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?
Speed reading or ‘learning’? Real speed reading will teach that there is no speed learning. Speed reading is tested with light fiction and even trained reading speed retention goes way down and fast with a textbook.
In college I read at a slow page flip. My IQ is 160 and ASVAB General Classification is 74.
My career was nuclear engineering.
Learning. Reading is a means to an end. Sometimes I wonder if the whole system is dumb. Our Latin alphabet is OK for certain things, but a pictographic system could potentially be more information dense. Is it better to just listen to audio books? Or watch videos? Is reading just an inefficient way of gathering information.
In my work I ‘read’ calculus almost as easily as I read my operating procedures. Tell me, zoomer, what is your profession?