Jim Kwik

But I know it's not true.

It's not.

It's not because we weren't taught differently, right?

And so what I would say is the fastest, so I think it's a myth being spread around by slow readers that if you read faster, you wouldn't understand as much because it's a lie.

And this is interesting because we have online academy, right, of speed reading.

And we have students in over 180 countries.

So we have a lot of data.

And we found the fastest readers actually have the best comprehension because they have the best focus.

Okay.

So here's a metaphor.

Your brain is this incredible supercomputer.

But when you read, you feed this supercomputer one word at a time.

Metaphorically, you're starving your mind.

And even if we were to talk like that through this,

It would be like eight days to read, right?

And what would happen to people?

Very quickly, if they were talking that slow, their mind would wander, they would fall asleep, they would think about other things.

And isn't that, aren't those the same exact things that happen when you read?

Your mind wanders, you fall asleep, you start thinking about other things.

Because if you don't give your brain the stimulus it needs, it'll seek entertainment elsewhere in the form of distraction.