Speed Reading is Bullshit

Post by ldonley » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 1:38 PM UTC

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If there are techniques available, generally not thaught in school, that speed up reading quite easily. Why not call that speed reading? Perhaps x10 is not attainable to most (if any), but +50% is a massive time saver for anyone. Same goes for mnemonics. The easy tricks are pretty easy to learn and worked for me as well (remembering lists by visualizing a house with rooms). Might have been natural to you, but a learn…

I agree, if you speed up by 50% I guess that's an speed improvement... as for mnemonic techniques I've learned them from books, didn't cost me more than £50 and three months of 2 hours practice per week. Roman Room (remembering lists by visualizing a house with rooms) is one of more popular ones. The other popular one is 'chain' method where you remember just one element connecting to another and this leads you to wh…

Post by andyy » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:58 PM UTC

ldonley wrote: post #11

andyy wrote: post #9

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I agree, if you speed up by 50% I guess that's an speed improvement... as for mnemonic techniques I've learned them from books, didn't cost me more than £50 and three months of 2 hours practice per week. Roman Room (remembering lists by visualizing a house with rooms) is one of more popular ones. The other popular one is 'chain' method where you remember just one element connecting to another and this leads you to wh…

Do you have any book recommendations for these techniques? I tried the "memory palace" or the method of loci and had a small degree of success, but never found it practical. I'd love to give it another go though.