How to learn to read texts quickly
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Video: "How to Read Academic Texts Quickly" Dr. Josh Lange 2024, July
Good habits do not waste time. One of them is the skill of fast reading. The “front side” of the skill — the ability to grasp the contents of any book in a couple of hours — is obvious. What is the wrong side? Quickly reading and looking through the eyes of a page is not the same thing. In the first case, you still delve into the meaning of the text, only very quickly switch attention from one paragraph to another. In the second - grab your eyes with different parts of the text.
In order to understand the technique of quick reading, choose a book that is easy to read. Whatever the speed of your usual assimilation of the text, tune in to the fact that you have to relearn. At first, there is a constant struggle with oneself to not utter every word in a whisper or mentally. Then try at one glance to cover the group of words. Eyes move from top to bottom, but not from left to right. One of the general rules for quick reading is not to return to the passage you have read, even if nothing is clear so far. Over time, the ability to see the keywords on the page will come, and to build a semantic series on them. Self-hypnosis plays an important role in the development of fast reading techniques. Confidence will be given by fixing the achieved results: the number of characters read per minute.
Rhythm tapping method
Following it, you need to beat out with your palm a certain rhythm of two measures, consisting of four elements each. The emphasis is on the first measure and on the first elements of the text. After 20 hours of reading training with rhythm beating, your brain will form a certain code that will eliminate the mental reproduction of the text in full. This increases the speed of perception of the text, and the amount of mechanical memory.
Schulte Method
Allows to develop peripheral vision. To master it, concentration of attention on the table with the arrangement of numbers from 1 to 25 will help. Then the eyes should find all the numbers in order, moving their eyes to that of the vertical (see table).