Since a lot of people have been asking me about reading faster recently, here’s another tip…
… scraped up from the bottom of my memory banks.
From long, long ago.
And a galaxy not too far away.
But it was when I was taking this speed reading course, by Guinness World Record’s fastest reader, Howard Berg, because I was trying to get myself reading quicker.
And reading more.
But back then:
I was still a stumblin’ and a trippin’ over every single word, and trying to read fast was just a hassle for me to do.
And I thought it was the hardest thing.
Ever.
But:
One thing that Howard Berg said, about the neuroscience of how the brain works when it comes to reading, totally transformed how my mind approaches ‘speed reading’.
And it also made it way easier for me to read fast…
… than…
… it is for me to read slow!
But that seemingly simple, yet profound quote?
That changed the way I read?
Behold:
“It’s easier to read fast than it is to read slow.”
Sounds simple.
But there’s a lot of neuroscience packed into that tiny little sentence. But if you’re wondering about why he said this, and how it works to get your brain reading faster, and processing info faster, maybe faster than you’ve ever done before…
Imagine this:
You’re driving your car along a little lane out in the countryside.
No one’s on the road except for you.
And it’s clear driving all the way.
So you’re puttering along at 5 miles per hour. But it’s so slow that it’s like you’re a turtle on steroids.
So slow that…
… its hard as heck to pay attention to your driving.
You can’t even focus on the road ahead of you.
Because you’re bored. And you’re constantly looking out the side windows, admiring the scenery, looking at the cows to see if any of them are purple, just looking at… anything and everything… to get your mind off that slow, monotonously boring 5 mile per hour speed limit.
However:
Now, imagine this:
You get off those country roads, that take you back, to the place where you belong, and you finally swerve onto…
… the highway!
Where hundreds of cars are just whizzing past you at 90 miles per hour (145 km/hr).
And you can’t slack off for a second.
Because the moment you do, you’ll probably crash into the guardrail and fall off the bridge.
So it quickly forces your brain to focus.
And pay attention.
And your brain starts taking in everything around you, every obstacle in front of you, every obstacle you can see in the side mirrors, every obstacle you can see in the rear-view mirrors, and… you’re just putting 100% of your brain power and attention towards driving.
And driving well.
But you’re doing it much more easily than you ever would on those slow country roads.
Because it’s just how the brain works:
When you force yourself to read a little faster…
It automatically forces the brain to focus a little more, and process a little faster.
Whether that be words…
… or sentences…
… or even smudges from your greasy hands on the page.
And it instantly puts your brain in a state where it shoves all its spare attention and resources into grabbing and understanding everything that passes by your two little eyeballs.
But so it goes for writing as well:
Which is something I’ve discovered very recently.
After playing with my new None to Done app for the last few weeks or so.
Because it’s literally forcing my brain to quickly and easily churn out words, sentences, thoughts, and ideas, that I can dump onto a blank page on demand. And ya know, it’s a lot more fun driving at 100 miles per hour, than it is driving at 5 miles per hour. As long as you don’t crash, I guess.
But:
If you’re struggling to read…
… or write…
… and struggling to do it a lot…
… then yeah, chances are you’re just doing it too slowly.
The solution?
Just push yourself to do it a little faster.
And faster.
Each time.
And when you do, it literally forces the brain to quickly pay more of those neuronic resources to whatever you’re doing, and inputting or outputting whatever you be wanting, and doing it much much faster.
And easier.
It’s simpler to do this with reading, of course.
But not so much with writing.
Especially, if like me…
… you have a perfectionistic streak.
And a tendency to constantly write, and stop to edit, and write, and stop to edit. Which also just means you’re just getting nowhere fast.
Thus:
The biggest reason why I created my new None to Done app.
That forces you (and me) to write faster.
While making it easier too.
And probably a whole lot more fun.
Almost every time.
But yes, you can get instant access to it right here, right now if you’re feeling some of that need for speed:
https://themysteriousmarketer.com/none-to-done/
Allen Walker
The Mysterious “Formula One” Marketer
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