Nowadays, the information overloaded society in which we live forces all of us to face a huge amount of information that requires a lot of time. Read faster can help us to preliminary detect the useful information and to go more quickly through them saving time. For this reason, speed reading is a skill that everybody should learn to be more comfortable and more productive in our modern society.
In this TEDx video Jordan Harry CEO of StudyFast gives some practical advice to increase the speed reading without losing details.  He says that speed reading is not a superpower but it is a skill that everyone can learn and improve. The main aspect on which the people interested in achieving better reading performances must work concerns three bad habits:
  • SUBVOCALIZATION, that consists in saying words in your head while reading;
  • REGRESSION, that implies to get to the end of a page and realize you haven’t taken in what you read;
  • FIXATIONS, that tend to create spots on what we are reading which impede our speed.