Judging whether fast reading or fast memory training is true can be carried out from the following three angles:
The first is to see the effect. Anyone who tells you that you can train to read tens of thousands of words a minute is basically unreliable (is the effect too exaggerated).
The reading speed of most of us is 200-300 words per minute, which can usually be improved to about 2000 words through professional training. If you work hard, you can do it with 3000 words or 4000 words, but it's hard to go any higher. Because an important basis of fast reading is "visual range", which is a range that we can see clearly at a glance. Although we can see a wide range, the really clear part is only a small part in the middle. If measured by Chinese characters, there are generally no more than 20 Chinese characters, which can be seen clearly at a glance. If you are an untrained person, it will generally not exceed 10 at a glance. You can test it yourself, focus on one Chinese character and see how many words you can see clearly at a glance.
The second is to look at the cost. Fast reading training often costs thousands of dollars and needs careful consideration.
Because the principles and methods of fast reading are basically transparent, it is not difficult. The difficulty mainly lies in the training method and the teacher's guidance. Hundreds to thousands are reasonable. If it is a few thousand, it needs careful consideration. Here, I will briefly talk about the basic principles and training methods of speed reading with the older "Eagle Special Speed Reading Memory Training Software":
The first is to expand the clear visual range of our eyes through practice, so that we can read more words at a glance; The second is to train the moving speed of the focus of our eyes, that is, to train our eyes to see the speed and accuracy of words from one glance to the next; The third is the training of attention and perception to improve the ability to identify information; The fourth is an exercise of combining eyes and brain, that is, on the basis of the above, reading a large number of articles with the method of fast reading, and exercising the ability of eyes to see things quickly and brain to process information quickly; Finally, the proficiency test, through which you can check your training mastery.
The third is to look at some relevant information of training institutions.
For example, if you look at the establishment time of a company, it is more reliable to establish it for a long time, because it has stood the test of time. If there is a website, look at the content of the website and check the website records to see if it is true. In addition, before the formal selection, you can spend a little time listening or listening to get a basic understanding.
After talking about fast reading, let's talk about memory. Generally speaking, the training of memory is a kind of training and the judgment standard is similar to that of speed reading I mentioned earlier.
The methods and principles of memory training are basically transparent, which are based on the ability of association and imagination, combined with some skills to train memory, such as the famous court memory method, digital coding, mind mapping method, playing card memory and so on. These methods are not difficult and can be mastered in a few hours. But this mastery is only the mastery of knowledge, you know the method and principle; It is not the mastery of ability, because the improvement of ability requires a lot of time to practice, and it is not a one-off event.
In other words, as far as memory training is concerned, as long as you know the methods and principles, and as long as you have the perseverance to keep practicing, you can teach yourself.