Read Anything So Fast It's Almost Cheating

You've read the same paragraph four times tonight, and you're blaming your attention span or your phone. The problem is how you read: three specific spots, and none of them is about willpower. Here are three fixes you can test this week. Free one-page drill (no email required): https://drive.google.com/file/d/12kkm... Chapters 0:00 Same paragraph, fourth time 0:37 Step 1: Kill the regression 1:45 Step 2: Turn off the narrator 2:44 Step 3: Match your speed to the stakes 3:34 The drill, and the number that should bother you Try this today 1. Pace with a pen: a straight line under the words, a touch faster than comfortable. 2. Quiet the voice: on easy text, let the voice in your head get quieter. 3. Skim, then dive: headers, first lines and bold first, then slow down for the 2 or 3 sections that carry the argument. Test it for one week and keep what works. Sources Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics, launched 1959 (Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Evelyn Wood"). Rayner, K. (1998). Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 372–422. Further reading: Rayner, K., Schotter, E. R., Masson, M. E. J., Potter, M. C., & Treiman, R. (2016). So much to read, so little time: How do we read, and can speed reading help? Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 17(1), 4–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100615623267 Further reading: Duggan, G. B., & Payne, S. J. (2009). Text skimming: The process and effectiveness of foraging through text under time pressure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 15, 228–242. Forge Method: test the method, keep what works. #reading #studytips #productivity