| Eighty percent of teachers are boring and | | | | How about typing or using the computer? Did you |
| unmotivating. Is it their job to belively and pour | | | | hear the words of wisdom of the instructor, and |
| the knowledge into your right-ear? | | | | bang - out of-the-box - become an expert typist |
| There are three ways to learn information and | | | | and master of your computer? |
| skills:a) Trial and error. Use the feedback created | | | | On the other hand - did you make a million |
| by mistakes to teach yourselfthe optimal answers | | | | mistakes, get so frustrated you wanted to shoot |
| and strategies of success.b) Observation. Since | | | | the instructor, but became pig-headed, |
| ancient times the apprentice method has | | | | persistent-and-determined, until youfinally - just |
| createdmasters of specialized knowledge and skills. | | | | got it? |
| Watch and ask questions,and finally, do the | | | | Learning to ride a bike, become a master speed |
| same.c) Lecture. An expert or certified specialist | | | | reader and learning a second language all require |
| stands at the podium andexpounds on his/her | | | | Grit - the will that cannot be denied. If you are |
| specialty. | | | | not interactivewith the learning process, accept |
| Most of us are experienced with (c), lecturing, also | | | | your responsibility to - Get It - you may as well |
| known as learning-by-instruction. There is another | | | | throw in the towel. |
| teaching strategy: learning by Initiation, | | | | But you did learn to ride a bike, drive a car, type, |
| whichcreates a partnership between the student | | | | and surf the Internet. Somewhere in your brain |
| and teacher. | | | | (prefrontal cortex), is a skills program to learn |
| The operative word is Insight, not memory | | | | new procedures. |
| techniques and learning through repetition. | | | | You access that brain structure whenever you |
| Meaning | | | | choose to learn a new skill. It helps train you with |
| Speed reading is a psychomotor skill; it is 50% | | | | permanent memory skills to steer a small boat, |
| mental, and the balance, permanently imprinting | | | | ski down a mountain, or go spelunking (cave |
| the specific physical skills and strategies. | | | | exploration). New learning causes neural plasticity, |
| Intellectual understanding is just not enough. Any | | | | structural and functional permanent changes to |
| one can listen to a lecture and comprehend the | | | | your brain. |
| four elements of Slow Reading: Regressions, | | | | An Example |
| Subvocalization, Hard Focus, and Porous | | | | Can you extend your index finger of your right |
| Concentration. | | | | hand and create an invisible infinity symbol (a |
| What is tougher is getting illumination - an Insight | | | | figure eight lying on its back), up to four feet |
| into reducing or eliminatingthird grade reading skills, | | | | wide? Do it three times in a row, and reverse the |
| and replacing them with Speed Reading | | | | procedure by doing with your left hand, another |
| techniques. | | | | three-times. |
| When the instructor uses Initiation - it is the | | | | Why? |
| student who must create learningexperiences | | | | You are exercising your right brain which has a |
| when he/she discovers the knowledge or skills on | | | | low usage compared to your dominant left-brain. |
| their own. It requires 15 minutes of daily practice | | | | You remember that the right brain controls the |
| (for 21 days), in order to absorb a Virtual Reality | | | | left-side of your body and vice-versa. |
| of the process. | | | | Second exercise: to accelerate you speed reading |
| Virtual Reality soon becomes your real world | | | | skills, take your index finger of your right hand |
| strategies. If there are no emotional and personal | | | | and produce an air-version of downward figure Zs. |
| insights, there is no meaning. For some students | | | | Your eyes are opened, and you are using first |
| Insight comes within the first week of skills | | | | your right hand and then your left, tomake Zs in |
| practice, others require the entire three-weeks. | | | | the air. This exercise is programming your mind |
| Only ten percent need four weeks or more. | | | | through your Mirror Neurons to create permanent |
| Surfing The Internet | | | | memories of this speed reading strategy. |
| Who taught you how to type on your word | | | | Third Exercise: close your eyes, and on the movie |
| processor, surf-the-web, drive-a-car,and ride a | | | | screen of your mind create a entire page of text. |
| bike? | | | | You are not going to read the sentences, you are |
| It was you - not your parents, a typing teacher, | | | | going to make Zs moving left-to-right, and down |
| nor a driving-instructor. Andyou also taught | | | | the page. |
| yourself how to use the computer and all your | | | | Each time you do the Zs exercise, you are |
| knowledge. | | | | creating speed reading long-term memories |
| Others can give your intellectual understanding, | | | | strategies. |
| but no one I know can drive acar because he/she | | | | Fourth Exercise: Practice 15 minutes daily in your |
| read a good book about it. You can take a class | | | | workbook doing Zs down the pages of text using |
| in computersand learn the basics, but you need to | | | | your Raster-Master. |
| make mistakes, get frustrated and angry,before | | | | Endwords |
| you obtain the feedback to master the skill. | | | | When you have to work for your knowledge and |
| There are one-hundred great books on speed | | | | skills, it has value because it is a subjective |
| reading, but research over fifty yearsindicates | | | | experience. Making mistakes and suffering |
| you must train yourself to be a speed reading; | | | | frustration in order to learncreates an Emotional |
| training your eyesto use your peripheral vision, | | | | experience. Work and Emotions deliver long-term |
| following your Pacer, underlining what you read, | | | | memoriesbecause it is personal, and not forced |
| and gaining an Insight into the skill of Soft-Focus. | | | | fed to you by an instructor. |
| Skill and Drill | | | | You are auto didactic, (self-taught), in every skill |
| On the first day you started to learn to drive a | | | | you own. If the knowledge is worth acquiring - |
| car, did you turn on the ignition, pull out, and | | | | you must be involved with being your own |
| comfortably drive down the street or highway to | | | | teacher. |
| your destination? | | | | |