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Learn How To Speed Read

By Joshua Seth |

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One of the most useful skills you can aquire for accelerated learning is the ability to speed read. With speed reading you will actually improve your memory and retention of the subject matter, comprehend the information better, and increase the intensity of your focus.

I’ve studied a number of speed reading courses throughout my life and they all boil down to this single concept: there are different kinds of reading and different reasons to read so it follows that you should have different methods of reading as well.

Some things we read for pleasure, some to prepare for an exam, and others for general knowledge of the world around us. Step one in learning to speed read is to recognize the type of material you’ll be reading and determine the purpose for reading it.

Not every book is a novel and not every novel is good, yet people tend to read everything slowly and in depth as through they are reading for pleasure. When you learn to speed read you won’t want to read everything at the highest possible rate of retention, but you will have that option when you need it.

You may want to read the newspaper at a high rate of speed, review study materials at double speed, and read a novel for pleasure as slowly as possible.

How many times have you left a good book unfinished because there was a boring part in the middle that you just couldn’t get past? When you learn how to speed read you will be able to breeze through that boring part without losing track of what’s happening in the book and then slow down again when you get to the satisfying sections!

In future articles I will break down the process of speed reading into various exercises for you. For now though, begin to become aware of the different types of reading material you process throughout the day and ask yourself “why am I reading this?”

If there is no discernible benefit, then stop. Put it down and don’t read it. If there is a reason then define that up front. This will help to focus your attention on what is important and relevant to you as you read the rest of the material.

This is pretty basic, but it’s the foundation of the lessons to come. Define why you’re doing something before you do it and if you can’t, then develop the self  discipline to move on to the next purposeful activity.

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