2. You don’t need to remember everything you read. You can still learn lots of information without remembering every anecdote and idea introduced. School forces us to believe we need to remember every detail because we were revising for exams. Outside of exams, you do not need to remember the details. So, if you want to re-read the important details, you can just write down these details and file them away. This means you have no pressure to remember as you can revisit these details.
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10 Days to Faster Reading, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Speed-Reading and Success Skills: Strategies for Study and Lifelong Learning argues that speed-reading is not an untrainable talent. Instead, you can significantly improve your speed reading by merely cutting out bad habits, adding some new techniques, and changing your mindset. The simplicity of these techniques makes speed-reading seem less like a superpower and more like a valuable tool easily attainable.
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