A Debate on Speed Reading (Ep. 74)

I’ve done a lot of research on speed reading in the past couple of weeks.

Coincidentally, so has my friend Zach Sexton (who was on the show back in episode 28) – though, as it turns out, we’ve been coming at it from opposite angles.

Zach has been trying to read more books, so he’s been looking into techniques for increasing his reading speed. On the other hand, I’ve been interested in speed reading for several years – but recently, I came across some research that debunks a lot of speed reading claims.

I’ll be synthesizing a lot of that research for this week’s upcoming video, but when Zach and I had our monthly Skype call on Friday, we got to talking about what we were learning. Since we seemed to be on opposing sides, we decided it would be cool to do a little debate on speed reading as a companion to the video.

So here it is. Can you actually increase your reading speed? Can it be increased by leaps and bounds, or are there only marginal gains to be had? Is there common ground Zach and I can stand on?

Listen the episode and find out 🙂

Things mentioned in this episode:

• Rayner’s research paper
• the book Zach read on speed reading
• Tachistoscope
• My video on speed reading
• Asian Efficiency – Zach’s website

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