Overcoming Reading Fatigue with Dr. Michael Breus
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
4.8 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
When you’re reading something, do you ever lose focus? Do you ever get tired and fatigued? Do you ever get frustrated?
When people are reading, one of the biggest complaints I hear is that they get tired while reading.
To help you with that, I brought my sleep doctor and one of my dear friends, Dr. Michael Breus, on today’s episode to talk about sleep, reading, and chronotypes (the science of best times WHEN to do things for YOUR specific body type).
He's written a number of books, including “The Power of When” and “The Sleep Doctor’s Diet Plan.”
In less than 15 minutes, you will discover:
- How to overcome reading fatigue
- The worst time of the day to read (it’s not what you think)
- 5 easy sleep hacks for deep rejuvenation and greater mental energy
- How to minimize fixations to prevent excessive eye strain
- And more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to QuickBrain. Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free your mind. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:22.0 | Show me. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi Quick Brains, I have a question for you. |
| 0:26.0 | When you're reading something, do you ever lose focus? |
| 0:29.0 | Do you ever get tired and fatigued? |
| 0:31.0 | You ever get frustrated? My name is Jim Quick, for those of you |
| 0:35.0 | don't know, author of the Quick Reading program, and when people are reading, one of |
| 0:39.3 | the things they complain about is they get tired. Some people actually use reading as a sedative. So to help you with that, I am here with a dear friend. He's actually my sleep doctor. You might have seen him all over television. He's written a number of books, including The Sleep Doctors Diet Plan. |
| 0:55.4 | Dr. Michael Bruce. |
| 0:56.4 | Thanks for having me, Jim. |
| 0:57.4 | How you do, my friend? |
| 0:58.4 | Great to be here. So I wanted to have a quick conversation with you for everybody who's watching this. We're talking about reading. |
| 1:04.0 | And we know leaders are readers and I know a lot of your clients, your patients, |
| 1:08.0 | they're avid readers, but what happens is people read things and they read a page in a book and forget what they just read, or their eyes get tired, or they start |
| 1:15.8 | to read and they start to fall asleep. |
| 1:18.3 | And so what I thought it would do is talk about ways that they could increase their mental |
| 1:21.8 | acuity, their energy, and their focus |
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