Jane Smith
BA hons, CIPD
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Speed Reading Expert
Jane Smith Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- speed reading, mind mapping, business writing
- Best Sellers
- Workshops on speed reading and Mind Mapping
- Career Focus
- Trainer, instructional designer, author, editor
- Affiliation
- Word Smiths
I am a partner at Word Smiths UK. Word Smiths consists of partners myself and Nick Smith, supported by administrator Anja Liewehr. The company puts on one-day seminars and publishes audio books on speed reading, memory & learing, business writing and coaching & mentoring. My aim is to develop people’s confidence by showing them how easy and exciting it can be to read, read, write and learn effectively. My background is in education and adult education management. I am an experienced training consultant and run a range of management training and personal development workshops. I design classroom, text and on-line learning and training materials. I also write and ghost-write management/ business books, reports, articles, reviews and audio books.
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Speed reading and understanding
Woody Allen famously went on a speed reading course and boasted that he managed to read War and Peace in 20 minutes’. ‘That’s great’, said his astonished friend. ‘What’s it about?’ And Woody replied, ‘It involves Russia!’ This story illustrates a common problem for people who are starting to learn how to read faster: their speed improves at the expense of comprehension. The result is that they feel that the whole thing is a waste of time and they give up. It’s not real reading if you can’t understand anything – so what’s the point?
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How to make the eyes move faster when you read
Most people assume that the eyes glide smoothly from left to right when they read. But what the eyes actually do is to move in little jumps. There are 130 million light receivers at the back of the eye, in an area no larger than a thumbnail. Each light receiver decodes hundreds of light bundles of energy per second. Some cells respond to specific colours, others to overall light intensity. At the centre of the retina is the fovea where 2,000 cones and rods are crammed into a space less than a tenth of a millimetre square.
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