{"id":1006,"date":"2012-07-27T11:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T05:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2012-07-27T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T09:42:01","slug":"speed-reading-7-simple-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/2012\/07\/speed-reading-7-simple-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Reading &#8211; 7 Simple Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why Speed <\/strong><strong>Reading<\/strong><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Information, today, is pure POWER in our hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With so much of data out there, both online and offline we have reached a point in our lives what we can term as &#8220;<strong>information overload<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Speed reading technique <\/strong>helps one to read with discipline a lot faster with good retention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>For whom?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is very helpful for both <strong>children<\/strong> and <strong>adults<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s thus a great resource and technique for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">school goers, college students or working professionals too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sppeedreading\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sppeedreading-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"speed reading\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was a time when I had to keep up with my studies in my management school, had to establish understanding simultaneously of the company product policies and guidelines where I was also doing my internship, plus I was habituated to reading a novel just to keep my head from spinning and to soothe my brain, with a good book at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What can I say, I just wanted it all!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simply put, the idea in my head was not just to clear the exams and get the job for the day done, <strong>but to understand and implement what I had learned in my class and put it to practical use at work too<\/strong>. Make a difference and an impact at the same time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This needed a good understanding of what I was reading &amp; also good retention. This was something that most of us would face or would have faced at times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I cracked and I just couldn\u2019t, it was\u2026\u2026&#8230; It was well, pure \u201cinformation overload\u201d for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That\u2019s when I came across this technique of \u201c<strong>Speed \u2018<em>Quality<\/em>\u2019 <\/strong><strong>Reading<\/strong>\u201d and it helped me a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>So, I thought I would share some simple techniques that you may find useful even in your routine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What does speed reading do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many a things; <strong>\u201cTIME is Money\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>To start with, you can <strong>learn to read <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">specific &amp; important part of information<\/span> more <strong>quickly<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>You may also get a <strong>better understanding<\/strong> of it with a disciplined practice.<\/li>\n<li>It helps one to even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">learn foreign languages quickly<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Today for anything and everything we just Google it online for work, fun &amp; for learning, this technique will help us <strong>get the information<\/strong> quicker and <strong> only <\/strong>that which is <strong>practically useful.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">There are lots of methods:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am giving below few simple steps that worked for me and might even work for you.You can follow and scan through the simple steps given below and I hope it adds value to you &amp; assists you in making your lives richer, more interactive and resourceful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">7 Simple steps that could help you in \u201cSpeed <em>Quality<\/em> reading\u201d:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Use this technique in quiet places to start with. Eventually with practice you will be able to quality speed read even amidst noise around <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Skim<\/strong> through your book \/ content \/ text (Skimming is visually searching the sentences of a page for clues to meaning) \u2013 You can also look for <strong>Headlines<\/strong>, <strong>Titles<\/strong>, <strong>Sub titles<\/strong>, <strong>text<\/strong> with bold, <em>italics<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">underlines<\/span> etc in the page first and put them together. It <strong>helps<\/strong> you to get a <strong>gist<\/strong> of the text or content <strong>immediately<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Use the <strong>Meta<\/strong><strong> guiding<\/strong> technique. Use your <em>index finger<\/em> or <em>mouse pointer<\/em> or a <em>pen<\/em>, in order for the eye to move faster along the length of a passage of text. This reading <strong>dynamics system<\/strong> centers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on moving one&#8217;s hand across the page in order to maintain eye focus on the words. It helps to read\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 without getting distracted.<\/li>\n<li>Do not Read out aloud or <strong>sub-vocalize the words, instead associate with visuals. <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">US<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Air force research<\/span> shows you can <strong>recognize<\/strong> words in <strong>less<\/strong> than <strong>5\/100th of second<\/strong> <em>while sounding it<\/em> will consume more than <em>twice that time.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Slowly, increase speed in which you move your hands \/ finger pen etc and adapt to the speed<\/li>\n<li>Do not repeat and slowly learn to skip words like \u201cas, and, it, then, if\u201d etc<\/li>\n<li>If you are reading online or on a computer, try highlighting the text and reading it as <strong>reading white text on a dark background is easier<\/strong> than the reverse.<\/li>\n<li>Start with <strong>books \/ magazines<\/strong> where there are <em>variations in fonts<\/em> and <em>types<\/em> and then you can enter into textbook &amp; other material reading slowly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are some really simple techniques that have helped me, hope you find it useful too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Do not try this if you are reading a legal document :))<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Do give me your comments, suggestions &amp; views from your own\u00a0experiences\u00a0too. 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