A Debate on Speed Reading (Ep. 74)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Is speed reading legit? Can you actually learn to read at 700 words per minute - or even faster? On this episode, I'll present a lot of the science behind how reading works, and my friend Zach will counter with some of the techniques he's learned about. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Rayner's research paper 10 Days to Faster Reading - the book Zach read on speed reading Tachistoscope My video on speed reading Asian Efficiency - Zach's website Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:39.0	Welcome to the College Info Geek Podcast.
0:41.0	My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student. And on today's episode, we're actually talking about something that I've had an interest in for a long, long time. We're going to be talking about the subject of speed reading. Now this is kind of a
0:54.8	coincidence because my guest on the show today is Zach Sexton from Asian Efficiency who was actually
0:59.8	back on the podcast episode 28 we talked about productivity he's been getting into speed
1:05.5	reading and he read a book on techniques you can use to increase your reading speed and
1:10.2	on the opposite side of that coin I have been doing research for a video that I'm wanting to make on why speed reading, at least a lot of the claims out there, are basically BS.
1:20.0	So in this episode, I'm going to present a lot of the research findings that I read about and it's kind of going to be a companion to this week's upcoming video.
1:31.0	So if you want to get a little bit more detail and some opposing
1:35.7	points of view potentially on the subject of speed reading and eventually a
1:39.4	conclusion on it, then this episode is for you and if you want to find the show notes with links to
1:44.0	some of the things we talked about they are as always over at cig podcast
1:47.8	dot com episode 74 link on that page will get you all those links summary and a link for reviewing the
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