![]() ![]() The first will be for comprehension and emotional response. Choose one page each hour and choose to reread this page three times. Multiple readings also have another benefit. Making a ‘yay or nay’ judgement based on a skim is a good way to vet books before dedicating hours to them and not get any benefits from them.įor skimming, I dedicate an hour or so to go through the contents page, each chapter, the prologue and appendices, tables, chapter summaries, etc. I always recommend skimming through a book first as a ‘qualifying’ read. You’ll get more automatic without too much effort.Īlso, reading more variety of genres will help you adapt faster to new text types. Reading the same ‘type’ of text (research papers, company reports, BuzzFeed articles, non-fiction books, etc.) will give you more proficiency in it. Our keys here are inspiration, curiosity, and interest. You’ll find yourself devouring book after book easily because it lights you up and feeds a part of you. Make sure you love the topic and really want to learn more. A Change of Approach 1 - Emotional Anchoring So how can you authentically level up? It’s actually easier than you may think. I guarantee that any reference to connecting emotionally to your reading is coming from passionate teachers and not institutions (if you had one, count yourself blessed). None of which is inherent in the education system at large. The way of enhancing both requires knowledge of how the brain works together, what stimulates the brain and what is needed to create an automatic skill. But what about someone who only finished high school? Hell, what about someone who wants more?Įnhancing reading speed sounds good, but enhancing comprehension is better. The average college-educated reader reads at 200-400 WPM. There is nothing that will see you unlocking your maximum potential. Once you are literate, reading speed is assumed to develop naturally and behind the scenes. Unfortunately, our current education system globally lacks instruction on how to continue with your learning. Practice getting pumped about reading books! Whereas, even if you start an uninteresting movie with energy, it can leave you snoring in the theatre within minutes. Tired or not, emotions will connect because it is enjoyable. ![]() Think about it like movies you have loved or movies you have loathed! If you love it, usually there is no issue of focus. Can’t focus enough to read for an hour?įocus comes from an emotional connection. Speeds will change based on your brain’s comprehension.Īnother issue usually brought up by many is focus. How about a college textbook on a topic you are familiar with and a college textbook on a topic you are clueless about? When reading a six-year-old’s book compared to a college textbook, want to guess which book you’ll have a higher CWPM for? If we are more familiar with a topic, a style or a level, our comprehension speed is naturally faster. Rather than the vanity metric of words-per-minute (WPM), a typical measurement of speed, we can see our comprehensible words-per-minute (CWPM) rate. It is the bottleneck and the place to focus our efforts.Ī great metric here to use as a way to see what your reading speed is, is ReadingCope. It can only handle 2-4 pieces of information at a time. Working memory (the part of the brain that holds and connects information together) is the limiting factor here. Simply put, your eyes have to deal with so many pieces of information each day that it is a pro at it! However, without looking into these mechanics, we need to acknowledge the biggest issue with these famous speed reading courses that boast amazing claims: the volume of information that your eye can process is VASTLY different from the volume of information that the brain can process. The famous YouTuber, Thomas Frank, as well as author and blogger, Scott Young, go into detail with disproving these mechanics, so if this is interesting for you, I highly recommend them. Techniques like fixation points, using pointers, pacing your page rate, eliminating subvocalization - these are all bragged as being the pathway to reading well over 500 words per minute.Ī cursory view of these mechanics seems legit. I joke with people who repeat the statistics of CEO’s who read that much, “Show me a CEO who reads that much and I’ll show you a company that deserves a more present CEO!”. However, with a little deeper look, we find the truth.Īnd it’s a truth that plays on our current education system’s downfalls. This sounds great at first glance, “Why yes! I do want to read more, and reading faster would make that easier, and I want to earn more too!” We’ve all seen the ads, “The average CEO reads 52 books a year!”, “Speed reading can increase your ability to earn!”. ![]()
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