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Jonathan Levi – Become a SuperLearner: Speed Reading and Advanced Memorization

Smart People Podcast

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How to Speed Read

When most people read, what they're doing is actually converting the words into auditory information. But when we speed read, we go back and we break that old habit of sounding it out. So essentially, I look at a page, I see the quick brown fox. We just see chunks of symbols. That's all text really is. From there, once you've been able to do that, you've sped up your reading probably by two, three hundred percent.

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