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How to Improve Memory and Comprehension With such busy lives and so much to take in, In my opinion people are becoming more educated through the advent of the internet and such a wealth of information so readily available, how does anyone get enough time to read everything and take it all in? Did you know that most of us use only 4% to 10% of our mental abilities? Learning to read faster or speed reading as it is commonly known as is a real example of how you can increase the capabilities of your mind and really expand your abilities. I was a real slow reader and it really kind of annoyed me when I had big projects and dissertations to go through and read whilst at university. I then discovered a speed reading book from one of my friends on my course. Like most people I was excited to read it, but I never got to finish it just like so many people. My friend then showed me an example of how he had improved and I was blown away at how he went through reading material and study courses in just a fraction of the time. I knew I had to get round to learning to read faster. I set about learning speed reading in my Easter break. It took me about 1 day to increase my speed by 100 words per minute. I then managed to double my speed to just over 800 wpm in just 7 days. You see when you read, most people read silently spelling out the words and almost using their tongue as if they were talking to someone. this is called 'subvocalization'. As long as you subvocalize, you limit your reading to the speed of normal speech, to about 300 w.p.m. If you can understand looking at a well recognised brand name such as Mercedes or coca cola, your brain instantly thinks and knows what the association is and how to process the information of the symbol. you don't stand there and read to yourself m-e-r-c-e-d-e-s. So you don't subvocalise, this is the fundamentals of reading faster, eliminating the process of speaking and allowing the brain to see the information how it is There's a mismatch between reading speed and thinking speed. The Mind is constantly racing ahead of the inner voice and so it gets bored. You experience this as an inability to hold your attention on what you're reading. You have to back-skip words, or read the same line twice. As your reading speed catches up with your thinking speed, reading becomes much less tiring and your comprehension improves. Once your speed of taking in the information has improved you can also use your eyes and speed us what information they see as well, again this will reduce any kind of subvocalisation that will slow you down. Your eyes move across the written page in a series of quick jumps. Between each jump there's a stop lasting a fraction of second, called a 'fixation'. The fixation is when the eye actually takes in the written word. The untrained eye takes about a quarter of a second at each fixation, and takes in 2 or 3 words per fixation. By speeding up your eye movements, you'll learn to make fewer fixations per line and take in more words per fixation. This technique takes advantage of the fact that much of written English is highly redundant; a lot of words can be skipped without any loss of meaning. When your eyes move down a central strip of the text, you also engage much more of your peripheral vision. And that in turn brings the right hemisphere of the brain into the reading process. You make much more use of the right-brain's ability to synthesize and build relationships within the material. By using speed reading techniques you stimulate more of your mental ability and hence you increase you intake of information and directly improve you understanding and memory of what you have read. I can't live without it. A book that I would recommend that I have now included on MHHW is Speed Reading

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