Speed reading memorization techniques range from simple improvement in comprehension to powerful photographic memory. Generally speaking, speed reading will always improve your memory skills. When reading larger blocks of information instead of every word, our brain is quicker to understand and process the information, therefore committing it to memory more easily.
Get up and walk around, get a coffee, draw a picture, count your pocket change – anything. Then pick up the document again and take up from where you left off. Perhaps the best general advice is: Do not mix play and work. When it is time to work, work hard. Apply yourself to your task and keep going as long as you can give the job full attention. But if there is more work remaining to be done, make the rest period short. It is surprising how quickly you can refresh your mind by turning to something entirely different for a few minutes.
Speed reading helps, but it also has other potential issues and challenges because if we speed read a lot and spend our days soaking up information we eventually find our minds dreaming we are reading where our dreams often consist of us scanning a page of type, on a computer screen or in a book. In fact, whatever you do a lot of is something that you will eventually be dreaming about, and many who’ve taken speed reading classes tell us that they have had such dreams also. Speed reading is the same way, a person who is new to free online speed reading can not be expected to be able to read thousands of words a minute, but instead what happens is you start of with setting yourself small manageable amounts and over time push yourself to reading more and more in the same amount of time. Comprehension also suffers if the average Internet surfer is clicking from website to website reading half a paragraph here and half of one there.
Every college student wishes they could read faster, who can blame them, as there are tests to prepare for and endless reading assignments. The work load was truly insane. I had to develop my own techniques and do whatever worked. Now that I am retired, I use this same technique when reading white papers and research reports, or even eBook, blogs, or articles online. It is never easy to read all we have to read and it’s too bad more of us are not well-studied in speed reading techniques, especially Congressmen and their staffers that have to read through Omnibus spending bills in impossible over-night like time periods.
