Enter the URL of the YouTube video to download subtitles in many different formats and languages.
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