Read Faster With Better Comprehension
Learn to move through books, reports, and articles two to three times faster while remembering more of what matters.
This course is for members
$9 unlocks every course in the library, this one included, plus a credit to build a topic of your own and at least 10 new courses every month.
What you will learn about Reading Faster With Better Comprehension
The 7-day sprint
- Measure Before You Change Anything. Reading speed is meaningless without a comprehension score, so you start by measuring both.
- Purpose Before Pages. Deciding what you want from a text before you read it is the single fastest speed gain available to you.
- Map The Text Before You Walk It. A five-minute preview of a text's structure lets you read the body faster because you already know where everything is going.
- Fixations, Regressions, And The Pacer. Your eyes read in jumps and pauses, and most lost time comes from unnecessary backward jumps, not slow ones.
- Read In Phrases, Not Words. Meaning arrives in chunks such as phrases and clauses, so training your eyes to take in groups of words is faster than reading one word at a time.
- Retrieval Beats Rereading. You remember what you pull out of your head, not what you pass your eyes over twice.
- Shift Gears And Build The System. Skilled readers do not have one speed, they choose among several deliberately and match the gear to the text and the goal.
The 80/20: the 6 concepts that matter most
- Purpose First
- Prior Knowledge Is The Real Speed Limit
- Preview The Structure
- Four Gears, Chosen On Purpose
- Retrieval, Not Rereading
- Forward Motion With A Pacer
The core idea, explained like you are 5
Reading speed is limited by how easily your mind can build meaning, not by how fast your eyes can move, so you get faster by making meaning easier to build and by deciding what deserves close attention.
Then the quiz and the ladder
10 questions that correct you when you are wrong, and beginner, intermediate, advanced levels, each with a practical exercise.