Power ReadYour Guide to Top Secret Brain TrainingPower read. Go fast. Get ahead. Aspire, Attain, Aquire. How long did it take you to read those sentences? Much less than a second if you speed read. Here is how to power read. 1. Glance over the entire page, top to bottom, finding key words. 2. Start at the top of the page and move your eyes quickly from left to right - vacuuming up words as you go. Actually pretend that your mind is a vacuum sucking up information - by whole paragraphs at once. 3. Practice - practice - practice, concentrating on comprehension.
Top Secret Training Methods 1. Use a card or folded piece of paper as a pacing tool. 2. Teach your eyes to grab more information from your peripheral vision. To do this (without the expensive software) put your finger at the top of the text in the middle. Draw your finger down the middle of the page concentrating on the words that your finger passes - but at the same time let your peripheral vision scan what lies on the outer edges of the page. 3. Skip unimportant phrases and filler. Recognize the author's style and simply skip over material that does not relate to main concepts. Why waste time on overly worded material. (Did you recognize the previous sentence as overly worded? ha ha!) Zero in on the main concept and move on. To power read is to get the main gist of what the writer is trying to tell you. It's not for leisure reading. It's not for poetry. It's for sheer information input. "I took a course in speed reading once. I was able to read War and Peace in 10 minutes! It's about Russia."
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