Практика Shadowing: I Read 1247 Pages In A Day... Let Me Teach You How - Изучайте разговорный английский по видео
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I used to struggle a lot with reading and with studying in general.
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Two weeks after my final exams,
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they found out I was actually pretty severely dyslexic.
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Which explained a lot, but didn't solve anything.
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I was still reading painfully slow and the information just wouldn't stick.
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That frustration turned into fascination.
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I wanted to understand how my brain takes in information and how can I actually remember it.
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Eventually, I developed my own system and method.
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And it worked so well that I was able to finish my psychology degree,
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which normally takes about 40 hours a week,
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in just 8 hours a week.
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Hi, my name is Mark Tichelaar.
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I'm also known as Focus with Mark.
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I have a background in neuroscience and neuropsychology,
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and I've sold over 300,000 books on focus.
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I've also trained more than 100,000 people to read faster without losing comprehension.
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And some of you are thinking,
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well, there's no way I could ever do that.
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I get it, but I'm severely dyslexic.
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If I can do it, you can do it.
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What I like about this video is we're not only talking about it or explain how to read faster,
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we're actually going to do it together with simple exercises.
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And just like lifting weights, you always start light.
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So please grab a book that feels easy and comfortable,
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even if you read it before, that's totally fine.
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Are you ready?
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Let's train your brain.
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Well, the first misunderstanding about speed reading is if I read faster,
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my comprehension will drop.
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Funny thing is, the opposite is true.
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If you read faster, your comprehension will actually increase.
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Why?
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Our brain operates around 1400 words per minute.
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That means in one minute you can think of 1400 things.
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But the average reading pace is around 250 words per minute.
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Meaning there's a gap.
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And that gap is always filled with your own thoughts or with distracting surroundings.
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If you increase your reading pace,
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let's say to 400 words minute,
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in this video you're going to discover how,
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you're closing the gap or in other words you're filling the void.
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Meaning there's less room available to be distracted and therefore you're more focused and therefore your incomprehension increases.
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Of course if you go too fast your comprehension drops again.
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It's all about the balance.
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The second misunderstanding.
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I must be skipping text if I read fast.
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Nope.
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With this method you read every word, every comma.
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You can skip information if you choose to,
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but the method itself doesn't skip anything.
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After this training, I can only read fast.
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Also false.
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Think of it like shifting gears in a car.
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You gain more gears, but you decide when to use them.
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You can read slow, you can read fast, you're always in control.
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The reason why speed reading works is because of two reasons.
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First, you train your eye muscles.
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Second, you guide your eyes more efficiently.
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That's the foundation.
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Let's look how your eyes move normally across a line.
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Imagine a line of words.
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This is how our eyes move across that line.
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They're jumping forward, forward, backwards, forward, backwards, backwards, forwards.
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Those backward jumps, they're not really helpful at all.
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It's not conscious rereading, they're automatically little glitches in how our eyes move.
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So the first goal is turn that into a smooth movement that looks like this.
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Once again, the words and this is the movement.
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Do you see the difference?
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Let's try a quick test.
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My question is make a small circle motion with your eyes.
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Keep your neck still and only move your eyes.
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It's harder than it sounds, right?
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If I draw your eye movement, it looks like this.
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Alright, now the second part.
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Make the same motion again,
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but this time follow the circle motion with your finger.
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Alright, well done.
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If I draw this, it looks like this.
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Did you feel the difference?
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What's the second time when your eyes were guided?
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More difficult or easier?
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More intense or lighter?
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And this is speed reading.
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With speed reading, you guide your eyes during reading.
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Guiding your eyes make the movement smoother,
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what also means you absorb information faster with less effort.
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Let's start applying this on a physical book.
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Later, you can do the same with software when reading from a screen.
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Please grab your book right now.
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Let's start this method on paper text.
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You will use a finger or a pen underneath the line.
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Just guide your eyes from left to right.
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Let me give you some quick posture tips as well.
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Bring the book close to the edge of the table.
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Sit slightly back, move from your elbow,
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not your wrist and keep your arm relaxed.
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Ready?
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Here we go.
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Alright, and stop.
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I'm curious about your experience.
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Most people find this awkward at first.
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Your eyes want to go faster than your pen.
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It's totally normal.
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Around 85% of you will experience this in the beginning, including me.
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A small group, around 15%,
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immediately feels more rhythm and focus.
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Either way, for now, is totally fine.
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You will notice the difference soon.
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Let's start with the first exercise to train your six eye muscles.
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During this exercise, you will hear a tick.
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At every tick, your pen or your finger should be reaching the right side of the line.
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This exercise is not about comprehension at all.
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You won't understand what you're reading.
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And that's fine.
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We're simply training your eyes to handle higher speeds.
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Grab your text right now.
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Ready?
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Here we go.
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so so
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I'm sorry.
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All right, the last tempo was actually the same tempo when we started this exercise.
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Did you feel it was a little easier?
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Or did it felt a little slower?
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That means the training is already working.
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Normally we focus on one word at a time,
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but our eyes are naturally see several words at once.
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In technique 2 we're going to use that.
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It looks like this.
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Your eyes make fewer stops per line,
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which increases your reading speed and still keeps your comprehension.
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The key here is keep a steady rhythm.
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If you start thinking too much of where to place the pen,
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your tempo becomes choppy and your comprehension drops.
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Smoothness is key.
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Let's test this out.
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Grab your text again, read at your own normal comprehension level and apply the second method.
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If your comprehension feels choppy,
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add one extra stop per line and smooth out your tempo.
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Alright, we're going to do a second exercise to train your eye muscles.
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Once again, during a training exercise,
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we deliberately don't focus on comprehension at all.
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We only focus on training the muscles.
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And the only way to do that is going faster than our brain is able to comprehend the information.
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During this exercise, we're going to read in three blocks.
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Your normal speed with full understanding of the text,
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doubling your reading pace, roughly 50% comprehension,
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tripling your reading pace, almost zero comprehension.
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And then we go back to normal.
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This trains your eyes to move comfortably at a higher pace.
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Ready?
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Here we go.
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Start reading the text at your normal reading pace with full comprehension.
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Now double your reading pace,
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you should have around 50% comprehension.
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If you can still fully understand the text,
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you're not moving your eyes fast enough to train them.
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Great, now triple your reading pace.
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You should have zero comprehension.
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Just move your eyes from left to right,
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as fast as you can.
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Great, now start reading the text at your own normal reading pace.
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Awesome, you're done.
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Now the third technique.
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Earlier I told you to start at the first word of the line and end at the last word.
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That was on purpose so you wouldn't guide only half the line.
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But now we're going to adjust that.
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Your eyes can see several words to the left and right from where you focus.
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So instead of guiding from the first word,
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we're actually going to start between the first and the second word.
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You still see every word.
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You're just using your visual field more efficiently.
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This adds another 10 to 50% to your reading speed.
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Alright, grab your own book or study material.
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Choose a fresh chapter, something you haven't read yet.
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Important principle, maybe the most important principle.
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Never ever force your reading speed.
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If your concentration drops, go a little faster.
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If your comprehension drops, go a little slower.
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Always stay at 100% full understanding of the text.
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Speed reading also means smarter reading.
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And one item is always highlighting.
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Should you do it or not?
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I did it intensively during my study.
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I highlighted pretty much every line in the book.
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Well, a study from Harvard shows that highlighting information has no effect whatsoever on remembering that information.
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It is useful though to find information back,
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but it doesn't help you to store the information in your long-term memory.
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The second element in reading smarter is when do you remember the information?
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Let me explain.
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Most people like to combine reading with remembering.
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And it makes sense, right?
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I'm reading a line.
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I want to remember that line.
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But keep in mind, absorbing information and understanding information and remembering the information are two different parts of our brain.
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If you try to remember the information during reading,
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it means you're ping-ponging back and forth between two brain regions.
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and that slows you down tremendously.
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It's way more effective to focus purely during reading on absorbing the information,
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understanding the information and only after reading,
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let's say after a chapter,
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try to remember that information.
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It sounds pretty weird but keep in mind this is not a different way of remembering,
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just another way to structure your time.
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Is it reading, remembering, reading,
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remembering, reading, remembering, reading, remembering,
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exhausting, or is it reading,
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reading, reading, remembering, remembering, remembering?
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The second way to structure your time in this fashion is increasing your reading pace,
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and more importantly, it makes remembering information much more effectively.
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All right, let's move on to reading from screens.
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Reading from screens is totally different for our brain.
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First of all, we read much slower from a screen.
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Even from an e-reader, we read about 20% slower.
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From a traditional screen, we read about 25% slower.
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Second, we absorb the information not so good.
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Our eyes tend to fall off the lines more and obviously we scroll more.
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And last but not least,
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it's quite difficult for a brain to remember a digital text.
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With a normal book we roughly know I'm one third of the book
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and the information is on the left corner just below the image.
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With a digital text it's just one blur of information which makes it more difficult to remember that information for our brain.
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But obviously you cannot print out every information so luckily there are software that assists you to read faster from a screen.
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There are two software tools that pops to mind.
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The first one is focusreader.com and I'm one of the founders of that.
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That software tool guides your eyes pretty much in the way we did with the first technique,
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so in the fluent motion.
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The second one is called Spritz.
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It's based on the second technique.
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Spritz shows one chunk of text at a time in the center of your screen.
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Therefore, your eyes doesn't need to make any jumps.
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Spritz is great for quick overview.
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Focus Reader is better for deep reading, especially pdfs.
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Alright, nice job.
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You learned the foundations, you trained your eye muscles,
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now it's time to apply this on your own real reading.
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So pick a chapter today and practice one of the techniques
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and let me know in the comments which is your favorite technique.
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I'm reading all the comments and obviously I'm speed reading them.
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I hope it was helpful.
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I hope you hit the like button and subscribe so the algorithm knows you love this video.
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Thanks for watching and see you in the next video.
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