overcome memory change memory for learning you might have
different systems.
Total immersion linking and connecting teach it chunking technique.
So the more you're reading through the book or through the content of whatever you're reading you are
mind mapping along.
The book is about neuroplasticity.
There are different chapters about emotions and learning and memory.
And when you're reading the emotions chapter you put all the sub sub details which are the details of
the sub detail that came from the core which is neuroplasticity.
I know right now this might be a bit complicated and you might think that you're not really understanding
what's going on but you will understand it way better as soon as you get to the mind mapping section.