Posts Tagged ‘reading’

Advice for students: Slow down and read

When it comes to reading, lifehacking tends to focus on speed -- more words, fewer minutes. That might be fine if reading is understood as a matter of moving information with maximum efficiency from the page to the brain. The faster the connection, so to speak, the better.But there are other kinds of reading. No one can race through a poem by Emily Dickinson or a short story by… Continue reading

August 21 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: reading, school, student | 18 comments»

How To Automatically Read A Book Per Week Without Taking Any Additional Time Out Of Your Day

If you're anything like me, you probably have a whole stack of books sitting around that you're really going to read some day. Yeah right!Sure, it would be nice to get some more reading done, but let's face it: there is usually something more urgent that needs to get done. And when you have to do all the urgent things, there isn't much time left over for… Continue reading

July 19 2007 | By Brian | Tagged: audio, book, brain, education, learn, leverage, listen, reading | 29 comments»

14 Ways to Cultivate a Lifetime Reading Habit

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." -- W. Somerset MaughamSomewhere after "lose weight", "stop procrastinating", and "fall in love", "read more" is one of the top goals that many people set for themselves. And rightly so: A good book can be hugely satisfying, can teach you about things beyond your daily horizons, and can create… Continue reading

June 25 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: books, habit, reading | 62 comments»

Read The Classics To Improve Your Mind

Reading in general is an excellent tool to improve thought, memory and other brainy things; but have you considered reading more of 'The Classics'?John Wesley at PickTheBrain argues that more people should delve into those books written by the masters to develop the parts of your brain that might be falling behind in the midst of feedreaders and gossip sites.5. Historical Perspective I could argue this point myself, but why… Continue reading

June 21 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: brain, mind, reading | 1 comment»

How-To: Speed Reading

At Lifehack.org How-to Wiki, we have some new content on speed reading. It currently covers the general information, some quick pointers on its techniques, and also myths about speed reading:3) Speed reading is just skimming the material, you won’t understand it better.This is dangerous because it is a half-truth. Speed reading is a process for reading everything, whereas skimming is a portion of reading at the upper limits of… Continue reading

May 28 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: book, reading, speed-reading | 5 comments»

How to Become a Creative Genius

When we measure the creativity of young children, virtually all of them will record as being 'highly creative'. However, only a small percentage of adults register as being 'highly creative'.What happened?Schools have crushed creativity. We were told to color within the lines. We were taught to follow instructions. The goal in school is to get the "right" answer. Unfortunately, if you're afraid to be wrong, you'll never be creative or… Continue reading

May 8 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: creativity, learning, mind+mapping, reading, self-expression, self-improvement | 83 comments»

Goodreads: book networking

Goodreads is a a splash of social networking mixed with the library. Goodreads lets you network with other readers to find great reading material and read reviews. If you wonder what other people are reading or if you have a hard time discovering great content, Goodreads looks like the site for you.Let's make reading fun again. Somehow, reading books seems to have gotten a bad… Continue reading

April 6 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: books, Communication, Lifestyle, reading, Technology | 3 comments»

Choose a book!

Riddle of the day: What do you get when you ask a community of lifelong learners to recommend their current favorite reads?

Answer: The 3rd Annual A Love Affair with Books, newly hosted for 2007 on Joyful Jubilant Learning.

This recent forum, held throughout the past month delivered some truly terrific recommendations. Although the bookfest officially ended with March, the comment conversation there continues to be lively as readers… Continue reading

April 5 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: ALAWB, book-reviews, books, reading | no comments»

Double Your Reading Rate

The best way to gain knowledge and save time is to increase your reading speed. There are many tutorials, software, and articles for speed-reading, it's tough to find stuff that suitable to you.Recently Scott H. Young has written a great post on highlighting six key tips of increasing his reading speed. Initially he could read at 450 words per minute. By using his techniques he has… Continue reading

March 23 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: reading, speed-reading | 1 comment»

Efficient Reading

We've covered one method of increasing your book intake with How To Read Fast in November. What about How To Read and Digest A Book and digesting a book properly while learning how to Speed Read.

This little gem comes from Matt's Idea Blog almost a year ago and helps me get through educational reading, particularly when I want to read a lot of books in… Continue reading

February 7 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: effective, reading | 16 comments»

Re-read a book in less than 15 minutes

Stefanos Karagos at Anabubula shows a great way to re-read a book in less than 15 minutes? How is it possible? He invests his time during his reading time by dropping his notes into a mindmap. Mindmap is great to recall on knowledge and memories. Quoted from Wikipedia:Scholarly research by Farrand, Hussain, and Hennessy (2002) found that the mind map technique had a limited but significant impact on recall… Continue reading

January 12 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: book, mindmap, reading | 1 comment»

11 Ways to Use Less to Make 2008 Your Best Year Yet

A few days ago, Dustin suggested that I write a post about “ways to use ___” to kick off the new year. At first, I was at a loss to fill in that blank. I couldn’t think of any gadget, program or trick that was important enough to make a year-long impact.Then it hit me. Maybe the reason I was having trouble coming up with a… Continue reading

January 1 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: 2008, diet, exercise, frugality, reading, resolutions, simplicity | no comments»

How to read fast

Roman Rytov introduces his new method of book reading, by combining reading through in detail and skim through. Inspired by Brad Feld's record of 8 books per week, he suggests the following steps:

Build expectations for the book
Always read the book's introductions (all of them).
Understand the book pattern
Take a sample and check the pace
A book may vary - re-adjust the pace

I wouldn't think this method will work for fiction, but… Continue reading

November 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: reading, studying | 6 comments»

How to Read and Digest a Book

Reading is important for personal and professional development. If you want to grow your knowledge, you have to read. Reading is a tip of the iceberg though, digesting the information is the bigger piece on the block of ice. Here is something that is useful - George Ambler introduces a process to read and digest a book:

Implementation is probably the most important step to capture knowledge and relates the… Continue reading

November 16 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: book, reading, studying | 3 comments»

Milking it whole, not skim

It used to be that the phrase “milking it” carried a pretty negative connotation with it for me, for as kids we only used it about people we thought were taking advantage of some situation without earning the right to do so. People who were “milking it” were the human equivalent of leeches.However I’ve recently found that the phrase is very useful when I turn it around to be about… Continue reading

October 5 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: comprehension, habits, learning, MilkingIt, reading, retention | 1 comment»

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