| Know How It Really Works? | | | | decodes thesymbols on the page. |
| The secret of Speed Reading is linking together | | | | 2. Rods and Cones (photoreceptors), located in |
| your eyes, brain and hand. | | | | the retina, convertchemical changes of visual |
| What is so brilliant about that? | | | | pigment (light), into Electrical Impulseslocated in our |
| First, you never use your hand in order to read. If | | | | nerve cells. |
| your first-grade teacher saw you reading with | | | | These neural signals are transferred to the brain |
| your hand on the page, she would take away | | | | as visual images. |
| your gold-star, and today, rap you with her | | | | 3. We see light with our eyes - we read with our |
| computer-mouse. | | | | brain. |
| Second, everyone from 3rd graders to PhDs use | | | | 4. Even though we have a 120 degree |
| their ears to read. They mentally hear all the | | | | field-of-vision, ordinary reading usesonly 5 degrees |
| words they read (subvocalization), as if | | | | (six-letters wide). |
| broadcasted by a sportscaster in their head. | | | | 5. We squeeze the words we read within the |
| The use of your hand holding a RasterMaster, | | | | width of our Foveal |
| later a pen, and on the Internet,using your cursor, | | | | Centralis, located in the retina, about 6 letters |
| to underline the sentences you read, permits you | | | | (one word), wide. |
| to read three (3) words at-a-time instead of only | | | | This (Foveal-Vision), produces our sharpest, most |
| one, and to activate your ability to read using | | | | acute focus. |
| your peripheral-vision. | | | | Foveal-Vision is dependent on the Cones |
| Why Bother? | | | | (photoreceptors), in our retina. |
| Would it give you the competitive-advantage and | | | | 6. The Rods (the second type of |
| put your on the Fast-Track for success in school | | | | photoreceptors), in the retina allow us to use |
| and promotions in your career, if you could | | | | Peripheral Vision, widening our field-of-vision up to |
| read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and | | | | 36 letters - about six-words-wide instead only |
| reports in the time your peers could hardly finish | | | | one. This is the core of speed reading. |
| one? | | | | 7. Vestibulo Ocular Reflex (VOS) controls |
| Getting started | | | | involuntary eye movements tofocus the words |
| Major change is almost impossible for 95% of | | | | on our retina. Fresh Pursuit Tracking (FPT), is a |
| your associates; they consider it an attack on | | | | voluntaryspeed reading technique to focus our |
| their ego and react defensively. | | | | peripheral vision on accelerated reading. It is as |
| There are only two reasons for us to change:a) | | | | easy as pie. |
| Show me the advantages - logically and | | | | The Secret, (a secret is something important |
| emotionally to make a change in how I do | | | | unknown except by a few),is relaxing your neck |
| things.b) Show me the necessity to override my | | | | muscles and permitting your head to move |
| fear and hatredof change in my life. | | | | left-to-right while reading. This permits you to |
| Do You Have to Know Where the Feet Grow | | | | control rate of speed of the wordsappearing |
| From? | | | | within your retina's Foveal Centralis using your |
| If you are satisfied with knowing only the | | | | Peripheral- |
| headlines, not the copy,the next eight bits of | | | | Vision. |
| information are not for you. | | | | 8. Ordinary reading - snailing - exclusively depends |
| After almost forty years of experience in helping | | | | on our left-hemisphereand uses only our |
| to transmit speed reading to executives and | | | | Foveal-Vision. |
| students - we have learned that meaning is | | | | Speed Reading uses both left-brain (linear), skills, |
| everything. | | | | and right-brain (pattern recognition), specializations |
| If you do not get it - understand why it works - | | | | - to permit Peripheral-Vision to enable ourwider |
| you will not do the grunt workto master this | | | | Eye-Pattern-Movements. |
| life-enhancing skill. | | | | Do not sweat it, you are brilliant, and doing it is |
| You may have to read this material not once, but | | | | really easy because you have a tool - |
| three times because it is tough-to-comprehend. | | | | RasterMaster, and simple-to-use strategies. |
| Your goal is to be able to explain it to a 12 year | | | | Endwords |
| old in baby-talk. | | | | Between stimulus and response there is a space. |
| If you motivate yourself to succeed you will | | | | In that space is our power tochoose our |
| become an expert, and raise yourself-esteem and | | | | response. In our response lies our growth and our |
| IQ up to 25%. | | | | freedom. |
| Are you up for the challenge? | | | | Viktor Frankl, M.D. |
| Your Eyes and Brain | | | | To avoid criticism, failure and rejection - do |
| 1. Your retina transfers information in the form of | | | | nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard |
| ElectroMagnetic radiation (light), - as neural signals | | | | Success requires: Time-Discipline-Stamina - there |
| to thebrain via the Optic Nerve - where the brain | | | | aint no free lunch. |