I’ve been saying how much I love this field over and over
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That is true, you have expressed this many times. Overlook my first question. I believe it’s a bit selfish and dismissive of me to not notice how much you’ve emphasized your likes and previous suggestions. So thank you for your contribution, it’s much appreciated!
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I am picking up the vibes of dedication and running with them. Thanks for the influx of new momentum @Matt1 and @DR_MANHATTAN
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I already read extremely fast since I’m a child, but I wanted to get it out of curiosity. I was not really paying attention to the results, but last time I read the subtitles to my son, and I noticed I could do it at incredible speed, like flash, instant photographic reading. I think comprehension is also more fluent.
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Nice share and results. Thank you!
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You know how your Kindle will estimate how much longer it’ll take for you to finish your book based on your reading speed?
The last time I was reading, my current book was at 32% with an estimate of 10 hours and 12 minutes to go (Thanks Drops of Memory for that seemingly random but very precise memory!). I’ve been working on this particular doorstopper book in 30-60 minute sessions for at least a week, probably – just to set the stage.
I bought Speed Reading on sale yesterday morning and have probably listened to it maybe 5-6 total hours since then with the usual boosters (Brain Key, Snapping Synapses, White Matter, etc). I wasn’t listening to this in isolation, as I also took advantage of the sale to snag Key to Babel and Drops of Memory, so there could be some interplay there, but…
Today, in a single 30 minute reading session, I went to 43% of my book complete with a new estimate of 3 hours and 37 minutes to go.
Wow.
I’ve always thought of myself as a fast reader – I was already reading substantially faster than people usually talk – but this seems crazy. Like it’s said – no matter how smart you (think you) already are, there’s always room to improve!
Sensation wise, I didn’t necessarily feel like I was reading any faster than usual and comprehension was still high – possibly not higher than usual, but my usual level. I wouldn’t have noticed anything at all, possibly, if the Kindle hadn’t updated the estimated time to completion in such a stark, dramatic, shocking way. In retrospect though, I can tell I was absolutely flying through those pages. As with a lot of these new fields (especially the ones targeted at specific abilities), the results come on fast.
The Brainiac Grind has got me bemoaning the relative lack of ‘information density’ in most things. Videos, for example, are the worst because you’re throttled by how fast the presenter can deliver the information and they spend so much time revisiting and rehashing the same concepts (either because their audience doesn’t understand or they don’t understand…). With reading though… the biggest throttle is your own processing and comprehension speed. This field clearly obliterates even that bottleneck, giving you unfettered and unlimited access to the most information dense storage facility we ‘conventionally’ have access to – books.
Too cool. Such a time to be alive with these kinds of tools available to us to break free of our own limitations and self-conceptions.
So my 2 Day Review: Totally worth it! Your inner Brainiac needs more information-calorie dense foods to help you bulk up with Manhattan Method, Conceptual Conglomerate and Wholistic Thinking – this’ll clearly get you there!
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it’s like this field takes you from a 56k connection
to a broadband connection
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no, simply replying to the user above. Based on the user being able to ‘absorb’ more within a less of a time frame.
what it brings to mind is having the Ebook file of whatever book you are reading and grabbing a memory stick transferring that file and directly plugging it in your hard drive. This gives you the ability to copy and paste that in a shorter timeframe.
worry not, the gym is on pause for some time so it’s time for the brain gains. Starting with MM and WM, i suspect next month we’ll have a discount and I’ll grab something perhaps this but i don’t do much reading if my desire to read changes (i suspect MM would cause some change but i don’t want to focus on that outcome or any… in it for the ride) I’ll consider and it’s a no brainer.
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Can this help with visualization when reading? If not is there a good field for that?
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@DR_MANHATTAN Can you shed some light on whether this field will help with sub vocalization? It’s an annoying habit that is very hard to shake.
This field is pretty incredible.
There’ve been 9 Weeks in 2024 so far and in that time, I’ve read 9 full books, including a few very long ones. I’m reading every day, but not for very long on most days – I don’t have big dedicated ‘reading blocks’ except about once a week.
It’s been a few years since I’ve done a ‘52 Book Challenge’, but it’s looking like this year I might achieve this accidentally.
I almost hesitate to mention this, because I’m not sure it’s related (though my intuition suggests it is), but I’m also connecting with the characters and experiences in a much more vivid, visceral way. This applies to both non-fiction and fiction books.
One of the most powerful parts about reading is that it gives you an opportunity to experience things well beyond your current perspective. To learn lessons that this-person-you-seem-to-be-now wouldn’t normally have access to.
Like George RR Martin wrote in ‘A Dance with Dragons’:
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
Some of my 9 books this year have included the ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas’, ‘Up from Slavery’ and ‘Flowers for Algernon’ and let me just say those are not easy reads even if they’re not very long. The ‘taste’ of these alternate experiences has been deeply, deeply affecting and worthwhile in a way that’s hard to adequately explain.
I credit this field with even further deepening that connection between the experience and the experiencer. It’s a very cool ancillary effect!
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Would anyone who have bought the audio be able to answer my question?
I don’t know that it specifically includes things that would dissolve subvocalization. But, if it trains other circuits to be more effecient (and it probably will, as they would be more conducive to speed), you may eventually transition away from it as other pathways get stronger.
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is it on every word?
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Hmm it is 75 percent of words
Thank you very for much for your reply, I think it makes sense that you could gradually transition away from it
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try to reduce it to once per sentence
then it’s easier to drop it after a while
Thank you for the tip!
some students that are using this field can give me a feedback? i’d like to buy it to improve how i manage the informations while i’m reading idk i feel like i’m not absorbing what i’m reading (the part in the description that talks about connecting to the text looks interesting) and to improve the time i spend studying (if i can read faster understanding and remembering better what i read i can spend the rest of the day studying more things if i need or reading other types of books, i miss reading books that are not linked to my university)