Chapter 1. Who needs speed reading and why?

Quite possibly, stumbling on this manual online, you will ask a logical question, why study speed reading, if for my activities I have enough studying several books in a year and one magazine and several newspapers per month?

Let's analyze the flow of information daily passing through our worldview. According to information experts, the material on the web is updated almost every second. Every day, scientists make a breakthrough in a particular area. Data is growing exponentially. Track updated data is becoming increasingly difficult. It is necessary to create a base for the absorption and productive assimilation of large flows of text messages. This can be done throughout life. Consider each stage separately.

For example, you are a student or a future applicant. At this interval of age, the brain is the most flexible for the formation of skills, the implementation of which will develop in the future. The foundation can be laid now! Effective speed reading helps not only to quickly learn school literature or materials for admission, but also to assimilate, and most importantly, to memorize the necessary knowledge in the shortest possible time.

Already in the third and fourth grades, slow reading is formed and, if it is not developed, you can get stuck for a long time at this level!

And now, having come out of your own alma mater, you see before you an immense field of activity in which you are going to make a revolution. You are a young specialist with a huge suitcase of knowledge and skills, but are you ready for real life?

Back in the middle of the last century, workers who could perform their function well – to process material or reduce debit with credit were considered the most valuable specialists. Most of today's professions contain a wide field of industry knowledge. Marketers need to understand foreign policy, and the knowledge of several foreign languages can be useful to the medical profession.

The future does not come tomorrow. Your future is what you do today.

Usually most of companies offer their employees internal training that extends over several months. How much faster you can join the workflow, if the material is mastered in just a couple of days!

Psychologists have proven that after five years of being in the workplace, the process of professional burnout begins. The work seems boring, monotonous, uninteresting. Many factors are annoying. First of all, it concerns informational stagnation – the brain receives the same amount of similar data every day and begins to “starve”.

Before it was enough to graduate, and the knowledge gained was sufficient until retirement. Currently, to be in trend, you need to constantly improve and obtain new knowledge. Without quick mastering of information, becoming successful is quite difficult.

Speed reading skills help to correct this situation – the quick processing of new material in a particular area will force you to rethink the experience gained and make significant progress in an already familiar professional environment. Thanks to the flow of information, you get a significant head start in front to your employees and increase the chance of getting a promotion several times!

It is all the more difficult to remain in leadership positions, because without a daily analysis of recent surveys, without developing new management concepts and without studying the competing environment, moving up is almost impossible. Accepting and working through this information, you will see how much wider you start to think about, which facets open for you in terms of development.

Do you like to read? How much do you like to read? Do you not part with a paper or e-book, even in the subway? On a day off, are you organizing marathons to swallow your favorite pieces? Properly assimilated speed reading will help you to penetrate Bukowski’s volume in one weekend, read Dan Brown’s novel, know the denouement of the detective masterpiece from Conan Doyle in one gulp.

Speed reading at all stages of life brings what we crave the most – self-reliance. Each page read becomes one more step to the top of our capabilities. Memorizing and processing information, you learn, and, as you know, knowledge is an endless process.

As soon as you start working with exercises, you will realize how much the pace of your life has increased. The quality of your mind will make you move at a new speed. Many things will leave your life – lounge procrastination, lazy evenings on weekdays, sluggish weekends, endless watching TV series.

And you should not be afraid of change. Together with the speed reading skill, you will get much more – a chance to improve the productivity of life, to achieve your goals, to be not a victim of circumstances that you think interfere with the fulfillment of a dream, but to be the coordinator on the way to reaching the top.

It’s easy to change life, but it’s hard to start.