This is the most effective way to learn

Chapter 51 Developing the Habit of Effective Reading

Our learning is inseparable from reading, and even we are doing reading activities every day: reading books, reading newspapers, browsing the web... How to effectively collect and extract useful information is the need of the times. The "knowledge explosion" forces us to increase our reading speed, and absorbing a lot of knowledge has become the dream of modern people.But our reading speed is simply too slow.

Improving reading speed has become the need of the times!
Quick reading brings a lot of knowledge and information.

Read quickly and set aside more time to devote yourself to social practice.

Time is money, and the speed reading method is our "cash cow".

"Efficient reading method" refers to how to use efficient reading skills to improve reading efficiency.

According to the experimental observations of psychologists, in the process of reading, the eyeballs do not move continuously along each word, but often pause the eyeballs, that is, grab some words and read them quietly before moving to other words .Reading is a series of rapid jerks of eye movement.Words and sentences can only be perceived when the eyeballs stop looking. [-]% to [-]% of the time in the reading process belongs to eyeball stopping, and eye movement only accounts for [-]% to [-]% of the total reading time.The size of the text information obtained by each eye stop is related to the visual breadth. For those with a large visual breadth, [-] to [-] characters can be seen, while for the small ones, only [-] to [-] words can be seen. Sometimes a word needs [-] to [-] fixations , Sometimes it is necessary to look back repeatedly. The more times you look back, the more time it takes.

The difference between fast reading and slow reading does not lie in the speed of eye movement, but in the material seen when the eyes are fixed. Experiments show that the two (equal intelligence and comprehension) have the same total amount of eye fixation in the same time, and the amount of reading is equal. The vocabulary of speed reading is [-] times that of slow reading.Such as vertical jumping, silent reading, that is to speed up the number of eyeball twitches, increase the range of eyeball twitches, and widen the distance between gaze points, so that a large amount of information can be collected.This kind of jumping reading method is a silent reading method, which directly transmits the text to the brain from the visual nerve, reduces the external pronunciation program, (the speed of silent reading is twice as fast as that of audio reading), and at the same time reduces the number of fixations and increases the breadth of vision.

Generally, traditional reading is reading words, words, and sentences, and reading line by line from left to right. Because it is reading word by word, reading aloud and silently, and repeatedly looking back and reading backwards, the time is slowed down.Efficient reading is not reading word by word, but gazing at more words at a time, reducing the number of fixations, expanding the breadth of vision, grasping more text information when the eyeball stops, and reducing the number of back gazes.Efficient reading adopts conceptual reading, grasps the main points, and wins a large amount of reading in less time.

There are methodological and technical issues in reading speed, which are related to a person's knowledge level, structure, ability, and cultural accomplishment.Every book and every article has a reading point, so we must correctly allocate our attention and focus on the key substantive issues.Don't focus on perceiving the structure of the article, which can improve the comprehension coefficient by [-]% to [-]%.

There are many methods of efficient reading, such as pre-reading, skimming, skipping, out-of-order reading, cross-reading, reverse reading, etc.

How to Cultivate the Habit of Efficient Reading

So what should we do?

(1) Do not browse repeatedly.For any technical reading material, you generally only need to read it along the way.If necessary, wait until you have read the entire passage before going back and repeating something.Avoid constantly rolling your eyes back and forth.

(2) Use the "screening" reading method.Consciously read for the information you need for your major.

(3) Read silently, not aloud.Reading aloud is the enemy of the fast method.

(4) When reading, the line of sight should be perpendicular to the reading material, and the "peripheral vision" function of the line of sight should be fully utilized to see more content.

(5) Read attentively.Speed ​​reading must have "intensified" attention.

(6) Advocate reading with understanding.When reading, grasp the substantive key words.The essence of the content of the reading material is the key point that should be understood when reading.To understand is to explore the ideological meaning of the reading.

(7) In reading, use the basic method of essential memory to memorize purposefully.Don't have to memorize irrelevant words and sentences, but remember the author's intention and content.

Cultivate efficient reading habits and enter a new learning style

All in all, whether it is reading or memorizing the content of the reading, it is necessary to use the "efficient reading method" for scientific training and self-training in accordance with the fast-paced spirit of the times.

For example, how to maintain a high concentration of attention in reading, how to make the movement of the eyes fast and capture more useful information during reading, how to improve the ability to synthesize and summarize different types of reading content, how to improve the ability of reading Analyze them from time to time, how to quickly enter the writing intention and thought content of the reading object, how to overcome the bad habit of reading slowly and repeatedly, how to overcome the fear and unconfident attitude when reading... ...all kinds of things.

In fact, a series of adjustments from reading habits to reading skills, from reading mentality to reading goals require a whole set of scientific training.Many books that introduce memory and reading skills explain that efficient reading training must start with practical and systematic training, with special emphasis on systematic, scientific and practical training and training.We must change such a deep-rooted concept that the slower you read, the better you will understand the meaning of the article, and the better you will remember it.Just like emphasizing the need to chew slowly when eating.Scientific analysis has long pointed out that the faster you read, the better you can understand.When we use the efficient reading method to learn to read fast, we have already started a new way of learning.

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