I see developing your speed reading skills as being very similar to weight training for building bigger muscles. You wouldn’t expect some one who has never lifted very heavy weights before to start off lifting massive amounts of weight to start off with.
Instead what normally happens is you would start of with light weights and gradually increase the weights you lift over time as your muscles and strength increase.
Well speed reading is the same way, a person who is new to speed reading can not be expected to be able to read thousands of words a minute, but instead what happens is you start of with setting yourself small manageable amounts and over time push yourself to reading more and more in the same amount of time.
When I first started to do speed reading I would find that I would be reading fast and think I was making progress and felt real proud about how fast I was reading, but I was actually not able to comprehend very much if any of what I read because I was going so fast and not use to that speed and so unable to comprehend what I was reading.
Well after I discovered this problem I went to look for a solution and found a neat exercise for stretching your speed reading comprehension. Below are the basic steps you can use yourself to help improve your speed reading comprehension.
Stretching speed reading and comprehension
1) Using a pacer read one page of a book as fast as you possibly can.
2) Next stop and write down everything you can remember from the page.
3) Read five pages like this everyday, while gradually increasing the number of pages you read before you stop and recall what you’ve read.
When I started out doing this I started off with reading matter I was familiar with, and as I got better started doing it with more complicated reading matter as my confidence grew. I would suggest you do the same.
Another big piece that is important to work on in order to become a fast speed reader, is to boost your speed reading stamina, your speed reading stamina is the amount of time you are able to read at speed for with good comprehension and recall. Boosting your speed reading stamina will help you to train and recondition your brain to reading at faster speeds and so will allow you to get all of the benefits of speed reading faster.
I have collected together all of the important things that you will have to do in order to boost your speed reading stamina, all of this information has been arranged into a 7 part e-course that you can take. To receive this valuable resource for boosting your speed reading stamina which will help you to increase your reading speed faster, simply visit my reading stamina web page and enter you name and a email address so that I can email it to you right away.
Thanks DAN!
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