Speed reading is a set of skills that is necessary for nearly everyone’s survival in this age of information overload. Here are 8 fatal mistakes you need to avoid when learning this set of powerful learning tools and how you can overcome them.
As someone begins the journey to learn speed reading immediately speed takes center stage. The learner knows something must change, and engages in exercises to move the eyes more efficiently. This initial approach is sound up to a point. However, the learner can often get overwhelmed and frustrated and then give up the process and return to the old inefficient patterns.
Speed reading is a vastly popular keyword internet search term with several million searches per month. Many people want to discover how to do this vital information management skill today. However, before someone learns to speed read, it might be helpful to take a step back and observe something that is taken for granted. When you read, whether it is speedy or not, what does your mind do?
When learning to speed read, the saying that a little information can be a dangerous thing still applies. Consider the term “eye-span.” Even though I’ve been teaching people how to speed read for 30 years, I have only recently received many questions about it. I don’t even use the term in my training. The new learner has read something about it somewhere. There is too much concern for it though.
When learning to speed read, the saying that a little information can be a dangerous thing still applies. Consider the term “eye-span.” Even though I’ve been teaching people how to speed read for 30 years, I have only recently received many questions about it. I don’t even use the term in my training. The new learner has read something about it somewhere. There is too much concern for it though.
Speed reading has become an essential business and academic success tool in the knowledge economy. With the onset of PCs, and the internet, live classes have diminished as a result of “instant access.” One of the seemingly easiest choices someone might take to learn the skills is to buy a software program. But does software training work?
Learning to speed read can be a daunting challenge for those who want to master the skills in the very beginning. Unless trained, as adults we read with a see-say-hear-know method known as subvocalization. It limits the speed you read to the speed of your voice. But when starting out to learn speed reading, too much attention is given to this habit, and not on learning how to replace it.
After 30 years of teaching speed reading to people from all walks of life inside and outside of workplace organizations, I’ve come to realize that there are three big problems people have to overcome if they really want to master the skills involeved in speed reading. Listening to people who have been dropouts of other speed reading programs have given me these key insights.
Speed Reading is a term that has so many meanings, many of which are myths, in the minds of those who seek to find out its potential for them. The answer to the title of this article lies in the perception of the learner of the nature of the learning process itself and how it relates to learning to speed reading.
A recent visitor to my site inquiring about speed reading asked, “How can I move away from actually saying the words, and learn how to identify the symbols?” The question demonstrates a knowledge of one of the difficult habits to
overcome in learning to speed read – sub-vocalization. This article will give 7 tips to overcome and transform this process.