Habits.\u00a0 We all have them.\u00a0 Some habits are good, like getting to work or class on time.\u00a0 And some are not so good, like procrastination and not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n
For the next few minutes, I\u2019m going to talk about reading habits.\u00a0 When it comes to reading habits, it\u2019s important to understand that they\u2019re neither good nor bad.\u00a0 They\u2019re not something you should feel ashamed or embarrassed about having, either.\u00a0 What\u2019s most important is to understand that reading habits exist and that you, along with most readers, probably practice some of the most common ones.<\/p>\n
Even though they\u2019re neither good nor bad, reading habits developed long ago can cause you to read more slowly than you could if they weren\u2019t standing in your way.\u00a0 Old reading habits tend to interfere with your concentration so you waste time re-reading material.\u00a0 Old reading habits can also cause you to tire more easily and become bored.<\/p>\n
If you want to make room for the new techniques I\u2019ll be teaching later on, you will need to break your old reading habits.\u00a0 But before you can break them, you need to know what they are and how they developed.<\/p>\n
Like I already said, most readers developed their current reading habits back when they were very young.\u00a0 For most of them, that was about the same time they last learned how to read.<\/p>\n
Do you remember the last time you learned how to read?\u00a0 How many of you even think about the last time you learned how to read?\u00a0 Even though I can\u2019t see you, I\u2019ll bet many of you didn\u2019t raise your hands.\u00a0 Since most of us take our ability to read for granted, when we first learned, isn\u2019t something we usually think about.\u00a0 So, was it last week? Was it last month?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 It was much longer than that.<\/p>\n
Chances are you were taught how to read in the first grade, or maybe the second or third.\u00a0 But whatever the grade, it doesn\u2019t really matter.\u00a0 What matters is that besides being the first<\/em> time in your life you learned to read, grade school was probably the only<\/em> time in your life that you ever learned how to read.<\/p>\n Think about it.\u00a0 Once you could read those picture-filled children\u2019s books that had about two sentences per page and about three to five words per sentence, that was basically it.\u00a0 Your teacher was satisfied that you knew how to read.<\/p>\n Reading wasn\u2019t like the other subjects you studied in school.\u00a0 As you advanced to each higher grade level, you learned more about core subjects like math and history.\u00a0 But that didn\u2019t really happen with reading.\u00a0 You learned what you learned during the grade in which you were first taught to read, and since then there probably hasn\u2019t been any more instruction.<\/p>\n So now here you are, fully grown, trying to read really thick college textbooks and business proposals and trade magazines full of technical jargon.\u00a0 And you\u2019re reading this stuff using the same basic skills you were taught the first time and the only time<\/em> you learned how to read!\u00a0 No wonder reading doesn\u2019t excite you!<\/p>\n Being here tells me a lot of things about you.\u00a0 It tells me that you acknowledge your reading speed isn\u2019t where you\u2019d like it to be.\u00a0 It tells me that you realize your current reading skills are holding back from the goals you\u2019re trying to achieve.\u00a0 And it tells me that you\u2019re ready to break old reading habits and replace them with new ones.<\/p>\n In order to do that, you need to know what those reading habits are that prevent you from reading to your full potential.\u00a0 As I said before, these habits aren\u2019t bad; however they do need to be broken.<\/p>\n Here are the most common habits that interfere with a reader\u2019s ability to read faster and with better comprehension:<\/p>\n Daydreaming<\/p>\n Video Version of Post Habits.\u00a0 We all have them.\u00a0 Some habits are good, like getting to work or class on time.\u00a0 And some are not so good, like procrastination and not wearing a seatbelt. For the next few minutes,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-reading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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