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Kareem Carr | Data Scientist | 📊📈 @kareem_carr

TEN TIPS ON HOW TO SPEED READ: One of the most valuable classes I took at Harvard was a short course on speed reading. Here's what I learned: pic.twitter.com/wQthhBSgfs

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Kareem Carr | Data Scientist | 📊📈 @kareem_carr

1. Minimize Fixations Fixations are all the positions where your eyes stop as you're scanning a line of text. Minimize these by read words in chunks. Don't focus on just one word at a time. Broaden your focus so you're always taking in multiple words at once. pic.twitter.com/cobgtkQ71q

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2. Avoid Regressions. "Regression" is a technical term for going back and reading stuff you just read. It's normal to feel like you need to do this but you don't. It's hard but you have to force yourself to keep pushing forward, and eventually the urge to regress will go away. pic.twitter.com/LEb7c1U7lT

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3. Avoid Subvocalization Subvocalization is the habit of sounding words out while you read which many people do without realizing. Since we can think much faster than we can talk, this can really slow us down. One trick for disrupting this habit is to chew gum while reading.

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The three skills we've discussed so far are the core physical skills you need for speed reading. It's best to practice them all simultaneously. Here's how:

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Take something low-stakes like a magazine article and push yourself through to read it as fast as you can while maintaining minimal comprehension. If you can say roughly what the main point of the article is at the end, without too many details, that's a good speed.

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If you keep practicing reading at that speed, further comprehension will come with time.

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4. Pre-read the book This is one of my favorite tips. The absolute fastest way to read is to predict the next word before your eyes even see it. How can you do this? By pre-reading the information dense parts of the book which primes your brain to see the patterns in the text.

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What are the information dense areas? An acronym to help you remember is THIEVES: Title Headings Introduction Emphasized words (eg. bold and italicized words) Visual Aids End of Chapter Questions Summary

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5. Set your intentions Explicitly state to yourself what your purpose in reading the book is. This gives your brain relevant context for seeking patterns. It's similar to the way that thinking about the color red suddenly makes red things stand out in your environment.

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6. Adjust your speed Unskilled readers read everything at the same pace. Avoid that. Read simple ideas faster than complex ideas, familiar ideas faster than the unfamiliar ideas, and unimportant ideas faster than important ideas.

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7. Adjust your Mindset Most people think "reading" a book is just about passing your eyes over the words in a text. This mindset is a barrier to faster reading. The main goal of reading is actually to *extract* information.

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We've all had the experience of spending several minutes "reading" a book only to realize we neither remember nor understood anything we saw. We extracted zero information from the text.

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We've all also read books that should have been a blog post or pamphlet. If we can efficiently extract that information while only looking at 20% of the book then we're much better off than the person that "read" 100% of the book but remembers none of it.

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8. Focus on the main points not details Most sentences are packed full of details which only exist so that you can get the main point. Once you've grasped the main point, those details are much less important. The goal is to the see the forest not the trees.