Unabridged Audiobook
As a student I need not just to read faster but also to have good
I read one chapter a day--very carefully--in order to let the exercise at the end (which I read twice) make an accumulated effect. As there are twenty chapters, that took twenty days. I like my progress and improvement so much, I am going to do it all over for another round. As a bonus, there are several classics (which he used for the exercises--he used the first 1,000 words of each) I now want to read. Also, there are other texts formatted by him and he has a free online training software that I intend to get back to (after screwing it up the first time around a couple of years ago
I read a great deal and constantly have too much to read, so I have gone through a lot of speed reading stuff--videos, books, software, you name it. And I kept getting frustrated because it wasn't working like it was supposed to
Playing with the conceptualizing reading technique presented in this book, I found that reading speed greatly improved if I the phrases are read along with a beat or cadence. I didn't have any sound on, just bobbed my head gently along with the phrase reading-conceptualizing. The 'beat' seemed to eliminate the 'stress' of reading, making the experience somewhat more pleasant. Maybe other readers could try this too.
It's seems easy to underestimate just how important this book really is! I'm also an engineer (near retirement) and have noticed the same difficulty in comprehending while 'reading'. It's so frustrating to read so slowly when there's so much to learn. Ultimately, after learning the reading-comprehension technique in this book, one is inevitably led to the question "Just what are we
I read a lot of 'speed reading' books and watched some 'speed reading' programs. I always ended up disappointed and frustrated because with all the drills and exercises my comprehension was always poor. If you increase the speed but have no comprehension of what you are reading then what's the point? When I started to use this book my speed improved and also my comprehension.
This is the best book about speed reading I have encountered to this date
Superb book that will not disappoint anyone trying to increase their reading speed, or to give as a gift to someone who doesn't read. Comprehension is by far the most important factor, and you will start learning material like never before.
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