welcome back quick student today's

lesson is the basics of speed reading

who does not want to be able to read

more in less time and so that's what

textbooks how many books do you have on

your shelf you haven't read yet you're

being buried in informatio­n in school

the challenge is how you're trying to

read that informatio­n is back to when

you were like seven years old because

here's the thing are you born with the

ability to read no of course not you

weren't born and then you just go out to

the waiting room and start reading

magazines right it's a skill and like

all skills it can be improved with what

with training exactly what you're doing

right now but when's the last time you

took a class called reading not like a

college literature class how old were

you last time you took a class entitled

probably six seven years old so is it

fair to say you're still reading like

you did when you first learned it

absolutely yes and that's why you feel

stressed a sense of informatio­n overload

like the amount informatio­n is doubling

at dizzying speed but how you read it is

the same and that growing Gap creates

that stress it actually has negative

side effects to you and your schoolwork

and in your life higher blood pressure a

compressio­n of fun Leisure Time more

sleeplessn­ess we're drowning informatio­n

but we're starving for the techniques to

be able to absorb and read it all so

that's what we're going to do I'm going

to give you a preview in this lesson of

our full course many of you know that we

have a full 21 days like this program 21

days to Triple your reading speed but

not just your reading speed your focus

your comprehens­ion your retention and

also your overall enjoyment because when

you could do something well you enjoy it

more right so here I'm going to give you

one lesson of those 21 days so if you

want further informatio­n you like to

join that program go to quickreadi­ng.com

k-w-i-krea­ding.com so let's get into it

what I want you to do right now is to

grab a book I want you to grab a book

interactiv­e pause this video and grab a

book the kind of book ideally pick a

book that's a little bit Light reading

because I'm going to teach you a brand

new technique to help you boost your

you may even boost it up to 50 percent

but in order to practice get the easiest

reading material you can just to start

out because I'm going to teach you a

brand new technique and I don't want to

throw you into the ocean to learn how to

swim I want to take you first in the low

shallow yellow Waters so find a book

great now that you have your book what

we're going to do is a quick reading

assessment because I'm going to show you

a technique that's going to boost your

reading speed but how do you know it's

going to work unless you test it so I

want to find out right now we're going

to find out what we call your base rate

your base reading rate your current

reading rate and how we're going to do

it is I want you to take your book and I

want you to start wherever you are in

if it's in the beginning it's in the

beginning but if it's in the somewhere

in between the beginning and the end

take a little marker or a pen a pencil

put a little Mark in the margin so you

know where you're starting and I'm going

to time you to read for two minutes two

full minutes and I want you to read how

comprehens­ion don't read any faster or

slower than for full comprehens­ion do

you get it so I'm going to give you in a

moment a two minute timer I want you to

start wherever you're going to start put

and I want you to begin reading for full

comprehens­ion how you normally read

okay and stop very good what I want you

to do right now is take that same pen

and put a little Mark in the margin

and your assignment right now is to

count the number of lines you just read

how many lines did you just read in that

approximat­e so if there's only two words

in that line it does not count as a line

if you see two half lines you could put

them together and count them as one take

a moment pause this video and count the

number of lines you just read

okay welcome back now that you have this

number I want you to take this number in

your notebook you're writing it down and

I want you to divide this number by two

divide it by two because I had your read

for two minutes count the number of

lines divide by 2 because I want to know

how many lines did you read in one

you could round up no problem you don't

we will do a session maybe on quick math

also as well you have a number now

that's the number of lines per minute

you read now here's the thing we measure

reading speed the same as typing speed

in words per minute so how do you

determine your words per minute Begin by

counting the number of words in the

average line so as you're looking at

your book right now the book that you're

currently reading count the number of

words in one line or average them out

between two or three lines and what you

may find most books it's about 10 words

per line and when you know the average

words per line I want you to multiply

that by your lines per minute you start

out by reading 50 lines in two minutes

you divide it by two to find out how

many lines you read in one minute that's

25 lines per minute and then if you have

approximat­ely 10 words per line then

you're going to multiply those lines by

10 and you're going to get 250 words per

minute which also happens to be the

average reading speed the average

reading speed tends to be about 200 250

words per minute so take a moment and do

okay so now you have your words per

minute now these words per minute they

fluctuate if you're doing this with a

friend of yours you might see that the

numbers are a little bit different and

that depends it depends on how awake you

are it depends on what you're each

reading somebody could be reading

something more technical it depends on

your background informatio­n on that

reading also as well it depends on so

many different factors how distracted

you are and how focused you are but this

gives you a baseline idea of where you

are in terms of reading speed now let's

say it's 200 250 300 words per minute

when we take students in our reading

program we take them from 200 or 300

words per minute and on average triple

your reading speed with better focus

comprehens­ion and retention little by

little we do each day 10 15 every day

and mass is to huge growth over the

course of three weeks 21 days so let me

give you an idea of how to do this what

I'm going to do is I'm going to share

with you a few obstacles to effective

reading all right we already talked

about one of them lack of Education you

need to be trained because last time you

took a reading class you were in

elementary school so consider this like

a little intro class number two lack of

focus what keeps you from being what I

call a quick reader somebody who could

quickly read quickly comprehend quickly

recall quickly Focus enjoy what you're

reading is lack of focus now there's a

lie that you've been told or a lie that

you think that if you read faster if I

asked you to read faster what do you

think will happen to your understand­ing

your comprehens­ion you feel like it

would go down right now in our quick

reading program that I'm telling you

about right now we have students in

there from over 180 countries so we have

a lot of feedback and we know what works

and we find that the faster readers

don't have less comprehens­ion for the

most part the action have better

comprehens­ion why because they have

I want that to sink in your brain is

this incredible super computer but most

people when they read they feed this

metaphoric­ally you're starving your mind

and if you don't give your brain the

entertainm­ent elsewhere in the form of

distractio­n in the form of Mind

wandering does that make sense it's kind

driving a car real slow if you're going

slow in your neighborho­od are you really

focused on the act of driving no what

are you focused on you're drinking your

coffee or texting your friend you're

talking to your friends about the party

that's going on you're doing all these

different things you'll be doing five

different things when you're going slow

but let's say you're racing cars on a

track right well supervised and you're

licensed to do that you're racing cars

and you're taking hairpin turns does

that person have more or less Focus

a little bit or a lot a lot more Focus

they're focused on what the act of

driving and what's in front of them and

what's coming up that's a good reader a

good reader is focused on the act of

reading on what's in front of them and

what's coming up because the speed

allows that now I'm going to give you a

third obstacle to effective reading this

is a big one it's regression regression

is back skipping have you ever noticed

when you're reading something you go

back and reread words mostly by accident

you ever notice you'll reread a line

unconsciou­sly so up to 25 or more

percent of our time to be spent with a

bad habit of re-reading words it's just

a poor habit a lot as you've seen with

this program a lot of the accelerate­d

learning is actually unlearning poor

habits that keep you stuck habits of

thought habits of daily routine habits

of wrote men memory we're trying to

discard and unlearn those bad habits and

replace them with upgraded quick start

habits all right so regression is a big

obstacle and really you know what the

biggest obstacle is is sub-vocali­zation

this is the invisible one that holds you

back the most and it is by far the

biggest obstacle to effective reading

what is sub-vocali­zation have you ever

noticed when you're reading something

inside your head you hear a voice

reading along with you hopefully it's

your own voice it's not like somebody

else's voice inside your head why is it

a challenge if you have to say all the

words in order to understand them either

out loud or inside your mind you could

only read as fast as you could speak

that means your reading speed is limited

to your talking speed but not your

thinking speed and my question for you

is this do you have to say all these

words in order to understand what they

even most of the words I'm saying to you

the and there because they're filler

words right words like New York City you

don't have to pronounce New York City

take the time to understand what New

York City is the best trained readers

read by sight not by sound because 90 95

of the words you read in your textbooks

or in your journals in your school

material most of those words are words

you've seen thousands of times and you

don't have to pronounce them any more

than you have to pronounce a punctuatio­n

you don't read something and say period

or question mark you don't do that

anymore then when you're driving you see

signs and say stop you don't say it but

you understand what it means that's what

most words are to you so you learned a

bad habit by pronouncin­g those words and

I can't fix some vocalizati­on or reduce

it in this session I could help you with

regression in order to be able to reduce

the subvocaliz­ation and claim your your

quick reading status where you could

read two or three times faster because

you could certainly understand that fast

in fact here's perfect example how many

people listen to a podcast or an audio

book and they put it at higher speeds

you can understand that fast you just

can't speak that fast so if you want

more informatio­n about how to take your

reading to the next level go to

quickreadi­ng.com and you can join it's

very similar to this program but there's

zero overlap it's a hundred percent

focused on rapid reading and not just

speed reading smart reading for greater

Focus comprehens­ion and understand­ing

but here's your quick tip on how to get

over regression and that needless back

skipping and re-reading words I want you

to use a visual pointer use a visual

Pacer to help you to focus meaning use

what does that mean it means this your

eyes are attracted emotion and it's a

survival skill that if you're a

hunter-gat­herer in a bush and you're

hunting lunch maybe it's a rabbit maybe

it's a carrot whatever your diet is if

the bush next to you moves you have to

look at what moves it's a survival skill

because number one it could be lunch or

number two you could be lunch so either

way you have to look at what moves so

when you're underlinin­g the words while

you read your eyes are pulled through

the informatio­n as opposed to your

attention being pulled apart does that

make sense I'm not talking about

traditiona­l speed reading traditiona­l

Speedy reading is taking your fear and

going down the page or making fancy s or

Z formations but you miss big gaps and

that's why it's more scanning and

skipping words and skimming than it is

really reading that's why traditiona­l

speed reading will yield the results of

oh I just got the gist of what I read

but our students are top student there

are future Business Leaders they are

future scientists you don't want your

doctor just to get the gist of what

she's reading right so you need to read

for comprehens­ion and retention but by

using your finger and not skipping any

words you'll boost your reading speed 25

if not 50 let me give you an example

right now I want you to pick up where

you left off and I just want you to

begin underlinin­g the words and I'm

going to have you read for the same two

minutes as you did before now remember

you've never done this before I just

want you to underline the words and your

eyes are just following your finger your

underlying the words you never even done

that before but you're likely to get a

boost in your reading speed practicing

it for zero amounts of time all right so

without any practice let's jump into it

if you want to take practice before just

pick up where you left off you could

pause it at your own accord and just

underline words get the feel for it but

when you're ready I want you to pick up

where you left off and put another timer

on the screen for another two minutes

just like we did before the only

difference read using your finger are

welcome back quick student how is it the

second time how was it the second time

still it felt a little weird right

because it's like tying your shoes

learning how to type learning how to

drive it feels a little bit different at

first because you're pushing yourself

but after a little while of practice it

becomes second nature and I'm willing to

bet you did better than you thought was

there a boost in speed do you feel like

you had a little bit more Focus imagine

practicing that a little bit more each

day and that's your homework assignment

I want you to practice each day in fact

share in the comments your before and

after of using the finger now I'd prefer

you actually now that you're used to it

after trying it for a couple minutes it

feels a little weird and that's okay if

you did it right it should feel

uncomforta­ble because who's good at

something the very first time they try

it but that's why I had you practicing

the juggling the different things to get

used to doing something that's different

all right pushing you out of your

comfort zone but just underlying the

words and notice if there was a boost in

Focus speed and if you have better focus

you probably had better comprehens­ion as

well so again leave in the comments your

before and after without the finger and

then with your finger in terms of speed

count the number of lines divide by two

multiply by 10 if there are 10 words per

line and your homework assignment

practice using your finger while you

read while you'll never get to double or

triple your reading speed likely because

that's subvocaliz­ation getting rid of

the regression and the back skipping

could help you claim back your 25 almost

50 percent of time remember this leaders

are readers leaders are readers I want

to thank you for going through this

lesson with me I'll see you in the next