How to read 10 books in 2 days: a technique of fast reading without training
Books / / December 19, 2019
What you need to start
To start, prepare a list of books, and then sort them by topic. In one sitting it is recommended to read the books of one subject. You can add one or two books on a similar theme, but diverge in opposite directions is not necessary. At least at the beginning of practice.
How to choose a book
Equipment for reading literature, non-fikshen: business books, self-development, Psychology and other scientific and popular publications and information. If you do not know what to read, take ideas from collections on the web. Go to the forums or in the direction of the community of interest, usually there is a theme to the list of references. The easiest option: go to the bookstore directory or application and view popular books. Help is also a selection of new products from publishers, book tops bestseller lists.
Where to get the book
If you want to book is not in the home library, you have two options.
1. Go to the bookstore and find the shelf with the right topic
fast reading masters advise to read books in the store and better standing. Ostensibly so quickly assimilate information. If you do not want to check this assertion, it is possible to sit down, the benefit in many bookstores have a seat.
2. Training on e-books
The usual practice speed reading is not advised to read from the screen. It is believed that the paper edition is easier to read quickly. I do not share this opinion and successfully "swallow" electronic books.
I recommend download-reader app with a monthly subscription. In such applications, there is a free trial period, and then the rate is not higher than the cost of one or two books. Reading 50-60 books a month, you will be compensated by subscription.
Day One: rapid acquaintance with books
Go to the bookstore, get a book from home shelves, or open the file in an application. On the first day, scroll to a maximum of 15 minutes for each book. On some books will go 20-25 minutes, for others enough for 8-10 minutes.
Open the book and try to "soak up" its structure. Read the text on the flyleaf, consider the cover. Carefully read the table of contents. If you need specific information or a solution to the problem, focus on finding the answer.
Take a pencil and mark using the extractor in the reader is especially interested in the topic. If you're reading in a bookstore or library, make notes in a notebook or application notes. Choose topics that interest you right now, solve the task. Do not seek to accommodate as much information as possible.
Further, 15 minutes, try to flip through the whole book, read the headers, sidebars grasp the basic meaning of each chapter. Read necessarily all that is in bold, check labels and lists.
At the first stage the main task - to understand what is written in the book, and where is this information.
Think for yourself how much water in the book, and how many useful and new. If you follow the genre of non-fikshen, you know that almost every book is a third of the stories about the personal life of the author, numerous examples, biographical information and minor details. If you want to cover a lot of books in a short period, this information should be filtered. Focus on main ideas, thoughts, advice, try to get to the bottom.
Write reviews
After review each book and will understand that from it can be removed, leave reviews. I recommend to jump around on the reviews of previous readers - they can learn something new.
Note: do not need to strive to write a full review, you need emotional evaluation of the new book.
Evaluation creates a certain label conscious. Review - a "check mark", which says that you are familiar with the book, and now she is not a stranger to you.
Do not be lazy, comment and put the assessment. If you do not want to publicly express their opinions, make notes for yourself, write down thoughts about the book, rate it on a 10-point scale.
Day Two: read only the main
The next day, when the information settles in the head, are introduced to close the books. Not all books will be held the first day of the second stage. Often, cover, abstract and the title attractive, but inside there is nothing new and useful. Or the style of the author's off-putting.
Feel free to throw away the book that are not liked at once: the first impression, probably not cheating. If the book really useful and important, you will meet more with it.
The selected books to read chapters that particularly attracted us and carry the most interesting and important information. Many people believe that you need to read the book strictly from start to finish, in order of chapters. It's a delusion. Read only those chapters that you can not wait to explore. Emphasizes the fun (if you're reading in the store, write down from memory at home, that you particularly remember from these chapters, what questions did you find the answers).
If the book is interesting and completely each chapter it is useful - set it aside and read the whole thing. Such books are very rare. In the first months of practice - 3-4 books a month, then - less.
How to study the most interesting books
Those books that you have selected as the most interesting and important, can be read in full. A good way to remember and organize the main thing - to do mind map (Mind map) for each chapter. If you love to work with pen and paper, write a brief summary. Try not to be counted, no matter how exciting a book. Set yourself a time limit for each chapter and limit the days that you want to spend on the book as a whole. Personally, I make a small summary of 10-12 chapters 2 hours.
When you're done, write a review more developed than in the first day of practice. Separately, list the pros and cons of the book, put the estimate.
Tips from personal experience
1. Get rid of stereotypes about reading
You do not have to read the book from the first to the last page. It does not matter how much time you spend reading and how many sheets overpower. Practice shows that the 15-minute introduction to the book often leaves in the head as much information as you have left to read all chapters in a row in the last month.
2. Do not try to remember everything you read or memorize the book
The main purpose - to extract information as needed, and do not know everything by heart.
3. If the head is buzzing on a quick read - it is scary
Do not give up and do not drop the practice. At first this will happen, this is not unusual, it does not mean that you are doing something wrong. Just let the information settle down.
4. In parallel, read a fiction book slowly and with relish
Find a book that brings you pleasure. Unhurried reading interesting fiction - excellent contrast and rest for the brain.
The result of a two-day practice
Follow the instructions and advice for the two days you will be able to:
- view 10 books, choose the best and get to know them closer;
- read basic information, to grasp the main points of each book;
- identify the most useful and make a mark for themselves;
- soak up the structure of the book, and easily navigate to it the next time, find the right information without any problems;
- Remember and learn from each book as much as if you were reading it for a month, and from cover to cover.
Tell us in the comments, how many books do you read per month and why you want to increase this number a few times?