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Jim Kwik Claims You Read Like a Six Year Old Because Training Stopped Then

Ed Mylett Show · The Hidden Pattern Destroying Your Success (Delete Your Old Self) | Ed Mylett · May 23, 2026
Jim Kwik Claims You Read Like a Six Year Old Because Training Stopped Then
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The Hidden Pattern Destroying Your Success (Delete Your Old Self) | Ed Mylett
"When's the last time you took a class called reading? How old were you? Probably 6 or 7 years old, right? So we are still, every single person watching this, for the most part, we're still reading like we're a 6 or 7-year-old. The difficulty demand has increased tremendously, but we're still reading like a 6-year-old."
Brain performance expert Jim Kwik argued that because formal reading instruction ends around age six or seven, most adults never upgrade their reading mechanics despite massively increased cognitive demands. He positioned this as the root cause of slow reading speed and poor retention, claiming proper adult training can yield 300 percent speed increases.
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