W hether you’re an avid reader or read only when necessary, speed reading helps you get through your reading material not just faster but more efficiently as well.
With today’s hectic lifestyle, speed reading is fast becoming a necessity rather than a leisurely option and the team at Soundway Efficient Speed Reading™ has the expertise to guide you with proven speed reading techniques.
There are numerous benefits of speed reading and the following five reasons sum up some of the more prominent ones.
1. Improved Memory
It’s an overlooked fact that the brain is like a muscle. If that’s the case, then the brain, like other muscles in your body that can be molded and shaped in the gym, can also be exercised and trained in its own way. A good way to do this is to constantly program the brain to read and analyze information at a quicker pace. You can think of speed reading as a brain gym! When the brain learns to work faster with speed reading, it also learns to retain information better which leads to an improved memory.
2. Better Focus
The average reading speed is around 200 words per minute (wpm). However seasoned speed readers are easily able to read exceeding 1000 wpm! This proves the point on speed reading and its connection to better focus—the average reader tends to get easily distracted while reading, letting their minds wander and thereby not maintaining focus while they read. Hence, the low word count of 200 wpm. Speed readers on the other hand have a heightened sense of focus that allows them to read and understand vast amounts of text quickly. Once the brain is used to being focused on reading it will apply that to other areas of life as well.
Speed readers have a heightened sense of focus, allowing them to read/understand text quickly. Click To Tweet3. Improved Logic and Problem-solving Skills
As mentioned earlier, speed reading is an exercise for your brain. The faster and stronger your brain muscles are, the more efficient your thinking pattern and mental processing become. You find yourself more adept at sorting information and finding correlations to various bits of data you come across, and this is what boosts your power of logic and problem-solving skills.
4. Enhanced Self-Confidence
The overall improvement of your memory and focus, as well as having greater knowledge arising from your speedier reading prowess, does wonders for your self-esteem. You feel you can learn just about any topic quickly and with ease. When your intellect improves, you find you also suddenly have more options in life, and as you achieve more, you benefit more—your self-confidence skyrockets once again, and the cycle continues in an onward and upward motion.
When your intellect improves, you find you also suddenly have more options in life. Click To Tweet5. Emotional Well-being
It is generally a very relaxing activity, which not only brings the world to the reader through the pages of a book, but also opens up their intellect, creativity, and imagination. This is an excellent stress repellant as it gives your mind a breather from worries and negative thoughts. When you read faster and get more absorbed with the material you are reading, you become focused and engrossed with the information in front of you. This is called active-meditation which means a meditative state achieved through an activity. As we know, meditation is great a stress-reliever that fosters emotional well-being.
When you speed read, your time spent on any reading, becomes far more productive as you cover greater content in a shorter period of time plus your focus, absorption and information retention rate increases exponentially. These great benefits are bound to help you find greater success in both your career and your personal life.
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