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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Reading - the ADULT way

As mentioned in the earlier post, there is a difference in the way we read as time passed. The purpose of reading simply changes as time passed. When we were young, we need to understand the linguistic aspect and the structure of storytelling. We read to enjoy the pleasures of reading. How the story is structured to arouse our curiosity and how the story unfolds. Often at this point in time, as we absorb all these, time is not a crucial factor.
However, as time passed, we no longer read for the technical aspects but we are reading for ideas and thought processes.
Things get worse when we enter the workforce. We are bombarded with all sorts of information coming from everywhere. It creates an information overload for us.
How are we going to deal with the information overload?
There are 2 ways, broadly speaking.
One, you filter out what you need and don't need. The effect of this is that the results is often very specific and narrow. It just limits the life experience because the bandwidth of knowledge reception is just not enough to take in all the information.
Two, you take in all you can within the shortest possible time. The effect of this is the knowledge expands exponentially but one loses the pleasure of slow reading to get the gist of feelings that comes with it.
AS you all would have guessed, speed reading is the latter.
Speed reading is cluster reading where in the shortest possible time, one pick up keywords and link them up to get a gist of the information of the particular material that we are thrust to read.
How is it possible to pick out the keywords?
Even if you do not believe, your brain decrypts information faster than the eye movement.
The brains pick out the keywords not by line by line but in a downward motion.
The eye scan downwards, keywords just pop up into your sight.
Nevermind if you pick the wrong words or it seems like the wrong word that popup to you. They are the triggers to you Right Brain to remember this material.
After the keywords are pick up, drawn a mindmap to show the relationship between each trigger word in the passage. After that run thru the keywords. There is no need to follow how the material choose to structure the  keywords. You can string it your way and believe it or not, the gist of your explanation is similar to the material.
So you make ask what kind of keywords to pick up?
mostly it is nouns and verbs.
Nouns are names.
Verb are actions words.

Try it. You may find that reading is much easier.

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