You've been reading wrong all your life. 

I noticed that people in medical fields tend to be really meticulous and have excellent time management when it comes to reading. Thanks for the advice! 😀

This reminds me of the Henry Ford quote “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Instead of looking for ways to increase content consumption, we should look to improve our method of consumption. Insightful.

?[growing new brain connections] 1. Don't have to read all the words -author swags, exaggerates. So cut through other person's (author's) thoughts. 2. Use map. Read summaries, or discussions before reading. -scan through, and judge for yourself what's relevant, and irrelevant. if relevant, read slow, or with extra focus, & really understand. If irrelevant, skim. -reading text books; use table of contents, and diagrams, and focus on material that matters to better understand concepts u actually wanna learn about, rather than reading page 1 to last. 3.Approach all books with purpose, know the why of what. 4. The trio; - ?whatever. avoid passive reading. use active and applied reading together, ig? exercise 1. Is this concept relevant to me exercise 2. be critical, analyze, think. play devil's advocate to better understand. exercise 3. can u explain it to others? record urself if not sure. exercise 4. was knowing what u read useful, can it be applied in real life, is this useful in long term? 5. note taking useless. -well fuck. -true, I won't be coming back to this, but note taking helps in interacting with inflow of information better?! summary; skim. (actively read) kek. smh.

Just eat the book bro

This is great for technical reading, textbooks, manuals, journals, scholarly articles, and the like. Obviously, we want to digest literature in a different way.

skipped through this video and got the best out of the important parts 💪

I actually read for entertainment so I read slow and even google definitions often and sometimes even pronunciation and I'm glad you mentioned (flow) because great entertainment writers definitely have an outstanding writing flow that just sounds like a great story being told in your head...

00:00 📚 Reading faster isn't about cramming more words, it's about learning faster and retaining information effectively. 02:35 🗺 Before diving into a book, get a summarized version to build a mental map of its content. 06:06 🎭 Reading for entertainment is different from reading to learn; have a clear purpose for each reading session. 10:47 🧠 Engage in active reading by reviewing, debating, and teaching what you learn to ensure deep understanding. 13:08 📝 Merely highlighting or taking notes isn't effective; engage with the material actively to strengthen memory and understanding.

I watch movies at 10x speed. I have seen so many movies. I dont remember any of them and they have no emotional impact on me but Its quite the flex. Just read books like a normal person folks. Meaningful ideas take time to digest. Stop trying to speedrun your life

Or, efficiency is only important when it comes to work books, and when reading for fun you might not want to spoil anything... It could be just me, but the word efficiency sometimes gives me the ick, not always but definitely sometimes. Not talking about this specific video, or this creator, I just realized that while typing this. Maybe cause not everything benefits from efficiency, or maybe I'm saying it wrong. Sometimes being efficient is inefficient in and of itself? Well somethings in there is correct somehow, so yeah figure it out...

I recommend watching this video for the full picture but here's a Summary and my personal insight; 1st concept: Skim over paragraphs to get a grasp upon its importance, if it's relevant and worth memorizing then read it with the intention of understanding it thoroughly, and reread it if it has good information or is really relevant to your purpose. Most authors fill their writings with redundant and filler paragraphs, if you wish to read quickly and efficiently with the aim to learn you must skip the parts that aren't relevant to your objectives and focus your mind on the parts that are. 2nd concept: Read a summary or condensed version of the book with the key points, concepts, and information to build a solid framework that'll help you assess the relevancy of any given paragraph. 3rd concept: Before you read a book, identify your purpose behind reading it. If you're reading it to learn something or answer a question you have, then skip the parts that don't serve that purpose. Approach reading with ruthless efficiency, to save time and mental resources. 4th concept: Here's a trio of concepts that are worth your consideration whilst reading, and these are "Passive reading", "Active reading", and "Applied reading". Passive reading is where you blindly read without doing anything with the information, and thus you don't retain the information. Words go in one ear and out the other. Active reading is where you assess what information is worth your full attention and memorizing, and skipping over the rest. Applied reading is where you're utilizing or 'Applying' the information that's worth memorizing as you're reading it, associating it with long term memories you've already formed that are relevant. "Brain cells that *fire* together *wire* together." Exercise 1: Review the text, ask yourself "What concept is the author trying to say?", "Is this concept new to me or relevant to my purpose for reading this book?". Exercise 2: Debate with yourself and the author, ask things like "Do I agree with this concept?", "Does it gel with what I know?", even if you agree with the author, ask yourself what problems do you see with the information. Have a mental conversation with yourself and the author. "What would they say in response to my criticism?" Just seek new angles and perspectives, and associate this information with context and long term memories you've already formed. (For this one in specific, it's better to just watch it yourself, It's hard for me to explain it without copying him word for word.) Exercise 3: Apply the information and make it your own. Put the information in your own words, for this one in specific it's good to try to teach someone else about the information you're learning (Teaching is one of the best ways to learn and retain information). Consider how the conversation would go beforehand, what stories would you include in it? What relevant examples and experiences from your own personal life would you include? Try having mental conversations but with specific contexts, such as putting it in words that a 5th grader could understand or explaining it in a one minute elevator pitch. Write about it, converse about it, maybe even record yourself or your voice talking about it for you to rewatch in the future, just associate information you're trying to remember with actual real world memories to make it easier to recall. These real world memories and experiences will serve as a memory cue, once you need to recall this information it's much easier to recall the cue and then the memory itself rather than just the information. Think of it like this, the information you're trying to remember is like a boat floating about without an anker inside your brain, if you don't anker the information to a memory or experience you'll lose the information at sea. Exercise 4: Whenever you learn something, ask yourself if learning this impacted your life or made it better. "Was spending the time to learn it worth my time?", "Will I use this information in the future?", "How will I apply this information to real world scenarios in the future?", "Will this information change my future behavior?". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The problem with note taking is you offload the responsibility of internalizing the information to an external format, and with many of these formats you never end up going back to remember the information and even if you do your brain won't feel obligated to actually memorize the information because you have it readily available. The brain is lazy and will try to take short-cuts, so don't give yourself those short-cuts and consciously take the harder path. Summary he provides: "Whenever you read, always do 3 non-negotiable steps: First is to prep, Understand why you're about to read this book. Have a purpose, a reason, a question you want answered. Then, pre-read to build your skeleton, have a map of what to expect. Second step is to read, but to read actively. I give you license to generously skip, use your map and purpose to guide you. Read only the essentials of what you need for this particular go-around. It's okay to come back in the future and repeat the 3 steps when you have another purpose. 3rd step is to apply and immediately engage your brain so what you learn is tethered into long term memory." I apologize if my interpretation of what he has said isn't the best, like I said it's better to watch the video, but I did offer some of my own insight that hopefully adds worth to reading this. If there's anything you feel I need to correct, go ahead and comment them below.

Great stuff! So, practicing the "Professor" role, here's a summary: When trying to learn, realize: it's impossible for authors to write exactly what you need in a concise way. So forget about speed reading tricks, or taking notes and highlighting, and, instead, use this framework tofocus on getting to the useful information and retaining it: 1) Before, or preparation - have a purpose before consuming the material. What is it that you want to learn? - pre-read the material: get a summary; have a "map" of the material. 2) Read - with the map in mind, as you are reading the material, make flash judgements about each paragraph: is it useful or is it fluff (repetition, transition, irrelevant)? - if reading a textbook,go straight to the parts that are useful to you. 3) Engage your brain You remember information that you use, rather than passively consume. So, as you are reading, practice on or more of these exercises: - summarize the content, - debate with the content; try to come up with contrary information or arguments, - explain the content (to someone, or record yourself), - future you: how will you use this information? How will it make your life better? Imagine yourself using it. And remember: if you are reading for pleasure, just read for pleasure. This is a framework for reading with a practical purpose.

I'm a lot like this guy. He has three Ivy League degrees and I've had poison ivy three times to varying degrees.

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I'm so glad that I was introduced to your channel. You videos are a truly gems. Thanks for sharing your experiences and insights. I'm slowly adopting some of the techniques and feeling so much better about myself and my future

It makes so much sense. Thanks for putting this out here. Very good content, useful.

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Thank You Sir.

Thank you so much! This is great and valuable information.

Thank you! I discovered I already did a lot of what you suggest in the past, and in fact learning was so easy for me. I stopped studying for a year because of my job and forgot how I did it. Now I started again with uni and I was so confused as I could not remember anything, but now I know it again!

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this was extremely validating. I’ve been reading like this for the last 10 years since high school but have always felt “guilty” for not reading books cover to cover and feel a sense of imposter syndrome when talking about the book as I feel like I cheated my way to getting to the real substance. Since reading sparknotes for my lit classes to help me condense the classics, I have felt a real sense of impatience when reading in a linear fashion because i feel like it’s such an inefficient way to consume info. thanks for this!

Awesome.A real help.

Thank you!

I don't have trouble connecting stuff in my brain, what I have trouble with is being able to consume or review the entire substantial pile I have collected over the years of information scattered around different parts of my computer of different file formats, internet websites, social media bookmarks and my bookmarks app, raindrop.

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I liked the note taking part, and the different perspective of either slowly digesting the work and making sense of it personally and intimately and speeding through and highlighting key points/ noting. The former > the latter

Some books take months and years to write, so I don't see most readers grasping the content of a book in a day. I get reading past parts that I'm already familiar with and when I understand the author's main points I can move on. But a good author shares insights, quotes, or complex ideas that will be missed if reading 1000 pages a day. That's not really reading. That's skimming for ideas.

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Subscribed. This was pure fire!

I love all your videos dude! :) Good pacing and not too long, packed with tons of good info. Thanks ma dude.

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Summary: Establish purpose of reading book, practice keeping that in mind when reading the book, be ruthless with cutting out filler and any information which does not align with your goal. Can also look at the skeleton of the book before reading it to know what to expect.

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This may be life-changing for me, thank you :)

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this is the most informative yt i ve ever watched

Thanks! Very enlightening!

This video is incredible! I have seriously never approached any books (besides textbooks) with such a meticulous attitude of prioritising efficiency over the satisfaction of reading pages by pages. Anyway, great video, thanks for your help.

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Thx i just did a mind map(few moments ago) with thermodynamics while going through the concept i did the first two steps right but fail miserably at the step 3 where i had to take time to process You just earn extra subscriber

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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 Read *with purpose.* 01:08 Skip *irrelevant words.* 02:49 Build *a skeleton.* 05:09 Read *with a purpose.* 06:35 Engage *actively.* 09:35 Apply *and reflect.* Made with HARPA AI

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Ngl I'm a fan already, first time watching you and gotta say it's not just informative but very well edited and even entertaining! Can see myself watching this again for sure

Outstanding

What you're telling in this video is very similar to what i do when i create a computer program and look for "how to do x". Very very often the answer is one-five lines of code and the rest is unnecessary fillers, explaining, and history. Thank you for the sharing

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Really good ideas! I also suggest reading Littler Books.

This.... guy.... is.... AWESOME!!! 🔥🔥🔥 Never saw this concept explained so clearly and actionable. I think I'm going to create a practical step by step to follow for myself using this system. Or did someone do this already? Oh, and just to stay honest here, the repeating background music gets pretty annoying. To me at least 😉

Unusually good video: both in content and delivery/production. I read mostly philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology and often cannot "speed read" most of it, except when in "research mode" where I'm scanning for something in particular. Anyway, very helpful, thx

This only works with non-fiction. If i ever come across a guy that says that he read crime and punishment in a day i wil ask him "Do you also brag about having sex in five seconds?'

Ingenious research as always. Thanks for the insight.

Thank you for your efforts. I subscribed. This subject is one I am passionate about. I made notes, and I will be incorporating your techniques into my learning system. From preschool to high school, we are expected to memorize stuff so we can repeat it. Most school systems do not teach us how to learn. We as a society need to draw a line in the sand and teach parents and educators how to learn themselves and how to teach the skills you are sharing. Parents, and educators are stretched thin when it comes to teaching. The purpose for learning how to learn is the learning process will be much more effective and save time and money. High School should be a place where our youth are learning skills for their careers or at least marketable job skills to use until they decide what they want to do, if only in grades 11, and 12. My learning was turbo charged when I learned Speed reading, Memorization Techniques and Speed Math. My grades went from barely passing to B's and A's. I wonder how many educators will admit they have been doing it less effective. 95% percent of the success is achieved by 5% of people...why, they do things, the rest don't know or don't want to do. Applied knowledge applied to a specific goal works. If knowledge alone was power, Educators and those with a lot of knowledge would be the wealthiest and most successful folks on the planet. Some of you Educators, have been teaching the wrong way for over a hundred years.

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This is simply not going to work, and I respectfully disagree. Maybe it will work for easy fluff books like those found in a self-help shelf (all the books in the beginning of his video), but it won't really work for anything else. Mortimer J. Adler recommended that worthy books ought to be read ideally 3 times: the 1st to deeply understand the structure & general arguments, the 2nd for comprehension of detail, and the 3rd for criticism & conversation. What SpoonFedStudy is proposing you do is do all 3 readings in 1 reading, which only master readers can achieve. People don't understand that reading is a skill and think that if they can read words on a page, they can read just as well as anyone else-not true. This system of doing all 3 reads in 1 read will most likely just give you a mediocre level in structure, understanding, and opiinion on a book. Self-help is literally the bottom of the barrel in terms of difficulty or quality. I think if you read them upside down you'll still be able to finish a couple a week. And btw, how foolish is reading Marcus Aurelius in 1 day before he inundates himself with the skeleton of another book the next. What is the probability that he's at all thinking deeply about what a Roman emperor distilled as his greatest private writings of advice by Sunday? Almost none, I mean how vacuous, it's just a check on a list. This is what annoys me about American culture, and as someone about to graduate medical school this reminds me of doctors I worked with who only read the abstracts of hallmark papers just for the sake of efficiency, which is a noun they worship. If you want to read The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist, or Aristotle's Nicomacean Ethics or any book on philosophy, A History of the First World War by B.H. Liddel Hart, Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell or The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, and numerous other books that aren't fluff self-help, you're going to have to do the work and not take the lazy way out by reading summaries or skipping paragraphs and pages, because many of these books don't have wasted space, and can't be effectively summarized. Some of these books have 50+ pages of blbiography, sometimes the book IS the summary of the research.

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Man, this is pretty good

Very interesting.

You are very underrated champ!! this channel will blow-up very soon , mark my words(not literally)

I think this changed the way I'm going to approach watching videos, maybe reading, but I like how I read already ^.^ I would only read in this way if I had a test or something lol (it's extremely effective in that case.) I enjoy being methodical and sometimes just passively enjoying material, finding gems I don't expect that change my perspective, revisiting material multiple times etc. But I'm wasting time on videos that are supposed to teach me specific things, and I think I'll work on streamlining that use of time that isn't just for relaxing.

Your amazing 😁🙏please keep up the work 💪your helping me so much

Great video!. . . I have been stuck in a rut at around 450 wpm. I had a crazy plateau around 300 and broke past it in a couple of years. Now I can't seem to control the focus at 450. When I am interested I get 100% comprehension. When I am anything less I drop to 30-40% and have to drop back to the 300 range . Of course complexity plays a factor but i dont think the main cause. Sometimes the stuff is simple refresher. . I also have a 5-10 min lag time like my brain is warming up.

this is a very good video i agree!

He talked about forming brain connections. I can try to do that. But I write and snap pics cause I've always had memory issues. I may do a ton to remember stuff now,it can be an intense event even but eventually I always forget. I just have to live in the moment always.

Keep making these. Valuable info every time.

Very early here, I was missing my favorite youtuber of this year, I'm glad to watch another video!

This is defiantly one way of doing it. It’s your opinion that it’s the optimum way. There is nothing wrong with reading cover to cover, if you’re prepared to spend more time.

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your videos are actually so informative they really do help a lot, you always concisely and effectively communicate your ideas. Thankyou so much and keep up the good work !❤

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1. Ask yourself what's your goal reading this book? 2. Get the map or structure of the book before you actually reading it. 3. Read quickly skipping all "fillers", just put your attention on what matters. Then: a) Tell what idea this book is conveying? b) Try to attack or/and defend that idea. c) Try to explain the book in short to real or imagine others. d) What might be practical use of what you've learn in you life in next 5 years?

Really love your videos, am interested in your on screen doodles, how you do that ?

I usually never press the like button on videos, but this was really good.

Amazing video, wonderful and very relevant content. Subbed!

I'm getting the hang of speed reading. The subvocalization part is the main barrier to get over. I'll go through a thick chapter in 15 mins or less but go back and reflect on the information. The problem for me right now is focus and attention, which is why I'm practicing speed reading one passage at a time trying to maintain that focus.

I have used your strat by starting to watch this video at 14:40, time saver

I'm actually in the middle of reading "how to read a book" by adler and van doren. it's very dense and you summarize it well. i'm only half way through and still struggling with some of the concepts and language, so im having trouble separating filler from the parts i should actively be focusing on. im googling words i don't know, rereading sentences, etc. im not sure how i can apply your suggestions to this book in particular, as it's so dense. i've been working on it for about 3 weeks. i want to become a better reader for some of my self help, philosophy and theology books that are above my head.

Thanks for the information! I listen to a lot of audiobooks on x1.5-2 speed 😅 now I understand why I'm not retaining information as much as I would like to. I wonder if I can apply this method using audiobooks wish me luck!

@spoonFedStudy, Great job debunking those speed reading fad! 1. **Selective Reading** - Not every word is essential. Skip the fluff. - Authors often include unnecessary details. - Focus on what's relevant to your needs. 2. **Use of a Map** - Start with summaries (e.g., SparkNotes, Wikipedia) to understand the core ideas. - Treat each book as uncharted territory; a map helps navigate efficiently. 3. **Purpose-Driven Reading** - Approach books with a clear question or problem to solve. - Skip irrelevant sections to focus on what truly matters. #### The Trio of Brain Functions 1. **Passive Reading (The Collector)** - Collects information without deep processing. - Less effective for long-term retention. 2. **Active Reading (The Curator)** - Critically assess what to read and what to skip. - Focus on integrating essential information. 3. **Applied Reading (The Connector)** - Engage deeply with the material to form long-lasting brain connections. - Apply what you read through practical exercises. - Combine active recall with first-time reading by paraphrasing and making connections. #### Practical Exercises for Applied Reading 1. **The Review** - Assess if the concept is new, relevant, or applicable to your purpose. 2. **The Debate** - Critically evaluate the material, questioning and connecting with existing knowledge. 3. **The Professor** - Simplify and explain the material as if teaching it to someone else. 4. **Future You** - Consider the impact of what you've learned on your future self. #### Three-Step Framework for Effective Reading 1. **Preparation** - Define your purpose and question for reading. - Use summaries to create a roadmap of the book's essential ideas. 2. **Active Reading** - Skip non-essential content. Use your roadmap and purpose as guides. - Focus on digesting and understanding key concepts. 3. **Application** - Immediately apply what you've learned to cement it into long-term memory. #### Conclusion - Reading efficiently involves selective focus, purpose-driven engagement, and applying information to form lasting memories. - With practice, this approach can significantly improve both your reading speed and information retention.

Awesomeeeee

Love this framework for reading, thank you!

Ive been reading books the wrong way my entire life without realizing 💀. This makes so much sense

Hello! Do you subvocalize the words you read? Or do you skim, find what relevant, and read it subvocalized?

Remarkable knowledge, the insight of creating neural connections and retaining information with the collector, curator and connector technique is inspiring and novel concept, connecting information with evaluation, debating, to reflect and connect information to different concepts, the professor technique, to teach others or record for future, and future pacing technique, to see how this will be weaved into your future. Thank you for a literally unforgettable view 🎊

Speed techniques good for finding the nuggets he mentioned, also for improving slow readers. Comprehension and memory can improve with the speed techniques as shown by testing