Posts Tagged ‘speed’

Speed, Accidents, and Anxiety

You’re driving along the freeway. The traffic is heavy and the weather is bad; there’s water on the road and occasional patches of ice. You’re already late for an appointment and you’re worrying that your boss is going to find out and get mad at you, so you’re driving way too fast for the conditions. Everyone else seems to be in a hurry too. Your hands are gripping the wheel… » Continue

September 4 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: anxiety, business-fundamentalism, discontentment, fear, insanity, leadership, lifebalance, Lifestyle, living, Management, motivation, organization, overwork, slow-leadership, speed, strategy, stress, work-life, work/life-balance, workflow, working, worklife, worrying | 2 comments»

Free Online Speed Reading App - Spreeder

With all those information process per day, large portion of them are reading. So speed reading is good skill to have for lifehackers. Here is an online tool called Spreeder which can train your mind to get rid of subvocalization and backtracing, by increasing the reading speed on the screen and steady output of text:

What is speed reading?

Reading with speed. ‘Nuf said. Actually, the idea behind speed reading is… » Continue

August 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: reading, speed | 1 comment»

Speed-Reading Techniques

Speed-Reading is a nice skill to have. As most of the knowledges are gained from books, and there are so many readings to digest in work, speedreading can actually save us time. Here is the quick start for you on learning this skill. Keith Drury has written a quick article on teaching this technique. He starts off with myths of reading, then talk about preparation, rapid reading techniques and finally… » Continue

May 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: reading, speed | 3 comments»

Slow Down, Don’t Lead So Fast

Speed is everywhere. Fast cars, high-speed Internet connections, fast food, quickie divorces, “The One-Minute Manager.” Is faster always better? I doubt it, especially when you’re dealing with people. We may want to get our burger quickly, but who wants only a few moments of someone’s attention? » Continue

October 24 2005 | By Adrian | Tagged: boss, delegation, leadership, Lifestyle, Management, organization, Productivity, relationship, speed, work-life | 1 comment»

Speed Reading Comprehension Test

To learn fast, the first thing you want is to read fast. This weekend, I want to introduce an online speed reading test for you. First, you have to read a couple of paragraphs to see how many words per minute (WPM) you can achieve. Then you need to answer some questions to show your comprehension on the text content. By combining both results, it shows how efficient are you… » Continue

October 16 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: reading, speed, test | 1 comment»