Reading techniques | Dr. Manjunathan M.S | TEDxAnandNagar
Summary
TLDRThe video script emphasizes the importance of reading, particularly non-fiction books, as a means to rapidly acquire knowledge and enhance personal and professional growth. It highlights that successful individuals such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Elon Musk are avid readers, suggesting that reading is a common trait among leaders. The speaker, Manjunath Mind, a performance coach, shares his personal journey from an IT manager to a business coach, attributing his success to the knowledge gained through reading. He identifies common reasons why professionals avoid reading and proposes a framework to increase reading speed and comprehension. This includes engaging all senses, using a pointer to guide reading, understanding eye fixation, creating a distraction-free environment, and leveraging visualization for better memory retention. The script concludes with the message that reading is a powerful tool for learning and success, urging viewers to embrace reading as part of their daily routine.
Takeaways
- 📚 Successful people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Elon Musk are voracious readers, emphasizing the importance of reading for leadership and knowledge.
- 🚀 In a fast-paced, competitive world, knowledge is power, and reading non-fiction books can accelerate learning and personal growth.
- ⏳ Reading books efficiently can save time and provide a wealth of knowledge; the speaker suggests reading 52 books a year equates to earning 52 Master's Degrees.
- 🤔 Common reasons for not reading include lack of time, perceived difficulty, and uncertainty about what and how to read.
- 🧠 Reading speed can be improved with training, and an untrained reader can read about 200 words per minute, which can be increased with practice.
- 👀 Understanding eye fixation and reducing it by reading in groups of words can significantly enhance reading speed.
- 📖 The preview process, similar to watching a movie trailer, helps to understand the framework of a book and increases reading speed by 15-20%.
- 👆 Using a pointer as a meta guide can improve reading speed by 20-30% as it forces the eyes to follow the pointer, capturing more data quickly.
- 🧘♂️ Creating a distraction-free environment and relaxing the mind can lead to deeper focus and faster information absorption.
- 🧠 Memorization is a trainable skill; understanding how the brain stores and recalls data can improve memory retention.
- 🎬 Visualization and creating a mental movie of the content while reading can enhance memory and make the process enjoyable, leading to better retention.
- 💰 Reading more leads to faster learning, which is crucial for success in any field, as highlighted by the speaker's personal experience and professional coaching.
Q & A
What is a common trait among successful people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Elon Musk?
-They are all voracious readers, which suggests that reading is a key habit for success.
Why is reading non-fiction books considered an effective way to acquire knowledge?
-Non-fiction books condense decades of an author's experience into a few hundred pages, allowing readers to quickly absorb and apply the knowledge.
What is the significance of reading 52 books a year according to the speaker?
-Reading 52 books a year is equated to acquiring the knowledge equivalent to 52 master's degrees, emphasizing the power of consistent reading for professional growth.
What was Manjunath's career shift and how did reading books help him?
-Manjunath shifted from being an IT manager to a business coach and trainer. Reading books helped him gain knowledge related to business, which was crucial during his initial struggle in the new role.
What percentage of professionals have not tried reading a single book after starting their career, according to the speaker's experience?
-25 percent of professionals have not read a single book after starting their career, as observed by the speaker.
What are the four reasons people give for not reading books?
-The reasons include lack of time, finding reading difficult, believing reading is only for professional development, and uncertainty about what kind of books to start with.
What is the average reading speed of an untried reader?
-An untried reader typically reads around 200 words per minute.
How can enhancing reading speed to 3x the normal speed reduce the time needed to read a book?
-If a book is 50,000 words, reading at 3x the normal speed would take just one hour and thirty minutes, significantly less than the four hours and thirty minutes it would take at a normal pace.
What is the first step in the framework shared by the speaker to enhance reading speed?
-The first step is the preview process, which involves understanding the book's structure by reading the title, subtitle, author's information, introduction, table of contents, preface, chapter headings, and any indexes or pictures.
How can using a pointer as a meta guide improve reading speed?
-Using a pointer to trace the words while reading can increase reading speed by 20 to 30 percent, as it forces the eyes to follow the pointer, allowing the reader to capture more information quickly.
What is the importance of understanding eye fixation in reading?
-Understanding and reducing eye fixation can enhance reading ability. Instead of reading word by word, reading in groups of words can reduce the number of fixations and increase reading speed.
How can creating a focused environment improve reading efficiency?
-Removing distractions, such as social media and phone notifications, and creating a dedicated reading hour can help the mind focus deeper, leading to faster information absorption.
What is the key to enhancing memory and understanding while reading?
-The key is to understand how the brain stores, retains, and recalls data. Converting data into visual or emotional content, like creating a 'mind movie', can enhance memory and comprehension.
Outlines
📚 The Power of Reading for Success
The first paragraph emphasizes the importance of reading, particularly non-fiction books, as a means to quickly acquire knowledge and power in a competitive world. It highlights the common trait of voracious reading among successful individuals like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Elon Musk. The speaker, Manjunath, a mind-performance coach, shares his personal experience of career transition and how reading books significantly contributed to his growth. He also discusses the common excuses people have for not reading and introduces a framework for increasing reading speed and efficiency, starting with a preview process that engages all senses and understanding the book's structure.
👀 Enhancing Reading Speed and Comprehension
The second paragraph delves into strategies to enhance reading speed and comprehension. It suggests starting with a comprehensive preview of the book, including the title, subtitle, author's information, and a quick scan of headings, subheadings, and any visual content. The use of a pointer as a meta guide is introduced to help the reader's eyes move faster and more efficiently. The paragraph also addresses the need to reduce eye fixation by reading in groups of words and the importance of creating a distraction-free environment to improve focus. Lastly, the power of memorization is discussed, emphasizing the need to understand how the brain stores and recalls information, and suggesting that converting data into visual or emotional content can improve memory retention.
🧠 Memory Techniques and the Role of Visualization
The third paragraph focuses on memory techniques, particularly the power of visualization, to enhance the reading experience and memory retention. It contrasts the difficulty of recalling academic formulas with the ease of remembering movie characters and scenes, highlighting how engagement and emotional connection can improve memory. The speaker encourages readers to apply similar techniques when reading books by creating a 'mind movie' that involves interest, focus, and enjoyment. This approach is said to help the brain remember data more effectively, leading to a more profound learning experience. The paragraph concludes by reinforcing the idea that reading is integral to personal and professional growth, as it accelerates the learning journey and contributes to success.
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Keywords
💡Veracious readers
💡Leaders are readers
💡Knowledge is power
💡Non-fiction books
💡Reading speed
💡Preview process
💡Pointer as a meta guide
💡Eye fixation
💡Mind game
💡Power of memorization
💡Fast learning process
Highlights
Successful people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Elon Musk are voracious readers, emphasizing the importance of reading for leadership and success.
In a fast-paced, competitive world, knowledge is power, and reading can accelerate personal and professional growth.
Reading non-fiction books allows readers to instantly absorb decades of an author's experience condensed into a few hundred pages.
Reading 52 books a year is equated to acquiring 52 Master's Degrees based on the knowledge gained.
The speaker, Manjunath Mind, transitioned from an IT manager to a business coach, leveraging books to gain business knowledge.
25 percent of professionals surveyed have not read a single book after starting their career, highlighting a gap in continuous learning.
Four common reasons for not reading include lack of time, perceived difficulty, misconceptions about reading's relevance, and uncertainty about what to read.
Introducing a framework for reading a book in one sitting, suggesting that anyone can become a faster reader with training.
An untrained reader reads about 200 words per minute, but this can be improved with practice.
The preview process involves engaging all senses with the book, understanding its structure, and creating a connection with the content.
Using a pointer as a meta guide can increase reading speed by forcing the eyes to follow the pointer, capturing more data quickly.
Understanding and reducing eye fixation by reading in groups of words can enhance reading ability.
Creating a distraction-free environment and focusing the mind can lead to faster and deeper comprehension.
Memorization is a trainable skill; understanding how the brain stores and recalls data can improve memory retention.
Visualizing information as pictures or videos can enhance memory and retention, drawing parallels to the immersive experience of watching a movie.
The power of memorization is crucial for faster reading and deeper understanding, turning data into a mind movie for better recall.
The speaker encourages readers to apply these techniques to skyrocket their learning journey and achieve success, as leaders are readers.
The transcript concludes with an applause, signifying the audience's appreciation for the insights shared on reading and learning.
Transcripts
how many of you likes to read books
how many of you don't like to read books
how many of you feel sleepy when you
start reading books
Bill Gates Warren Buffett sudama
Elon Musk all successful people have one
thing in common they're all veracious
readers
leaders are readers
we are living in a fast moving
competitive world where knowledge is
power
and if you learn faster you can grow
much faster
you can grow from unpaid to overpaid if
you are able to learn things faster
how we can acquire more knowledge
with less time
there's a process
and one of the effective process here is
to read books especially non-fiction
books
because authors puts Decades of
experience in just 200 Pages book when
you start reading you'll be able to
download all the information instantly
and go and apply see the magic
one good put equal to one master degree
based on my experience and when you
start reading 52 books a year just
imagine virtually you'll be able to get
52 Masters Degree I am manjunath mind
performance coach I tried professionals
business owners trainers and coaches on
various fast learning process four years
ago I had a major career shift from it
manager to business in coaching and
training
it was a tough job initially I struggled
a lot
but
by reading books I'm able to gain lot of
knowledge related to the business
after that reading books become
my daily lecture
and this is one of the amazing process
based on my experience interacting with
thousands of professionals
I realized I noticed 25 percent of
professionals I haven't tried even
single book after they started career
Journey
I found four reasons why they don't read
books people think
I don't have time to read books
people think reading books is really
hard
and people think
the reading is only from professional
Journey
and also they think what do we what kind
of books I need to start
because of this because people never
read even single book
however when you start reading some of
the powerful book you can create a magic
today
I'm going to show you how to power up
your brain to read one book in one
sitting
let us have a framework
there is there are there is no good or
bad reader it's a only trying reader or
untrained reader if you train your brain
you can read really much faster
here is the framework
if you consider untried reader they
normally read Around 200 words per
minute and majority of the books
nowadays published are around 50 000 to
70 000 words
when you start reading
50 000 words book you need approximately
four hours 30 minutes to finish one book
and if you analyze your reading speed up
to 2X
then you need only 2 hours 15 minutes to
complete one book and again if you
enhance your reading speed up to 3x then
you need just one hour 30 minutes to
read book
here is the game plan how to analyze
your reading speed
I'm going to share five tips to enhanced
Eva reading speed
first one
we have to start with the preview
process
we have process is similar to watching a
trailer of a movie
when you start watching trailer you'll
be able to understand complete framework
same thing you need to do while reading
books
double
and connect emotionally by touch and
feel hold near to your heart feel the
energy ask question why I am reading
this book smell it and even if you want
you can taste it basically we're going
to connect all your senses and create
that energy first step
second one
pick up the book and go to the front
page read editing title subtitle go to
the back page read about author do not
skip then go to each and every Pages
initially introduction table of content
preface
and go to each and every chapter read
headings subheadings and if there any
picture try to recognize you no need to
go word by word try to pick up high
level data then go to last page go
through index if you find any difficult
word then refer dictionary be
comfortable
this conclude complete one preview
process then when you start reading
books you'll be able to guess what comes
test automatically you'll be able to
increase your reading speed
by just doing preview process you'll be
able to understand at least 15 to 20
percent of the vote amazing process tip
number two
you use pointers as a meta guide this is
a beautiful process when you start
reading books using your pointer trace
the word what you are reading you can
use three pointers first one fingertips
second one Pinner pencil third one
stylus
so basically we are moving your finger
much faster and force your eyes to
follow so that you can capture lot of
data quickly
most of the top speed reader they follow
this procedure
by using meta guide you can easily
capture 25 percent of the content and
also you can enhance at least 20 to 30
percent of your reading speed
tip number three
you need to understand your eye fixation
normally untrained reader read words per
word word by word your eye will move one
more after another word jump from world
to world and also your eye will starve
every word usually called fixation and
in the particular line if you find 10
words your eye will stop ten times it's
really waste of time
instead of that we need to reduce
fixation by reading group of words
something like read two words
read three words and read group of words
so that you can easily enhance your
reading ability fourth tip
is basically to understand
reading is a mind game
and you need to relax your mind to read
faster remove all the distraction
so when you start reading first remove
whatever unwanted items are in your desk
remove your social media distraction
switch off the phone basically you're
going to create a focus hour
so that your mind will be able to focus
deeper and collect the information much
faster
and the final tip
tip number five is power of memorization
it's a very very very important strategy
when you start reading much faster you
need to remember those data and enhance
your understanding level
and there are no good or bad memory it's
a only trying memory or untrained memory
if you are able to understand how you
are drawing stores the data retains the
data and recalls the data you'll be able
to memorize anything basically your
brain can easily memorize picture video
emotional content convert the data into
that form
let us have a quick test
how many of you feel you have a good
memory
how many of you you feel you have a bad
memory
how many of you can recall Pythagoras
Theorem which you studied in your high
school
or if you can recall volume of spear
difficult question let me ask you a
simple question
there is a famous Indian movie three
idiots I hope all of you might have
watched that movie in that movie
basically there are four characters
three students who are studying in an
engineering college and another
important character College principle
how many of you can recall principles
character name
yes
now my question to all of you when I
start asking simple question like a
Pythagoras Theorem and volume of spear
some of you mentioned that you are able
to recall but many of you mentioned that
it's very difficult to recall weak for
God but when I started asking movie
character movie role we can easily
Recall why if you understand this
difference this distinction you'll be
able to memorize anything just visualize
if you go to movie theater what normally
we do we sit inside a movie theater
first we create interest
second we develop focus and
concentration and watch the movie and
when there is a comedy scene we laugh if
there is a traged interest risk scene we
cry even we know it is not real if there
is a song we dance if there is a
exaggeration section we enjoy basically
we enjoy the process
same thing you apply while reading the
books if there is a pointer try to
visualize create a picture create the
video create Mind movie enjoy the
process
so your brine can easily remember those
data and you can create a magic the way
you learn
to conclude
more you read more you earn fast trading
will help you to Skyrocket your Learning
Journey
real for Success because all leaders are
readers thank you so much and namaste
[Applause]
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