1. Vocabulary difficulties
Efficient and
concentrated speed reading relies upon a smooth flow of information with few
interruptions in understanding. Pauses to look up words or to ponder will break
your concentration and slow your understanding of the whole. If you come across
a word that you don’t understand when reading, rather than looking it up
straight away. Underline it and review it afterwards.
2.
Conceptual difficulties
If you don’t
really understand the concepts you are reading about, you will have difficulty
concentrating. To get past this obstacle, choose one of the guiding techniques
outlined and use skimming and scanning as ways of multiple reading the material
until it becomes familiar to you.
3.
Inappropriate reading speed
Many people
believe (because that is what they were thought) that reading things slowly and
carefully will help understanding and comprehension. This approach I actually
counter-productive and, far from aiding your brain, reading slowly will
actually slow it down. To check this out, try reading the following statement
exactly as it is laid out. Read it ‘slowly and carefully’.
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