Speed Reading and Comprehension
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DEAR FELLOW READER,
If you ever wanted to read books with the speed of a Harvard genius
(spending only 20 minutes reading that which now takes you an hour)...
while dramatically improving your ability to remember and comprehend
what you read... this may be the most important letter you will ever
read.
HERE IS WHY: My name is Dennis Campbell, and until very recently I
was your basic "slow reader." I had a love/hate relationship with
books - in the evening I'd enjoy curling up in bed with a good mystery
novel, maybe even stay awake a little longer to find out
"whodunnit"... while the next day at work being STRESSED OUT OF MY
MIND because of the staggering amounts of reading chores.
I swear I've been sitting at my desk, looking at the piles in front
of me, one emotional hair-trigger away from tossing the whole mess and
never reading another word the rest of my life.
Doesn't it drive you nuts? I had no control over my day-to-day
reading, even after 16 years of schooling, including college. Whenever
I read something I was "mind-wandering" and blanking out on text
segments because of outside distractions. I had to reread and
continuously refer back to material to understand and remember it.
I was literally going at a snail's pace.
That's how I ran into Jim Nilzon. And my life instantly changed
forever. In a few short days after listening to Jim's advice...
* I had infused my reading skill with a NEW POWER TO UNDERSTAND
what I was reading as I read it! (This allowed me to maintain speed
without having to reread bits and pieces to get comprehension!)
* I had improved my ability to CONCENTRATE and learned how to avoid
outside distractions that interfere with reading! (Incredibly helpful
at work where I was constantly disrupted by noise, people, etc.)
* I saw a 249% IMPROVEMENT in my ability to process information!
(Where it used to take me over 8 hours to read a 300-page book, it was
now taking me less than 2 1/2 HOURS. A 50-page technical report was
taking me 30 MINUTES... a one-page business letter 40 SECONDS!)
* TO MY AMAZEMENT...
And it just gets better and better! My bad reading memory completely
disappeared... and I began to remember and recall information as if I
had magical powers.
But it's not magic at all! You see, what I learned from Jim had
almost nothing to do with me... and everything to do with the amazing
new reading technique he'd developed over the years. He calls it
"VISUAL FLOW READING", and he got the idea close to 20 years ago while
going to commercial pilot school in New Mexico and being frustrated
with his own ability to read.
This website will teach you that technique. It will show you how to
read faster than you have ever done before. And it will reveal THE
MISSING LINK that allows you to understand, with crystal clarity, even
difficult materials at unheard-of reading rates.
Read Jim's incredible story below where he tells you HOW TO SLASH 40
MINUTES OUT OF EVERY HOUR YOU READ...
Sincerely,
Dennis Campbell
From: Jim Nilzon
Bellingham, Washington
Thursday, 10:22 a.m.
It's true. I was actually afraid I was going to wash out of flight
school because of my poor reading skills.
My luck turned when one of my ground school instructors, a World War
II fighter pilot named Conrad Strickland, suggested I try a "twist" on
reading he had heard about.
Incredibly, it worked. My speed shot up by about 50%. But the
amazing thing wasn't so much that I was able to increase my speed - I
was already reading much slower than the average person.
The amazing thing was...
It Only Took Me 2 MINUTES
To Apply The Technique
And Make It Work!
On that note... here is how YOU can demonstrate the power of this
technique for yourself:
Sign up for my FREE 5-day e-mail course "INSTANT READING EFFICIENCY"
and I will
LET YOU STEAL MY 2-MINUTE "QUICK-FIX" READING TECHNIQUE. I will
demonstrate it on video - and you'll immediately see how I used it to
read 50% faster (some people I've shown this technique to have even
been able to read TWICE as fast as before.)
I will give you my "FIRST-AID READING KIT" that you can use to
break some of your worst slow-reading habits.
Plus, I'll send you my Efficiency Advisories each month with cool,
new ways to get ahead whenever you're studying or working.
This e-course represents the contents of a 90-minute "mini seminar"
we used to give to groups of 75 people. The purpose was to demonstrate
the amazing power of the technique, and it was free. When we couldn't
handle the crowd anymore we started charging $65 per seat. People
still came in droves. So, in essence, you are getting a $65 VALUE when
you sign up today.
If you're serious about your reading skills but need proof the
technique works, don't miss this.
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Anyway, this "quick-fix" technique got me thinking... _If it's this
easy to bump your speed up by 50% in a lousy two minutes... what will
it take to go higher... or even... MUCH higher?_
So I began digging around in the library of New Mexico State
University (this is where I did most of my aviation studying) for
books and research materials about reading and learning strategies. I
skimmed local bookstores for any books about the brain. And I even
sent for some special reports by mail from an expert in London.
After a very short period of time of using the new technique and
trying out combinations with some of the other methods I had found, I
was able to read at a speed of about _450 wpm._
By now, I was in control of my pilot studies, because my ability to
learn had improved quite a bit, too. This gave me A LOT OF FREE TIME.
But instead of going out with my pilot buddies drinking beer (you
should have seen some of these guys) or enjoying the New Mexico sun by
the pool, I spent afternoons and weekends at the library experimenting
with speed reading techniques.
_This paid off in spades._ Right after graduation in January of
1989, I had found the "golden grail." In addition to having earned my
Commercial Pilot License and FAA Flight Instructor Certificate... my
reading speed had shot up to...
A Shocking _1,168 Words per Minute!_
And not only was I reading _8 TIMES _ MY INITIAL SPEED... but I was
doing it with HIGHER COMPREHENSION THAN EVER BEFORE!
Comprehension is the key to rapid reading. The rule of the game is
that you can never go faster than you understand something. If you do,
you're wasting your time.
This is where most speed reading courses fail. They teach you to
increase your speed, but they don't teach you to maintain
comprehension at the same time. Many of these programs are really
nothing more than plain old skimming in disguise. Move your eyes over
the page like a couple of bees in a bottle, and there you have it.
Pathetic.
You also need to understand that as a skilled speed reader YOU'RE
NOT READING EVERYTHING AT THE SAME SPEED LIKE MINDLESS ROBOT. You
_vary_ your speed according to... (1) how difficult the reading
material is... (2) your level of vocabulary... (3) how familiar you
are with the subject, and... (4) your purpose for reading.
So if you ask me how fast I read, my honest answer would be:
"_It varies. I can go at amazing rates over 1,000 wpm when reading
lighter materials like novels, biographies, news articles etc. But for
something as complex as meteorology or technical books on airplane
systems, I slow down to around 600 wpm to maintain comprehension."_
But considering I couldn't even read a simple novel over 156 wpm
before, you have to agree the results are pretty decent. Even when the
material is extremely technical, I still go ALMOST 4 TIMES FASTER. And
when I show you my method, you can easily do the same.
Think about it: Even if you only read at 3 times your present
speed...
YOU CAN SHAVE OFF 40 MINUTES FROM EVERY HOUR YOU READ!
Or, if you want...
YOU CAN READ 3 BOOKS IN THE TIME YOU USED TO READ ONE!
According to recent surveys, the average working adult spends from
one to four hours a day reading material necessary to the performance
of his or her job.
Now, if this employee works 40 hours a week and earns $60,000 a
year, he or she is being paid $12,000 TO $30,000 A YEAR JUST FOR
READING.
Imagine what happens when that person learns to read three times
faster.
He can suddenly provide his employer with BETWEEN $8,000 AND $20,000
MORE PRODUCTIVE TIME EACH YEAR!
That's why good reading skills have become one of the most valuable
assets a person can have in the modern information economy. It's MONEY
IN THE BANK.
In fact, I began to understand how valuable good reading skills
_really_ are, when Ericsson, the telecommunication giant, called my
company up in 2000 and ordered _one hundred thousand dollars_ worth of
speed reading training for their employees. It's true. I swear it on
my mother's eyes. One order. One hundred grand.
What stops most people from becoming effective readers, however, is
a little "lie" they have bought into. It was sold enthusiastically by
their teachers back in fourth grade. This little lie soon became the
_"big truth"_ because everyone seemed to believe it.
Have you heard it?
"The Slower You Read Something,
The Better You'll Understand It."
But in fact... the OPPOSITE is true!
You see what most reading teachers (9 out of 10 are slow readers
just like everybody else) don't know, is that scientific research
proved OVER 30 YEARS AGO that...
"When we read at higher rates we are feeding information into our
brain closer to its normal thinking speed. And this is the speed at
which the brain prefers to absorb data. In other words, the key to
memory and comprehension is to allow the brain to capture whole ideas
and concepts - not disjointed words and sentences, which is what we
get when reading slowly."
The old word-at-a-time way of reading is like eating rice and
picking each grain up by itself, rather than picking up a forkful.
Soon the arm will be tired and the rice cold.
What I'm saying is this: If it were true that slow reading is the
key to great comprehension, then all slow readers would understand and
focus on a far higher level than the faster ones.
But we both know this isn't true.
The reality is that deliberately slow readers not only waste time by
going slow, they frequently have HORRIBLE comprehension.
Listen: The Conference Board (a large research organization)
released a report in 2006, titled, _Are They Really Ready to Work?_
431 companies with a combined workforce of 2 million U.S. employees
were polled about the skills of new entrants of the workforce.
The report stated: "63% of employers ranked reading comprehension
'very important' for high school graduates. Yet 38% consider most high
school graduates DEFICIENT in this basic skill." The report went on to
say, "Forty-nine percent of employers in the manufacturing sector
cited this basic skill is LACKING in job entrants..."
38% HAVE READING COMPREHENSION PROBLEMS! Can you imagine that?
I don't know about you, but that just about says it all to me: The
way we are taught to read in school, simply does not work.
They tell us to read carefully. And when we don't remember? Be even
more careful.
They tell us to go slow. And when we don't comprehend? Go even
slower.
Go slower?! That puts the brain to sleep faster than if someone
walks up from behind with a cloth soaked in ether and puts it to your
face.
You know what I'm talking about. How many times have you opened a
workbook to learn something, and the minute you start reading you get
an overwhelming feeling you need to lay down and rest?
Friend, that's your brain saying, "Bye bye." Comprehension - out the
window.
Does that mean all you have to do is
move your eyes faster over a line of print
and, presto, you're Einstein?
Sorry. It doesn't work that way. And this is the _secret ingredient_
I added to the basic technique my groundschool instructor, Conrad,
gave me in 1988. The secret which has allowed me, and the thousands I
have shared this technique with for the past 18 years, to not only
read incredibly fast... but also... obtain ROCK SOLID comprehension.
To give you an idea of what is possible, HERE IS AN ACTUAL PROGRESS
REPORT of readers using my strategies successfully...
My students got these results from just reading a text straight up
and down against the clock and doing a comprehension test
afterwards....
However... whenever the purpose is a serious one - for example, when
you need to talk intelligently on the subject, give a speech, ace a
test in college, write a report, etc. - we add specific comprehension
strategies you can use to "DEEP STUDY" the text.
This adds FAR MORE than 12% to your comprehension.
Ironically, I consider high physical speed the _least_ important
part of reading. Apart from comprehension, the most important part is
knowing...
How to Read ONLY What You Need For Your Purpose
And AVOID READING IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Now THAT'S how you_ _save time. And that is why my method has a
gigantic arsenal of easy-to-use tools to help you:
* SEE THE BIG PICTURE IN EVERYTHING YOU READ and quickly find the
essence in large volumes of information...
* PREVENT INFORMATION ANXIETY by getting better structure in your
daily reading.
Can you believe it - "information anxiety" is actually being used as
a scientific term these days? It refers to that helpless feeling that
comes with the realization that there is more information than one
person can ever hope to process.
But YOU won't feel helpless and anxious - you will be relaxed and
confident. When you're involved in huge research and writing
assignments, for example, you will have the strategies to help you
think about, identify and capture the key elements of the
information-gathering task.
* READ FASTER WITHOUT SACRIFICING QUALITY (you'll discover how you
can cram the reading you need to do in the time you have available -
and never miss what's important)...
* COLLECT, ARRANGE AND CLASSIFY INFORMATION and make it easy to find
in the future... plus, quickly compile information and make it
available to others...
* CONCENTRATE, FOCUS AND UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU READ - even with phones
ringing, coworkers walking into your office babbling, or schoolmates
buzzing around your desk while you're studying...
To prove to our students how powerful this concentration strategy
is... while they are reading, we literally stand in front of the group
(usually 25 people) lifting chairs up over our heads, dropping down
and doing push-ups and other crazy stunts. When we ask them afterwards
if they knew what was going on in the room, _not a single one has a
clue_... they were all too immersed in the text.
* STOP PASSIVE, BORING READING and crush reading fatigue...
* REMEMBER A LOT MORE OF WHAT YOU READ without slow re-reading and
going over the same tedious material again and again. It's silly to
think you have a bad memory - I'll show you how to encode the material
properly while you read so you can easily access the information in
your mind weeks or months later...
Now, let me ask you this: Doesn't it make sense to master a broad
range of skills like these rather than learning a single technique
that, all it does, is allow you to go through your book at 200 miles
an hour like a raging bull?
You'd be a fool to use just a single-dimension approach - right?
RIGHT!
And doesn't it also make sense to obtain these skills from someone
who FOR CLOSE TO 20 YEARS has taught speed reading to _thousands_ of
people in seminars, private coaching sessions and self-study programs
with PROVEN results?
Wait! Before you answer, let me issue this...
**WARNING**
I AM RED-HOT BOILING MAD!
I am mad because it breaks my heart when I see how innocent people
with reading difficulties are being taken advantage of on the
Internet.
Just because the Web makes it possible to do so, all of a sudden
dozens and dozens of "instant experts" crawl out of the woodwork.
People who perhaps have read a couple of books on the subject of speed
reading... then slapped together some cheap e-book in a hurry, and
built a website to sell it.
I even had one student in 2001 who, right after training with me,
decided he was ready to write a book. I read the book after it was
published (it was sold in bookstores). _He had misunderstood the whole
concept and was doing more harm than good to his readers._
FACT #1: Knowing how to speed read, and knowing how to teach speed
reading, are two different things.
FACT #2: The term "Speed Reading" is neither proprietary nor
describe a certain type of technique or method of rapid reading. There
are as many techniques as there are frappuccino blends in a Starbucks
coffee house. AN ESTIMATED 75 TO 80 PERCENT DON'T WORK AT ALL.
How do I know?
Because I have read most, if not all, of the books published on the
subject since 1924. I have gone through the products that are being
sold on the Internet with a fine-toothed comb. And I have attended
many, many seminars over the years. Some techniques are great, but
most are not even worth the paper they're printed on.
I can promise you this: When you follow my simple step-by-step
reading plan, you will... (1) Learn a method that WORKS and works
FAST... (2) Learn speed reading THE RIGHT WAY so you can acquire the
skills with minimum frustration... and (3) Learn a _broad_ range of
skills so you can become a FLEXIBLE reader - not only enjoy your
favorite authors the traditional lazy way, but also be selective and
fast whenever the situation calls for it.
And if you worry that you don't have what it takes to become a
powerful reader - please don't. You see..
Many of my students I
