Category: Speed Reading
There are many techniques available for people to increase their reading speed, at the same time retaining the information they are reading about. Obviously, like anything that requires an improvement, learning to read faster takes effort, and the desire to achieve results, and much depends on the individual and their capacity for learning, although it is generally considered that virtually anyone can achieve successful speed-reading rates.Continue Reading…
It was Einstein who said we only use 10% of our brain’s capability, and there have been others who suggest that we don’t even use 10%. Consequently, efforts have been expended in an attempt to help us fill that void with a whole range of techniques designed to maximize out potential as human beings.
Speed-reading, Scanning, Skimming, Photo Reading, are some of the techniquesContinue Reading…
People have had the ability to read quickly for centuries, but it was not until shortly after the Second World War that the term Speed-Reading came into being. Schoolteacher Evelyn Wood coined the phrase after discovering the technique accidentally when witnessing the remarkable speed with which her university professor was marking her 80-page term paper. Mrs Wood went on to found the first school for speed-reading in 1968, and ever since Continue Reading…
Speed Reading is all the rage at the moment. Everyone is doing it, from the High School student to the University Professor, the Wall Street banker to the A-List celebrity, even mums, and dads, and your Grandma. Why? Because people around the world are realizing that they need to be bale to read faster if they are want to be able to keep up with the modern world, and its ever-increasing speed.Continue Reading…
There are various methods and approached to speed reading, and many different methods of learning how to do this. First of all we’ll discuss the two main techniques of speed reading. They are speed reading, and photo reading. How do these two differ? Speed reading is training yourself to Continue Reading…
When you want to choose the best possible speed reading software for your purposes, just how do you go about it? What do you look for, what should you avoid, and just how much should you pay. Because there are speed reading softwares available that range in price from eighteen dollars to a hundred dollars or even more, but the bottom line here is Continue Reading…
Some say that the advent of the Internet marked the true beginnings of the Information Age, where the winding corridors of information on the world wide web have as much importance and reality as the tree outside your window. If there is a tree outside your window – there probably isn’t. Obviously, a person who can navigate this ocean of information is one who has a Continue Reading…
With all the different methods of speed reading out there, whose to say which one is best. I’d say that the best method of speed reading is the one that works best for you. Because every person is really unique, and the way different people’s minds work is different. This means that what works well for someone else need not necessarily work well for you, and vice versa.
Some people favor photo reading, where you intuitively Continue Reading…
Most speed reading courses are based on the fact that your mind works a great deal faster than your body. When you type some text at your computer, for example, are you aware of just how much faster your mind works than your fingers? Well, speed reading techniques are an attempt to deal with a similar issue.
Let me tell you about something Continue Reading…