4 Tips to Read Difficult Texts Faster 📖

Sharing my strategies for reading with focus and efficiency.

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=== Notes ===

Many speed reading techniques are only suited for low to moderate-difficulty texts. Anyone who has used these techniques will know how difficult it is to sustain them persistently for study sessions that might be several hours long. It can be exhausting!

These are my tips (as someone who has read about 100+ pages of journal articles and textbooks every week for the last 10 years).

NOTE: This is not a FULL system. You still need to use other studying techniques for good encoding and retrieval, facilitated with a good note-taking system. Other techniques like scaffolding and smart skimming can also be useful.

These are NOT taught in this video.


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