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2. What We Will Discuss Today...
● Training Your Eyes
● Brain Rewiring / Neuroplasticity
3. Using Your Hand To Guide Your
Eyes
● It helps you focus
● How it trains your eyes to read differently
4. Two Types of Eye Movements
● Saccadic
○ Jerky eye movement
● Smooth Pursuit
○ Smooth eye movement
5. How many fixations per line?
Research shows faster readers
make less fixations per line
6. An Exercise to Help You Make Less
Fixations Per Line
2-Fixation Drill
When to do 3 fixations
(longer lines)
When to do 1 fixation
(narrow newspaper columns)
7. Eye-Training for Reading on the
Computer Screen
AccelaReader.com
How it can help you read groups of words
easily
Let's try it out...
9. Green Dot Exercise
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort
or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of
their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings.
Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon
announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary,
but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. Even so, it was
found necessary to leave certain tasks undone. The harvest was a little less successful than in the
previous year, and two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not
sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough. It was possible to foresee that the
coming winter would be a hard one.
The windmill presented unexpected difficulties. There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm,
and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for
building were at hand. But the problem the animals could not at first solve was how to break up the
stone into pieces of suitable size. There seemed no way of doing this except with picks and crowbars,
which no animal could use, because no animal could stand on his hind legs. Only after weeks of vain
effort did the right idea occur to somebody — namely, to utilise the force of gravity.
10. Neuroplasticity / Brain Rewiring
The idea that your brain can change itself
It is malleable... like plastic
11. Neuroplasticity / Brain Rewiring
Think you aren't good at something?
WRONG
Your brain can literally change itself based on
mental exercises and practice.
12. Neuroplasticity / Brain Rewiring
The brain is like a muscle and needs mental workouts
Learning and brain exercises slow age-related mental
decline and even improve brain function.
13. Neuroplasticity / Brain Rewiring
Intense learning of abstract information can also
trigger plastic changes in the brain.
The brains of medical students showed learning-
induced changes in brain regions involved in
memory and learning.
14. Neuroplasticity / Brain Rewiring
Your brain contains billions of neurons
Learning increases the connections among neurons
Physical exercise helps create new neurons in the
brain, a process known as neurogenesis
19. Neuroplasticity / Brain Rewiring
AccelaReader.com
Practicing at very high speeds, blinking 2 or 3
words at a time, trains your neurons to fire faster
Let's try it out...
21. Summary
You can train your neurons to fire faster using
AccelaReader.com and Speed Drills Consistently
Don't get caught up in widening your eye span. Instead,
focus on reading for ideas and understanding.