About 30 years ago, to find an answer to a question, you had to go to the library and look for the necessary materials there. Now itās enough to ask the search engine a request, and it will give out a huge amount of information on the topic. How not to get lost in the information space, be able to navigate in it, choose and perceive only useful information? OA A. Andreev and L. N. Khromov give answers to these and many other questions in their works. The books of these authors will be discussed in the article.
School of speed reading
Oleg Andreevich Andreev is known as the founder of the methodology and school of quick reading. Candidate of technical sciences, he worked for many years in various research institutes related to the organization of information flows, and in 1970, having assembled a group of enthusiasts, he developed a speed reading technique. In 1976, O. A. Andreev was invited to the Kremlin to train executives.
In 1988, Andreev created the āQuick Reading Schoolā, among whose graduates are well-known Russian businessmen and politicians. In 1994, one of his students set a record: 60,000 characters per minute. S. Arkhipova read an unfamiliar book and answered the members of the commission all the questions.
According to the assurance of the authors of the fast reading program, Andreev and Khromov, everyone can, like the Russian record holder, learn to read and remember information, following the advice outlined in books and performing recommended exercises and tests.
Training program
The authors' technique is not a magic key that opens the doors of memory, attention and the art of reading. The system that Andreev and Khromov offer is effective and popular, but it all depends on the readers' desire. The exercises are based on simple learning methods, so you can start using this method at any age.
At Andreevās school, the program consists of three levels:
- āDominantā - acquaintance with the technique of quick reading.
- āSatoriā - memory training, exercises to activate the brain and intellectual abilities.
- Ultra-Rapid - Learning Attention and Ultra-Fast Reading.
Conversations about speed reading
āDominantā is the first step in a comprehensive intellectual development program. It is described in the book Learn to Read Fast. Andreev and Khromov wrote it in the form of a conversation with advice, recommendations, tests, exercises. The first chapter, āReading Dynamics,ā talks about reading as a process. Explains in detail what a fast reading is, and notifies readers that this method is good for non-fiction literature, articles, magazines, newspapers. The authors do not recommend turning to speed reading when getting acquainted with a work of art or texts whose understanding is difficult.
The second conversation talks about the first rule of quick reading and five ways. The third chapter tells about the human brain and about reading as a process using a specific program of mental activity. The authors talk about the integrated reading algorithm and suggest ideomotor training for its development. The fourth conversation tells about the differential reading algorithm.
"Dominant"
In the fifth chapter, Andreev and Khromov talk in detail about reading aloud, about reading without articulation (to oneself) and teach perfect reading in the form of keywords and semantic series. The sixth part describes the visual perception of the text, the movement of the eyes, and peripheral vision. The seventh chapter - the conversation tells about attention, reveals the main causes of carelessness, tells how to avoid it and suggests exercises for observation, teaches you how to manage and concentrate attention.
In the eighth conversation, the authors introduce readers to the mechanisms of human memory, its structure, parameters and methods of training. The ninth conversation explains in detail how to read newspapers, scientific journals, and textbooks. Describes whether one can learn to write quickly and how to approach reading fiction. In the tenth chapter - the results of training and acquaintance with the following stages of intellectual development: āSatoriā and āUltra-rapidā.
Satori
The name of the second stage in Hindi means "insight." The authors introduce her in detail in the book āTrain your memoryā. Andreev and Khromov offer exercises that help improve the functioning of the right and left hemispheres, contribute to the coordinated action of consciousness and subconsciousness, and activate human cognitive activity. The goal of the program is to train memory and increase reading speed up to 10,000 characters.
The authors of the book Andreev and Khromov explain why meditation and mantras, written especially for this program by M. Ekimyan, contribute to the best effect on the subtle mechanisms of the brain. In addition, such sessions bring harmony into a personās life, saturate him with new energy and raise him to a new intellectual level. The duration of this program is an average of 6 months. Dates can vary in one direction or another, depending on the regularity of classes, opportunities and success of the student.
Third stage
The book of Andreev and Khromov āLearn to be attentiveā is the Ultra-Rapid program. It means āfast, fastā, which explains the essence of the course - ultra-fast reading, up to 20,000 characters, with steady attention. The course was based on the achievements of modern science, as well as the oldest sources from Eastern teachings.
Here, the authors in a simple form explain that radiophysics considers a person as a complex cybernetic system, in which the cardiovascular system is the carrier of energy. Creativity and his human vitality depend on her condition. Therefore, a lot of time in this program is devoted to health, and to maintain it, the authors offer asanas, mantras, breathing exercises, palming.
The technique with apparent simplicity deeply affects the subtle mechanisms of the brain. In the process of mastering the program, the attention, imagination and emotional state of the student are significantly improved. The duration of the course is approximately 6 months. Reducing or increasing the time directly depends on the desire, perseverance and success of student readers.
āManage your sleepā
The Fourth Dimension program is offered both as an independent course and as the final step in the Quick Reading Technique methodology. Andreev and Khromov explain to readers that dreams are a treasury of experience and knowledge. Ancient thinkers proved: sleep can be used for learning and self-knowledge. If you use this time to good use, you can increase the life time by at least two times, and improve the quality of sleep.
In the book āManage Your Sleep,ā the authors explain the essence of the methodology and provide scientific evidence that the ability to clairvoyance and telepathy is inherent in all people, but not everyone knows and believes in it. The authors of the program claim that each person has a huge potential of energy and strength, and he hides where the personās inner āIā is located.
The purpose of the program is to study this āIā, step by step to learn the essence of space and time. Learning to control a dream, to dive through meditation into the world of altered consciousness, where you can control the time of your life. The authors argue that there is no limit to human capabilities, and offer various psychological trainings and intensives.
No limit
Andreevās school offers five more programs - two for children and levels of self-knowledge and self-improvement:
- āThe Fifth Wayā - spiritual purification and rebirth of personality. The authors dedicate the reader to the essence of the religions of the world - Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism. Esoteric tables have been developed for each of them, but the essence boils down to one: each of them teaches love for one's neighbor, kindness and compassion.
- āSixth Senseā - at this stage of training, student-readers are taught super-sensory perception. The book āThe Development of Intuitionā describes in detail this course and helps to reveal your abilities step by step.
- āThere is no limitā is the final stage of training and a higher stage of development. Its essence is as follows: a person, like any elementary particle, is a hologram. And his main task is to connect to cosmic consciousness, space and its energy. At this stage, a person approaches the peak of self-improvement.
āBut this is not the limit,ā the authors say. āThere is no limit,ā readers echo and confirm that the speed reading and self-knowledge course offered by O. A. Andreev and L. N. Khromov is very effective. In addition to developing attention and fast reading techniques, you learn to know yourself and the world around you.