@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)