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In this episode, we cover the "sins" of reading, strategies to overcome these sins, and other strategies to rev up your reading speed. Sins/Normal Human Habits of Slow Readers Daydreaming: Happens when you read slower than you think Good Daydreaming: Applying your reading (bridge of knowledge) Bad Daydreaming: Thinking about other things *The Fix* Practice Mono-focusing (Yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises) Regression: Going back over words you’ve already read Your eyes are not tracking equally from left-to-right *The Fix* Using your hands or a card while you read Place your left finger at the beginning of the line, and your right finger at the end of the line to train your peripheral vision. Sub-Vocalization: When you talk in your head Benefits: when you’re trying to savor text like poetry or trying to commit something to memory like Bible verses. However, it slows your reading down to talking speed (about 150 words per minute) Saving Reading to the End of the