Speed Reading

[Jonny Two Shoes]

I need faster comprehension rather than faster eyes

I mean they say your brain registers all the words anyway when you group words and skim through, what a load of k@k unless I'm just slow

I often lose focus reading books and I find myself having to go back a few paragraphs :/ irritating as hell

 

[MicS]

I need faster comprehension rather than faster eyes

I mean they say your brain registers all the words anyway when you group words and skim through, what a load of k@k unless I'm just slow

I often lose focus reading books and I find myself having to go back a few paragraphs :/ irritating as hell

+1

 

[Hosehead]

Yes that would be binge drinking wouldn't it....

No Binge drinking is drinking huge amounts for a few days and then nothing for a few days. It's a treadmill.

That's just total rubbish.

To wine snobs it is
I even told the Cape Wine Academy

 

[cerebus]

lol you told an academy of wine connoisseurs that they were delusional snobs? You're joking right.

 

[Hosehead]

lol you told an academy of wine connoisseurs that they were delusional snobs? You're joking right.

I was more delicate
We had to do this exam of theirs.

I told them what I thought

I still passed

 

[smokey]

Get drunk. A lot. Read only when you're hammered. It is enough to make you wanna kill. Then, start reading sober again - it will seem faster.

For many years I did a lot of proof reading. It is meticulous and slow. But, I never missed a thing. If I proof read something, it was faultless when I finished. A side effect is that I simply do not read after hours. No books, very few newspapers. The problem is I often find grammar and spelling and usage errors that drive me nuts.

Speed reading teaches you to actually skip over these and read bad usage patterns as though they were correct, for example:

The African Continent = Africa
The English Language = English
In order to / in order for = to / for
Utilise (or argh utilize) = use

There are thousands of these. Still today, six months after I stopped reading such bile, these phrases kill me. But many of them are the essence of speed reading. Rather read at your normal pace and cringe through the drivel or appreciate the great works.

I no. me To.