How Does Your Motivation Affect Your Reading Speed?

Author: Mikko Korhonen | Posted: 19-04-2008 | Comments: 0 | Views: 11 |

There are scores of possible interests, hundreds of habits, and an all but infinite variety of momentary conditions. Nothing short of minute self-analysis will reveal to you the source of your own short-comings as a reader.

Look first at the interests that may be at work in moving you to select the particular chapter and book for reading now.

Your primary interests in reading that chapter of that book at this moment may be nothing more than self-protection. Maybe your general sales manager may have called a conference for this afternoon and may have announced that everybody who attends it ought to check through the market statistics given in that particular passage.

To save your face, you are going to glance at the pages; for it will be humiliating to be called upon to express an opinion on them and to admit lack of knowledge. Reading therefore is merely a means to the end of standing in well with your sales manager.

Or you may read in order to refute the author, who has attacked some of your pet methods of managing men. Or you may read solely to check up on a calculation you made yesterday which involved some of the reported statistics.

Or you may read to find confirmation of one of your pet theories. Or you may read because, not knowing the statistics, you need them in your business and decide to master them.

Now, Your Interest in Reading Ought to Determine the Way You Read. It is wasteful, therefore foolish, to pursue one and only one reading method for all kinds of matter and all interests. Your school teachers never taught you this. They merely taught you to read and usually the interest they forced upon you was that of reading in order to pass a school examination on what you read. This forced you to cram on all the petty details of the text.

Is it any wonder that so many young people developed a dislike of literature? Or that they failed to become expert readers? America, I grieve to say, is full of pedants who drill the young to read the wonderful pages of Thackeray, Kipling, and Balzac as if these were population statistics compiled by the Census Bureau, and as if the young were reading them in the capacity of proofreaders and statisticians. They must be able to name all the characters, all the big scenes, the themes, plots, and what not. Otherwise they fail in the so-called Literature Course and are set down as poor students!

If you read novels slowly and have a vague feeling of hard work, it is more than likely that you are now paying the penalty of having been taught to read the classics by some educated imbecile who never understood that the one proper interest in reading Thackery, Kipling, and Balzac is intellectual and emotional entertainment. The manner of reading them must fit this interest; in short, you must read in an entertaining manner. And the author must first write in an entertaining manner.

Different usages, different styles of reading.

Next time you read to study or learn, pay close attention to your interest in the subject. Ask yourself: "Why am i reading this?"

Rate this Article:

Article Tags: Reading Speed, How To Improve Reading Speed

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/time-management-articles/how-does-your-motivation-affect-your-reading-speed-391377.html

Print article

Send to friend

Publish this Article

Author feedback

About the Author:

Author is publisher of the site "Speedreadingtip.com", a site with information and tools for speed reading and personal development. Visit Speedreadingtip.com and subscribe to free regular speed reading and personal development newsletter. You also get 5 free articles on speed reading!

Submitting articles has become one of the most popular means of generating quality backlinks and targeted traffic to your website. Join us today - It's Free!

Article Comments

Add new Comment

3 General Causes Of Poor Reading Speed
By: Mikko Korhonen | 24/04/2008 | Time Management
We vary in our speed of reading to an astonishing degree. This article describes general areas of poor reading speed.

The Natural Perspective of Speed Reading
By: Kip Goldhammer | 07/08/2007 | Time Management
By speed reading we will be able train our mind to process its thoughts faster, and that will make us more intelligent over time. Quantitatively, because speed-reading enables us to save time and use it for living our lives to the fullest. The prime intention of natural speed-reading is to help the mind understand what is in the written matter.

How To Triple Your Reading Speed With The Right Speed Reading Course
By: Sandra Clair | 27/05/2007 | Self Help
Would you like to know how to effectively double your reading speed and accelerate your learning abilities to the extreme? Read on to find out how you can accelerate your reading speed, improve your work output and leave more time to do other things you enjoy.

Got a Question? Ask.

Ask the community a question about this article:

Q&A Powered by:

Latest Time Management Articles

Personal Time Management Tips for Success
By: Michael Porteous | 15/05/2008
There is no doubt about it, we are all busier than we have ever been before with the pace of modern life speeding up as technology and demands on ourselves become almost unbearable with work, study, family, socializing, love and everything in-between. More than ever we cannot afford to waste time lest we start sacrificing the things we want and need and piling increasing pressure and stress on your mind.

Efficient, Effective Time Management to Counter Procrastination
By: Michael Porteous | 15/05/2008
Procrastination can be the traitor in your mind that blocks success and brings you down by sucking up the most valuable resource a person has ... time! Efficient, effective time management is not just about organizing your time but has a lot to do with your attitude towards how you approach your time, what you want to achieve and what sort of personality you have.

Student Time Management Tips
By: Michael Porteous | 15/05/2008
With the distractions of this modern life, studying can become a nightmare as assignments pile, perhaps you miss a class or two and then you are behind everyone and it all looks so hard! You need some student time management tips to help you sort out this mess and still live a full life!

Time Management Tips for Students
By: Michael Porteous | 15/05/2008
In today's fast paced society there are more distractions than there ever have been. A liberal free society gives us prosperity but along with that comes consumerism, media and so many choices young minds are inundated with information, decisions and distractions by the bucket load.

Life Skills - Time Management Beats Procrastination
By: Michael Porteous | 15/05/2008
Procrastination is an insidious thing that can creep into all parts of you life if it goes unchecked. Low motivation, self esteem, a fear of failure and poor time management can lead to high levels of procrastination that sap your energy and preordain failure. Life skills such as time management really help to cut down on procrastination by cutting out the fuzzy periods in your current poorly managed time that lead to wasted efforts on things that are unimportant.

Learning Time Management Skills for Your Personality
By: Michael Porteous | 15/05/2008
While there are many common aspects when learning time management skills most people do not take into account their personality type when deciding on their methods. Who you are and how you deal with your problems is essential in planning for good time management so here are a few common types of personalities, how they waste time and how they can manage time better.

How to Stop Procrastinating
By: Michael Porteous | 15/05/2008
People procrastinate over so many things from the mundane like doing the dishes to the life changing like changing career. In the end we put things off waiting for a better moment to come along or hoping somehow the task will get done on its own though we know deep down it won't. So how to stop procrastinating becomes a question that needs to be asked if we want to change our lives on all levels.

How to Avoid Procrastination
By: Michael Porteous | 15/05/2008
Avoiding procrastination can be like procrastinating about procrastination! When we procrastinate we avoid doing something for a variety of reasons from the mundane to the extreme in the end the task is put of till another time that may never come.

More from Mikko Korhonen

Optimizing Your Time To Achieve Your Goals
By: Mikko Korhonen | 17/04/2008 | Time Management
The way to optimize your time so that you can achieve your goals is in the ability to do what is the most important action to take at a given time.

Time Management Services

- Time & Attendance Solutions Services

Article Categories

Article Marketing

Article Notepad

Stop Duplicate Content

Term Papers

Need Help?

Sign up for our email newsletter

Receive updates, enter your email below

Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the Terms Of Use and Privacy Policy | User published content is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Copyright © 2005-2008 Free Articles by ArticlesBase.com, All rights reserved.

How Does Your Motivation Affect Your Reading Speed?

Article Comments

Related Articles

Got a Question? Ask.

Latest Time Management Articles

More from Mikko Korhonen

Need Help?

Site Links

Webmasters

Business Info

Sign up for our email newsletter