Jim Kwik

There are a few obstacles to effective reading.

So let's go through them really quickly.

Number one, what keeps you from reading slow is lack of education.

You're not born with the ability to read, nobody is.

And so we learned it through class, through a training, right?

But when's the last time you took a class called a reading?

How old were you?

Probably six.

Six or seven years old, right?

So we are still, every single person watching this, for the most part, we're still reading like we're a six or seven year old because that's the last time we had training in that one area.

The difficulty demand has increased tremendously, but we're still reading like a six year old.

So that's number one, get the proper education, lack of education.

Number two, lack of focus.

We could all relate to this.

You read a page in a book, you get to the end, just forget what you just read.

Because your attention is everywhere.

Your mind wanders.

You're thinking about the dry cleaning, the clients, everything, the kids.

So here's the thing.

You just mentioned that if you read faster, you feel like you wouldn't retain as much and understand as much.