Avoid Sub-Vocalization When Trying to Read Faster
If you don’t get rid of sub-vocalization when trying to read faster you are going to have a terrible nightmare understanding your lack of performance and improvement in speed reading. However, there is no reason to worry because the moment you will finish to read my post here you will get the difference between those people who have real success with reading faster and those who are just trying, failing and soon giving up. You guys have to understand that you can’t expect to learn to read overnight. However, with the help of the tips related to the importance of pronouncing out loud the words that you are reading your comprehension level is going to be increased a lot. Don’t get me wrong, but each time you are moving your lips when reading, you are basically wasting precious time of your life. Some really important texts out there that deserve our “loud” attention exist. However, in most of the cases, it’s all about insignificant business reports and papers that do not deserve your special attention. For these types of files, speed reading is probably one of the biggest discovery and time saver in the world. So even if you don’t like it, those who are serious about saving their time should learn to read faster!
Sub-vocalization (aka moving your lips whenever you read something) is probably the biggest factor that stops people from letting their brain potential run wild and be able to produce approximately ten times more results than usual. Pronouncing words is nice and fine, but sometimes you will be required to shut up if you want a certain amount of information to be read, processed and understood fast and easy. Even if this depends on the material (type of text) that you are dealing with, there is no problem with achieving this in most of the cases. One has to avoid using sub vocalization when trying to improve his or her reading speed. A very interesting test has been recently developed and it seems that a person who is speaking out the words that he is reading isn’t able to go through more than approximately one hundred words per minute. However, if the same person turns off his mouth and stops using this tongue, teeth, lips, etc to produce sounds, the words that are able to be read per minute rise to approximately 250-270. Isn’t this nice? When I just started to get a sense of reading faster I had no clue about this and I was quite skeptic. This made me actually do the test on my own and I succeeded!
Sub vocalization seems to be a big problem because people have been told to read loud even from very beginning when they started to learn the art of writing and reading words. Sometimes however, forgetting everything that you have been taught is necessary. In this case, you need to be able to forget this requirement to read loud or even open your mouth or sometimes even move your tongue when necessary. Even if you try hard to read fast while you sub vocalize the words you won’t be able to get close to the real speeds that most of those people who just shut up and read are. If you are able to get rid of this wrong practice in time, you will be able to improve your speed reading a lot, even if you never done it before and have absolute no experience. Learning the basics doesn’t take a lot of time. However, you will be required to have a lot of patience and willpower to continue and practice on a daily basis; otherwise you won’t succeed to improve your performance the way you wanted to from the very beginning. Always take the time to practice and don’t be worried if the results aren’t appearing immediately!
In order to read faster and get rid of this bad habit of moving your lips or sub-vocalizing what you read you need to slowly get closer to the mind speed of reading and even overcome your internal speech. The potential of your brain is so huge, that whenever you will be following it, the powers within yourself will be extremely great and you will always have the chance to attend those levels that you never thought about. Your speed reading will improve the moment you will understand how important is to make your internal dictation impossible. Don’t understand things in a wrong manner, but each time you use dictation inside your head you are stopping yourself from doing everything at least three times faster. This has been proven multiple times in a row, especially when it comes to the art of speed reading. A good technique to eliminate the necessity of mind speaking is to start to count in your head while reading. Start slow and reach ten units. If you still can’t feel any results go to twenty, thirty and so on. Make sure that you don’t fall asleep when doing something like this because counting is very addictive.
The lack of sub vocalization when reading is going to allow your mind to read and comprehend several times more words per minute than usual. The absorption process is something natural since you just let your mind run free and don’t build any false limiting barriers that could stop it from getting faster and faster when processing a certain volume of text or information. It is necessary to find the right harmony between fast reading and comprehension because there is no use from speed reading if you don’t understand what you read. Another aspect that you need to understand is that it takes time to practice and to constantly improve and it won’t be as easy as learning a few of the basics methods. If you have been severely told even since kindergarten that attentively pronouncing the words inside your head is a good way to better understand their meaning, they did a bad favor for you. Now you are required, during that course to read faster, to learn everything from the very beginning, and this is pretty time consuming.
No matter when you started your “read-faster” program, you need to get rid of sub-vocalization right now, as fast as possible, otherwise you will have trouble improving the speed that you read at.