Smart Reading is a proven advanced study method and quick reading method, which has been in existence since 1992, along with its European patent. Today, thousands of people use Smart Reading as their preferred reading method. We teach educators, managers, students, and children aged 11 and over. What they have in common is the fact that they all want to make the most of life. By spending less time on the same amount of reading material, Smart Reading helps students ease their workload, and it facilitates corporate life by reducing expenses. Essentially, we teach you how to read large amounts of reading material in a fraction of the time.

Have you ever read a text and heard a voice saying it in your head too? That is your internal dialogue and can often distract you from gaining the necessary information from the text you are reading. By doing the Smart Reading course, our tutors will teach you how to get through large amounts of reading material without having your internal dialogue affect your ability to absorb necessary information.

We do this by using NLP techniques, which stands for neuro-linguistic programming. NLP is the study of human behaviour. The cool thing is, if you understand NLP, it is possible to create the best possible neural pathways in line with your outcome. We have 25 years of experience in NLP and managed to conduct a training called Smart Reading, which teaches you to create neural pathways for the best results in reading and studying. 

Click the box below and watch one of the Smart Readings tutors go into more depth on how we use neuro-linguistic programming to help achieve Smart Reading success.

• Reading faster
• Reading visually
• Remembering more
• Having better concentration

At  Smart Reading South Africa, you are taught skills that will help you achieve RRRH permanently. What this means is that after you complete the course you will:

1. Be able to increase productivity because your reading speed is 4x faster, and your comprehension of what you have read is much better.
2. Develop peace of mind and control over the amount of material to be read.
3. It will become easier to see the connections, and analysis is a lot better.
4. Develop a better understanding and creativity to solve complex problems.
5. Have the ability to remember information easily.
6. Have more spare time for family and friends.

-Fully adapted to your learning style.

-Visual reading improves your memory.

-Create a new reading and learning style

-Discover new possibilities in education and employment

Due to many years of experience, Smart Reading has developed into a unique speed-reading method and personal development not to be found anywhere else.

>International Focus – We work in virtual classrooms with participants from around the world.
>Team Courses – Teams in companies benefit because of the combined approach; Action Learning and the smart method.
>Education and students – We have a lot of action learning coaches to assist the students.
>Student Dedication – The motivation is excellent because we support each other.
>Career path – Huge growth in your studies and at work.

1st Online Class – 1 hour

Introduction to the course and how it works.

Video 1 – Video 7
Including assignments

2nd Online Class – 1 hour

Follow-up and Questions

• Continue with the videos until video 20
• Complete assignments
• Start your 1st book to read with the smart method

3rd Online Class – 1 hour

Exchange experiences and ask questions.
Additional tips and techniques.

Read 2 additional books with the smart method
Approximately 2.5 hours per book

4th Online Class – 2 hours

Book reviews.

You give a book review with your fellow students.

TOTAL TIME ONLINE FOR THE STUDENT:

– Online Smart Reading videos including exercises (12 hours)

– Zoom Sessions (4 hours)

– Total Time (16 hours)

Why it’s so important to be utterly relaxed while reading?

Smart Reading teaches Silent Mind techniques, which go beyond just telling you that you need to be relaxed. The Smart method will show you advanced relaxation techniques, which will break through the vicious circle of tension and negative ‘loops and beliefs’ in the way you think.

Traditional speed-reading courses rely too much on repetition and ignore the knowledge we now have of our ‘whole-brain.’ When using the full range of possibilities of accelerated learning techniques, your brain’s efficiency increases enormously. 

Brainwaves during the Smart Reading training

Relaxation techniques are an integral part of the Smart Reading course. Reading in a more relaxed state ensures and enhances the cooperation of both brain hemispheres. Due to these techniques, you will learn to Smart Read very fast, and when you do, you will remember more details, which in turn is very beneficial for your confidence.

Alpha waves

Alpha waves (8-12 Hz.) occur when you are in a relaxed state. When you are in your Alpha state, you are comfortable and alert. The state in which your visual ‘triggers’ are processed. In this state, your thinking abilities are optimal. Studies have shown that being in an Alpha state makes you calmer and more focused. This, in turn, ensures that you are more able to give aimed attention. New information will be memorized better, and you will be faster at recalling that information when you are in the Alpha state. Alpha waves are the best waves for study.

Beta waves

Beta waves (16-38 Hz.) are the waves that ensure your survival. When you are in a Beta state, your brain solves problems and reacts quickly to situations. You can measure Beta waves in your mind when you are in a state of anger, fear, or aggression, or when you want to escape (fight or flight mode). In beta, you are tensed up, and your memory will work less well.

Theta waves

Theta waves (4-8 Hz) are your “creative” waves. These waves can be seen when you fall asleep or just before you wake up. Sometimes you see clearly what has been done correctly or not. It is like a moment of insight. Many people have their best ideas in a Theta state because they feel relaxed. When you come home after a long drive on the road, for example, and you wonder if you stopped for that red traffic light, you would have been acting from the subconscious part of the brain, which is not available to the conscious part. Theta waves can also occur while you are staring into space or daydreaming.

Delta waves

Delta waves (0.5-4 Hz.) occur in babies’ brains and during deep sleep. The deeper you sleep, the slower your brain waves are. In this state, you will remember events from your early childhood.

Gamma waves

Gamma waves (38-80 Hz.) only start at 38 Hz. and go as far as 80 Hz. In the Gamma state, you have an increased perceptive ability. In this state, you are capable of solving problems with an incredibly high level of awareness.

You will be able to not interfere with yourself while reading and understand the information better. It lets you read relaxed and visually, like watching a movie. This brain-friendly method applies to each learning style.

The difference.

What is the difference between the normal way of reading and reading with the smart method? The old-fashioned way of reading compared with SmartReading tells you why! Why dyslexia is there and how dyslexia is gone when reading with the smart method.

Reading in the usual fashion way.

You first see the words, then you sub-vocalize the words, and then you know the meaning. Our brain tends to think about the information we read at the same moment that we are reading—a big struggle and not possible at the same time. We have learned something we can’t do in the process of reading itself. Your brain can’t multitask. It can’t absorb and recall information at the same time. The school has been teaching us to think while reading, which we can’t do in the reading process itself. No matter the degree of the student.

Your brain always compares your old knowledge with the information which you are reading. We try to find acknowledgement or confirmation—also a big struggle and not possible simultaneously. 

Skipping because you have no idea

Besides this struggling way of reading, you tend “to write a new book in your thoughts.” Because of this behaviour, thinking about the text, we don’t read what is there, and yes, you have to skip back. This skipping back again occurs because you have no real understanding of the next part of the text. After all, you were thinking about the previous part of the book and were not reading at all. Sometimes, this behaviour occurs multiple times on a page. This is also why the attention of most of the students is floating away. No matter the degree of the student. No matter how long they are learning or how much they are reading. No matter if the student is familiar with reading and organizing their thoughts, whether young or senior. The brain is functioning in the same way.

With Smart Reading, your brain instantly knows the information in detail.

Because you have a dictionary in your head, reading is recognizing. With the right techniques, such as the smart method, you instantly know and understand the information you read. This is only possible with the method of visual reading and the concept we deliver. This is why most forms of dyslexia are not dyslexia at all. When you read the word house, you don’t have to think about that word, and you instantly know what you read. Research has proven that we create a visual dictionary in our heads.

Concentration instead of thinking while reading.

While reading visually, enhances the speed of reading enormously, and the tendency of thinking floats away. You experience a very high level of concentration. Because of this high level of concentration, you will read more details, and in the end, you will know more in-depth about what you have been reading.

Skipping back belongs to the past.

Since you have a dictionary in your head and your brain recognizes and instantly knows and understands the information you read, you don’t have to skip back. This is only possible with the smart method of visual reading. The student can be in the now while reading and absorb the written information in the best imaginable way, enhancing reading and learning quality. The student postpones the retrieval of information and then can organize his thoughts. Discuss all the concepts in-depth and the ideas in detail.

Besides the above benefits, Smart Reading has a very positive effect on those students who say they have dyslexia. In the 25 years now that SmartReading is on the market, we believe that the students we have been training didn’t have dyslexia. The Language Brain Areas create an environment where the student reads slowly and “softly speaking out loud” the words while reading. It is well-known that learning how to learn is not a topic in most schools and universities. Our mission is to change this, and bit by bit, slowly but steadily, it is changing.

Paul has dived into several types of education. It began with High School. During high school, I developed an interest in the mind and human behaviour. I studied Science of Mind and Granted in San Diego, California.
I am an internationally certified trainer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, certified in Belgium and New York. Furthermore, I did Psychology, Rational emotive therapy, Transactional Analysis, and various higher education courses and workshops like Foundation and Calc Action Learning, dynamic judgment in a business environment, and various other programs.

For several years Paul has held managerial positions, and in 1992 he started his own company Global Edutainment. I am the founder en developer of the unique study and speedread method Smart Reading. Two main leading publishers, in Belgium and the Netherlands, asked me to write a book about the unique system: “Read a book in just one hour.” We translated the book into English. I wrote various publications in newspapers and magazines and also made multiple appearances as a guest speaker on Dutch television programs.

The methods in Smart Reading derive from various disciplines within psychology, NLP, and identifying beliefs. The technique transforms inner strategies into creating awareness and recognizing one’s potential.

Nationality: Dutch