This all means getting comfortable with potentially missing some things and not comprehending every single thing. ![]() Just like gold will sparkle in between dirt and rocks, key information is surrounded by unnecessary conjunctions, adjectives and nouns we just don't need. We naturally feel like we should read every word to aid our understanding but in fact lots of those words are filler and our brains need to be rewired to "skim" over lines or groups of words and allow key words to jump out at us. You need to make a mindset shift that to speed read through textbooks or business books you're taking on the role of a gold miner or magpie looking over the water or fields for gold nuggets of information that sparkle and we want to pick up and ignore everything else. I'm starting off with training your brain as this is often the hard bit where people get stuck as we're so used to trying to comprehend and understand every single word that we read so we say it out loud in our heads. One thing all speed reading strategies have in common is that they train your brain to avoid "sub-vocalization" by avoid pronouncing and "hearing" each word in your head as you read it. If you try reading a book right now you might notice that your brain is pronouncing each word in your head as you read. ![]() Once you've done that you can start to practise some of the techniques I'm diving into. You might also want to check out a free online tool like Spreeder where you can adjust the speed that text shows up. So what I'd suggest doing first is grabbing a book that you haven't read before, as if you're read it that's kind of cheating, and using that to practise. I've broken it down into three steps for how to learn to read the first is to train your brain eyes the second is to train your focus and the third is to train your eyes and that's what i'm going to be breaking down today now let's jump straight into it with the first part which is training your brain Train Your Brain to Speed Read Now I won't use these techniques for fiction books or anything that I'm reading for enjoyment but for everything else like exams or business I'll use these three techniques to save loads of time while pulling out the key points. Having read loads and loads of business books and textbook a lot of the content is often fluff and padding with many books feeling like they could be blog posts.Ī 250-word piece of text is read through in one minute by the average reader and effective speed readers can finish the same text in half that time or less time meaning you get your time back and stay productive. With speed reading, you will be able to manage your work and time better by dramatically increasing your words-per-minute rate and improving or maintaining your comprehension level. ![]() So speed reading is basically the ability to quickly recognize and take in phrases or sentences on a line or page all at once. ![]() If you currently feel that you're an average speed reader I promise you that by using the three techniques in this video you'll be able to at least triple your reading speed with just a few minutes of practice. Last year alone I read over 200 books and that was while running a few businesses and working full-time and a huge reason for this is just being able to read really fast. If you have exams around the corner and have a lot of reading material still untouched or if you love reading but just don’t have enough time to read this is exactly what I'll be diving into today as I look at how I speed read.
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