Rapid Reading is reading from the beginning and ending at the end. It uses any and all the reading the activation techniques. It is the LAST activation approach one would consider once they have done enough activation layers and feel that they just want to check if they missed something.
The only thing that Rapid Reading (the only activation technique)has in common with traditional reading Is that this is the only time we start at the beginning of the book chapter or article and end at the end of the book chapter or article
Hi Alex, based on what you said in an earlier post (quoted above), it seems that:
- the
ONLY similarity between
Rapid Reading and
Traditional Reading is that both start at the beginning of a book chapter/article and end at the end of the book chapter/article. So you are essentially
reading everything word for word (no skipping of sentences or paragraphs from the chapter or article). Both are
conscious reading and there will be sub vocalizations in both methods: Is this right?
Then how is
Rapid Reading different from
Traditional Reading? I supposed
Rapid Reading is much faster than
Traditional Reading but how do we
Rapid Read correctly? I tried
Rapid Reading but when I go too fast, it feels like
Super Reading in the sense that nothing seems to get registered. But if I slow down, I'm pretty much back to my Traditional Reading speed.
In addition, I still don't quite get how 1. Super Read + Dip and 2. Skittering are supposed to work:
When I
Super Read and Dip, it seems like I'm just scanning the page for the trigger words that I identified (Super Read) and then dipping in to read the sentences before and after the trigger word I located. So, from my understanding about
Super Reading, it seems that my mind is just focused on
finding the trigger words in my list and
other details (aka the rest of the paragraph are not consciously registered. The only time information is consciously registered is when I
DIP IN and
consciously READ those sentences around my trigger words. However, sometimes a concept is explained over a few paragraphs or a few pages. By Super Reading + Dipping, I find myself not understanding the concept at all.
ESPECIALLY when there are many technical terms or phrases.
This is an example of how I do it: [img]
https://imgur.com/dvRW6CF[/img]
Is this because I'm doing this whole Super Reading and Dipping thing wrongly?
Next, I tried
Skittering. Again, I'm not sure if I'm doing correctly or not because I don't seemed to understand much at the end of the activation. When I test my comprehension, the results were less than ideal. Here's how I do it:
1. From the index or table of contents, I will locate the sections to read
2. I use Traditional Reading to read the first and last sentences in each paragraph of my selected reading section
3. I Skitter the sentences in between in a rapid zig-zag fashion but the words
do not register consciously in my mind (please see attached picture)
[img]
https://imgur.com/kQcOTiM[/img]
Again, what am I doing wrongly?
