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

What was said

"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.