Jan Cisek - Spd Rdng – The Speed Reading Bible

Spd Rdng - The Speed Reading Bible:

Speed Reading Book with 37 Techniques, Tips and Strategies For Ultra Fast Reading ( Speed Reading, Study Skills, Memory And Accelerated Learning)

by Susan Norman & Jan Cisek

The Speed Reading Bible: easy speed reading skills with proven results for you to apply immediately to any reading material (books, reports, journals, manuals, textbooks, online texts, ebooks, etc) so you can read more, more quickly, more effectively, whether you are a professional, an entrepreneur, a student or teacher, a home educator, or simply interested in your own learning and personal development, in any subject (including business, medicine, law, IT, acting and languages ), by showing you, among other things, how to use your eyes more efficiently, remember more, access your learning intelligence, take meaning from the minimum of input, focus on your purpose , find the hot spots of information you need, and put it all into practice, with the result that you free up time and save money as you become more successful in business and in life.

Copyright 2010 and 2012 Susan Norman & Jan Cisek

Susan Norman & Jan Cisek assert their legal and moral right to be identified as the authors of this ebook.

All rights reserved. Prior written permission required of the publisher to use, post or reproduce any part of this ebook in whole or in part in any form on- or off-line, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles. This ebook is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publishers prior written consent in any form other than that in which it is published.

First published as an ebook October 2010

This is an updated edition 3.2 published in February 2013 by

Saffire Press ,
Loufenway, East Lane, Wheathampstead, Herts AL4 8BP, UK

www.saffirepress.co.uk

Contact authors

Susan Norman

Jan Cisek

www.spdrdng.com

ISBN 9781901564143

This book is dedicated to you the Spd Rdr

TABLE OF CONTENTS

If you find a better way use it

INTRODUCTION

and how to use this book

Welcome to Spd Rdng a collection of techniques we know will both speed up your reading and allow you to process material 10 times faster, or even more.

If you read the book in order, you will effectively be following our two-day workshop, but many of the techniques, insights and suggestions are self-standing, so feel free to read them in the order which makes most sense to you (theres a lot of cross-referencing in case you need to check out something which has been presented earlier). But however you approach the book, we strongly suggest that you actually try things out as you go. As we say in the book, reading is just the first step; its only useful if you put the information into practice.

If you havent got time to read the whole book at the moment, then the techniques which will make the biggest immediate difference to your reading are:

Apply skills you already have

Preview

Dont think reading, think finding information

Have a clear purpose for reading

Apply the 80/20 rule to your reading

Read the message not the words

Get in a good state for reading

Take notes with mindmaps and rhizomaps

Have 20-minute work sessions

Plus the

Weve tried to make it as easy as possible for you to pick up and review the ideas:

1) the titles of the techniques are self-explanatory

2) each of the techniques is summarised at the beginning of its section

3) there is an extensive and helpful glossary

4) we give examples of peoples actual experience including our own

5) there are expert tips throughout which will give you extra help

EXPERT TIP While youre learning, use well-written books you can understand easily it will give you confidence in your new approach to reading. Once youve mastered all the techniques, you will be able to apply them to any written material including books, journals, reports and articles, both on- and off-line.

Enough for now. But if you feel youd like to get in touch with us at any point, feel free to contact us through our website: www.spdrdng.com

Enjoy!
Susan and Jan

Most people say that they want to read faster and you will learn ways of doing that in this book. However, what they also mean is that they want to save time and get through many more books. And when they think about it, they also want other things.

DO IT NOW Highlight/tick which of the following you would like from this book.

[ ] reading faster

[ ] saving time by using more effective strategies

[ ] finding information I need quickly

[ ] getting the gist of what a book is about

[ ] getting the detail as well as the gist

[ ] reading more efficiently and effectively

[ ] synthesizing information from a variety of sources

[ ] understanding what I read

[ ] organising the information so I can apply it

[ ] retaining/remembering/being able to recall the information

[ ] articulating the information (speaking or writing ab out it)

[ ] building up my expertise in a subject quickly

[ ] improving my concentration

[ ] keeping motivated while Im reading

[ ] feeling confident in my reading ability

[ ] reading critically not just accepting everything I read

[ ] ignoring information I dont need

[ ] applying all of this online

[ ] increasing my vocabulary

[ ] passing tests

[ ] enjoying the process

[ ]

Youll get it all and more with spd rdng!

If youd like to find out your current reading speed, or judge how much more quickly youre reading after implementing the spd rdng techniques, then do the following test before you start reading.

By the way You can use the section at the back of the book to check your reading speed. We have already counted the words for you.

You need:

an accurate timer/alarm clock

a book you havent read (and wont read until youve finished Spd Rdng) with mostly continuous text

possibly a calculator and post-it notes

FIRST TEST / Before

Make a note of the title ..............................................................

Choose a place to start reading, eg the start of any chapter, and mark it (eg with a post-it note).

Set your timer to five minutes.

Start reading at your normal pace, making sure that you understand what you are reading.

Stop reading when the timer goes off and mark your stopping place.

Calculate your reading speed (before//after) as follows:

Number of pages read ......................//............................

(this figure is enough for most people, but if you want to be more accurate, continue with the following calculations)

Average number of lines on a page ..............//................

(count the number of lines on a typical page)

Average number of words on a line ..............//................

(choose three full lines, count the number of words in each, add them together and divide by three)

Number of words read in five minutes ...........//...............

(multiply together the three previous calculations pages x lines x words)

Reading speed in words per minute (wpm) ..............//...............

(divide by five the number of words read in five minutes)

OR

If you are using the Spd Rdng texts in this book, note the number of words read and divide by 5.