How to Read Faster – Break Bad Reading Habits That Are Slowing Down Your Reading Speed
After years of reading, we’ve all picked up a few some speed- and comprehension-impeding habits. This lesson will help you remove one or two of those many habits, and improve your reading ability.
In this article, we’re going to look specifically at habits that we can easily remove.
There is quite a wide variety of habits that people have. One of the most common is paying attention to more than one thing at once while reading. For example, right now you might have your email client on, just in case you receive any emails while you’re reading this. Or, you might have multiple “tabs” open in your browser, covering a wide variety of topics.
To fully grasp whether or not habits like these are harmful to your reading speed, you have to appreciate the whole situation…
Does the habit give you any advantage?
A little question like that can quite a big difference. These kinds of tendencies simply require SELF CONTROL. If you can restrain yourself from performing these actions, then you’ll probably increase your reading speed immediately. For this particular example, the trick is in narrowing your focus. The more you can concentrate on one particular text, the faster you’ll be able to read it, and the more you’ll be able to comprehend it.
You don’t need to spend hours and hours practicing new strange reading methods — increasing your reading speed can be as simple as removing a few bad habits that are slowing you down. When you refine your reading technique, using methods like this one, you can easily double or triple your reading speed in no time.
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Tags: words per minute, reading speed, Bad Habits, reading ability, email client In this article, we’re going to look specifically at habits that we can easily remove.
There is quite a wide variety of habits that people have. One of the most common is paying attention to more than one thing at once while reading. For example, right now you might have your email client on, just in case you receive any emails while you’re reading this. Or, you might have multiple “tabs” open in your browser, covering a wide variety of topics.
To fully grasp whether or not habits like these are harmful to your reading speed, you have to appreciate the whole situation…
Does the habit give you any advantage?
A little question like that can quite a big difference. These kinds of tendencies simply require SELF CONTROL. If you can restrain yourself from performing these actions, then you’ll probably increase your reading speed immediately. For this particular example, the trick is in narrowing your focus. The more you can concentrate on one particular text, the faster you’ll be able to read it, and the more you’ll be able to comprehend it.
You don’t need to spend hours and hours practicing new strange reading methods — increasing your reading speed can be as simple as removing a few bad habits that are slowing you down. When you refine your reading technique, using methods like this one, you can easily double or triple your reading speed in no time.
About the Author:
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Thanks for the article. I had often wondered if speed reading was for real. I learned a lot watching them. I didnt really learn to speed read but I now understand how it works. Being a little thick headed myself, I needed more help so I had to buy a book on speed reading which was a waste of time. It was the Evelyn Woods system and can you say boring! Most of it was hype telling you how great the system was and that was the reading exercises. I didnt learn speed reading from the book either. Then I decided I might have to invest more than $5 in this quest so I bought the Speed Reader-X software which teaches speed reading and it finally taught even me to speed read. It had lots of exercises that helped me prove to myself that I could speed read which meant I was not wasting my time. It also had structured lessons which helped me improve my speed and stop sub vocalizing. Really great stuff and I only regret not starting this journey sooner. Speed reading is great. Dont let the nay-sayers put you off of the idea but at the same time dont think the sales hype is all true, you will not be a speed reader overnight. It takes some practice and I was doing it for a month before I saw solid improvement and was able to remember what I was reading. Good luck if you are on this same path, maybe you will meet me at the end of your journey too.