A central platform, or “brain,” will be at the core of such smart home. Make sure you read with comprehension.Ī smart home will be akin to a human central nervous system. So please, determine your current reading speed, try this 100-word McKinsey-style paragraph, take out a watch, and time yourselves (in exact seconds). You would want to know your progress after this training. Technique 2: Perceptual Expansion (to address problem C) Step 1: Determining your current Speed Technique 1: Trackers and Pacers (to address problems A and B) For example, if you currently read at 300 wpm (words per minute) and your target reading speed is 900 wpm, you will need to practice technique at 1,800 words-per-minute, or 6 pages per minute (10 seconds per page). The adaptive sequence is: technique > technique with speed > comprehensive reading.Īs a general rule, you will need to practice technique at a way higher speed of your ultimate target reading speed. But be certain that comprehension will come back easily, once your eyes developed the habit. That’s why it may seem like you lost comprehension with speed reading. In that process, you will lose the attention to the content of the text itself. At beginning steps of the training program, just pressure your eyes into the habit which allow it to read fast. For sure it is capable of comprehending everything your eyes throw at it. Or in other words, don’t worry about your brain. These are separate, and your adaptation to the sequencing depends on keeping them separate. You will (1) learn technique, (2) learn to apply techniques with speed through conditioning, (3) then learn to test yourself with reading for comprehension. Ironically, you only use 2 – 3 cm of that vision span while you read. Your eyes have great horizontal peripheral vision span, almost up to 180-degree (to test this, looking straight forward, then put both your hands on about the same horizontal surface with your eyes, and slowly moving them horizontally away from your view … you can still see your hands when it is almost behind you). Problem C: Each “snapshot” your eyes make is not in “landscape” setting, but rather in a square one. And generally this tendency is unnecessary. This costs you about 20 – 30% of the reading time. This whole process happens at automatically without you noticing it. Once in a while it goes back and “double check” on whether you misread anything. Your eyes don’t progress in one direction moving forward all the time. Problem B: You subconsciously engages in back-skipping and regression You can literally feel the “shot” motion your eye makes, just like a camera. To demonstrate this, close one eye, put a finger on it, and try to read a normal text. This tendency is not efficient and slows you down a lot. Three loopholes limiting the performance of your eyes Problem A: Your eyes read by making a series of “photo shoots”, instead of a smooth continuous “video”Įach of those “photo snapshot” has the size of about 2 – 3 cm, so get over a typical text line, you would need about 5 – 10 shots depending on text size and reading distance. The only bottle neck holding your back is just your eyes. The simple reason is that your brain can comprehend at much faster speed, something at least 2 to 3 times your normal reading speed. Read more: Consulting Math Prep Guide Why is it possible to vastly increase reading speed? This document is an important piece of the speed part of that overall study plan.Ĭheck out at the end of this post to download the full pdf version of McKinsey PST Speed Training – Fast Reading guide! Refer to the video for an overview of our rigorous study plan. We adopt this program and tailor it to further suit your purpose of training for the McKinsey PST. You can expect to at least double your reading speed after just a few hours of intense practice. Of many speed reading programs we have tested, this is the most structured and effective, even in the consulting and Problem Solving Test context. This program is developed based on a research by Princeton University as a general guide to increase reading speed of any kind.
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