Welcome back geniuses This is our third video about speed reading in the previous videos.
We saw that reading had an eye a tongue and the brain part and we saw that making life easier for your
eyes will increase your reading speed and your reading comprehension that you did that with pacing and
highlighting and skimming.
Then we looked at the tunc part and we saw that we had to lower the the part that the tongue plays in
the reading process.
So we want to in order to gain insight in terms of speed and today we talk about the brain part actually
we already talked about the brain part when we talked about the tongue part because I cannot tell you
to reduce the part of the tongue without telling you what you replace it by.
That's what I meant when I told you that you cannot tell your brain not to subvocalize you had to you
have to tell it what to do is to add and what to do instead.
Well it had to recognize a word the meaning of a word just by looking at it.
And this is the brain part.
But it doesn't just stop here.
This is what the brain had to do in order to kill the tongue part of the sub vocalizations so he had
to look at a word like this one and recognize the meaning just by looking at it.
But in order to really truly achieve comprehension it needs to connect the dots.
That is it looks at this word and it recognizes the meaning and it looks at this word and it recognizes
the meaning and it looks at this word and it recognizing it to recognize is the meaning.
But in order to actually connect this word with this word and get the meaning of the whole thing as
a different skill that needs training as well.
So you are training your brain to recognize words just by looking at them and to connect the words and
actually in the process you can skip a few words you could look at this word recognize the meaning and
look at this word and recognize the meaning and your brain will connect the dots.
And even if you skipped a word you still get the meaning because your brain actually what your brain
does.
What I notice is that it it just looks at the right words.
For example if this word is not very important and when it comes to understanding the meaning of the
sentence then it will not look at it it will just look at the words that are most important and then
it will connect the dots but connecting the dots actually requires training.
So let's look at an example.
So we want our brain to be capable to do is to look at this word and tell us the meaning and look at
this word and tell us the meaning.
And then it gives us the meaning of why the two words are put together and we wanted to be able to do
all of this in a fraction of a second.
Now how do we reach this skill.
Well it's just scale.
And if you've watched my previous videos about skill building be it's creativity focus memory driving
hiking whatever you name it.
Well we acquire skills in three steps.
First step is visualization.
We're talking about psycho cybernetics here.
If you haven't seen the video my video about psycho's antics I highly recommend you do it.
So what we do is just as you've guessed every night before falling asleep you're visualize yourself
speed reading.
In this way you visualize yourself looking at the word and having the meaning look at it another word
and having the meaning and imagine how it feels to have the meaning.
Imagine how it feels to be surprised by having the meaning and having instantly like a click.
The meaning of the entire sentence is just like a click it happens in a fraction of a second.
You don't have the time to realize it.
They will be like whoa I got the meaning and I didn't even subvocalize imagine the joy the first time
this happens to you and likely it will happen to you then you will go back to some vocalizing then it
will happen to you again that it's happened to you a second time then you go back to some vocalizing
until it becomes automatic.
It's just like learning to walk or learning to ride a bicycle.
It's a skill and it takes time and the first thing is to visualize yourself doing it because remember
we we have a brain and we have vision.
Part of the brain and we have meaning.
Part of the brain.
And our goal is to train these two parts to work together.
And actually if you visualize them working together if you imagine them working together well in your
brain they are working together the moment you're imagining them working together they are working together.
And in order for the link to be strong well it has they have to work together once two times three times
four times the more often they work together the stronger their bond and the easier for them it is to
work together.
And as far as your brain is concerned there is no difference between something you're imagining and
something you actually live.
So if you imagine looking at a word and getting the meaning of looking at another word and getting the
meaning and then getting the meaning of it all then the areas involved into this action are working
together while you are imagining and you are building the highway between them.
The second step is to Munky it.
That is to be monkey see monkey do.
Imagine you are an actor playing the role of someone speed reading.
You don't have to actually be able to do it right away but just imitate.
Fake it till you make it so do as if you are a speed reading pretend to be speed reading.
Fake it.
And when you fake it it's like when you visualize it that is you are using the two areas together and
you are strengthening and strengthening the bond between them and you are strengthening the belief that
you are capable of speed reading and then the final step in acquiring the skill is to do it for real.
So eventually you will find yourself like really looking at the word and getting the meaning and really
looking at another word a word and getting the meaning and really getting the meaning of it all.
And once this happens well you have to keep doing it you have to keep doing it so often.
I mean it's it's like learning how to drive.
I mean you're not just drive the car ride to once and be like OK I will drive it right for the rest
of my life.
I don't need any more practice.
You've got to practice and practice and practice again.
So once you get to the phase where you can actually speed read for real you have to do it.
And the more you do it the easier it becomes and the more you do it the faster your reading speed will
be and the higher your reading comprehension
and talking about comprehension.
Sometimes speeding up actually increases your comprehension.
So that's for the brain part.
Connecting the dots using psycho cybernetics.
And one very strange thing when I talk to you about is the power of asking questions and the sneaking
analogy there is something very strange.
I notice my brain would do sometimes and I'm with my textbook and I am solving an exercise and they
say like answer is on another page and I have to go to the other page for some reason maybe to look
for a solution of another exercise or to look just for parts of the solution or for whatever other reason
and I'm like don't look at the answer.
Don't look at the answer.
But my brain is so curious about what the answer is that even if the answer is an entire paragraph my
brain somehow picks up a few words and like 0.5 seconds or something in a fraction of a second just
looks at the main words and it gives me the answer to the question though I wasn't looking for the answer
but I was curious for the answer.
So although I said that I didn't want the answer.
My brain knew that I was curious enough and just managed to speed read at a speed that beats any champion
same thing happens like you got your favorite TV show and the last episode is out and you don't have
time to watch it but you don't want to spoiler.
Then you have to check your social media.
And there are spoilers over there and you go and you choose not to look at them.
And there is a paragraph with a spoiler and you choose not to look at it but just for a fraction of
seconds your brain looks at it and it gives you the entire meaning of that paragraph and it totally
spoils the episode for you.
This is what I mean by sneaking analogies like you peek through the text and your brain just gives you
the entire meaning of the entire text.
It's amazing.
And it does it when you ask it not to.
Now I think that the why the brain has this is not because it's trying to annoy you but it does this
for two reasons.
Well actually first reason is that you are very curious.
You really want to know the reason why you care so much about your TV show is because you are very curious
of what will happen.
And the reason why I choose not to look at the answer because I'm very curious about the solution I
want to come up with it on my own.
So even if you don't want to look at the answer you are very curious.
And this is the first factor why your brain reads at such amazing superhuman speed in those situations
is that you are curious.
The second reason is that your brain knows that it only has a fraction of seconds.
It know that you are just going to scroll through the article you're not going to look at it.
It knows that it only has a fraction of a second to fulfill your curiosity.
Same thing for the answer to the exercise.
It knows that it has just a fraction of a second to fulfill your curiosity.
So it does it really.
So your brain has got the ability to give you the meaning of a text in a few seconds in a fraction of
a second.
Just it hasn't been asked to do it.
And the reason to the way to ask it to do it is to actually give it very little time and to build curiosity.
And this is what I mean by asking questions.
So for example if I was to read this text what I would have to do is I must get myself curious ask myself
questions before reading the text I'd be like oh what is this David Kolb model all about.
Or when was it put forth.
So and as I asked myself what is is it is all about my brain draw my attention to the word engineer
here a.
It drew my attention to the word philosopher here and this makes me think that this model is about differences
in professions.
Differences in what different professions have as a learning style.
So just ask yourself ask your brain questions and your brain would immediately draw your attention to
the words that have the answer.
It's unbelievable.
Which makes me think that on some level maybe maybe my brain actually has got the info of the entire
text kind of slightly figured out on my subconscious or something.
Anyway when I ask kids questions it just tosses my attention to the one word or words that have the
answer to that question.
It's amazing.
So give it little time and give it questions.
You must build up your your curiosity.
Actually this also helps a lot with your understanding.
You will not understand a text if you are not curious about it.
Curiosity also builds your focus.
I mean let's let's imagine you are watching a TV show and you have been waiting for a week for this
episode to know what will happen.
You would be very focused because you were very curious you want to know what happens.
And you see the slightest hint as to what will happen and you understand it all because you are so curious
and your brain will just look.
Your brain is on Hunter predates her mode and it just picks up all the info.
It's all open wide open your eyes eye wall are wide open your consciousness is wide open and your primates
your hunter brain will just give you the one piece of information that feeds your curiosity.
It's almost an animal thing.
So build curiosity and you would build speed reading and actually you notice here that I'm talking about
comprehension.
I'm not talking about speed reading like seven 7000 words per minute or something.
I'm talking about one or two words that will give you the meaning of the entire paragraph.
And this is what our brain is about.
It's about filtering.
It's about not reading whatever is junk whatever is not necessary it's about reading.
The one thing that will answer the question that will lead us where we want to be and this is how our
ancestors were.
Your ancestor is in the forest and his friend and his starving.
So he would not look at the grass and the trees and all he will just look at the envelope he is trying
to chase to survive.
And this is also what your brain does when you use it properly.
It just makes sense of all this paragraph.
All this text and gives you the one thing you need to make sense to answer your questions and actually
you should be reading to answer a question you should not just be reading or read your reading to answer
questions.
And this is the distinction I make between speed reading and speed comprehension.
My goal is speed comprehension is to answer my questions as rapidly as possible not to just sit passively
and have texts being poured through my head and be thinking about something else even if I'm reading
a 10000 words per minute.
Or be it.
I don't care about 10000 words per minute.
I care about 10000 ideas per minute.
And we'll talk more about this distinction between speed reading and speed comprehension.
And the next videos so do not miss out the next videos because you'll miss out on huge stuff.
See you soon.