10 Days to Faster Reading Summary

 

Summary of "10 Days to Faster Reading" in a Single Sentence: 

Even if you, like most of us, stopped honing your reading abilities at the end of primary school, reading may help you catch up to the present century's standards in terms of reading comprehension and speed using ideas proposed in this book.

The Princeton Language Institute collaborated with America's top speed reading specialist to produce 10 Days To Faster Reading. Experimentation is encouraged during the course of the ten days so that you may discover which of your negative reading habits must be broken, as well as which good ones will benefit you.

Regardless of whether you believe you lack the necessary capacity to read effectively due to a lack of time, attention, or memory, this book offers a lifeline to help you climb out of your reading slump.

If you want to become a better reader, here are three tips:

1. Make sure you aren't simply reading everything before asking a few questions.

2. Before you start reading, go over everything you've already read.3.

3. In order to understand phrases without having to read them, pay attention to the most relevant keywords.

You're almost there! Let's boost the ante on your reading habits!

Lesson 1: Asking these two questions can help you limit your reading choices.

If you want to be a prolific reader, you don't have to read everything that comes your way, but you do have to read it quickly.

It's the simplest method to read more if you read less of what you don't need to read. A healthy mind-diet means being aware of what you put in your body, and this is no different when it comes to your reading habits.

Before reading anything longer than a tweet, the writers recommend that you ask yourself these two questions:

1. My first question is, "Why am I doing this?"

2. Why do I need this information?

First, ask yourself whether you're doing this for yourself or for someone else, and if the answer is the latter, you'll be able to say, "I have read that." Even if you didn't read the 2014 industry report in the last two years, it's no longer relevant, thus it's best thrown away.

The second question asks whether or not you'll put what you've learned into practise. To put it another way, if you have a customer who has an urgent issue, a scientific study that may help solve it should definitely take priority over your child's homework review.

Lesson 2: Preview everything you're going to read. It may suffice.

This won't work for fiction, but it's a lifesaver for non-fiction. If you know what the book or article is about, you'll have a better idea of what it's all about and what portions you should read first.

You don't have to read everything that comes into your possession, and the same is true of everything you do chose to read: you don't have to read it all.

In this manner: Read the title, the preface, and the text on the back of the book, and then browse the index to see if there are any surprises. After that, have a look at the chapter headers and subheadings by flipping through the pages. To get a feel for a passage or chapter, read the opening sentence.

If you've done this, you'll be less likely to have to go back and re-read sentences and paragraphs as you go through.

To get up to 40 percent of the information, writers say that previewing may be all you need. With a book like The One Thing, you can get to the point in five minutes. The remainder of the book isn't horrible or useless, but depending on the time and location, it may be all you need for now.

Lesson 3: Learn how to understand complex phrases by focusing on a few crucial words at a time.

Without having to read a single word, you could glance over the whole lecture and immediately tell me what the main takeaway is.

Why does it happen?

Because I've highlighted the most critical terms. Even if you just glanced over the above paragraph, you'd see that the book's title, foreword, back flap text, and index all give you a good idea of what to expect from the book itself.

By focusing on a steady stream of keywords as you read, you'll be able to read more quickly. The meaning of the phrase is conveyed via the use of keywords that are often more than three letters long.

You can use this strategy even if you don't have visual cues (like this summary), although it's simpler in texts with highlighted sections.