10 Days To Faster Reading: My Fast, Favorite Tips

10 Days to Faster Reading by Abby Marks Beale My Fast, Favorite Tips by Roxy Allen for the Alt-MBA http://www.alt-mba.com/ http://altmba.ning.com/ 1/18/09

Faster Reading Tips
Reading Pacers To keep you from getting distracted and speed up as you read
Use a 3x5 white index card to cover what you’ve already read from top of page to bottom
Use your fingers:
Right / left side pull : point your index finger next to the left or right side, slowly but continually move your finger down the side of the page. As you get more accustomed to this, try moving faster Two-finger pull : use your left index finger on the left of a sentence, your right index finger on the right, to frame the sentence and pull down
Snake : Snake your middle index down the page
Thumb : Use your thumb at the top or side of the page and go down

Increase Concentration
Choose what to read
Before you read anything ask yourself, “WHY am I reading this?” and “WHAT might I need this information for?” to determine your PURPOSE and RESPONSIBILITY
Purpose: Why am I reading this? To keep up on world affairs, etc.
Responsibility: What might I need this information for? A test, a meeting, to sell my prospect, etc. If you can’t come up with a purpose or responsibility, don’t read it!

Top 10 Reading Distracters
Other people
Telephone
Email
Faxes
Music
TV
Too comfy
Not interested in material
Being preoccupied
Not reading a right time of day

Keep your focus
Squirrel yourself away
Disconnect
Get someone else to cover your work
Listen to Mozart
Move to an appropriate location
Turn off the TV
Read at your peak time(s)
Brain dump
Set a time goal
Take short breaks

Don’t use a highlighter
Write in your margins
bracket a paragraph
write keywords
put abbreviations
Ex. 3 reasons why inefficient highlighting postpones learning

Read Only Key Words
Ex. Read only the underlined words:
The task is defined by a series of steps and elements .
Ask Abby: Tips on reading Thought Groups & Key Phrases? *tips on this in podcast interview

How to Pre-View: The Reading Road Map
Name of the trip = Title
Where the trip begins = Introduction
Big cities along the way = Subheads
Towns along the way = The first sentence of paragraphs
Roadways = Paragraphs
Where the trip ends = Summary or concluding paragraphs
Are you sure you made it? = Questions at the end
40/60 Rule: These clues give you 40% of the key info. The other 60% of a text is filler. You can choose what portion of the remaining 60% to spend your time on. You may only need another 20% of the filler to spend time on (40% pre-view + 20% actual reading = 60%) and you can save 40% of your reading time.

For more info and training
The author’s website features an online speed-reading tutorial called Rev It Up Reading.
It's 3 1-hour modules to train you on the techniques presented in the book.
http://www.revitupreading.com/online_speed_reading_programs.asp
If you register before Jan 31, it would only cost you $219 instead of the regular $299. But bonus! That includes a 122-page eBook of 10 Days to Faster Reading . So, if you haven't bought the book yet, you could do this course and get an eBook for $219!
Here is Abby’s fantastic video explaining
the course

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