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I'm your coach, Jim Quick.

Free your mind.

Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity.

I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear.

I knew what I needed to do and how to do it.

I know Kung Fu.

Show me.

Okay, quick brains. I have a big one for you.

This is one of the biggest questions that we get on a regular basis.

It's about reading, but it's not about reading speed.

We've done previous episodes on how to read a book a week and how to get rid

of subvocalization or reduce subvocalization. We did episodes on how to read faster.

This is actually on the other part of it which is reading comprehension.

How do you boost your ability to understand what you read better?

Because there's two parts to reading, right? There's reading speed and reading comprehension.

It doesn't make sense to have the speed if you don't understand what you read.

You see, traditional speed reading has long been associated with skimming words,

skipping words, getting the gist of what you read.

Now maybe because I started as a memory trainer, I think it's very important not just to read

something, but to retain it and understand it. A lot of our clients range from the world's top

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