This may not seem like a conspiracy, but given the dumbing down of humanity with TV, fluoride, etc., it hardly seems like an accident. I don’t think the elites are educating their children like they educate everyone else's.
Like many people I’ve looked into speed reading and other such issues. I feel like we could do much better than what most of us think, but the information seems muddled. I’ve been looking at “Breakthrough Rapid Reading”, but that type of “too good to be true” sys has disappointed many in the past. I like “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler, but it’s a grind to do what he says. Maybe that’s just how it is.
Anyone have any remarkable success with speed learning?
I can speed read if I know all the words. If I have to go and look shit up, then it's extremely hard to do.
The best tip for speed reading I ever had was to not repeat the words in your mind (inner dialogue). It's pretty hard to do, you have to train yourself unless you're one of those people that has no real monologue, in which case I never thought about their reading speed. Just kind of look at the words but not repeat them. Not everyone is capable of this and actually holding the info.
I'm a bit out of practice speed reading nowadays and find myself falling back to the inner monologue more often than not.
I’ve read that this is a trade-off. You can go faster, but at the cost of comprehension.
“Two experiments demonstrated that subvocalization is of value in reading for certain types of meaning. Blocking subvocalization by requiring subjects to count or say “cola-colacola …” aloud impaired their reading comprehension but generally not their listening comprehension. The effect of blocking subvocalization was found to be specific to tests that required integration of concepts within or across sentences, as contrasted with tests that required only memory of individual word concepts. Two hypotheses were offered: first, that subvocalization results in a more durable memory representation needed for integration of concepts; and second, that subvocalization enables a prosodic restructuring that makes information needed for sentence comprehension accessible.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022537180906283
This is why I wonder if the format is just limited. I want to hack the system, but maybe reading a linear alphabet is going to inherently limit learning speed. But does it do so more than other formats, like video or audio?
Speed of learning is interesting. I was recently made to take AWS courses and I had the opportunity to put the videos at double speed, I wonder how much I would have lost if I hadn't already known most of the info. (we had to watch all the videos, was on an online site and they could check)