speed reading

[Jason#4]

anyone familiar with speed reading?

 

[idiot_boyfriend]

Just curious:

What book are you trying to read?

 

[Mr. Delicious]

Yes, my friend let me borrow the tape on it. Yes it was absolutely worthless.

 

[Jason#4]

college physics...finals week next week

 

[seize_the_pattern]

Originally posted by Mr. Delicious
Yes, my friend let me borrow the tape on it. Yes it was absolutely worthless.

which tape was it? did it contain exercises?
im looking into this stuff myself and trying to get some info from people who tried it.... properly. Maybe you did im not saying anything about you, Id just like to know

 

[Mr. Delicious]

I dont know what it was called but they used to have informercials about it all the time. Basically it was like 1 hour of technique on how to do it. Then it was like 4 hours of good study habits. WTF???

 

[aBAzLLnA]

You gotta get a good book on speed reading. Listening to a book on something you have to learn by reading doesn't make sense...

 

[diablo]

Originally posted by Jason#4
college physics...finals week next week

Let me get this straight. You want to speed-read a college physics textbook so you can pass your final exam next week?

Dude, you're out of luck. Speed reading works to a degree with novels and newspapers... physics, where you have to actually know and memorize formulae and equations as well as principles and theories, is a little bit different - but feel free to try. I prefer going to class and paying attention; I've found it works better for me.

 

[aBAzLLnA]

lol Agreed. You're effed. I'm taking a college physics course my senior year and it takes me forever to understand the concepts...good luck.

 

[idiot_boyfriend]

Originally posted by Jason#4
college physics...finals week next week

LOL. Yeah you can speed read, but I guarentee you'll get a crappy grade.

I know some of the basics....

Just read the topic sentences and the last sentence of each paragraph, and maybe the first paragraph of the page/chapter.

EDIT: Instead of speed reading, get these three short books:

Six Easy Pieces
Six Not-so-easy Pieces
and maybe "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman" (I haven't read that one yet)

They're written by Richard Feynman.

 

[seize_the_pattern]

Originally posted by Mr. Delicious
I dont know what it was called but they used to have informercials about it all the time. Basically it was like 1 hour of technique on how to do it. Then it was like 4 hours of good study habits. WTF???

Thats what I thought. There's not this 1 tape about speed reading. If youre serious about speed reading, you research several courses and reviews, check things out

So, if you want to point out something is worthless, which I can appraciate, please dont do that by posting something that is worthless itself.

 

[Mr. Delicious]

Of course you have to practice and not just learn by the book on tape. The problem was the tactics they gave for learning it seemed really difficult and time consuming. They said first of all you have to learn to read backwards. Then you have to skip most every sentence or something like that. I listened to it like 6 years ago.

 

[seize_the_pattern]

Originally posted by Mr. Delicious
The problem was the tactics they gave for learning it seemed really difficult and time consuming.

I'm doing an exercises from a pdf i found, yes they are frustrating to begin with, thats whats also said in the course "first 10-15 your try this exercise, expect to be frustrated". Its said numerous times everything worth anything takes time and energy.
In the long run after practicing i expect some results though

 

[DJDamage]

READ THIS

http://skepdic.com/speedreading.html

 

[Desdinova]

LOL! I remember those infomercials. They'd show a guy running his index finger down each page of a book. It really looked fake.

 

[seize_the_pattern]

I already read that yes. Skeptiks are good, but its often from an anti- point of view.Not that skeptiks are only negative, but they mainly focus on information that outweighs somewhat the opposite. Be careful with that.

you know, I wouldnt put too much weight on those 10,000 word stories, and indeed starting from 2,000-3,000 the understanding of what is read is of different (mostly less) value then normal reading. The thing Im learning now is that there are 2 main types of reading: thought stream and subvocalisation, subvocalisation is our tradiltional reading that is linked to our speach, whereas thoughtstream challenges the visual part of your mind and teaches you to take groups of words and build meaning by picturing what that means.

Has anyone tested how many words per minute he reads when he began? i started off at 188 normal reading with normal comprehension

 

[DJDamage]

I got 294 reading using the test on this site

http://www.readingsoft.com/

Another speed reading site to promote their system, the only thing I see about speed reading is how to make money.

 

[seize_the_pattern]

How you mean, to know how to make money yourself or They give those courses so they can make money out of it?

I just did the test myself (172 wpm with 73% comprehension) and yes it was saletalk into buying speedreading software and why (especially their) software is better than books or seminars/classes.
Im still not convinced of the scamness in speed reading that most of you people see in it.

Are there people in here who at least TRIED exercises on a more or less consistent basis?

 

[DJDamage]

They know how to make money out of people who believe their glitzzy ads.

What the hell is a Chia Pet????? who the hell would want that?? apperently millions of Americans who love to see weed growing out from the back of a wooden rat.

 

[seize_the_pattern]

woops shouldnt have edited
by the way, what does that Chia pet have to do with speed reading apart from that its both commerciallized

Boy, if all your judging of material is purely based on how its being commerciallized there's a world out there that is stuffed with things that you can make a hard time out of.