Have been reading a lot lately and trying to do it faster...I think it's often a waste of time to read a book from cover to cover for the sake of reading every word. I am training myself to skim through a 3-400 pager in half an hour. I needed information quick and I often find the books don't have to be that thick when the key points can just be summarized in a few millimeters.
Reading a book is like fishing or hunting, you scan the water or landscape for things that catches the eye, capture it, consume it, and continue with the next target. It's kind of fun, especially when you had your daily dose of performance-enhancing drug - coffee. You can feel that your eyes are chasing the words and your brain is catching up with the eyes. At times, your brain catches up ahead of the eyes and instruct the eyes to see specific words and skip all the words that don't matter.
What you see from your eyes is the book in its physical form, with pages and pages of words in black and white. What you see from your brain is an image of the book, with pages and pages that only contain the highlighted key words, without the other meaningless words... If we put all these keywords together, the book is only a few pages thick.
I wonder if, like the director's cut of a DVD, the author of a book can highlight the keywords for us and with a special pair of spectacles, one will simply see the keywords on each page without the other meaningless words, then we'll all be reading a lot faster.
2 comments:
I wish I could read good. I often find myself reading the same sentence a quadrabillion times. I only read if I am super interested. 300 page book = 300 days! j/k
reading always irritating me too. But if that required to do, there is no other options. there is a term called photo reading, i hope so, and lots of books available on this. You can use this method to read a book very very fast.
Sherin - Investinternals
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