Reasons Not to Take a Speed Reading Course
The idea of speed reading is to be able to skim rapidly through information and grab out all the important bits. It sounds great, especially if you have a lot of paperwork to do at the office. It could be really handy when you are trying to find a specific piece of information that you know is somewhere in the book, or search for a particular verse in the Bible.
There are downsides to speed reading as well. Skimming, while useful at times, is also a great way to miss important pieces of information. Sure, you might pick up the gist of the article or book that you are skimming, but are you really absorbing the meaning when you flip through at 1,000 words a minute? There might be a line that changes the entire meaning of the page, and if you miss it, you miss the entire point!
Enjoying reading for reading's sake is a lost art once you have taken a speed reading course. You will never look at a novel in the same way again. That's because most people, after learning to speed read, find themselves doing it all the time, even when they are trying to read for pleasure. You may finish the latest Harry Potter book in just a couple of hours, but that doesn't mean you will have enjoyed it to the fullest. In these cases, it's better to calm down and read slowly, something that is much more difficult to do once you have learned to speed read.
Another disadvantage to speed reading is that it can be tiring. It's hard for the brain to process information at 10% the normal rate. While you may be more efficient in skimming through paperwork, you might also have to take more breaks so your brain can actually process all of that information that you are feeding it.
Speed reading is good in a few ways, but you need to weigh the pros and the cons before you decide that you need to read ten times faster!
Published by Nila Andreas
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1 Comments
Post a CommentI'm an avid reader - I would go insane without at least 2 books a day. But I'm also a proponent of speed reading. For me I have pieces of a book that don't interest me as much - so I speed through them. I think in certain instances speed reading is fine, but I also think not everyone is capable of pulling out tone and implications while speed reading. So maybe we should classify a persons ability to speed read, rather than putting the process down entirely.