However, if you concentrate on the purpose of reading (locating main ideas and finding answers to your questions), your speed and comprehension should increase.
Your concern should be not with how fast you can get through a chapter alone, but with how quickly you can comprehend the facts and ideas that you need.
Comprehension during speed reading is easier than during standard reading.
This is because the mind is busy looking for meaning, not rereading words and sentences. The average reader spends about a 1/6th of the time rereading words than actually reading them.
Rereading interrupts the flow of comprehension and slows down the process, that’s why the habit of rereading should be eliminated. How to comprehend easily? Scan the chapter first.
Identify the sections to which the author devotes the most amount of space. If there are lots of diagrams for a particular topic, then that must also be an important concept. If you're really under time pressure, you can skip the sections to which the least amount of space is devoted.
Take note on headings and read the first sentence of every paragraph more carefully than therest of the paragraph. The main idea is usually situated there. Read the important parts and the main ideas. Focus on nouns and main propositions in each sentence. Look for the noun-verb combinations, and focus the mind on these. Then, close the book and ask yourself what you now know about the subject that you didn't know before you started.
Saturday, 20 December 2008
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Pay Attention
Most people read in the same way that they watch television – in an inattentive, passive way.
What they should know is that reading takes a lot of effort and you must exert the effort.
A wise teacher once told me that you can learn anything if you do three things.
That is, PAY ATTENTION, PAY ATTENTION, and PAY ATTENTION.
Reducing Fixation Time for Speed Reading
The minimum length of time needed for a fixation should only be a quarter of a second.
By pushing yourself to minimize the time you take until you reach such rate, you will get better at picking up information from very brief and few fixations. This is a matter of practice and confidence.
Relationship between Rate of Reading and Comprehension
Research shows that there is a big relationship between rate and comprehension. Some people read rapidly and comprehend well; others read slowly and comprehend badly. Thus, there is some reason to believe that the factors producing slow reading are also involved in lowered comprehension. Good comprehension depends on whether you can extract and retain the important ideas thatyou’ve read, not on how fast you read them. If you can do this fast, then your reading speed can beincreased.
If you pair fast-reading with worrying about comprehension, your reading speed will drop because the mind is occupied with your fears; hence, you will not be paying attention to the ideas thatyou are reading.
What they should know is that reading takes a lot of effort and you must exert the effort.
A wise teacher once told me that you can learn anything if you do three things.
That is, PAY ATTENTION, PAY ATTENTION, and PAY ATTENTION.
Reducing Fixation Time for Speed Reading
The minimum length of time needed for a fixation should only be a quarter of a second.
By pushing yourself to minimize the time you take until you reach such rate, you will get better at picking up information from very brief and few fixations. This is a matter of practice and confidence.
Relationship between Rate of Reading and Comprehension
Research shows that there is a big relationship between rate and comprehension. Some people read rapidly and comprehend well; others read slowly and comprehend badly. Thus, there is some reason to believe that the factors producing slow reading are also involved in lowered comprehension. Good comprehension depends on whether you can extract and retain the important ideas thatyou’ve read, not on how fast you read them. If you can do this fast, then your reading speed can beincreased.
If you pair fast-reading with worrying about comprehension, your reading speed will drop because the mind is occupied with your fears; hence, you will not be paying attention to the ideas thatyou are reading.
Friday, 12 December 2008
Abstract Ideas
The same is possible with abstract ideas (which are also often highly complex and multidimensional),though it takes practice because there are no definite "images" to fall back on. In somecases, especially when the thought involved is quite complex, removing the verbal component not only speeds up the thinking process, but can even lead to intuitive leaps that verbal thinking might have prevented.
Consider the way in which you are reading this text. Most people think that they read the way young children do – either letter-by-letter, or at best word-by-word. The truth is, we do not read letter-by-letter or word-by-word.
Instead, we are fixing our eyes onblock of words. Notice the way your eye muscles actually move when reading a printed text. Try tomove your eyes to the next block of words, and go on.
Effectively you are not reading words, but blocks of words at a time.
The period of time during which the eye rests on one word is called affixation. You may also notice that you don't always proceed from one block of words to the next. Sometimes, you may move back to a preceding block of words if you are unsure about something or if you don’t understand what it meant. These disruptions to the forward flow of reading are called skipbacks. Only speed readers have been trained to create mini eye movements, while the rest of us readwith micro eye-movements. The former produces speed reading because they engage the peripheral visionto chunk words simultaneously, not just one-word at a time; while the latter is automatic, and keep adjusting our eyes to place the words we read on our foveal centralis, the sharpest focusing area of our retina.
Consider the way in which you are reading this text. Most people think that they read the way young children do – either letter-by-letter, or at best word-by-word. The truth is, we do not read letter-by-letter or word-by-word.
Instead, we are fixing our eyes onblock of words. Notice the way your eye muscles actually move when reading a printed text. Try tomove your eyes to the next block of words, and go on.
Effectively you are not reading words, but blocks of words at a time.
The period of time during which the eye rests on one word is called affixation. You may also notice that you don't always proceed from one block of words to the next. Sometimes, you may move back to a preceding block of words if you are unsure about something or if you don’t understand what it meant. These disruptions to the forward flow of reading are called skipbacks. Only speed readers have been trained to create mini eye movements, while the rest of us readwith micro eye-movements. The former produces speed reading because they engage the peripheral visionto chunk words simultaneously, not just one-word at a time; while the latter is automatic, and keep adjusting our eyes to place the words we read on our foveal centralis, the sharpest focusing area of our retina.
Monday, 8 December 2008
How People Read
Our conscious brain takes in 16 bits of information per second, compared to our non-conscious
brain that absorbs 11 million bits per second.
Can you imagine the difference?
That is the reason why we hate to do stuffs consciously – because it does take effort and discipline. Our non-conscious brain structures process tons of information coming from our sense organs such as breathing, heartbeat, and blood circulation, not to mention instincts and emotions – all without our awareness.
The eyes, our primary tool in reading, only take in information when they are stopped. If you
want, you can verify this by holding a book up in front of people and let them read a certain part in it.
Watch their eyes as they read though don't tell them what you are observing. What feels like continuous motion is actually move à stop à read, move à stop à read, and so on. Speed readers minimize the number of stops by maximizing the number of words taken in at each stop.
Short Exercise
Here's an exercise that will help you develop effective eye movements. Try looking at the
following sentences in three ways:
First, focus your attention: look only at the first "S" in success.
Second, adjust your focus / attention: look to be able to see at the entire word, "success".
Third, adjust your focus so you are seeing three or more words at the same time.
Because you can't say three words at the same time, you can't subvocalize if you are reading
three words at a time. Thus, elimination of vocalization from thought is necessary. Although many think that verbalization is essential to linking words with concepts, common experience shows that this is not so.
For example, if someone asks a mechanic how a car works, he surely knows what to answer but will have a problem in how to respond. The subject of his thought is too complex and multidimensional to be expressed in linear forms. He may be able to visualize and manipulate concepts and find answers to mechanical problems in his mind without ever putting those thoughts into words.
brain that absorbs 11 million bits per second.
Can you imagine the difference?
That is the reason why we hate to do stuffs consciously – because it does take effort and discipline. Our non-conscious brain structures process tons of information coming from our sense organs such as breathing, heartbeat, and blood circulation, not to mention instincts and emotions – all without our awareness.
The eyes, our primary tool in reading, only take in information when they are stopped. If you
want, you can verify this by holding a book up in front of people and let them read a certain part in it.
Watch their eyes as they read though don't tell them what you are observing. What feels like continuous motion is actually move à stop à read, move à stop à read, and so on. Speed readers minimize the number of stops by maximizing the number of words taken in at each stop.
Short Exercise
Here's an exercise that will help you develop effective eye movements. Try looking at the
following sentences in three ways:
First, focus your attention: look only at the first "S" in success.
Second, adjust your focus / attention: look to be able to see at the entire word, "success".
Third, adjust your focus so you are seeing three or more words at the same time.
Because you can't say three words at the same time, you can't subvocalize if you are reading
three words at a time. Thus, elimination of vocalization from thought is necessary. Although many think that verbalization is essential to linking words with concepts, common experience shows that this is not so.
For example, if someone asks a mechanic how a car works, he surely knows what to answer but will have a problem in how to respond. The subject of his thought is too complex and multidimensional to be expressed in linear forms. He may be able to visualize and manipulate concepts and find answers to mechanical problems in his mind without ever putting those thoughts into words.
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