wanders to your trip. You mentally relate what you personally experienced with the information
presented in the article. This is what I call active mind wandering because this is how you learn. You
build bridges of knowledge from what you know to the new material on the page.
I use a concept called brain glue. Everything you have learned and experienced is your brain glue.
When you stretch it and stick new information to it, then you are active. If you wallow in it without
stretching or adding to it, then you are passive.
Passive mind wandering is thinking about a million other unrelated tasks or plans, such as
remembering to make a vet appointment, or thinking about an upcoming party, or thinking about. You
fill in the blank!
Too much passive mind wandering slows you down, prevents you from getting better comprehension
skills, and wastes your time. If you want to edge closer toward the winner's circle, then you need to
reduce your passive mind wandering.
Regression
Regression is a flick of your eyes back to a word or words previously read. For example, if you have
ever arrived at the bottom of a page wondering what you just read, you are forced to regress to the
top. Many people unconsciously and habitually flick their eyes backward as they read forward on the
same line of text. If you frequently get sleepy while reading, even while sitting upright at a desk or
table, chances are your eyes are regressing a lot.
As with mind wandering, there is active and passive regression. Active regression is intentionally
going back looking for what you missed. You are reading consciously but you don't quite get the
author's meaning. Sometimes, for example, you need to go back after you come across a word you
don't know. You go back with a purpose in mind.
Passive regression is when you go back and reread words or passages because your mind is
wandering or your concentration is off. Many people simply do not trust their brain when reading.
This insecurity creates a situation ripe for passive regression. They feel they have to double back
while reading to make sure they understand the content. It's similar to watching a movie. Most times
you hear everything said but sometimes you miss its meaning or you thought you heard incorrectly. If
you are watching at home on your VCR, you take the remote and rewind (regress) to hear it again. If
you are in a movie theater, you cannot rewind the film. You have to trust that either you heard
correctly or that you'll figure it out from the rest of the movie's context (and you usually do).
When participants in my classes begin to use the white card method, they become acutely aware of
their previous need to reread. This awareness, coupled with the white card method, begins the
reduction of passive regression. You can try this, too.
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