You Should be Reading at the Speed of Thought

You should be reading at the speed of thought.

This does not mean it will necessarily be fast, it means the bottleneck is your natural comprehension, rather than the mechanistic way you were taught to assimilate information.

We are not meant to read characters, we are meant to see patterns. The patterns produced by words occur far above the deliberate typeset.

We already chunk words, but your chunks are probably far too small, artificially restricted by the learned mechanism of reading.

Your peripheral vision should be expansive, almost ridiculously so, and your movement across the page smooth and uncaring. You will not see the meaning immediately, but that’s the point.

Meaning must materialize in the mind inside a structure that is bigger than itself. If your chunks are too small there is nothing to fill, only the impeding architecture of your learned method.

Hover and wait for meaning to materialize. Imagine the pattern of your saccades being resonant with the firing patterns in your mind.

Your technique for anything should never be the rate-limiting step. Leave that to nature.