Iris Reading

I signed up thinking I would walk away with some invaluable tricks of the trade, instead, I received handouts. It felt more of like a free workshop than a $ 79.00 course. Most of the tips can be found online for free.

After attending this class — I can only wonder why this sort of thing isn’t taught to kids in grade school or high school. The class validated a lot of my reading style — that is, you USE a book — especially when you are dealing with non fiction. Don’t read a text or non fiction book end-​to-​end. Read the table of contents, read the index, look for glossary, appendixes, bibliography, end notes and skim the figures, tables and pictures — read the opening paragraph and the end paragraph of the chapter and learn where to skim. That’s sort of the «I already knew that» stuff.
The reading drills and tips on using a finger or pen to make your eye move across the page faster, and chunking (something I naturally do in some cases) — those were really helpful. Though I didn’t increase my reading speed that much (having started at 600 wpm) — I feel like I did increase my comprehension and got some very valuable experience doing the drills as well as tips for other useful tools (like Spreeder!).
If you have ever been curious — what’s holding you back? Go do it — the class went along pretty quickly — 5 hours with a 30 minute lunch break — and I was surprised that I was able to focus and stay with it the entire time. YMMV!