Tips on How to manage time
Besides sleeping, what is it that many of us will be spending most of our time doing? Yes there is work but that’s not what I meant. I was talking about absorbing different forms of media, such as emails, books, podcasts, games, social media, YouTube videos, and the list goes on. It has now been shown that the general population now spends over 8 hours online.
There are a number of ways that you can improve your reading speeds and add some extra hours to your day that will be free to focus on other things. Over the course of your life, that’s way more than 10 000 hours you can dedicate to learning some new skills and talents, or to focus on making your career even better!
1. Utilize a Visual Pacer
Whenever you are reading, you should utilize a visual pacer to help you focus and concentrate. This means to run your finger, pen, or any other visual aid under each word as you read it. This will increase your reading speed from 25 to 50%, according to many speed reading and memory experts. You won’t be distracted so easily and won’t take in any extra words you are not supposed to be reading (try it now and you’ll see). Read a book or anything that you need to for a minute using your usual method. Count the lines that you managed to get completed and then try to do it using the method mentioned above. You’ll see a massive difference in your comprehension and focus.
2. Increase Your Awareness
If you train your peripheral vision, you can increase your speed by over 300%! To do this, you will simply read the first word of the line and the last, then move one word in from the beginning, and then from the end again. Continue this pattern until you have finished the paragraph and over time, you will see your periphery concentration increase.
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3. Utilize a White Noise App
Interruptions and distractions are the main cause of productivity in the workplace. More than 28% of the usual employee’s day is slowed due to distractions and interruptions. To fix this, download some white noise apps and listen to them while working on trying to focus on complicated tasks. Increase your reading ability by up to 30% with this method!
4. Skim Read Before the Full Read
As is the case with many fiction books, the stories have a introduction, middle, and conclusion, all leading you through a certain narrative. With non-fiction documents and books however, they don’t actually have to be read in order this way. By implementing the 80/20 principle, you can focus on the areas that will actually have more to do with your work than the rest. If you choose to skim read quickly through the information, you can improve your comprehension of what the detailed information will be explaining. To skim read:
- Read the summary or blurb on the book backing or online profile.
- Read a few paragraphs through random chapters, sentences, paragraphs, and passages for main themes.
- Read the index for topics, publications, and citations.
- Read the contents table
- Read the title and introduction/preface/prologue
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Utilize the Correct Tools With Media
Speed reading is more than just brain games and implementing certain techniques. It is also about using the right tools for different media sources in order to absorb audio and video speedily.
- Reading
- Spreed– Look at one area where the words total what you need to read per minute.
- Velocity/Speed Reader– Same thing as Spreed but with mobile devices.
- Listening
- Audible– Audiobooks for sale with a mobile app available to triple the speed of your reading.
- Watching
- Listening and Watching
- Podcast- Double your listening speed with the default app for iOS and others available through Android.
- Swift– YouTube and other website videos/audio is able to be sped up with this program.
