The butterfly Effect
Have you discovered the secrets of speed reading?
When you consciously practice moving your eyes ‘left-center-right’, you at the same time make your brain shift attention from the beginning, middle and end section of the sentence, instead of reading word by word. one moment.
-Peripheral vision (lateral-left and lateral-right), – causes a habit to be installed in
your brain that changes your reading speed from ‘one word at a time’, to triple that, three words at a time.
Dr. Maurizio Corbetta of the University of Washington School of Medicine is the researcher who used fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to show that “the same parts of the brain move both eyes and shift our focus of attention.”
This means that the same parts of our brain that control eye movements
simultaneously control what we pay attention to. Control your eye movements and govern your attention and concentration, and triple your reading speed.
Crunching is Speedup!
Divide each sentence into three sections and shred words
(running them together), cause a reduction of up to 66% in subvocalization.
When we reduce the “mental hearing” of each and every word we read, to only hearing every two or three words by “cracking” (interference) the words together, we save up to an hour of reading time by day for speed. reading.
your pacemaker
Using your pen as a “pacemaker” to underline each sentence you read reduces regressions by 80%. Our eyes follow the ‘following flow’ of the pacemaker (persistence of vision), and we don’t lose our place on the page.
The pacemaker makes our eyes and brain integrate with the speed of our dominant hand moving the pacemaker, to triple our reading speed. The pacemaker almost eliminates regressions: rereading sentences.
The first step, the baby step, the essential introduction to speed reading begins and ends with the use of a pacemaker. Using the pen to underline each sentence you read is the ‘sine qua non’ (indispensable step) for speed reading.
The first step gets the ball rolling
Let’s start with the answer and work backwards.
“Small changes lead to massive reactions”, the basis of the ‘Butterfly Effect’, by Professor Edward Lorenz of MIT. Google – the law of Chaos – under physics.
Call it ‘baby steps,’ but what’s worth remembering is that all personal growth begins with a single change. Your career choice starts with the small step of believing you can. The choice of a ‘significant other’ begins with a sight, a touch or
sound that touches your heart. And the first step in speed reading is to constantly use a pen as a pacemaker whenever you read for your career or pleasure.
Will
It is volition – choosing, making a decision and acting on it – the act of exercising your will – that is the beginning of every significant event in your life.
a) if you want to learn something new (an idea, word or principle), you have to create an association between something we already know and the new, the new. You used the alphabet and writing to learn how to become an expert on your computer, and then to surf the web.
b) if you want to permanently remember ideas, names or dates, mental images (mental symbols) are your personal tool to install long-term memory. “Tsunami” – She has stickiness because her ‘Nami’ is ‘Sue’.
c) if you want to reduce subvocalization (mental listening to each word you read), because it slows you down to a crawl, choose to read sentences with your foot on the throttle and without the brake. We call it ‘crunching’, ignoring the space between words and shredding the words together.
If you train yourself by subvocalizing the phrase: “Speed up!” every paragraph, and then every other paragraph, until it becomes a habit, your brain automatically ignores the spaces between words and ‘compresses’ the flow of words.
He still reads and understands each and every word (it’s not skimming), but he reads two to three times faster.
The butterfly Effect
In 1972, at a meeting in Washington, DC, Dr. Edward Lorenz of MIT presented his scientific paper to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which continues to resonate in the 21st century.
It was called: “Predictability: Does the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil
trigger a tornado in Texas?” Picture it in your mind for long-term storage.
Dr. Lorenz’s topic was “chaos theory”, and how it affects our physical universe,
and specifically weather predictability. His analogy is that the beating of the butterfly’s wings creates a disturbance in the chaotic motion of the atmosphere, so that long-term behavior becomes impossible to predict.
Furthermore, that ‘simple systems of equations result in a pattern of infinite complexity’.
Let’s go to the bottom: the butterfly effect represents the proposition that…
“The slightest differences in one variable have profound effects on the outcome of the entire system. Initial differences are magnified over time to produce dramatically different final results.”
Speed reading is your butterfly
If you choose to live into your nineties and enjoy your time here, you will be useful to other people by learning new things throughout your life.
If we were relatives or best friends, and you ask me the secret of
a subject I have studied for fifty years – the answer is – always read with a pacemaker in hand. There are three types of Pacers that enhance your eyes and your brain: your handheld laser pen, an ordinary pen, and your computer’s mouse cursor.
Your brain is a use it or lose it skill
Start fresh each day when you pick up your pen to use as
Pacemaker: Underline every sentence you read in the office or for pleasure.
Using the pen as a pacemaker continuously is the first step, it is the ‘bat of the wings of the butterfly’, to reinforce the neuropath (habit) of speed reading.
For those who need to know where feet ‘grow’ from:
your pacemaker activates your ‘peripheral vision’, allowing you to expand your ‘span of visual perception’ (located in your fovea-centralis, of the retina), from just six letters, to a width of eighteen to thirty five characters That’s the difference between reading one word at a time and understanding three to six words at a time. End ‘snailing’ and begin the power of speed reading.
Until we meet again
What does Dr. Lorenz’s butterfly effect have to do with speed reading?
“Small changes lead to massive reactions” applies to all your talents and latent gifts if you apply the Butterfly Effect.
Speed readers enter a cascade of personal growth because they know they can read and remember huge amounts of text. They have a dozen strategies and techniques to turn to as self-help tools. Fear of the unknown is a failure and is replaced by – self-esteem – based on the recognition of your new
cognitive-knowledge and talents.
DWE
“We are all equal, but some of us are more equal than others.” george orwell
Volition is choosing and acting on your decision. It has two sisters, Intention and Attention, and together they make up DWE – Directed Voluntary Effort – your mental strength power. Speed reading is a very practical step to become aware
and develop their innate ‘gifts and talents’. Speed readers are ‘self-taught’ (self-taught), learning through trial and error, cause and effect, and stimulus/response. In the knowledge economy, the information century, speed readers rule because we use our gifts and talents more. We plan ahead by asking
ask ourselves the magic question – “What if?”, and have a Plan ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ – because it gives us the competitive advantage.
Intention
Tell me, how do you know (at any age) that you can’t learn to play the guitar, paint like Picasso, climb Mount Everest, or be a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, unless you make that first “little change” in your life? and discover their latent ‘gifts and talents’?
We encourage you to listen to his ‘still small voice’; your mind wants you to exercise your will. Remember when you read like a ‘snail’? It all starts with a ‘burning desire’ for change: a decision and acting on it. It works with speed reading, starting a new career, learning a foreign language, or starting a relationship. Our suggestion is: be useful in what you do and trust the development, because “small changes lead to massive reactions”.
final words
“The task is not so much to see what nobody has seen yet;
but to ‘think’ what no one has thought yet – about what
everyone – come!”,
Edwin Schrodinger, physicist
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