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		<title>Who First Created Speed Reading?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Hardisty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The worlds most famous speed reading course is Reading Dynamics developed by Evelyn Wood. It's famous for teaching people to read faster, or speed reading as she called it. Her live course was the first known course that taught students to read faster and it started with about 25 hours of training to double your reading speed.]]></description>
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		</div><p>The worlds most famous speed reading course is Reading Dynamics developed by Evelyn Wood. It&#8217;s famous for teaching people to read faster, or speed reading as she called it. Her live course was the first known course that taught students to read faster and it started with about 25 hours of training to double your reading speed. </p>
<p>Over time the method was made available all over the world. These well practiced techniques teach students to read more rapidly, and also comprehend more of what they are reading. These techniques have proven to be repeatedly effective with all ages in many countries around the world.</p>
<p>There are many stories about how Evelyn Wood first learned speed reading. My personal favorite was that she, as a child, was fishing at a nearby lake in Utah where she was living. To Evelyn, fishing was a relaxing necessity, but her mind was always active. </p>
<p>When fishing, she took a book to read until she saw that the float on the fishing line was bobbing. Then shed reel in the fish. It was said that she read with the sun at her back for natural light, and used her index finger on her dominant hand to track under the words she was reading. </p>
<p>Every time when a fish bit, she just put down the book and started fishing again. That&#8217;s how it all started.</p>
<p>As she got older, she went to the University of Utah where one professor read and graded her 80-page research paper in just ten minutes. This came to 2,500 words per minute. He didn&#8217;t realized how to tell his student what made is so he could read fast, nor how he developed his ability. He just read and could understand very quickly and efficiently.</p>
<p>Challenged by the potential to read that fast, Evelyn researched and studied fast readers to see if she could increase her reading speed and comprehension too. Then, she began to teach students herself, she figured out that it could be beneficial to them if she passed her skills on. </p>
<p>The desire to read faster and comprehend more is Universal. People all over the world were fascinated in, what turned out to be, Evelyn&#8217;s own techniques for speed reading and comprehension.  As she expanded her research and investigation of speed reading, she found people from different parts of the world reading 1,500 to 6,000 words per minute. All had  an impressive level of comprehension proven by their knack for recalling specifics of the text. </p>
<p>She cataloged what each of them did to read faster and she discovered that each had their own traits and all of them had multiple traits in common with the others. These included:</p>
<p>1. Words were seen, and read, by groups.  2. Readers identified patterns and key words when they scanned text, quickly identifying the purpose and theme behind the writings. 3. Readers also sped up or slowed down with the simplicity or complexity of the reading materials. This permitted them control of levels of comprehension. </p>
<p>Based on this the Evelyn Wood method was developed. Techniques were developed and tested. </p>
<p>In 1959, she was proficient and prepared enough to make a system that would teach others to speed read as well. Later that year, she opened the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute in Washington DC. John F. Kennedy was the first president to have his White House staff trained by the Evelyn Wood method.</p>
<p>Today, the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute no longer exists in the US. The rights were sold off to various publishers to market as courses, self-taught, and the former Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics teachers have private instructional practices. Some teachers are still healthy enough in their mid 6os and 70s to still teach the original technique.</p>
<p>Today, the few remaining teachers have passed their secrets to others, who have put the courses online for you to study. Though, you might learn from itinerant speed reading instructors who often teach classes at community colleges, or private corporations throughout the US and beyond. In New Zealand, Australia, and Western Europe, some offices of the original Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics have survived the creator who past on over 20 years ago.</p>
<p>Since the 1990s, courses became available in audio, video VCR, and later, DVD, adding a convenience that Evelyn could never have even dreamed of when she first taught. Faster reading with greater comprehension can be obtained by students around the world by using the system that Evelyn Wood invented while fishing one sunny day. To find Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics courses, check with www.speedread.org, they carry the audio and video versions to help you increase your reading speed and achieve far greater.</p>
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		<title>You Can Learn To Be A Speed Reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Hardisty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is dominated by life-long learners: the people who take the time to learn everything they can about their chosen field and everything they can about corresponding subjects. The 400 most successful businesspeople "the Forbes 400" attribute most of their success to reading at least one non-fiction book a month. But, when you have a family and work wants to dominate your time, carving out the time to read all those books can be difficult. New books on every subject are being published every day. How is one supposed to keep up at work or school, spend time with family, and find time to read ten to fifteen extra books a year?]]></description>
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		</div><p>The world is dominated by life-long learners: the people who take the time to learn everything they can about their chosen field and everything they can about corresponding subjects. The 400 most successful businesspeople &#8220;the Forbes 400&#8243; attribute most of their success to reading at least one non-fiction book a month. But, when you have a family and work wants to dominate your time, carving out the time to read all those books can be difficult. New books on every subject are being published every day. How is one supposed to keep up at work or school, spend time with family, and find time to read ten to fifteen extra books a year?</p>
<p>You just can&#8217;t add hours to your day, but you can reduce the time it takes to read those books. Learning to speed read is the answer. Cutting your reading time in half or even more would give you the ability to simply devour the books you always wanted to read, the books you know you should read, and the ones you need to read to get ahead.</p>
<p>You may have looked into 1-day or multiple day speed reading seminars or home courses before, only to be turned off by the price. A single one-day live speed reading seminar can set you back anywhere from $200 to $700 &#8220;per person&#8221; and the results are far from guaranteed. SpeedRead America offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee for everyone with a third grade or higher reading level.</p>
<p>With Speedread Americas course for the family, you can double your reading speed starting with best-selling Speed Read in Only One Hour, which offers techniques to help you break poor habits learned when you were first learning to read. With the course for business professionals &#8220;Business Speed Reading Success&#8221;, which focuses on Business and MBA professionals, and &#8220;How To Get Things Accomplished In Less Time&#8221;, which teaches smart time management you will learn not only how to fly over the pages of corporate reports, you will also learn new techniques for note taking, concentration, recall and, with our Think Right course, you will also learn power-thought exercises and stress relief to increase your reading speed even more.</p>
<p>The corporate edition of our Speed Read Complete course also includes add-ons useful for generating sales, and includes one of our first-ever courses written on the Law of Attraction. Our proven audio courses teach the busy professional how to sit back and relax.</p>
<p>Aimed for adults, corporate and business employees and MBA professionals, Speed Read Complete Corporate Edition offers not only the ability to speed read. Included in the Corporate Edition also is a time management course and a course to help you achieve your life goals by using the material from our Online Download Library of speed reading and self power improving publications.</p>
<p>The best part is that not only will you be able to double your reading speed after the first one-hour lesson, but we have also had mid-level managers that receive promotions as little as three weeks after starting our course!</p>
<p>Written by Dr. Jay Polmar, an expert in the fields of self-improvement, continuing education and self-growth, Speed Read Complete boasts a success rate unheard of in its industry and offers a full money back guarantee that you will be reading significantly faster in only hours &#8211; they guarantee it.</p>
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