Prime Yourself and Find Your Purpose Before Reading
Marks-Beale’s fourth speed-reading tip should be engaged with before rather than during reading. As with many things, reading can be done more efficiently with preparation. If you set yourself a purpose before reading something, you improve your chances of focusing more on important information. So, take a few minutes before reading to identify why you are reading this content, how it will help you and how you hope to use this information.
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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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