Clark - Speed reading : 33 tips to improve your reading speed and start reading efficiently

There are countless late night television ads promotin g speed readin g classes, and they are usually right between th e indestructibl e knives and the natural male enhancement commercials. Typically, they are all just about as effective as one another. The reality is that there are no magic bullets to reading faster and more effectively. This book, however, will give you 33 tips that will accomplish what others claim to accomplish. By the time w e re done, yo u ll read faster, yo u ll comprehend more and believe it or not, yo u ll actually enjoy reading more.

There are literally hundreds o f course s available online and otherwise to give you the magic bullet, to wave a wand and amazingly, you can read two or three thousand words a minute. What they do n t tell you is that you may be able to reach mach speeds, but yo u ll comprehend less than what a gnat remembers in a nanosecond. The goals must be more than just speed, more than just volume. It has to include comprehension and efficiency.

There are applications for the computer, the smart phone, and the tablets that are good tools to practice with and help develop the habits necessary to become an efficient and fast reader.

Before we dive in head first, there are a few misnomers that need to be crushed immediately. There are far too many myths out there, cruising around the Internet and in the dark recesses of our minds regarding speed reading and these myths cause more problems than they propose to solve. They include:

a. Reading is exclusively linear. This is just not so and we will prove that with some visualization techniques - imagine the words on a page painting a picture for you. That is what visualization does, it turns the words into pictures, paintings if you will. Those paintings have nuance and bold statements alike. Visualization will help you decide which is which.

b. Reading means going word for word. One of the methods discussed will teach you that not every word has the same amount of importance as others within a sentence or paragraph. Some words can be skipped completely because they are simply modifiers, dependent upon the root word or phrase itself.

c. Reading as labor-intensive. False. Reading used to be considered an entertaining event and it can be again. Speed reading only increases the fun. Of course, if yo u re a diesel mechanic, reading a book of legal cases from the 190 s may not be extremely entertaining, but it can still be fun by putting the emphasis on speed and efficacy. The attitude that reading i s wor k is a killer to any proposed improvement of reading abilities. The attitude of negativity loses every time.

d. All parts of a book are valuable. There are sections of a book that can be completely ignored. The primary information to be garnered from the literature is what yo u ll focus on, not needless hyperbole.

e. Speed reading slows retention. Think about it this way - how many slow readers do you know who quickly lose interest because they lag in reading speed? Speed reading actually increases the desire to read and by default, improves comprehension and efficiency.

Now, with that behind us, le t s get started...

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Chapter In The Beginning...

Ther e s no doubt that we can all harken back to those days of yesteryear as we sat in the elementary school classroom when the teacher would give the class a reading assignment, and le t s face it - rarely was it a topic of interest.

The teacher would stand in front of the class, selecting students at random to discuss the materials, or to actually read the book out loud. For the average student, it was a frightening experience, for yet others, it was a terrifying and mind-numbing moment that would follow for the rest of that chil d s life. You sat there looking down at your desk, perhaps at the materials rather than to meet the eye of the teacher because if you do, the teacher will focus in on you and make you read to the class next.