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Trying to Ride a Tricycle in the Fast Lane<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Most adults still read the same way they did when they were ten years old \u2013 with no sign of speeding up!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you remember what it was like the first time you tried to read? You learned the alphabet when you were about five or six and could pronounciate short words. \u201cM \u2026 Mo \u2026 Mom\u201d That\u2019s probably hwo you started, letter by letter, until you\u2019d gotten through the whole word. Then you\u2019d start the whole arduous process over again with the next word, until you\u2019d gotten through the whole sentence well enough that you could understand it.<\/p>\n

At about ten years old, you were reading more fluidly. You read word by word, maybe moving your lips or whispering along to yourself as you went. Although you had made great improvements between the ages of five and ten, five years later, at fifteen, you were still in almost the same place \u2013 reading each word individually \u2013 although now your active vocabulary had increased to about eight hundred to a thousand words.<\/p>\n

Using the right tools for speed reading<\/h2>\n

Now that you\u2019re an adult, you have an active vocabulary of at least two thousand words and you can understand more challenging texts. But your reading techniques have probably not improved very much. You\u2019re still reading the same way you did at 10: Going through each sentence, each paragraph, each page word by word.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as though you\u2019re trying to ride your tricycle on the highway: You could be going much faster, if you were only using the right tools!<\/p>\n

As a Swede, I\u2019m astounded by this because in Scandinavia no one reads word by word. We learn to read quite differently, so that even as elementary school students we look at whole phrases at once \u2013 effective speed reading. That\u2019s our secret to reading so much faster!<\/p>\n

You can learn to do it, too: Speed reading like the Swedish do. You\u2019ll learn all about it in my new book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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