速讀 speed reading Jim Kwik: Mindvalley

How To Read Faster & Learn Better

My comment: I really concern about, retention, problem, but this problem is only mentioned in the webnar I listened to, without any further explanation. 

 Things I get this webnar: https://www.mindvalley.com/superbrain/masterclass/var2 

• Visual pacer: use your fingers to help speed
• fast reading increase comprehension by concentration.
• subvocalization hinder speed   ( I don't agree. I am reading while I am listening. Maybe I am a foreigner, listening 语气和断句 help me understanding. 否则字都在跳，我没办法 focus

Average reading speed: 200 w.p.m.  usually 64,000 words/ per book. 

Jim Kwik also started with comic reading 

• Super Brain by Jim Kwik  (first book)
• Limitless: Upgrade your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock your Exceptional Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT_GcOGEFsk  (45:02/57:14)   ( I didn't listen it, but I find this summery)

Jim introduces his younger self as a child who had difficulty reading and writing because of brain injury he sustained when he was five years old. He had to be taught three times more than the normal kid to comprehend the lesson. He also mentioned that one of the teacher berated him in-front of other children saying, “This is what looks like if you brain doesn’t work”.

He was spending so much time in library that he was merely 117 pounds at that time. He got so weak and got unconscious one day that he had to be admitted to the hospital. After he came to senses from unconscious state, the nurse brought him a soup on a cup that had Einstein’s picture in it. The inscribed letters on the cup said, The same level of thinking is created the problem won't solve the problem.  “Don’t expect to get the new results, if you do the same things over and over again”. At that point he realized he had to change things. (my comment: it is not his words) He went in the quest of sources that would teach him how to study. There were always “what” to study but not “how” to study. 

“Seven habits of successful people”. He mentioned the most important lesson from that book was “You need to sharpen your saw before working with the saw. In other words, when we are required to chop off a block of wood with dull axe, sharpen it first so you can chop easier than trying hard to chop with dull axe”. 

The most important message of this talk was the following six bullet points. They can be abbreviated as “BE FAST”.  

• * B: Believe. Henry Ford: "If a person believes he can do it or not, both of them are true." It is important for any person on a learning journey to believe that they can achieve anything or understand anything. You will eventually become what you believe.
• * E: Exercise Physical exercise takes you to a state where you can learn faster and retain more. Socrates said," If you learn something and you cannot remember it, that is of no use." Jim gives an example of a time where kids are always ready to play. Slowly that playtime becomes hangout time. As we play more our mind is a state where it can grasp things faster.
• * F: Forget. In order to learn new things we should forget everything we know before learning that concept. The preconceived notions we have about the subject will hinder out capacity to understand the concept and master it.
• * A: Active "When you move, your mind will groove." So, it is very important to be active when learning. 
• * S: State of mind it's the most important part when learning or reading. Sometimes people learn pages from a book and they don't remember anything they read. So they start over and even on second attempt nothing is retained. So, it is very important to be in a state where you feel happy and you can concentrate. 
• * T: Teach When you learn something you should learn with a mindset that you will teach this concept or lesson to somebody else later. This mindset will make us vigilant when we are reading, to understand what are the key concepts, what were the contexts used etc.