Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading \& Learning Program pdfdrive com

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The Takeoff for Rocket-Powered Reading and Learning
Many people are under some mistaken impressions about the Evelyn
Wood approach to reading.
Some, for instance, believe that the Evelyn Wood program simply
involves teaching students to widen their peripheral vision beyond
normal human capacities and then to increase the speed at which this
broader visual path moves down the page.
Others assume that the well-instructed Evelyn Wood student is
supposed to plunge into a book and whiz through it once at a
phenomenal rate, with superior comprehension.
But such notions at best contain only partial truths about our program.
Those who become adept at supersonic reading 
are
able to take in
more words at a glance than the average reader. But the space one can
focus on in a piece of reading material is relatively fixed: We can only
take in the words contained in a circle about an inch and a half in
diameter, with the center of the circle being the point where the eyes
focus on the page.
In any event, it’s fairly easy, with a certain amount of practice, to
begin to read the maximum groupings of words that your eyes can take
in during one look. That ability will develop naturally as you begin to
use the techniques I’ll be describing in the following pages.
It’s also certainly true that readers trained in the Evelyn Wood method
move their eyes more quickly while reading. But they usually don’t go
through the material just once. Instead, the foundation for faster, more
efficient reading involves several run-throughs with what we call the
Multiple Reading Process. Or, perhaps more accurately, this approach
might be termed a “multiple-exposure” or “layering” technique for

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taking in the printed word. (This layering method should be used for all
reading you do, including that done in the first two weeks of the term.)