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On a bad day do you know that i can read a 500 page book of interest to me in a little less than two days? What about a book with a topic i'm not very familiar with? Well, i guess that will take me longer time to conclude. Now if you want to challenge yourself with a complex reading material, take up a lexicon and read it cover to cover in three days.

I have learned reading in school, yet i find it difficult to comprehend every material that i come across. Is anything wrong with me?

Is that question directed to me? Well maybe, but the answers lies within you. You have all it takes to discover yourself in speed reading. You can actually comprehend whatever you read if you put forth the efforts needed to do this. You are the only one who can accomplish that, i can only show you the ways, strategies, and plans to accomplish this, but i can not possibly help you do those recommendations. Do you get my drift now?

Before you speed read there are a lot of questions you will need to give answers to:

How do you give definitions to the materials you read?
What are your goals?
What are your plans?
What are the contents of your goals and plans?
What is your purpose of speed reading?
Do you know how to read effectively?
Do you understand what you read?

These are pertinent questions you alone can give answers first before taking your next step in speed reading. The truth of the matter is that we all read differently and give different interpretations to a material. Who then is right or wrong? The fact is without good definition of what we read, we are slowed down in reading. Whether you believe me or not the fact is our ability to comprehend any given material gives us the ability to read fast.

Look at the statement below:

Are you aware of the fact that half of the information you read in science and medicine are based on statistical guesses? that means half of what you read are based on unproven facts that may be lies?

What do you understand from the sentence above?

Information in Science and medicine are not always based on pure scientific researches, but on statistical guesses which may not be entirely true. Since there is no real facts to back up the claims. In fact half of this information are a mistake.

What matters is your own ability to comprehend any reading activity before you can confidently say you can speed read. To make it easier for you, pick up a topic of interest, try reading for comprehension and understanding, then check your rate. Practice, and practice and practice even more, you will see that with each practice comes an improvement in both reading and comprehension rate.