Posts Tagged ‘speed-reading’

Speed Reading Successfully: A Starting Point

There are more books and other written works today than there have ever been before. Tomorrow will be a record-setting day, just as will be each day afterward. It's impossible to read everything ever written, but the number of words we're expected to take in keep going up just the same. That means that speed reading is a pretty good tool to have in your personal arsenal. Speed reading isn't… Continue reading

January 30 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: information, speed-reading | 21 comments»

8 Essential Skills They Didn’t Teach You In School

Lately, I've been simultaneously using less and less of what I learned in school while discovering more and more skills that are vital to success which were never even offered in school! If I were to be 100% honest, probably the most valuable skill I learned in college was how to talk to girls (certainly a vital skill for happiness and success, but not what I was there to learn). The economics… Continue reading

August 15 2008 | By Brian | Tagged: audiobook, business, education, happiness, life, marketing, negotiation, networking, school, speed-reading, success, time-management | 105 comments»

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»

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»