Imagine pulling open a good long novel while sitting in your favourite chair in front of an open fireplace for a good long read.\u00a0 Taking your time to absorb yourself in the plot as it thickens, the evening wears on. You find that even though you have been reading for over an hour, you have only gone through about 40 pages.\u00a0 If you do the same thing every night for 10 days, you finally be at the end of your 400 page novel.\u00a0 That\u2019s fine, if you have plenty of time to burn. <\/span><\/p>\n Now, imagine what your employer would say if you told him you would be happy to peruse a 400 page report over the next 10 days and get back to him then.\u00a0 What if you were to speed read instead?\u00a0 Reading Doesn’t Work!<\/strong><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n It is no secret that when you speed read<\/strong>, you are neither reading everything, nor are you taking it all in for accuracy.\u00a0 How do you feel about your skill with speed reading?\u00a0 Do you feel that you have missed a lot?\u00a0 Even if the document now only takes you one or two hours instead of 10 hours, do you feel your accuracy of information is there?\u00a0 Are you confident in presenting your findings after just speed reading?\u00a0 Probably not.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s look at the statistics.\u00a0 You have been told that reading is the most accurate way of dealing with information, right?\u00a0 Did you know that you will immediately forget 50% of what you just read?\u00a0 Can you imagine how ineffective reading is when you forget 95% of what you read, in only 48 hours?\u00a0 Did you know that if you were given a comprehensive test covering all the topics you passed tests on in school that you would most likely fail miserably as an adult?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n But when you look at speed reading, you would probably think that since you are using fewer words to get your information that you would be even worse off.\u00a0 Right?…\u00a0 Wrong!\u00a0 Statistics prove that speed reading has higher comprehension of information, and even a longer hang time of the information than reading.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n So why would people that learn speed reading, and know the statistics, go back to much slower ineffective reading for their information?\u00a0 Most people do not have confidence in speed reading.\u00a0 Even though the statistics prove otherwise, people were taught form an early age that reading is \u201cthe way\u201d.\u00a0 Speed Reading Fails!<\/strong><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n There is another way to gain information that is much more effective that reading or speed reading.\u00a0 When you were born, you had a photographic memory<\/strong>.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t limited to just seeing either.\u00a0 It is a photographic memory on all senses.\u00a0 It is called the eidetic memory<\/strong>.\u00a0 Better yet, it is completely natural!<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\nSpeed Reading<\/h1>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\nPhotographic Memory<\/h1>\n