Learn To Speed Read

So you have decided to learn to speed read. Where do you find the best course? A good speed reading course should teach you all the techniques you need to master the skill.

There are three main ways to learn to speed read. Remember, which ever course you choose you will have to practice until the techniques become habit.

1. Go on a course or seminar. Speed reading is not a difficult skill to learn. As a result there are short courses which will teach you all the techniques you need. These are often held in hotels and last for a couple of days or sessions. The purpose of these courses is to inspire you and to teach you the basic techniques. You will have to follow up and complete the exercises at the end of the course or the skills will not be properly remembered and then they will be hard to implement.

2. Find an online course to complete. These consist of downloadable material. There will be lectures which you can listen to or watch in your own time, and exercises to complete at the end of each section. It is important to complete each exercise in the correct order or you may find it hard to complete the course. Although the exercises cannot be marked there will a guide to let you know how successfully you completed them.

3. Read a book. The library and Amazon are full of books ready to help you learn to speed read. These are fine, but you have to be committed. There is no one to cajole you when you are bored. There is no one to inspire you with all you achieve with your new skill. There is only yourself to make you turn to the next page. This is a perfectly good way to learn to speed read, but it is harder.

The costs of learning to speed read obviously vary, from nothing at all (a book from the library) to quite expensive seminars in luxury hotels. If you are working it is worth discussing the courses with your boss to see if they would be interested in helping with the fees. Equally, if you are a student you may find that there is extra funding available for additional courses outside your specialized subject.

Remember that learning to speed read will create more time for you to do other things. If you are to sort of person who writes lists of tasks to do each day, think how great it would be if you completed them every day.