26 October 2006 By zenandjuice 1 In Randomness
I was just handed a handbill on campus for a Free Seminar in Speed Reading.
You know, reading is like one of the few things that I can do where I’m not being rushed. It’s like being given the opportunity to listen to music at two to three times as fast. No thank you.
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10/11/2006 at 6:56 am Permalink
My experience with Speed Reading is passing the Bar Exam
on the first crach because of it.
The research on it by neuroscientists indicates it’s
a right-brain skill, while ordinary reading - snailing - is using
your left-brain and the skills you learned in 3rd grade.
You choose to use Speed Reading - it is not forced on you just
because you know it. Reading a novel on vacation or reading in
bed are for fun and do not require right-brain speed reading.
The most interesting teacher of Speed Reading - yes, I have
investigated them - is a guy in Manhattan - Joel Flax - who was
written up by the Wall Street Journal. His website is
speedlearning.org
Good luck.
Hal
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