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Reading for Profit: How to Maximize Your Learning Potential with Jim Kwik

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

CHAPTER

How to Train Your Comprehension

After you read something to train your comprehension, the second thing I want you to do is relate it to somebody else. We all know the five W's and the H, of course. But here's the magic. When you're reading something, this information is going through your eyes. It's being processed for your brain. In order for you to be able to talk about it out of your mouth, you have to do something really special with that information. You have to make it your own. And finally, the third R I'm going to ask you to focus on is writing. So first you read, then you relate, and then you write. Spelt R-I-

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