Sunday, April 8, 2012

Three Easy Ways To Boost Your Reading Speed

By Guy Richardson


Learning to speed read is an invaluable skill because most information is available as text. Let's say that you need to read hundreds of pages for a college exam. Maybe you are a businessperson trying to skim through manuals on a new technique to boost sales. Whoever you are, speed reading is a beneficial skill that most people need. You can definitely learn the skill. It just takes a little dedication and practice and you'll soon be reading at least twice as fast as you do now.

Saying "good-bye" to your obsession that you might fail to see something important if you don't read all the words on the page is critical for getting faster at reading. This is a prevalent concern and something we are all affected by, but the instant in which we realize that nobody will tell us we can't re-read a book, let alone a portion of text or a chapter, is the instant you need to de-clutter your mind and that will simplify the process for teaching yourself to read faster. At the start, the level in which you gain knowledge might have a slower pace, although your mind will catch up to your eyes and not only will you grasp the text, you'll also increase your retention level. And bear in mind, when it comes to reading non-fiction, the details are never as vital as the main arguments.

Most of us get into a habit of rereading what we have already read. Habitually rereading material prevents many people from reading fast, though it's fine to do this if you have a good reason to. We find our eyes flitting back to reread a word or a passage because we aren't certain we read it right the first time. Your mind finds it harder to understand what you're reading if you frequently have to go back, so this reduces your comprehension as well as slowing you down. If you want to become a faster and better reader, then, try to reduce the amount of time you spend rereading.

A great way to increase your ability to speed read is to organize or structure the material that you have to read. More than likely, you will be reading something that is nonfiction. The structure of nonfiction usually includes outlines and subheadings to help the reader. Skimming is a technique that many people use when reading. This is what you will do with the aforementioned content portions so that you will be better able to digest what you are reading at lightning speed. Look at the book and only read the parts that are bold or underlined. You can also read subheadings, the table of contents as well as any other part of the book that captures your attention. After doing this skimming process, you will prepare your mind to only absorb what is pertinent to what you are searching for, ignoring filler that would otherwise slow you down.

Speed reading is a skill, not a talent and this means it can easily be mastered. Nevertheless you should be exercising these habitually, similar to other skills. The suggestions in this article should help you increase your reading speed quite a bit, plus you'll be buzzing through one book after another in no time, questioning yourself about what took you so long to become a faster reader.




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