How to Speed Read Like Theodore Roosevelt

RuthSmisko 1 month, 1 week ago on Twitter

http://bit.ly/2z8PBc Reading: How to Speed Read Like Theodore Roosevelt. Tried spreeder.com to get through reading material fast..

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The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Bookshelf Edition | Frugal Living News 4 months ago on Wordpress

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Speeding My Reading… | The Fry Side 4 months ago on Wordpress

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Thad 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

I trained myself to speed read while an undergrad … it helped to have teachers assign 1000 pages of reading a week per class!

I am going to link to this for my current students who may need some help reading faster …

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Matt_Keever 4 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

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FrugalDad 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

After reading this post @artofmanliness at a snail's pace, I've dedicated weekend time to practice speed reading. http://bit.ly/Ywt0g

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The Simple Dollar » The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Bookshelf Edition 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

[...] How to Speed Read Like Theodore Roosevelt These are the techniques I use when I first read a document. Quite often, I’ll follow it up with more careful, slow reading when I’m trying to understand a specific point or topic. (@ art of manliness) [...]

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Daniel 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

Great article. And there have been some interesting and useful comments posted. I backtrack often. But that’s mainly because I have a difficult time comprehending what I’ve read. Any suggestions on that?

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antonio 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

funny how i was actually researching up this very topic for self improvement a few back to find it conveniently summarised here. nonetheless, thanks for the good article!

apart from the above gems, here are some others which might be useful to you and other readers:

1. many reading materials contain “filler” materials. filler materials just serve the purpose of bulking up the gist of the article. extract the crux of the article and briefly understand the fillers. you can return to them later if you so wish.

2. quality speed reading requires focus. abstain from multi-tasking. works for some, but i guess i dont belong to that “some”

3. people have different levels of comprehension and speed when it comes to different topics. technical information usually requires more time to devour as opposed to light topics. a person’s own interests and aptitude in the subject matter also do play a part. in short, speed reading is not a constant for all articles.

4. understand the basic structure of an article: title, subtitle, abstract, introduction, body, diagrams and figures, summary, appendices etc. it’s always useful to glimpse the summarised gist to get an overall understanding before dwelling it in deeper details. also, it’s very useful to read and understand diagrams first before reading the prose.

5. there are different levels of reading. “i’ve read this book” doesn’t need to apply to reading it only once. i enjoy glimpsing through a novel, and if i do enjoy it, i will consider a further more in depth read. if not, it shall pass. extracting the gems of an article doesnt need to be once. quite on the contrary, you extract some gems through multiple re-reads and revision. there’s always hidden gems that you failed to uncover or appreciate (at that point in time) that you can find upon re-reading (or revising a textbook)

6. treat reading like watching a movie — you can rewind what you missed. in other words, eliminate back skip. it’s a good method to accustom yourself to this generally time wasting habit. you can make exceptions if it’s technical matter or something critical to understanding of the entire prose.

7. imagine your reading focus as a circle. main focus in the centre and it’s peripheral vision near the circumference. practice reading all the words in this circle of focus, and slowly improve on expanding the circle.

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Alex Chebykin 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

Wonderful article in that it inspired me to learn a new skill.

I did some searching and stumbled upon a program called Mental Photographing. As far as I understand it, it it s similar to speed reading in that it allows you to read a lot faster. The creator claims it increases reading speed to anywhere from 25,000 wmp to 100,000 wpm, which sounds impossible.

I am almost sure that its a hoax, but just to be certain I want to ask the respectable members of this community if they know anything about mental photographing. Did anyone use mental photographing and find it useful? Or is it just a scam? ... See all content Hide content

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PostGradApts 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

LIFE: How to speed read the crap out of your work documents. http://ow.ly/vfim

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Sir Lancelot 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

“I used to speed read when I was growing up but the Internet ruined my concentration. (fast, quick information). I need to get back into it. It was a lot of fun to knock back a bunch of books in a day.”

What this man said. The Internet has made me cut back my “actual” reading. The possibility of accessing endless sources on information at a click of the mouse is too tempting and makes it harder to pick a book and singlemindedly focus on it ... See all content Hide content

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How to Speed Read Like Theodore Roosevelt | The Art of Manliness | NonFictionArea.Com 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

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Owen 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Interesting article and some good comments – but some bad ones too.

Contrary to the stated opinion in one of the comments, research shows that speed readers retain MORE information from what they have read than non speed readers.

I went to school in England and we actually were given a speed reading class at one point – about ten lessons total. I was already a fast reader but it absolutely helped.

Continual practice really helps. I am slower now than I was but I can still knock off a book a day outside of my regular work hours etc.

Speed reading works best for non fiction where ideas are usually expressed in concrete bursts. Novels are harder and complex literary novels where the writing is deliberately complex are harder still.

Also, most established speed reading techniques are good for books – NOT for screens. ... See all content Hide content

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Jackson 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

I don’t know if I like the idea of speed reading. You might be able to retain information while speed reading, but reading isn’t simply a one-way street. I feel like most of my time reading is spent contemplating and interacting with what I’m reading as I’m reading it.

Language is full of subtleties that deserve time and thought, not a simple glossing over for explicit meaning.

I value reading tremendously, but I value the quality of my reading over the quantity of books I consume. ... See all content Hide content

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Rich 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

A few important steps

1. State a purpose for reading this book

2. read the front, back covers, preface and the TOC

3. List 10 questions you want to learn the answer of while reading this book.

4. Read as fast as you can.

5. When you complete the book reaffirm the reason why you read the book.

6. What about 20 minutes to let your subconscious work on the book.

7. Answer your questions..

To speed read PDF’s with Adobe Reader

Click on Edit

Click on Preferences

Click on Advance every _ seconds ( fill in the _ ) ... See all content Hide content

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Z. J. Kendall 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Definitely people need training in, but everyone is going to cap out at some point based on their capacity. TR had a special brain. I’ve done quite a bit of speed reading learning (via article’s and such on the internet) and I can read light material (mostly fiction) between 400 and 500 WPM but, most stuff I want to take slower so I can grapple with what is being said.

A highly recommended book is How To Read a Book by Alder. ... See all content Hide content

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In Light of the Gospel » Blog Archive » Speed Reading 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

[...] you need to speed read. I noticed that the Art of Manliness posted a summary of how to speed read here. Of course this is not just for men, but they did use Theodore Roosevelt as an [...]

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Jason Y 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Thanks for the post!

One speed-reading technique I read about is to sweep your finger from the upper-lefthand corner of a paragraph to the lower-left hand corner and somehow see all the words along the way with your peripheral vision. This sounds almost superhuman to me!

Speed reading seems to be as amazing of a learning-empowering tip as googling everything you don’t know! Amazing!

Any tips on speed reading with a computer? Using my finger against the computer screen gives me a headache! ... See all content Hide content

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Luis Q 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Very nice article. I think reading is one of the most important things a man ( and a woman) can do with their time. It changes the way you see things and you can be a person that can interact with lots of different individuals.

Thanks!

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lady brett 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

i saw this really neat little example of reading comprehension once in college (i can’t find an example of it online though). it was a few sentences explaining that we don’t typically “use” all of the letters in a word to read that word – and it was all written with only about half of the correct letters. the words were the right length, but some of the letters in each word would be replaced by random other letters. it was slightly slower work, but it was very surprising how easy it was to read and understand, given that it looked like complete gibberish.

anyhow, that bizarre experiment went a long way in convincing me how much our brains really can understand, and it seems like a good example of the way you can comprehend even when you are speed reading. ... See all content Hide content

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iMark 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Thanks for the tip on sub-vocalization. It is very hard to not sub-vocalize.

I would love to get through the books I am behind on!

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theOptimalblog 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

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John Keener 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

I use a free offline program called WordFlashReader. It can be downloaded from http://wordflashreader.sourceforge.net/. As your reading skills improve, the speed and “chunking” can be set manually. The program will also give you reading statistics, such as average speed and word count. You can also check out the wiki on “Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP)”. It will give you links to other programs of this type, including Spreeder. ... See all content Hide content

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tomlothian 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

Theodore Roosevelt was a speed reader. http://bit.ly/1VuB1A From the @artofmanliness

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Shane 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

This is great advice, the best book I’ve read on the subject is called “Reading Smart” from The Princeton Review. The focal points it references under “Use your peripheral vision” are called saccades. This book goes into depth about using these to increase your peripheral vision reading. It’s quite awkward at first, and slow, but after a while it becomes natural and you’re flying along. ... See all content Hide content

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Chris 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

I’m a pretty slow reader compared to most. So this was definitely useful. Only thing that I have to say about this is that my English teacher always told us that if we truly needed to learn someone, and memorize it, it was always better to Subvocalize, or “Milli Vanilli it” as he would say. Thanks for the tips.

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Gaurav 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Convert yourself into a high speed word scanning machine and engulf a line at the speed of light.

Whatever efforts put in this direction will help to reach *Somewhere*

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Brendan White 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

This is a blog that I rarely “Read” because the posts tend to be so long (of the 30 blogs in my RSS feed its this one and Steven Novella’s blog that don’t get read), I hope to use spreeder to read your posts in the future, because I do so much like what you have to say.

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Brew 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Sure, quantity is sometimes a priority, but who wants to crawl into bed after a long day’s work and relax with some speedreading? I sometimes prefer to mosey through a well-crafted novel. Also be warned that much less is comprehended when speed reading. To devour words like T.R. and gain a working knowledge, especially capable of quoting, says more about him than the technique. He also understood several languages, as I recall. ... See all content Hide content

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Luke - AspiringGentleman 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Very cool! I put the whole article in spreeder and read it in no time. Definitely something I want to work on.

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brettmckay 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

@adampash Theodore Roosevelt devoured books with his brain and so can you: http://bit.ly/1VuB1A

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RitualMensGroom 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

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jonathan frei 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Thanks for this. One of my goals has been to read more book, but my sluggish reading has put that on the back burner. Hopefully I’ll be able to use a few of these to pick up the pace.

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miss_morgan 4 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

Awesome article on speed reading: @artofmanliness http://artofmanliness.com/ipFY

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