The Fundamental Principles and The Importance of Speed Reading

 

Before you start learning the techniques and strategies that will make you a successful speed reader, it's important to understand what speed reading is. Unlike detailed reading or active reading, speed reading is a reading method that aims to obtain the most important information without getting caught up in the verbatim details of a particular document or written material. So, like skimming, speed reading will allow you to discern important information without spending the time and effort to read every word in front of you.

You will also be able to read the words you need faster and easier than the reading methods you currently use. That way, even if you need to read in more detail, you can do it in just a third of the time it will take you at your current reading speed.

The first thing to understand about speed reading is that pictorial languages ​​try to bring back the ease and speed of reading that they provided to people thousands of years ago. As already mentioned, the advantage of pictographic languages ​​is that they provide all concepts as individual characters, which modern languages ​​almost cannot do.

"Speed ​​reading is a reading method that helps you ignore countless words that make little or no sense."

If you stop and consider how many of the words in the sentence you are reading contain really important information, you will realize that half or more of the words used are largely unnecessary. This means that almost half of the time you spend reading is wasted on empty or irrelevant words, words that don't deserve the time spent reading them.

It may take some practice to really pick out the really important words, but the truth is that as soon as you learn to read unimportant words, you'll start to increase your speed and focus only on the words. this is important.

Another concept of speed reading that is important to understand is that it removes the editorial element of reading. Too often we can read a written document with a critical eye, looking for spelling or grammatical errors. It goes without saying that the time and effort required to read something with such a critical eye is excessive.

You probably don't really evaluate the work you're reading, so there's no need to critically analyze how it was written. This is another reason why reading each word with the same attention is against the core of the reading, i.e. getting a general impression or idea through the written words.

By reading just to see the image contained in the words, you can cut the time it takes to read any document by a full two-thirds of your current speed.

Finally, it is important to realize the main purpose of speed reading. Most people learned to read by reading aloud. This was a very necessary step because it allowed the teacher to determine if the student had problems with a particular aspect of reading. In fact, reading aloud was more beneficial for the teacher than for the student himself.

Eventually, when the teacher was sure that the student was reading well, the students were ordered to stop reading aloud. Unfortunately, what remains is a voice in the reader's head saying every word they read.

Because it takes time to say words, the average person's overall reading speed is greatly reduced by this unnecessary process. So what kills the average person's reading speed is trying to pronounce words in their mind while reading, which is a tragic waste of time and energy.

Speed ​​reading helps one eliminate this element, thus opening one's mind to store more information and also allows one to read any document at least twice as fast without having to mentally pronounce every word. After all, speed reading isn't just about helping you read the same words in less time.

Instead, speed reading will help you reinvent the way you read. Instead of viewing the written word as a spelled, spoken word, you will begin to view the written word as a source of information that requires only visual recognition.

In this way, you will begin to read sentences such as old people reading pictures, seeing information, not the writing process itself. This will be invaluable when you need to read large chunks of text to gather valuable information.

Speed ​​Reading helps you get text down to critical elements while allowing you to read information quickly and purposefully, reducing the time and effort required to read any item exponentially when you scan it.