Save time - learn with the number 1 photoreading and speed reading experts in the UK. Speed Reading Tips "This decrease in neuron production coincided with an increase in the major rodent stress hormone, corticosterone," says Elizabeth Gould, head of the team at Princeton University that made the discovery. When Gould stopped production of the hormone in rats by removing their adrenal glands, the animals carried on producing new neurons as normal despite being deprived of sleep (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608644103). "We concluded that sleep deprivation decreases neurogenesis by elevating stress hormones," says Gould. The results tally with earlier studies showing that sleep-deprived people are worse at remembering how to do newly learned tasks than they are normally. "We know that sleep deprivation is stressful, and that it impairs certain types of learning and memory," she says. Derk-Jan Dijk of the Surrey Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, says the results are the first to provide a plausible mechanism explaining how a lack of sleep damages memory. "It points to the importance of sleep in the right hormonal conditions," says Dijk. "These are altered if you sleep at the wrong time of day, or if you are stressed generally," he says. The results explain how shift work might damage memory by producing "a different hormonal milieu". “The results are the first to provide a plausible mechanism explaining how a lack of sleep damages memory” However, Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen of the University of Helsinki in Finland says that may be going too far, as the 72 hours of sleep deprivation experienced by the rats is exceptionally long, equivalent to several days in humans. Sleep deprivation can damage memory, but only "in extreme cases", she believes. Source: NewScientist |
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Speed Reading
Double or triple your reading speed in two-day Speed Reading - Photoreading Course in London, UK
"I read more in 90 minutes with you than in 1 month before" Manager Read more testimonials about this speed-reading, photoreading course
Speed reading techniques increase the speed at which you can read while still understanding. Speed reading is similar to conventional reading in that you scan your eyes down the page, consciously taking in information as you go. However, the major difference between speed reading and conventional reading is that with speed reading you learn to ignore irrelevant or repeated information as you look for ‘hot spots’ or ‘trigger words’ (key information).
On our speed reading course in London, you will not only learn all the speed reading techniques and speed reading tips which enable you to read faster, but also the five step photoreading process (of which speed reading is just one part), plus additional reading techniques and strategies which you can personalise to create your own strategic reading program ideally suited to your particular needs.
TAKE OUR SPEED READING – PHOTOREADING TEST
Tick the ones that describe you
1. I love reading.
2. I read a lot.
3. I am confident that I can handle information.
4. I can find key information quickly.
5. I use a variety of techniques and different processing speeds and rhythms for different material.
6. I’m familiar with the 80/20 rule or thin-slicing and I use it in my life.
7. I happily ignore information that is not relevant or that I already know.
8. I can decide within 2-3 minutes how useful a book is to me.
9. I can decide within 2-3 minutes how long it will take me to get the information I need from a book.
10. I know the difference between a good and a bad book (before I’ve read it).
11 . I always know why I am reading before I start.
If you answered yes to 9 or more of the statements you may already be a natural strategic reader. You may also be surprised to find that photoreading and speed reading can give you new insights into how to learn, save time and live better.
If any of these statements describes you, photoreading and speed reading will defiantly enhance your reading skills.
1. I am a poor reader.
2. Reading is a chore. I put it off as long as possible.
3. I always feel overwhelmed by the amount I’ve got to read.
4. I read really slowly.
5. I never mark or write in my books.
6. I feel I might miss something if I don’t read from cover to cover.
7. I always read in the same way, no matter what I’m reading.
8. I worry that I won’t remember what I’ve read.
9. I get bogged down in detail before I've really understood the big picture.
10. I think I am or may be dyslexic.
11 . I want to improve the way I read.
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What if when you read you could focus on the information that really matters?
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world can, because with speed reading and photoreading we cut through the complexities of processing and managing information. We believe that reading more, remembering more and saving time while reading should just be... easier.
6 REASONS TO CHOOSE OUR PHOTOREADING - SPEED READING COURSE
1. You learn more on our courses. In addition to speed reading and photoreading, you get additional techniques unique to the VIP approach
2. You learn quicker and more effectively. The coaches are specialists in accelerated learning. They present the course in a way which helps you ‘get it’, so results are immediate and by the end of the course you can do it.
3. You get what you need. Most courses teach a ‘one size fits all’ system, but our focus is on getting you to read better (whatever that takes).
4. You experience advanced syntopic reading (with joker) and process 4 books in 90 minutes – as well as processing two other books during the course.
5. Two expert photoreading, speedreading, strategic reading coaches for the price of one ensures attention to your own particular requirements
6. You will feel more optimistic, energetic and powerful. It's official – photoreaders and speed readers are happier read PhotoReading & Speed Reading News
SPEED READING, PHOTOREADING, VIP/STRATEGIC READING
What are the differences?
Speed reading
- techniques for increasing the movement and speed of the eyes
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Photoreading
- both a technique (downloading the book into the long-term memory) and the name of the complete system – The PhotoReading Whole Mind System
- includes speed reading techniques
- sequential steps, including the photoreading technique
- added techniques, such as syntopic reading
- new paradigm: information processing rather than classical/traditonal reading
Read more about photoreading
VIP Visual Information Processing – Strategic Reading
- immediate results - by the end of the course you can do it!
- uniquely focuses on getting you to read better (whatever that takes), rather than on a 'one-size-fits-all' reading system
- includes speed reading and all elements of the photoreading system
- an open flexible process
- gives people choice and control to develop their own strategies for reading
- processing for learning (difference) rather than confirmation and understanding
- adds unique elements such as rhizomapping, the syntopic reading joker
- easier to learn
- quicker, more efficient, more effective
Traditional reading: slow, read every word, detail to overview, assumes unlimited time, everything of equal value, all details need analysis
Visual Information Processing/ Strategic Reading: quick, overview to detail, assumes limited time, focuses on core concepts and meaning first, active, purposeful, questioning
During the speed reading part of the course you will learn all classic speed reading techniques and more.
Speed read large volumes of information quickly & effectively: at least 6 books during the two-day Speed Reading - Photoreading course.
What affects our reading ability?
• Clarity of purpose
• Familiarity with the subject and relate terminology
• The difficulty of the text, whether it’s well-written or well laid out
• Urgency and stress levels
• Mood, tiredness, physical conditions
• Vocabulary - the bigger your vocabulary, the faster you’ll be able to read
• Position of the book: keep the book at an angle (research shows that by optimizing the position of the book in relation to your eyes you can double the reading speed)
What slows down reading?
• Sub-vocalising – ‘reading with your ears’. The main reason people read at an average rate of 150-240 words per minute is because that is approximately the rate at which they speak.
• Vocalising (actually speaking out loud)
• Habit of regression / progression (jumping backwards and forwards)
• Small vocabulary
• Perfectionism: wanting to know ‘everything’ which is a self-defeating script for failure
• Inner critic: inner voice that stops you from noticing what is working
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DID YOU KNOW?
Studies show that people read around 10Mb worth of material a day, hear 4000Mb a day and see 1Mb of information per every second.
Speed Reading Individual Coaching Sessions available
DID YOU KNOW?
How our eyes read?
New technology enables scientists to understand exactly what our eyes get up to while we read.
Being able to read competently is one of the most important skills we need to function in today’s fast-paced society. Analysing the way we read can offer valuable insights into how we process visual information. Scientists have been interested in the movements of our eyes while reading for forty years. However, until now most assumed that when we read both eyes look at the same letter of a word concurrently.
Now ground-breaking research by cognitive psychologist Professor Simon Liversedge and his team at the University of Southampton has shown that this is not actually the case. They found that our eyes are actually up to something much more exciting when we read - our eyes look at different letters in the same word and then combine the different images through a process known as fusion.
The research Prof. Liversedge will present at the BA Festival of Science in York shows that the reading process is not as simple as one might think; it is rarely a case of the eyes scanning the page smoothly from left to right. Depending on what we are reading and how hard we are finding the information to digest our eyes make small jerky movements, that allow us to focus on a particularly difficult word or often re-read passages we didn’t get the first time. Analysing these eye movements enables psychologists to understand how our brain processes the sentence.
With sophisticated eye tracking equipment able to determine which letter of a font-size 14 word a person is looking at every millisecond from 1 metre away, Prof. Liversedge’s team went one further and looked at the letters within the word within the sentence. They were able to deduce that when our eyes are not looking at the same letter of the word, they are usually about two letters apart. Prof. Liversedge explains: ‘Although this difference might sound small, in fact it represents a very substantial difference in terms of the precise "picture" of the world that each eye delivers to the brain.'
So if our eyes are looking at different parts of the same word, thereby receiving different information from each eye, how is it that we are able to see the words clearly enough to read them? There are two ways the brain can do this; either the image from one of the eyes is blocked or the two different images are somehow fused together. To test how the latter mechanism might work, the team chose words that could easily split in two, such as cowboy, and presented half of the word to the left eye, and half to the right eye separately. They then analysed readers’ eye movements when reading sentences containing these particular words presented in this way.
‘We were able to clearly show that we experience a single, very clear and crisp visual representation due to fusion of the two different images from each eye,’ he explains. ‘Also when we decide which word to look at next we work out how far to move our eyes based on the fused visual representation built from the disparate signals of each eye.
‘A comprehensive understanding of the psychological processes underlying reading is vital if we are to develop better methods of teaching children to read and offer remedial treatments for those with reading disorders such as dyslexia. Our team are now measuring the range of visual disparities over which both adult and child readers can successfully fuse words.’
Speed Reading Affirmation - Some of the classic affirmations that speed readers use.
Speed reading is easy.
Speed reading is fun.
Speed reading comes naturally to me.
My comprehension is increasing all the time.
I am a great speed reader.
I can digest information quickly.
I know how to enhance my speed-reading skills.
I am confident in my speed-reading ability.
I can speed-read anything.
Every day I can read faster.
I am a speed reading demon!
I read faster and with more understanding – QUICKLY and EASILY!
Others admire my speed-reading skills.
Learning speed reading techniques is easy and fun.
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PhotoReading - Speed Reading Course
Dates: 19-20 July (Sat-Sun)
Time: 10am-6pm
Venue: London
Fee: £458 This includes your 40-page Photoreading, Speed Reading and Strategic Reading manual and a lifetime coaching support guarantee. (limited places, small groups, book now to avoid disappointment
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