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Spd Rdng: The Speed Reading Bible - Speed Reading Book Which Gives Techniques, Tips & Strategies For Ultra Fast Reading
Spd Rdng: The Speed Reading Bible - Speed Reading Book Which Gives Techniques, Tips & Strategies For Ultra Fast Reading
Spd Rdng: The Speed Reading Bible - Speed Reading Book Which Gives Techniques, Tips & Strategies For Ultra Fast Reading
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If you read the book in order, you will effectively be following our two-day workshop, but many of the techniques, insights and suggestions are self-standing and can improve your reading, comprehension, memory and retention so feel free to read them in the order which makes most sense to you (there’s a lot of cross-referencing in case you need to check out something which has been presented earlier). But however you approach the book, we strongly suggest that you actually try things out as you go. As we say in the book, reading is just the first step; it’s only useful if you put the information into practice.

If you haven’t got time to read the whole book at the moment, then the techniques which will make the biggest immediate difference to your reading are:
1) Apply skills you already have
2) Preview
3) Don’t think reading, think finding information
4) Have a clear purpose for reading
5) Apply the 80/20 rule to your reading
6) Read the message not the words
14) Get into a good state for reading
17) Take notes with mindmaps and rhizomaps
18) Have 20-minute work sessions
Plus the Underlining technique

We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for you to pick up and review the ideas:
1) the titles of the techniques are self-explanatory
2) each of the techniques is summarised in bold at the beginning of its section
3) there is an extensive and helpful glossary
4) we give examples of people’s actual experience – including our own
5) there are ‘expert tips’ throughout which will also help you

EXPERT TIP number one: While you’re learning, use well-written books you can understand easily – it will give you confidence in your new approach to reading. Once you’ve mastered all the techniques, you will be able to apply them to any written material – including books, journals, reports and articles, both on- and off-line.

CONTENTS
Introduction - and how to use this book
Double your reading speed – right now
Checklist – where are you now?
What is your current reading speed?
What do you want from your improved reading?

THE SPD RDNG TECHNIQUES
>1 Apply skills you already have
>2 Preview before you start reading
>3 Don’t think ‘reading’, think ‘finding information’
>4 Have a clear purpose for reading
>5 Apply the 80/20 rule to your purpose
>6 Read the message, not the words
>7 Smile – enjoy what you’re reading
>8 Take fewer ‘stops’ per line
>9 Open your peripheral vision
>10 Take your awareness to your concentration point
>11 Focus on ‘hot spots’ of key information
>12 Read for sameness and difference
>13 Speed up your brain with ‘super-duper-reading’
>14 Get in a good state for reading
>15 Use speed-reading eye patterns
>16 Remember by doing something
>17 Take notes with mindmaps and rhizomaps
>18 Have 20-minute work sessions
>19 Talk about what you read
>20 Review information regularly
>21 Read different texts at different speeds
>22 Use ‘syntopic processing’ to work with several books
>23 Set timeframes and stick to them
>24 ‘Rapid read’ from cover to cover
>25 Get the overview before the details
>26 Rd sumrys
>27 Take frequent breaks
>28 Download the book into your non-conscious mind
>29 Download books for ‘direct learning’
>30 Read a book three or more times
>31 Trust the process
>32 Use different techniques with different materials
>33 Ensure that physical factors are in your favour
>34 Set high expectations
>35 Celebrate success
>36 Read more
>37 Read beginnings and endings
If you find a better way ... use it

Children’s reading
Dyslexia
Exercises for eyes
‘Fizzical’ challenges
Glossary
Acknowledgments
About the authors
Resources

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJan Cisek
Release dateAug 1, 2011
ISBN9781901564129
Spd Rdng: The Speed Reading Bible - Speed Reading Book Which Gives Techniques, Tips & Strategies For Ultra Fast Reading
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Jan Cisek

JAN CISEK was the first PhotoReading instructor to be licensed in the UK. During the 10 years or more that he has been teaching PhotoReading and speed reading he has taught the skills to thousands of people worldwide. He has studied and integrated Accelerated Learning, speed reading, PhotoReading, NLP and Systems Thinking. At the University of Warwick he was a speaker at the 8th International Conference ‘Learning in Harmony’, organised by the Society for Effective Affective Learning – SEAL. He teaches how to learn anything more effectively and how to use your intuition and creativity. He was a speaker at the 9th International SEAL Conference ‘Opening Minds’ at the King’s School, Canterbury and at the ANLP Conference in Northhampton. jan@spdrdng.com SUSAN NORMAN is an experienced photoreader, speed reader and speed reading coach and teacher and has been running the courses with Jan since 2004. Together they have developed many innovative additions which make it easier to learn speed reading and photoreading quickly and easily. As a former Director of SEAL (Society For Effective Affective Learning), she has proved her expertise in accelerated learning techniques, and presents regularly on international and national courses and conferences. She is the author of 36 books in the field of accelerated learning, language teaching and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). susan@spdrdng.com

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Spd Rdng - The Speed Reading Bible - Speed Reading Book Which Gives Techniques, Tips & Strategies For Ultra Fast Reading

By Susan Norman & Jan Cisek

Copyright © Susan Norman & Jan Cisek 2010

Published by Saffire Press at Smashwords

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ISBN 9781901564129

This book is dedicated to you – the Spd Rdr

CONTENTS

Introduction - and how to use this book

Double your reading speed – right now

Checklist – where are you now?

What is your current reading speed?

What do you want from your improved reading?

THE SPD RDNG TECHNIQUES

>1 Apply skills you already have

>2 Preview before you start reading

>3 Don’t think ‘reading’, think ‘finding information’

>4 Have a clear purpose for reading

>5 Apply the 80/20 rule to your purpose

>6 Read the message, not the words

>7 Smile – enjoy what you’re reading

>8 Take fewer ‘stops’ per line

>9 Open your peripheral vision

>10 Take your awareness to your concentration point

>11 Focus on ‘hot spots’ of key information

>12 Read for sameness and difference

>13 Speed up your brain with ‘super-duper-reading’

>14 Get in a good state for reading

>15 Use speed-reading eye patterns

>16 Remember by doing something

>17 Take notes with mindmaps and rhizomaps

>18 Have 20-minute work sessions

>19 Talk about what you read

>20 Review information regularly

>21 Read different texts at different speeds

>22 Use ‘syntopic processing’ to work with several books

>23 Set timeframes and stick to them

>24 ‘Rapid read’ from cover to cover

>25 Get the overview before the details

>26 Rd sumrys

>27 Take frequent breaks

>28 Download the book into your non-conscious mind

>29 Download books for ‘direct learning’

>30 Read a book three or more times

>31 Trust the process

>32 Use different techniques with different materials

>33 Ensure that physical factors are in your favour

>34 Set high expectations

>35 Celebrate success

>36 Read more

>37 Read beginnings and endings

If you find a better way … use it

Children’s reading

Dyslexia

Exercises for eyes

‘Fizzical’ challenges

Glossary

Acknowledgments

About the authors

Resources

Introduction – and how to use this book

Welcome to Spd Rdng – a collection of techniques we know will both speed up your reading and allow you to process material 10 times faster, or even more.

If you read the book in order, you will effectively be following our two-day workshop, but many of the techniques, insights and suggestions are self-standing and can improve your reading, so feel free to read them in the order which makes most sense to you (there’s a lot of cross-referencing in case you need to check out something which has been presented earlier). But however you approach the book, we strongly suggest that you actually try things out as you go. As we say in the book, reading is just the first step; it’s only useful if you put the information into practice.

If you haven’t got time to read the whole book at the moment, then the techniques which will make the biggest immediate difference to your reading are:

1) Apply skills you already have

2) Preview

3) Don’t think reading, think finding information

4) Have a clear purpose for reading

5) Apply the 80/20 rule to your reading

6) Read the message not the words

14) Get into a good state for reading

17) Take notes with mindmaps and rhizomaps

18) Have 20-minute work sessions

Plus the Underlining technique

We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for you to pick up and review the ideas:

1) the titles of the techniques are self-explanatory

2) each of the techniques is summarised in bold at the beginning of its section

3) there is an extensive and helpful glossary

4) we give examples of people’s actual experience – including our own

5) there are ‘expert tips’ throughout which will also help you

EXPERT TIP While you’re learning, use well-written books you can understand easily – it will give you confidence in your new approach to reading. Once you’ve mastered all the techniques, you will be able to apply them to any written material – including books, journals, reports and articles, both on- and off-line.

Enough for now. But if you feel you’d like to get in touch with us at any point, feel free to contact us through our website: http://www.spdrdng.com

Enjoy!

Susan and Jan

Double your reading speed – right now

If the only thing you want is to double your reading speed, then do this now. It takes about five minutes.

For learning purposes, choose a book with extended lengths of uninterrupted text.

Compare your ‘before’ and ‘after’ reading speed by doing the ‘Quick Test’ below.

To learn the underlining technique

Do the 5-minute ‘before’ test.

1 Place your finger below the first line of text. Read five or six lines of text with comprehension at your normal speed, underlining the words with your finger as you do so. (This is to make sure you are reading the words and not looking at your finger.)

2 On the next page, still using your finger as a marker (pacer), start reading about one centimetre into each line and stop reading about one centimetre before the end of the line. This means that you’re not underlining or looking consciously at the words in the first centimetre or last of each line, but realise that you can still understand the text (you can pick up the words at either end of the line in your peripheral vision). Read in this way, with comprehension at your normal speed, to the end of the page.

3 Still starting and ending one centimetre into the line (ie underlining and reading just the centre words in each line), use your finger to set the pace – and the pace is one second per line. ‘Read’ to the bottom of the page at this speed, looking at the words above your finger. Don’t worry about understanding the text (you probably won’t. The aim here is simply to speed up your brain. Just keep up the pace.

4 Continue at the pace of 1 second per line for about 10 or 12 pages. After four or five pages, begin to notice words and phrases as you skim past them. Your aim is not to understand at this pace so keep going quickly - do not slow down.

5 If you are testing your before and after speed, you are about to do your second test, so mark your starting point from where you have just stopped. Set your timer. Smile.

Start reading at your best comprehension speed. Underline as much of the line as necessary and read at a speed which allows you to comprehend what you are reading.

Most people find that they have at least doubled their reading speed just with this one technique.

Underlining is a bonus technique in addition to the other 37 in the book. However, if you put the other techniques in the book into practice, not only can you further increase your reading speed, but you should also be able to process textual material about 10 times more efficiently, while also retaining and using what you have read much more effectively.

Checklist – where are you now?

Before you start reading the techniques in this book, you might like to think about the sort of reader you consider yourself to be right now. Tick/highlight the statements in both lists that describe you as a reader. Just go with your first reaction. There is no right or wrong – what matters is your opinion of yourself. You will learn things about yourself that will help you to become an ultra speed reader.

List 1

[ ] I am a poor reader.

[ ] Reading is a chore. I put it off as long as possible.

[ ] I often feel overwhelmed by the amount I’ve got to read.

[ ] I read really slowly.

[ ] I don’t like to mark or write in my books.

[ ] I feel I might miss something if I don’t read from cover to cover.

[ ] I always read in the same way, no matter what I’m reading.

[ ] I worry that I won’t remember what I’ve read.

[ ] I get bogged down in detail before I’ve understood the big picture.

[ ] I think I am or may be dyslexic.

[ ] I want to improve the way I read.

If any of the statements in List 1 describes you, this book will help.

List 2

[ ] I love reading.

[ ] I read a lot.

[ ] I can find key information quickly.

[ ] I use a variety of techniques and different processing speeds for different material.

[ ] I’m familiar with the 80/20 rule, and with thin slicing, and I apply the concepts to reading.

[ ] I happily ignore information that is not relevant or that I already know.

[ ] I can usually decide quickly and accurately how useful a book is to me.

[ ] I know the difference between a good and a bad book (before I’ve read it).

[ ] I have strategies which mean I usually remember what is important to me.

[ ] I always know why I am reading before I start.

If you answered yes to 8 or more of the statements in List 2, you may already be a natural spd rdr. You may also be surprised to find that this book can give you new insights into how to read and learn even more effectively.

Once you have read and started applying the techniques in this book, you might like to return to this page and tick/highlight (or untick/unhighlight) some of the statements!

What is your current reading speed?

If you’d like to find out your current reading speed, or judge how much more quickly you’re reading after implementing the spd rdng techniques, then do the following test before you start reading.

You need:

• an accurate timer/alarm clock

• a book you haven’t read, (and won’t read until you’ve finished Spd Rdng) – with mostly continuous text

• possibly a calculator and post-it notes

Make a note of the title ..............................................................

Choose a place to start reading, eg the start of any chapter, and mark it (eg with a post-it note).

Set your timer to five minutes.

Start reading at your normal pace, making sure that you understand what you are reading.

Stop reading when the timer goes off and mark your stopping place.

Calculate your reading speed (before//after) as follows:

• Number of pages read ......................//............................

(this figure is enough for most people, but if you want to be more accurate, continue with the following calculations)

• Average number of lines on a page ..............//................

(count the number of lines on a typical page)

• Average number of words on a line ..............//................

(choose three full lines, count the number of words in each, add them together and divide by three)

• Number of words read in five minutes ...........//...............

(multiply together the three previous calculations –

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