Welcome back genius's This is our first video about speed reading.
So I want to answer a question.
Is there a comprehension loss when we are skimming or speed reading or whatever you name it will we
take this question seriously then the answer is going to have to be yes and no there is no serious question
that you can't answer with yes or no.
Often it's yes and no.
It's it depends actually it depends on the type of text.
So some highly technical text that is unfamiliar.
Well with that speed reading is not going to help but think as normal or slow reading also will not
help.
So with this text with this kind of text you have to go active active and not active reading but actual
active study.
It's as if I give you a text in Chinese.
And let's suppose you do not speak Chinese.
And I ask you to speed read it.
You cannot.
But the thing is you cannot slow read it either.
So with technical unfamiliar text you will have to pick up anything you don't understand and google
it or look it up in books maybe pick up some concepts you don't understand and draw it and draw it again
maybe pick pick it pick up a difficult concept and record it and record it with comments and so on.
Feel free to look at the memory parts of the course where we talk about the value of drawing and drawing
over and recording over and over again.
With comments.
So all in all you have to study your texts and you have to make an analysis of it and maybe I'll ask
ask a mentor for help to help you understand it.
And all in all.
Don't be fooled.
You cannot speed with this kind of text and you should not slow read them.
Either you have to though roughly study them.
But then when you are studying them you are making some tiny drawings on the side and you are highlighting
the tricky parts
so that your subsequent readings will in fact be speed reading.
So yeah you will speed read technical texts but only once you are fully familiar with it and only once
you have it fully understood.
So here you must make this distinction between different types of texts.
Now if you are with a familiar material even if it's not a text that you have already read but it's
if it's text that is talking about something you are familiar with then.
Well skimming and speed reading actually increases comprehension.
It's like this slow speaker analogy we talked about so
I start speaking too slowly your understanding will decrease you be like What is he talking about why
his he's so slow and it's like I say a word and then I make a long pose and I say another word.
And in the end between your brain would think about 100000 other things.
And this is also what happens when you are reading too slowly.
So sometimes you find out that increasing the reading speed actually increases comprehension.
So it really depends upon the type of texts.
So the bottom line here is be active and modulate your speed so reading should be like driving a car.
Sometimes you have to be in first gear.
Sometimes you have to be in fifth gear and there are in-betweens.
So modulators speed may be in this same chapter.
There will be a part that you will skim and a part in which you will have to slow down and where you
will have to do some active study and then there would be a part that you will skim then another part
that you will study and the second time you read it may be you will be able to skim the entire text
and these facts that I'm saying about comprehension loss or comprehension gain with speed are actually
what the studies have been saying.
There are a lot of studies published that are detractors of speed reading.
But if you and you read many articles against speed reading as well as the articles pro speed reading
you come to this conclusion that there is not a solution that fits all.
There is not a definite answer that fits all.
Some text requires speed reading to prove the comprehension and some texts have to be studied and the
thing is those texts that need to be studied You cannot just rely up on slow reading.
You really have to be active there.
And if you talk about a technical text and you consider that well to time you spend on google within
it and the time you spent talking to a Mantor time you spent drawling and you divided by the number
of words into that paragraph did you find that you were like reading at some speed as little as 50 words
per minute bursts.
But once you leave the drawings behind and the highlights behind then you will be able to read it the
second time only read three words and get the entire paragraphs so be reading it five thousand words
per minute.
And if you draw the average then you would be or you will have read it twice at 2000 words per minute.
So this is the idea.
Now I want to take a few minutes and talk about speed comprehension versus speed reading.
Let's assume we got two friends.
Person A and Person B.
Person A is really a fast speed reader and he can read a text without vocalizing.
So there is a page and he reads it at an incredible speed.
So he's able to read at 2000 words per minute.
And let's say that by reading this text he was able to retain four ideas from the text so he is reading
at four ideas per minute.
Now let's assume we have a friend B and B dies.
Is he actually just read a sentence from the text and a word and a sentence and that's it.
And let's assume that the sentence that he reads he reads it very slowly he's subvocalize is he may
read it two or three times but he extracts the idea from it.
Then he looks at this word.
He reads it out loud he's vocalizes and so on but he gets the idea from it and he's able to move to
another page and get a sentence.
Get a word a sentence and get an idea that if we count how many words he read without counting the words
that he's kept so we only count the words he read then maybe he would have read like one hundred words.
So he is reading at 100 words per minute.
So when it comes to word per minute person B is slow he is like the slowest reader ever.
He's so slow.
But if we count the number of ideas he got then maybe he would have had like seven ideas.
So he has speed of comprehension is seven ideas per minute while the speed of comprehension of person
is for ideas per minute.
So Person B is actually better and faster at speed comprehension when it comes to speed reading person
a wince.
But when it comes to speed comprehension is that person B who wins and I'm not reading to read words
I don't care about the words or what I care about is the ideas I'm reading for ideas.
And this is what we should aim for.
We should aim for speed comprehension not speed reading.
We should read for purpose read to answer questions read to acquire skills not read to read not read
for the sake of reading words.
I don't care about the words the words are I just need to get the ideas.
So it's all about speech comprehension.
And sometimes you just look at a text and you know what it's about.
You know 100 percent you are 100 percent sure what the text is about that you don't have to read it
save yourself time sometimes just look at the text or just look at a diagram in the text and you know
what the text is about.
Save yourself time and don't read it and this will be the equivalent of reading speed of 10000 words
per minute as far as ideas are concerned because you just looked at it and had the ideas from it.
And this is the value of the tiny drones I picked next by big net and nearby detects because when you
look at the drawing you immediately get the idea or ideas behind it.
So this is what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about speed comprehension so think idea per minute versus words per minute.
And in order to increase your understanding speed what you will need is active reading and active reading.
Exactly what we talk about and the next video.
So see you in the next video.