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Page 1: Why do we read so slowly

The World’s Fastest Reader

Presented by Pear Tree Properties LLCAll Rights Reserved By Howard Stephen Berg LLC ©2006

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Information Overload

More is published each week …

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Information Overload

…than in all human history through 1800!

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…and ALL of that…

…can fit on your PC today

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… at 70 miles per hour …

Why is reading the road…

…at 200 words per minute?

…easier than reading a book…

Why Do We Read So Slowly?

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When We Drive…

…we think in four directions…

Right

Front

Left Back

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We have to:

Watch the road

Watch the gauges

Look out for Signs

Follow Directions

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…and we are so bored that we:

Listen to the radio

Talk to passengers

Talk on the cell phone

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Reading is Only ONE Direction

WHY?

… and talking on the cell phone is easier

But driving a car…

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Need to Understand the Brain…

…and how it processes text

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You Read Letters First One At A Time

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Then You Read Whole Words

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You Read Groupings of Words…

Hot + Dog Become: Neither HOT

Nor a Dog

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The Movie

When we are in a car…

…we see everything as a movie

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The Book

However, when we read a book, we read…

Actually, we DON’T really read…

One word at a time

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When We Read……

..there’s something in our head talking to us…If we look inside our head…

..there’s this imaginary little person…

…in the back of our brain…

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When we read…

…it looks through our eyes to see the book

… and reads it aloud to us in the back of our head

One word at a time

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Our reading speed is often limited to how fast…

…the imaginary little person can read aloud to us

One word at a time

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Eyes and Ears

We actually use our eyes…

…to hear what we’re reading…

…and that’s what slows us down

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Our Strategy….

…train the imaginary little person…

…to watch the movie

…and only speak up on the important stuff:

the who, what, where, when, why and how

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