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  • 9 Easy Tricks — How I Read Thick Books In Just One Day

    9 Easy Tricks — How I Read Thick Books In Just One Day

    Stopping your inner voice is one of the stages that will increase your speed the most

    Table of Contents

      ∘ Why should we read with understanding?
      ∘ Fast Reading Comprehension Techniques
      ∘ 1- Illustrate
      ∘ 2. Active Reading
      ∘ 3- Read with your eyes
      ∘ 4-Adjust your speed
      ∘ 5- Read Plenty
      ∘ 6- Improve Your Vocabulary
      ∘ 7- Get rid of superstitions
      ∘ 8-Read Correctly
      ∘ 9-Long Reading Practice

    Speed reading means accelerating the coordination between the mind and the eye. Speed reading means maximizing the rate of recall per unit of time in the mind.

    Speed reading means increasing the number of words we read in 1 minute above the standards.

    Reading words fast is not enough on its own. We need to both read fast and understand what we read well.

    Otherwise, speed reading is of no importance. The reason why speed reading alone does not mean anything is this:

    Why should we read with understanding?

    The main purpose of reading is to learn. Even if we read a novel, we hope that what we read will add something to us. The organization of the sentences we read, even pleasant descriptions, are actually things we want to learn and feel.

    Speed reading alone, without comprehension, is like a gun without bullets. So we cannot achieve what we aim for. Therefore, our first priority should be reading with comprehension.

    There are many things to do for speed reading and comprehension, which I will explain later in the article.

    However, if we cannot understand or if we understand late, this is completely a problem for us. In other words, we would be making a mistake if we attribute this only to the text we read, the environment in which we read, and our distracted mind.

    For fast reading and comprehension, we must first look for the blame in ourselves. 

    Have I improved myself enough? 
    Have I expanded my vocabulary? 
    Have I downloaded speed reading and comprehension techniques? 
    Have I enrolled in a speed reading and comprehension course? 
    Have I read a lot of books?

    Have I ever given myself a speed reading and comprehension test?

    When we ask ourselves the question — No! If we give the answer, then we are wrong. But we are aware of our mistake and we will make up for it.

    Fast Reading Comprehension Techniques

    Reading and understanding are completely different concepts. We need to distinguish between the two. Everyone can read fast, but not everyone can understand fast. 

    This does not mean that the person who can read is intelligent. It doesn’t mean that the person who can’t read is stupid. It is all about personal development, that is, self-development! Now we will try to help you with this.

    We will teach you quick comprehension techniques.

    1- Illustrate

    One of the speeds reading comprehension techniques is exemplification. While reading the text, try to see your mental depth.

    Master your own mind and try to exemplify what you read as fast as possible. When you already have this desire, your brain will immediately ask itself what is appropriate for this!

    It will ask itself the question and find similar examples and inform you.

    If you read that “someone who is not wearing a seatbelt has less chance of survival in an accident if he/she is speeding”, you can imagine that “someone who is not wearing a seatbelt crashes into something and is thrown out of the window”. There can be **millions of examples like this.

    2. Active Reading

    When you raise your finger to read in class, you only pay attention to reading correctly and accurately in order to read well. 

    However, your friend next to you gives more accurate answers to the questions that are about to be asked. There are reasons for this.

    First, when you were reading, you focused your attention only on reading the text well. That is why a different part of your brain worked. Since the brain devoted all its energy to reading well, it was not possible for you to read with understanding

    Why did your friend give better answers than you? Because he couldn’t read, but he could hear the sound from the closest place. 

    In other words, his physical conditions were very good, his language was not working, and he was only following with his eyes, so he did not put an unnecessary burden on the brain. He was just trying to understand what he was reading.

    Therefore, he understood much better and gave correct answers to the questions.

    Reading effectively is not just silent reading. Active reading is getting into the text. It is trying to understand. Your goal should be to understand, not to read.

    Reading by stopping your inner voice is one of the stages that will increase your speed the most.
    The method I use is to count from 1 to 10 while reading something.

    3- Read with your eyes

    Using only your eyes will relax your brain. Because if you move your mouth or read aloud, the brain will allocate a significant part of its processing power for this. 

    However, we want to fully understand what we read, so we should leave the comprehension part to the whole of our brain.

    4-Adjust your speed

    If we don’t understand anything we read, we can slow down our speed. Everyone’s mind speed is different.

    We can use reading and comprehension techniques and improve ourselves so that the reading speed, that is, the eye speed, catches up with the speed of the mind. 

    However, if we are still slow in comprehension, we should reduce our reading speed to a level where we can understand better.

    5- Read Plenty

    The quickest way to understand what you read is to read a lot. The more you read, the more words you learn. Your mind speeds up, so you understand more things in less time.

    6- Improve Your Vocabulary

    The more vocabulary you know about a subject, the faster you can understand it. 

    To improve your vocabulary, you can read books, and newspapers and write down words you do not know the meaning of.

    7- Get rid of superstitions


    It is imperative that you stay away from absurd things like there should be music while reading, or if I don’t shake my foot, I won’t understand. 

    Because this kind of unnecessary work reduces your brain speed, that is, your speed of understanding.

    8-Read Correctly

    You should not skim over what you read. Full reading leads to full comprehension. 

    Thoughts such as “let me skip some parts” or “I don’t need to read this part” will make you lazy and make it difficult for you to understand the whole text.

    9-Long Reading Practice

    If you are overwhelmed by reading for long periods of time, what you need to do is read long. Because to overcome difficulties, you have to struggle with them. 

    A weightlifting athlete lifts heavy weights hundreds of times to lift the heaviest weight. So to read long texts without getting bored, you have to keep reading long texts even if you get bored.

  • How To Hack Your Reading Speed Easily and Read Faster

    How To Hack Your Reading Speed Easily and Read Faster

    Reading Speed – I read 2x faster than average readers with these techniques

    Reading Speed – More than a million words enter our lives every day. Magazines, newspapers, posters, and the books we want to read if we can find the time…

    Being in a limited time when there is so much to read, makes us either turn away from reading or cause us to be postponed.

    Well, is it possible to read quickly and intelligibly in this time constraint?

    What are speed reading techniques?

    How to increase reading speed?

    Here below I’m going to share easy and quick reading techniques

    • WHAT DOES SPEED READING DO?

    By strengthening and repeating fast reading techniques with exercises, a new reading habit is given to the eyes.

    The new reading habit is largely independent of the voice of the mind. Words are seen in blocks, not one by one, as in the old reading habit.

    The eyes move fluently on the lines, making fewer stop and hop movements.

    Since the data flow to the brain is fast, a more focused reading takes place by being less affected by external factors.

    With the action of reading with a high focus and fast, a more comfortable unity is established between the sentences, so the reader creates the structure of the text that reads more easily and understands it better than before.

    Since comfortable data flow is provided, long readings can be made without getting bored and distracted.

    All these increase the reader’s desire to read and strengthen the reading habit.

    • HOW TO START?

    “If you make reading a part of your daily work, you will have a chance to progress much faster.”

    The first thing you should do is test yourself and evaluate your reading skills.

    This means determining your initial reading speed and how much you remember from what you’ve read.

    • HOW TO DETECT THE READING SPEED?

    Most people read slowly because they have no idea how fast they actually read.

    It is necessary to test yourself with more than one book to know more about your reading ability.

    In this case, the second book should be the reverse of the first book.

    So if your first book is a non-fiction text, your second book should be a book like a novel or a biography.

    The reason for experimenting on more than one book is explained as the fact that people have more in one area than other areas and that it will not give an objective result as a reflection of this situation on reading speed.

    • 3 MINUTES ARE ENOUGH TO MEASURE SPEED

    Your reading speed;

    If it’s under 120 words per minute: You’re below the average reader.

    Between 120–180 words per minute: If you are not under the age of 16, your reading speed is below average.

    If it is between 180–240 words per minute: You are an average reader.

    If it is between 240–350 words per minute: You are an average reader at the academic level.

    Between 350–500 words per minute: You are above the average reader.

    If it’s more than 500 words per minute: You’re a high-level reader.

    • BE AWARE OF WHY YOU’RE READING

    To reinforce your reading purpose, you need to engage in reading designs.

    The stronger your reading intent, the greater your focus on the text.

    Therefore, reading with a high focus also affects the information and details you will get from the text.

    The information you will get from the texts you read with a low focus decreases as much and it also affects your reading desire towards the text.

    This causes you to return frequently while reading the text, and the information you understand remains limited even if you read the text to the end.

    • HOW TO DO THE READING EXERCISE?

    Choose any book that does not contain too many foreign words.

    Open any page of the book you have chosen and take a pen in your hand and hold it so that the pointed end of the pen is under the line. Start reading by following the pen.

    After a minute, double the speed of the pen and drive 2x your normal reading speed to follow the lines.

    But after 5 minutes, you will feel that your brain completes the words you missed and provides the integrity of meaning.

    • WHAT IS THE “ARER” TECHNIQUE?

    If you use the “ARER” technique, you will create a strong reading design.

    “ARER” technique is an abbreviation consisting of the initials of the words Ask, Read, Explain, Repeat, and is a reading design and comprehension technique.

    You should review and watch the book or text you are going to read before you start reading, watching should be for general information about the book.

    What the subject is, the message the author wants to give, and the fictional structure he creates while giving this message should be examined.

    To do this, the preface, the contents, headings, subtitles, italicized places, the first and last sentences of the paragraphs, the last pages and last sentences of the book, the photographs on the book, if any, the subject and chapters of the book give you a lot of information to get a preview of the book. It will help.

    • ASK

    After creating the general setup in your mind, it‘s time to ASK, It is not about creating a question about the book by summarizing the book.

    You can list all the questions that come to your mind as a result of watching. While creating the questions, on the one hand, think about the answers to the questions you have created and try to make predictions.

    To do this; The “WH-” rule will come in handy.

    WHAT? The question gives the subject.
    WHY? Gives purpose to questions.
    HOW? The question determines the method.
    WHERE? Determines the concepts of space and place.
    WHEN? Process concepts
    WHO? The question also determines the relevant and responsible persons.

    Asking questions will increase your focus and desire on the text you will read.

    After the monitoring and questioning process, new connection paths have already formed in your mind, your brain has now determined which parts of your mind will record the future detailed information.

    • READ

    When you start reading the book after watching and asking questions, the book will start to make a lot of sense to you from the first page.

    When you start reading, you will feel that you are reading with more focus, more detail, and better understanding.

    When reading, you should focus on ideas, not words. This will increase your reading speed and comprehension.

    • EXPLAIN

    Explaining is the best learning method. When you start to tell, your brain goes from passive to active and many parts of the brain are actively involved in the learning process.

    Thus, you associate your information with your life and make it a memory. The brain uses sounds, photos, and emotions to make memories.

    Memorized information is saved in permanent memory and is not easily forgotten.

    If you explain the information by converting the information into your own sentences, not the same sentences written in the text, you will learn more effectively, because people learn with their own sentences.

    • REPEAT

    If you do not repeat the information you have learned, you will forget most of it within a week and have difficulty remembering.

    To avoid this, you should do daily, weekly, monthly repetitions.

    You should do the learning process before sleep and repeat it in the first hours after sleep in the morning.

    Because what you keep your brain busy with before sleep, your brain is busy with that information during sleep.

    Learning continues during sleep, and information is analyzed and synthesized, and interpreted.

    What you did hard the day before will be much easier for you the next day. The first hours of the morning are when your mind is most active.

    The repetitions you will do during these hours are very effective.

    • YOU MUST EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY

    In order to be an effective and fast reader, you need to master grammar.

    Grammar and vocabulary deficiency is seen in people with poor reading backgrounds.

    In order to be able to recognize words easily and quickly, the symbolic equivalent of the words must be created in your mind beforehand.

    This has to do with how often you see words and sentence structures.

    The more you see a word, the easier it is to recognize it in your next reading.

    It is difficult for children who are new to reading or those who read little, to recognize words and sentence structures.

    This greatly reduces the reading speed.

    You can improve your vocabulary by reading books and magazines daily, regularly, but this is a time-consuming process.