Below we will examine some of the reasons why someone may want to read faster and, more pertinently, why they may need to read faster. To conclude, we’ll also look at some of the professional astrologer for personal chart reading that can be adopted so that you can actually read faster.
(a) Why you would want to read faster
When we are children, adults try to relay to us that reading is a pleasure that we should take care and time over. We might also be told that in order to fully understand what we are reading, we need to take time over the written word – save we may misconstrue what the author intended. When we reach adolescence, however, we find we’re in for a rude awakening!
Reading is for educational purposes: and if we want to improve our minds, we had better be prepared to do a lot of it!
The need to read lots of information and data is probably the biggest reason why we want to have the skills to read faster. There are simply not enough hours in a day for us to have the luxury of reading everything at a leisurely pace; we must push the frontiers of our reading speed and ever increase this as we get older. To do otherwise means that we have to spend copious amounts of time reading text that could have been utilized in ways (possibly) more enjoyable than reading – such as spending time with the family, or watching television.
(b) Why people need to read faster
The reason why people need to read faster is actually tied-up with the reason why people want to read faster – the sheer amount of information that we need to read these days.
Although sales of novels have fallen year-on-year for over a generation now, the various different mediums we have for reading have increased. Indeed, the Internet alone provides us with a reading medium that we would unlikely be able to complete even if we spend the rest of our life trying to do it!
Moreover, today, more and more of us are required to read very in-depth, complex, reports as part of our day-to-day work: for which we simply do not have the luxury of a couple of days. Work related reading material generally means having to turnaround the reading time as quickly as possible. It is usually for this reason that those of us who have not undertaken a speed reading course by the time we enter the workforce rush out shortly thereafter to do so.
(c) Methods of reading faster
If you find that you are one of those people who would like to be able to read faster, the following are some useful tips that you can adopt in your pursuit of speed reading:
(i) Preparation
A large part of being able to read faster lies on your preparation. Here, before you start to read that thick business report, give it the once over (i.e., skim read it), see how long the report is, try to grasp the main points being conveyed in the report – you can usually do this by looking at the headings, subheadings and index – then take a deep breath and plunge into your speed reading mode. When you adopt some of the other methods listed below, you’ll usually find that knowing a little of what to expect next will greatly enhance your ability to read faster.