How to improve your reading speed? There seems to be so much demanding attention these days, that grabbing a few minutes to read an article or an ebook seems to be more and more difficult.
But surely, improving your reading speed would be one of the most productive acts of self improvement that you could do? After all, it's not like you've got to go from not reading at all to rocket speed! If you're reading this, you're already doing the basics - the question is: How fast can we read? And how much improvement in reading speed is possible in a relatively short period of time.
Scouring the net, there's plenty of advice out there - and some novel solutions. But where to start?
I found this joke about rapid reading: "I have been speed reading War and Peace for ten minutes, ... It is about Russia." and also discovered:
- a common reading speed is only 200 words per minute
- comprehension at that speed is commonly only 60%
- 1% of us can read at 1000 words per minute!
- and comprehension tends to increase with reading speed.
- although you can get good short term improvements in reading speed from attending live seminars, the best long term improvements in reading speed comes from home study with a variety of reading exercises.
So now, I'm off to find something that can give me a speed reading boost in a month. Seems possible.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Improve Your Memory
I forgot my mother's dog's name today.
Again.
And that's a fairly simple name (I remember now - it's Sparky).
I really need to find a way to improve my memory. I think that will be the key to helping me in many other of my self-improvement goals, like improving my French and increasing my reading speed.
My target for tonight is to do some online searching and find some quality materials to help me improve my memory within the next month.
If a Professor tells me it's possible to improve my memory - I must be able to:
How to improve short term memory
Again.
And that's a fairly simple name (I remember now - it's Sparky).
I really need to find a way to improve my memory. I think that will be the key to helping me in many other of my self-improvement goals, like improving my French and increasing my reading speed.
My target for tonight is to do some online searching and find some quality materials to help me improve my memory within the next month.
If a Professor tells me it's possible to improve my memory - I must be able to:
How to improve short term memory
Things I want to improve
My typing speed
My memory
My reading speed
My ability to speak French
My ability to speak Spanish
My snooker
My appreciation of art
My income
My memory
My reading speed
My ability to speak French
My ability to speak Spanish
My snooker
My appreciation of art
My income
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