| Learning how to speed read is one process where | | | | This is a crucial maxim of fast reading. |
| good focus and concentration are extremely | | | | If you're unable to focus properly on what you're |
| important in the successful execution of the skill. | | | | reading, take a break! Try some other activity. |
| All distractions end up reducing your reading speed | | | | This will prepare your mind to focus again on the |
| as well as damaging your comprehension. | | | | text. |
| Even worse than that, though is that those | | | | Also, try resting at the end of each chapter... |
| distractions can infiltrate your mind and get your | | | | Then, you get a chance to really think about what |
| thoughts to branch out off topic. I'm sure that | | | | you read, and maybe you'll want to take some |
| very often while reading you catch yourself | | | | notes, to make sure you remember. Taking |
| thinking about something else, and then you skip | | | | notes is especially useful if you may need the |
| back to a part in the text you remember reading. | | | | specific details later on. |
| Well this article may help. | | | | After a couple minutes of thinking and |
| Consider this: when you sit down with a book or | | | | note-taking, you will be even more inclined to read |
| a newspaper or whatever, you've obviously got a | | | | on than you would have been if you had kept |
| reason for doing so. Whether you're trying to | | | | reading straight through. |
| learn how to do something new, or you're | | | | Reading all the way through a book does have |
| absorbing some news or something, you've got a | | | | the "benefit of the flow", but some rest-time |
| good reason for reading. | | | | between segments will drastically ameliorate your |
| Place that reason firmly in your mind. When you're | | | | comprehension level. After all, the author in all |
| reading, try to think of nothing other than the | | | | likelihood didn't write the entire text in one session! |
| content of the text. You have to be totally | | | | A lot of time and thought goes into writing books. |
| focused on what you read, otherwise your | | | | You should treat them much the way the writer |
| comprehension level will not nearly be as high as it | | | | would treat it: as something that takes thought, |
| could be. | | | | dedication, and focus. |