By Kathy Glee
In this fast paced information age, the emphasis to become a proficient reader cannot be over stated. Anyone from a top notch executive to a kinder garden child can benefit from speed reading. In this fast paced world where every task is a race against time any tool that would help achieve our task faster is a boon. Speed reading is one such tool. So what about it?
Speed reading helps one read faster without compromising on assimilating the information. The idea is to convert reading to less of reading and more of visualizing. Eventually reading becomes like watching a movie. It then becomes more fun to read as well as takes less time to finish your favorite author's latest work.
Generally reading consumes time since we tend to read out aloud to ourselves, a phenomenon called sub-vocalization. Secondly, we tend to go back to the words that we have read to understand the complete meaning of a sentence or paragraph, which is called re-reading. If we are able to do away with these two factors, we will be in a position to improve our reading speed considerably.
How do we begin? We need to first break the above two habits - sub-vocalization and re-reading. This necessarily means practice. The more we read being conscious of what we do while reading will enable us get over it with time. It will take some amount of hard work and diligence in the initial stages to come out of an old habit and get into a new one. But it is worth the effort.
Speed reading most appropriately goes with such material where you only need to perceive the emotions and not actually go through the emotions. Speed reading benefits those who are into reading business materials, non-fiction, magazines and newspapers. Written material like fiction, where the pleasure of reading is actually going through the emotions, you may have to keep aside speed reading and be happy with your normal reading skills.
Speed readers generally know what they are looking for in an information race, and this is what helps them find what they want quicker. They read words by blocks and the blocks get larger and larger as they get better at the skill. This helps them to reduce the time spent on reading paragraphs. The words are read closer to the pace closer to real life happenings. Hence when you speed read a book set against the backdrop of say India; you can actually smell the Indian cuisine, walk through the sands of beaches of Goa or feel the freshness of the country.
As a beginner to speed reading, you should try using the help of software that will guide you through the principles of speed reading. It will also help you establish yourself as a speed reader by helping you sustain the technique that you have learned. But ultimately the onus is on you to perpetually use this tool through diligence and practice.
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