Question from the mail: speed reading
A question from the mail:
I thought your article on memetic vs. cognitive skills and the exercises very interesting. Im already fairly skilled at basic English grammar skills but was wondering if you have any good ideas on how to read faster and also how to disinfect subliminals from your mind. Thank You for reading this!
Speaking of speed reading, there are already very good techniques out there, just use them, and you should get results pretty quickly.
As to using memetics to speed up the process, like in a case of improving memory, unfortunately I don’t know verified methods to do so. I suspect that those comon methods will likely to give you the best results anyway.
From unverified ideas, you can try to link your success in improving speed reading to some deep positive anchors in your mind. That would certainly speed up the process. However, which anchors to use and avoiding side effects may be a challenge. Say, a lot of people can reward themselves with food, but it’s important not to overdo that, otherwise your next self-improvement project maybe a diet.
Also, measuring success in a way, subconsious mind can get it, is tricky. If you read 20 pages in 5 minutes, is it success or not? Depends on if you can recall anything from those 20 pages, right?
As long as your keep fidelity to reality, you can try these techniques and may have success (as getting results faster than with standard techniques alone), but the temptation to cut corners will be high. And once you do that, it will be useless.
Actually, I can imagine somebody developing proper techniques for speed reading based on these memetic accelerators, verifying them in their practice, getting with those which work best, but so far I don’t know of anybody doing that. Could be a business idea for you?
As to submilimnals, it’s a very big question. Let me get to it in another post.
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