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

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How to Speed Read

I think one of the most fascinating things was you talk about how you have to do it in the proper steps. Tell us why that is and what those steps are. Your mind has an infrastructure. You have working memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. And they're set up in such a way to store memories on the fly as you go. If you don't upgrade that infrastructure first, it's a lot like running a garden hose to try and fill a bucket or I'm sorry, running a fire hose to fill a bucket. Does that sound about right? It does.

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