Speed Reading - Audiobook
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Chapter three The fundamental principles of speed reading. Before you begin to learn the methods and strategies that will enable you to become a proficient speed reader, it is important that you first understand what speed reading is all about. Unlike detailed reading or active reading, speed reading is a method of reading that strives to acquire the most important information without getting bogged down in the word by word details of a particular document or piece of written material. Thus, like the skimming reading style, speed reading will enable you to discern important information without having to take the time and effort to read every single word in front of you. Additionally, you will be able to read the words you need to in a way that is faster and easier than reading methods you currently use. Therefore, even in the event that you need to do more in depth reading, you will be able to do so in as little as 1/3 the time it would take you at your current reading speed. The first thing to understand about speed reading is that it attempts to restore the ease and speed of reading that pictographic languages afforded its people thousands of years ago. As stated earlier. The advantage of pictographic languages is that they provided whole concepts in single symbols, something that modern languages are largely unable to do. Speed reading is the method of reading that helps you to ignore the countless number of words that have little to no inherent meaning. If you stop to consider how many words per sentence you read actually contain the important information, you will realize that half or more of the words used are largely unnecessary. This means that almost half of the time you spend reading is spent on empty or extraneous words, words that simply don't deserve the time it takes to read them. While it might take some practice before you get really good at being able to pick out the words that matter, the fact is that you will begin to improve your speed immediately once you learn how to read past the unimportant words and simply focus on the words that matter. Another concept of speed reading that is critical to understand is that it removes the editorial element of reading. All too often, we can read a written document with a critical eye one that picks up spelling or grammatical errors. Needless to say, the time and effort it takes to read something with so critical and I is far more than is necessary. The chances are you aren't actually grading the pieces you are reading. Therefore, there is no need to critically analyze how it is written. This is another reason why reading each and every word with equal tension is counterintuitive to the whole point of reading, which is to gain a general impression or idea through written words. By reading with the sole purpose of seeing the picture contained in the words, you will be able to reduce the time it takes you to read any document by a full 2/3 of your current rate. Finally, it is important to realize the main goal of speed reading. Most people were taught to read by reading out loud. This was a very necessary step. Is it allowed a teacher to discern if a student was having trouble with any particular aspect of reading. In essence, reading out loud was mawr for the teachers benefit than that of the student themselves. Eventually, once the teacher was satisfied that the student could read well, students were told to stop reading out loud. Unfortunately, what remained was a voice in the head of the reader pronouncing each and every word as it was red. Since pronouncing words takes time, the overall reading speed of an average person is significantly reduced due to this unnecessary process. Thus, what kills the average person's reading speed is the fact that they make the effort to speak the words in their mind as they read them, a step that is a tragic waste of time and energy. Speed reading helps a person to remove that element, thus opening their mind to retain mawr information, as well as enabling the person to read any document at least twice a so fast by not pronouncing each word in their head. In the end, speed reading isn't just about helping you to read the same words in less time. Rather, speed reading is about helping you to reinvent the way you read altogether. Instead of seeing the written word as the spoken word spelled out, you will begin to see the written word as a source of information that requires Onley visual recognition. Thus, you will begin to read sentences Mawr, like the ancients, Red pictures seeing the information rather than the writing process itself. This will prove invaluable for those times when you have large portions of text to read in order to collect valuable information. Speed reading will help you to reduce the text down to the critical elements alone, while at the same time allowing you to read through the information with speed and purpose, reducing the time and effort it takes to read any item exponentially.