
"A wide body of minds from both science and psychology backgrounds, specifically George A. Miller of Harvard University, have concluded that the conscious mind can only absorb seven (plus or minus two) chunks of information at once. Addtionally, it has also been concluded that most conscious thought and perception occur in the regions of the brain that support verbal communication, causing our conscious mind to work at this pace (the speed we talk at), which is usually one word at a time. It is these principles of our psychology that explain why the effectiveness of conventional reading techniques and others like speed reading are so limited."