Reddit reviews Breakthrough Rapid Reading
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Reddit reviews Breakthrough Rapid ReadingWe found 18 Reddit comments about Breakthrough Rapid Reading. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
I aced undergrad biochem via speedreading - that's the gist of my comrphension counter-argument.
The caveat is that I gave up on it since starting grad school - no time to practice. It's a skill that has to be kept up and all my time was devoted to problem solving.
That aside, I learned via this book.
It took me a bout two months to get to 1000 words per minute at decent comprehension for light fiction, i.e. almost identical to my normal comprehension at ~300 wpm. After ~8 months of diligent practice I got up ~11-17 pages per minute (3300-5100wpm) of easy fiction, like Harry Potter or something plot driven. I could speed read biochem textbooks at about 700wpm. I aced biochem by never reading the book, normally, but speedreading through a chapter ~5 times in less time it would take most people to read it once. I would make detailed charts of the material and memorize it - the book I linked to teaches that sort of thing too. I would read two books a day for fun, and that was the main purpose for learning the skill. It's not very helpful in math or philosophy, etc.
I'll share my reading list for the next 12 months as it's how I plan to become a better learner:
 
Learning
Improving Maths
Improving Reading Speed
Algorithmic thinking
Understanding the Mind
Productivity
It's an ambitious reading list for the next 12 months as there is some heavy reading in there but hopefully you can get one or two useful suggestions from it!
Disclaimer: I love consuming knowledge but I'm not a news junkie.
> As someone who would like to continue building my knowledge of the world I sometimes get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information there is out there.
You need to know how to select knowledge to read and devour. (Actually, go ahead and read the rest of Dr Wozniak's articles while you're at it.)
> With the news I tend to get overwhelmed. I'd like to come up with some kind of system where I filter out for quality, in-depth stories yet keep up-to-date with a wide range of topics/regions.
Reading straight from the newswire is akin to drinking from a firehose.
Regarding this: I would personally have a machine learning algorithm do the filtering for me, one that I have preferably written myself and tweaked to perfection. Sorry but I do not know any off-the-shelf solutions to this.
> For my other interests I'm mainly reading non-fiction right now. I really hate the feeling that I'll forget a good amount of the detail of what I read which makes me feel compelled to put everything I read on my re-read list (which is problematic considering I still have a substantial to-read list).
Feel like you'll forget something that you want to remember forever? Use a spaced repetition system. SuperMemo used to be the big name in the game but I personally prefer Anki.
> Any suggestions for a system of organizing knowledge for myself (a personal wiki, a series of documents, notebooks, etc)?
I would strongly recommend writing up a series of documents on a topic, and then SRS-ize all the relevant facts. Store a hard copy of the original document you wrote up along with a list of sources in a file somewhere safe, so you can pull it up if you want to properly reference something / give someone else a summary/overview of the topic. It is important to first understand the material before you put it into your SRS system.
On a semi-related note, if you wish to adopt speedreading, take a look at Peter Kump's book on the subject. Reading doesn't have to be linear, I find reading non-linearly to work best.
Breakthrough Rapid Reading was helpful for me. The first couple chapters are about reading by sliding your finger across the page instead of just your using your eyes. The science there is that your eye takes a fraction of a second to focus on a word, so you can avoid that delay by following the sliding finger. Instead of word-word-word, your brain picks up wordwordword. That little action sped up my reading a lot, and also kept my mind from wandering.
I've heard good things about Peter Kump's Breakthrough Rapid Reading.
It's fairly easy to improve your memory, but learning to learn properly :)
As for speed reading, I highly recommend Peter Kumps Breakthrough Rapid Reading
I'm a bit late but I hope you see this.
I was in the same boat (although more into non-fiction) and can strongly recommend two books:
The first is How to Read a Book. When I first saw the title I though: "Pfft, I know how to read a book", but then you start reading it and realise that you don't know shit. This book deals with comprehension mainly, so it seems perfect for your situation.
The second book is less important but one I'd recommend to anyone who does a lot of reading. Breakthrough Rapid Reading talks about "speed reading" and is set out like a six week course. You can do 20 mins every evening to increase your reading speed whilst maintaining (or even improving) comprehension. There are a lot of speed reading resources out there, but I think this is one of the best. Certainly worth a look as you can make pretty rapid gains early on.
Here are the books I had in mind when I wrote that, but lacked the time to look up:
http://www.amazon.com/Evelyn-Seven-Day-Reading-Learning-Program/dp/B000M7ZCC2/ref=sr_1_3
http://www.amazon.com/Remember-Everything-You-Read-Learning/dp/0380715775/ref=sr_1_1
http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/dp/073520019X/ref=sr_1_2
Get this book
http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Book-Classic-Improving-School/dp/0345410025/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1322801875&sr=8-7
And this book
http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/dp/073520019X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322801891&sr=8-1
Study little, know a lot. Memorization techniques cut my study time in half, and because I could memorize instantly I only had to read something once, and very fast at that.
For me the overwhelming feeling was tied into a fear of failure. I was subconsciously afraid that I would do something wrong and I wouldn't be successful. I had always been driven to succeed instead of driven to learn.
Once I realize this and that failure is an integral part of learning, I started accepting failure. It really helped to change my entire mindset and approach to learning. I still have a really long way to learning how to learn (late in life) but I am far better off.
I also realized my reading level was not as high as it should have been. If you find that is the case:
https://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/dp/073520019X
This book is THE book for improving your reading speed. It is a speed reading book, but if nothing else it will teach you something about your reading ability and very basic ways to improve it, without having to go "full speed reading."
Breakthrough Rapid Reading is a pretty decent book, also a few things posted in r/speedreading
http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/dp/073520019X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256486997&sr=1-2
Break-Through Rapid Reading is what you want. It will guide you on a six week program to increase your reading rate. It takes practice. I didn't have the patience or the will-power to continue for the full program, but I can read about 2x as fast as I used to when I try.
I read about ~219 WPM. I'm trying to improve that by using this book
some other tips I've learned so far
The paradigm shift is to trust that you can just "see" and "know" immediately. Basically, if I hold up a sign you have read the words to yourself to get the info off of it. If I hold up an orange you don't have to say "orange" to yourself to know that it is an orange. This is the shift you have to make. See it, brain knows it.
Tunnel snakes rule!
this book is all you need. guaranteed. but you have to ACTUALLY do the exercises and keep up with it, you'll see noticeable improvements within a week if you do the exercises everyday...gotta put in the work
http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/dp/073520019X
1.) This, by the end of three weeks my reading speed increased by about 100 wpm. The cliff notes is to basically use your index finger or pen to mark where you are on the page (that increased my wpm by about 50 wpm) the rest was just practice/patience.
2.) This one helped me to read more efficiently.
That's a good tool if you still read a word at time, but if you really want to read faster, pick up a book on speed reading. (Personally, I recommend Breakthrough rapid reading, but there are a bunch of them out there and they pretty much all cover the same material.
Some ideas in 4 categories:
Body Language:
Speed Reading:
Evolutionary Psych / Behavior:
PUA / Attraction: