How to develop speed reading?

Question

Books

Gentlemen, the number of books I need is growing exponentially, and there is less and less time to read them. What do you know about shorthand? Is it all myth or reality?
Books on economics, programming, networks, stock market.
Those. It is important not just to read, but to understand, to understand. What can you advise? Are there any working methods?

Answer 1

Speed ​​reading is suitable, perhaps, to read fiction. It will take you much longer to delve into it than to read (even normally). What is the point of reading books on programming quickly? They need to be tested, otherwise tomorrow you can re-read.

Answer 2

Personally, I read books, programming manuals, something like this: opened the book -> read the chapter -> sorted out examples in my head -> rewritten incomprehensible or interesting ones in the editor -> re-read a piece of text with an explanation (or the entire chapter), if you have any questions went to google. Those. speed reading is clearly not the best option to understand something new
. UPD: I think that it is quite appropriate if you need to "refresh" knowledge on a particular aspect of technology.

Answer 3

Speed ​​reading is not a myth, but if you compare it with normal reading, it's like watching a movie based on its motives instead of reading a book. Great for fiction (800 pages in 2 days for several hours a day is easy), but completely unsuitable for textbooks, etc. (unless it's some kind of story or something like that). The easiest way is to determine what you generally want to find in those books, then for each of your items, literally by the table of contents, look for where to look, then quickly determine where in that chapter of the book the necessary information should be and then read normally only it.

Answer 4

It is better to allocate at least an hour of time every day to read and comprehend the necessary literature, and do not put it off for "I'll read it later", because there is no "magic pill". Make a ranking of books according to the importance of the current moment and in the future, and then create one from these two lists.
Perhaps there are some unique individuals who are able to quickly perceive technical (and other non-fiction) literature, but in the case of everyone else, quick reading is applicable, as already mentioned, mainly to fiction. I say this as a person who reads fiction rather quickly (3-4 hours for a book of 400-500 pages in Russian) , and "working", probably not faster than the average in a hospital.

Answer 5

Shorthand is not an option. Try to use all the organs of perception according to the following scheme:
1. Everything that is acceptable and less understandable without diagrams and graphics - through audio books.
2. Everything that is voluminous, with graphs, with presentations - through video material.
3.Programming, coding - through reading, sometimes video lectures.
The advantage of such a scheme: - you will
fill the void and breaks (traffic jams, meetings, etc.)
- you will understand how the material is better absorbed (video, audio)
Disadvantages:
- at the end of the day you will be like a squeezed lemon
- psychological (moral) fatigue may occur.
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Physical education, in particular jogging, helps to cope with fatigue very well.

Answer 6

if you want to comprehend and understand something when reading ANY (technical, fiction, etc.) literature - speed reading is not your way
, I doubt that you can not remove unnecessary "eaters" of personal time from life

Answer 7

School of Oleg Andreev
www.fastread.ru
There are also materials of this school on the tracker.
In fact, for speed reading you need to train:
1) Read without articulation.
2) Attention.
3) Peripheral vision.
This is achieved through concentration and meditation.

Answer 8

No way.
If you need to read and independently understand the conceptually new - in what you have never delved into. It will be painful, long and hard.
If you are reading about something that you already have an idea about, then it is enough to first review the entire material superficially, and then select only the pieces of information necessary for the current task, and quickly work with them.
upd:
- actually at one time, I liked to read without in the morning articulation, as someone already wrote here.
- "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware" (Pragmatic Programmers) is a great book. In particular, about how to learn faster

Answer 9

When I was still at school, a biology teacher talked about the method of fast reading.
1. You must force yourself to read to yourself without moving your tongue, as if you are reading aloud.
2. Look at the word not by letter, but at once at the whole word. Those try not to read the syllables quickly in the head, namely the whole word at once. The brain has to learn how to perceive and process it.
3. Further increase the load. Two, three words, a line, a paragraph, a page. The finish is when you look at the spread of the book diagonally and understand what is written.
I brought the skill to a couple of paragraphs, but this is very tiring and is only suitable for fiction, as some of the information floats away. Although you can train with training so that nothing floats away.
Again, as the teacher told us, scouts are taught to read and memorize any information in this way, even if they do not understand anything about it. He may have only a few seconds to view documents from the enemy. So you can see and learn.

Answer 10

I studied at O. Andreev's "Speed ​​Reading School" in the 90s - yes, it was useful - especially the first course - there were three of them.
It was especially good to read manuals on laboratory tests at the institute. Those. technical literature, but not too complicated. In general, these courses are useful. Is it possible without them - well, of course you can.
For technical literature, the speed of perception depends primarily on the speed of the brain, preparation, and, well, the clarity of writing a book. For example, "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" are written easily and visually, but ... very non-structurally - as a result, the quality of assimilation of the material suffers greatly.
"Books on economics, programming, networks, the stock market" - you don't have to read all that.

Answer 11

It is enough to read one textbook by Tony Buzan - the whole world uses his program. But you have to work hard on this.
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He realized that the call from Alex portends trouble, and it turned out to be so.
- And this is already by speed reading:
I understood ... from Alex ... trouble ... it turned out so.
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That's the whole point, but the most important thing, if you're a Buzan reader, the main thing about this is that you have to memorize everything, and in no case should you go back.
You will understand everything in the book.