Do you love reading but often get bored because there are too many words to read? Are you still often bored with thick pages or when studying documents by too much? You read a lot but don’t get the main idea? Don’t worry, apply The method of reading books quickly and effectively, shared by chusa.info below.
1. Principles of fast reading
Just reading introductory sources is not enough to understand a book and summarize the content is not possible.
So is there a fast and effective way to read books so that we can read one or more books a week? Don’t read the book word for word like when reading a story. You can read books quickly if you really understand them.
1.1. Should I read more books?
As readers, we get motivated with every book we read. The more we read, the faster we can understand the author’s point of view and where it fits into the conversation.
We become more knowledgeable when we take advice or incorporate the author’s point of view into our work. In other words, the more books we read, the faster we read.
1.2. How to read effectively?
To find a way to read a book quickly and remember it for a long time, you read it in a way that doesn’t matter. But you have to be “fast” and have to achieve the level of “applying what you know into practice”. That is, you are required to achieve level 3 or more of 6 cognitive levels in reading (1. Know 2. Understand 3. Apply 4. Analyze & Synthesize 5. Evaluate 6. Create)
If what you have read from that book, you have applied it to your life before, then combine the new knowledge in that book to analyze, evaluate and create more on it. the foundation of that knowledge to perfect what you already know and apply it to life!
Surely your level of reading fast and slow thinking books will increase significantly.
2. Quick but highly effective reading technique
Using the following reading techniques, you can achieve a reading level of up to 2500 words/minute and still be highly effective.
2.1. Reading technique “jump”
Prepare “Eye Aid”.
You need a pencil or any pen, to help your eyes when reading. That is, while reading a book, always hold a pencil in hand. Use a pen as a “guide” so your eyes don’t get tired.
Technique “Using a Pencil”
You see how people “jump”. Then you do exactly the same thing: Using the pencil, jump in rows across the book. (Figure below).
Figure 1: The “near” jump. Read 4 words/time, with 1 look.
Figure 2: The “far” jump. Read 8 – 16 words/time, with 1 look.
You can use a pencil, or any pen. Using that pen, bend along the curve I drew. Row by row, row by row. “Leapfrogging. Leapfrogging. Jump toad each phrase as shown in pictures 1 and 2”.
Take the Pen Faster & Longer Distance.
The speed or slowness of the “jump”, depends on 3 factors:
- Jump speed: Jump time of the pencil.
- Jump interval: You can jump 4 words/turn. Then you can read 4 words/time. If you jump 8 words/turn, you can read 8 words/turn.
- “Understanding”: Your understanding, must be accompanied by the jumping speed of the pen. This technique is very simple. You did exactly as I instructed. Then congratulations. You have completed the first stage of reading techniques, like the first stage of President Franklin D.Roosevelt.
With only digital 1 we just mentioned, your reading speed will increase rapidly.
2.2. Reading technique “straight line”
Preparation & Leveling Requirements 8 -16 words/read of Jump Technique.
To apply this quick reading practice method, you need a pencil or any pen, to help your eyes when reading. That is, while reading a book, always hold a pencil in hand. Use a pen as a “guide” so your eyes don’t get tired.
You practice this, when you have completed the “jump” technique. That is, after you read 8 – 16 words / jump. Then use the pencil “Pull the pen straight from the top of the book to the bottom of the page” – like the picture below.
Pencil technique.
Run the “pencil” along the pink line drawn as shown below. Pencil, “stop at any line, read the whole line”.
Take the Pen Faster & Longer Distance.
The speed or slowness of the “straight line”, depends on two factors:
Pen feed speed from top: pen feed time.
“Understanding”: Your understanding, must be accompanied by the speed of gliding from top to bottom of the pen.
3. Steps to read a book super fast and efficiently
The most important thing when reading is staying focused. When you are very comfortable psychologically, you are ready to receive new knowledge, then you can grasp the valuable knowledge of the book.
Here’s Jimenez’s advice, a professor of Latin American history, on how to read one book a week:
3.1. Start with the author
Who wrote this book? Take the time to get to know the author of the book by reading a quick biography or short interview or online article about the author. This will tell you about the writer’s inclinations and views.
3.2. Read the title, subtitle, cover and table of contents
What is the general thesis of the entire book? How are arguments structured? With just the above steps, you can summarize the main idea of the book for someone who has not read the book.
3.3. Read the introduction and conclusion
Authors often present their arguments in the opening and closing arguments of the book. Read these two sections carefully. From here, you have a general idea of the author’s destination, and these sections will tell you how the author leads (introduction) and what the author wants (conclusion).
3.4. Read the content of the book with the speed reading technique
Read the title and first paragraphs of the first few pages of a chapter to see how the author argues in that chapter and where the chapter’s appearance fits with the argument of the whole book.
After that, we will apply the above reading techniques to read the content of each chapter, guaranteed to be effective!
3.5. Read the table of contents again
After you finish reading the book, go back to the table of contents and summarize the contents in your head. Take a few minutes to reflect on the flow of the book, the arguments you considered, the stories you remember, the journey you took with the author.
3.6. Note
During your reading, you should take notes as if you were preparing for a conversation with the author. For example, what do you agree with, what do you disagree with, what questions are still open, or things you might want to discuss with others or need further thought.
Epilogue
Here are some tips to help you read books quickly but still get the most out of them. We hope that you will more and more master new and useful knowledge in the unlimited treasure that books have brought us.
