My brain gets frustrated now when I sit down and try to read a book at a normal pace. The brain is programmed to read as fast as we speak, but it's capable of much more. Case and point- While talking to my husband the other day, he mentioned that when he's reading, he chews on a pen to keep from mouthing the words while he reads. It's as simple as moving your finger (or a pen) across the page to keep your eyes moving as fast as your brain really wants to go. Your eyes will follow your finger, and your brain will keep up. With practice, you will eventually see phrases instead of words and paragraphs instead of phrases. The only problem becomes learning how to turn the pages faster. Try it!Being able to read faster as amazing speeds works for me! To see more great tips, check out Shannon's Rocks in my Dryer.
For more info, this website explains better than me. It's one of the many things I've learned that allows me to add reading back into my life. A simple pleasure that normally takes too much time can again be part of your everyday life.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Works for Me Wednesday #24: Speed Reading
I wrote a post about speed reading the first week that I started this blog but back then I was really excited to have 10 people read my blog a month. I'm not sure many more people read it now, but I thought I'd post the info again because I think it's really useful. The original Speed Reading for Dummies is here, but here's the jist of my speed reading tip.
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i actually read that a long time ago when you first posted it cause marcia was telling me about it.. and believe it or not, it has definitely helped me out alot, especially with reading text books for school and what not. so, thanks britni!
interesting... I'll have to give it a try!
I can speed-read newspaper and magazine articles, but when it comes to really important things I try to slow down the pace so I don't miss anything important. :-)
Also, if you see pictures as you read instead of words, that helps. It's the main reason I can read a novel in 2 hours, but a technical manual? Forget it.
Hugs,
Melinda
you are quite creative. I enjoy reading your blog. Its fun to see what you guys are doing. Have a great day. Keep up the exercise.
hey! i put pics of the puppies up! go look!
my husband has been wanting me to do speed reading. He did it and it soooo good and fast! So I promised him at some point that I would!
yeah they are my dogs, but its just hard having my 12 year old dog, getting up and down 3 flights of stairs just to go to the bath room, so half of the time, she just goes in our house. and so do all the puppies, they won't learn to go outside, its just more convienent for them to go inside i guess. and its just too much of a hassel when evan is working 2 jobs working 70 hours a week, me going to school 30 hours a week, plus working, i mean we just don't have time to train them right i guess. its just frustrating to come home to dog mess everywhere! we can't do it anymore..
Very intereting. I will have to give it a try. Thanks!
I'll definitely have to try this, because I am not a very fast reader. I don't think I'm a slow reader by any means, but I just don't seem to read as fast as other people in my family. (But, as others said, maybe it's not fair that I have compared their reading of novels to when I was reading textbooks for college.)
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