Beruflich Dokumente
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There is an over abundance of information in our age currently… It’s more a matter about
filtering and selecting relevant information… to keep up with current
Top of people in any given field can read / write / and speak effectively.
Way the eye works. It is a series of skips. Often tempted to back skip, which cuts your
reading down to a third.
Why it works:
Prevents back skipping.
Prevents talking in your head.
Alters your perception of how fast that you can read.
Highway driving vs driving at 30kph
4. Create questions so that you read with purpose when you begin.
Be clear about what you want to get out of the book
What are the main ideas in this book?
What supporting evidence is there?
Are the facts up to date?
What’s in it for me in learning this material?
What’s new about this material?
What can I use from this material?
3 minutes / chapter. (30 minutes)
5. Read for key ideas… read the text one chapter at a time.
15-20 seconds per page.
Underline new ideas, put ticks or question marks or explanation marks in the
margin
8 minutes per chapter (80 minutes for the book)
6. After view, for the pattern of the material and the difficult ideas.
Re read the chapters stop at difficult sections
Look for the pattern for the argument
Figure out how all the information related to each other.
Read allow sections that you didn’t
10 minutes per chapter (100 minutes)
8. Review your Notes, next day, next week and next month.
5-10 minutes reviewing the notes a day later.
A week later.
A month later.
(30 minutes total)
Total time 6.5 hours for a serious 250 page text book.
This technique is done 2 times faster than regular reading and you will have over 10 times
the comprehension.
Power reading is not about reading every word it’s about getting the idea from the book.
Variable speed reading
Sequence of preparation
1. look up all learning maps that you currently have on the topic
2. make more notes off of any reference material that you require for the project.
3. put the subject in the middle of the blank page.
4. make a branching mind map of all your thoughts on the
do a free flow mind map
put down all idea’s even silly ones.
5. look at the mind map
6. create a new mind map of themes… and learning clusters.
7. Now write in a fluid form…
don’t judge or critizise or edit… just write it all out very quickly
move from one cluster to the next very quickly.
8. Do Nothing. Let it sit in your subconscious for a time. Incubate on the topic for a
while.
9. Next day or longer go back to it and edit it. Now be critical on style. Early in the
morning is a good place to start. Is the meaning clear, is there a flow to the writing.
Did you set up your basic argument, then prove it then conclude with a short
summary. Look for aquard area’s. Conversational tone to most writing. And
Personal from on friend to another.
Revision Stage:
GETTING YOUR POINT ACROSS. (33minutes into tape)
Opening line and paragraph is the most important. It grabs them very quickly.
1. There is perpetual clutter with information in our culture today. 11 to 15 words
which shape a persons attitude for all that follows.
2. Give them a reason to be interested in all that follows. What’s in it for them???
3. Write from the reader’s point of view.
4. Keep it short punchy sentences.
5. Always chose the simplest word to convey your point… use concrete words rather
than abstractions.
6. Make it look inviting in formatting. Make it fun and easy to read
7. Close with a bang.