evelyn wood speed reading seminars

Most readers are familiar with Evelyn Wood, whose influence helped tens of thousands of people learn to read faster with a consequent increase in understanding and retention. One of the best examples was Dr. Lowell Lees at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The evidence showed that Dr. Lees could read more 6,000 words per minute with good comprehension. Ms. Wood later found (and studied) to more than 100 people who were able to read 1,500 words per minute.

However, there have always been a speed reader – before and after Evelyn Wood.

George Washington, for example, wanted to read anything and everything. He liked especially English books in agriculture (considered himself a  "farmer Country Gentleman"). Even reading books while riding. His reading speed was not particularly fast, but was consistent and persistent, in general, stimulation through the book without re-reading passages (a "regressingÂ").

Thomas Jefferson was very disciplined in your reading, covering many topics with a purpose and are forced to supplement your reading program planned. These were the keys of his unusual powers of concentration: no distractions, no time consuming actions by inattention. He firmly believed in reading with a purpose, either knowingly or leisure, and made a list of books to read on schedule. Moreover, Jefferson also used a watch to guide and control your time reading. One account says that his speed, but relatively quick, was "always calm, even stately, like the ticking of a tall mahogany clock.Â"

Abraham Lincoln was known to beg or borrow books to read. He is often remembered for educating himself candlelight at an early age. Anyway, always was reading. Later, he applied his self-reading habits as a lawyer, legislator and president. Although constantly reading, his speed was probably an "average" and often read out loud because he liked to listen to words.

Theodore Roosevelt was known as a very fast reader and a tireless critic of books. Even today's standards, their reading speed seems incredible. A reading of his qualities, besides the speed, was knowing when to skim and scan, while absorbing the thrust of your reading material. In a letter to his son about Kermit the best way to read Dickens, Roosevelt said: Â "I know what to do is jump on Bosh and talk and vulgarity and lies, and get the benefit of the REST." Roosevelt also was fond of reading books Favorites more than once. He even left a list of novels I had read "over and over again." While in the White House, President Theodore Roosevelt is said to read a book every day before breakfast, and sometimes reading three books in one day.

Franklin D. Roosevelt would certainly be among the leaders in reading speed. Like most people, began to read two or three words at a time, then extending to three or four words, then six to eight words. He was finally able to read (and absorb) a whole paragraph at a glance. It is often practiced reading two or three lines at a glance (a "fixation"). Even more interesting, when he threw a quick look at one page, then turn the page and think about what the author was trying to say.

John F. Kennedy wanted to read faster as a young man, feeling constrained by her reading speed of less than 300 words per minute (ppm). After studying the speed reading techniques, reading speed increased to about 1,200 words per minute. He attributed part of its velocity to the ability to read and absorb large groups of words at a glance (a "thought units"). He encouraged and inspired many of his personal staff to learn and apply reading speed in their own lives.

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