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How does speed reading
benefit the entrepreneur?
~ by
Melvin Ng
As either an old-hand in the world of
business, or new to the life of being an entrepreneur, one
common factor that you’ll share, if you want to run a
successful business that is, is an overwhelming amount of
paperwork to read through. Now, you may decide that your
entrepreneurial skills are more in management and
delegation, and therefore offload this to your subordinates,
or you may decide that being a “hand’s on” entrepreneur means
ploughing your way through all of this paperwork.
Whatever the case may be, being a
successful entrepreneur means knowing about all the
fluctuations in the market before the rest of the pack do, and
having the ability to run your business smoothly. To be able
to do this, you will need to undertake research and collect
relevant, pertinent, information. In short, as an
entrepreneur, you have a lot of reading ahead of you.
Here, some entrepreneurs, even successful
ones, find that fulfilling their need to complete all their
necessary reading means that they spend more than 12 hours a
day reading! But, don’t let the desperation, agitation,
frustration and stress of reading all this necessary material
get you down – there is a way to cut this reading time in
half: thereby giving you more time to spend being the
successful entrepreneur you always want to be!
So, how do you manage to improve the time
you spend reading? Simple really, ask yourself the following
questions:
- do you read pages from left to
right, or do you concentrate on the centre of the line and
scan the page down?
Empirical evidence shows that
concentrating on the centre of the line and scanning the page
down will increase your reading speed.
- do you read word-for-word, or do
your sweep read?
Empirical evidence shows that
word-for-word reading is both very cumbersome and reduces
the reader’s ability to comprehend the material being read.
- do you sound out words and syllables
as you read them?
If you sound out words and syllables as
you read them then you are ‘sub-vocalizing’. Although
taught to many of us at an early age, sub-vocalization
is actually one of the biggest hindrances on our ability to
read faster. What’s more, although there are a number of
proven downsides with sub-vocalization, there are no
proven benefits. In short, you’re wasting valuable time!
- do you re-read material if you
haven’t fully understood it the first time?
Although psychologically you may think it
is more beneficial to re-read a passage you have not fully
comprehended the first time you read it, in fact evidence
indicates this is not the case. In any event, having the
ability to speed read negates the need to re-read passages
as with the ability to speed read comes higher
comprehension rates.
So, as you can see, if you have answered
yes to any one or more of these questions there is a very good
chance you’re spending longer reading than is necessary.
What’s more, if you were to take a speed reading course
you could easily find that you increase your reading speed by
up to half – meaning that you’ll free up more time to do other
essential tasks central to being and entrepreneur, like wining
and dining, or spending more time with your family.
Other benefits you’ll be able to unlock
by being able to speed read as an entrepreneur
includes:
- having more time on your hands to
research good business opportunities;
- having more time on your hands to read
materials relevant to the business you already have;
- have more time on your hands to
greet-and-meet your existing clients, like having the free
time to play a round of golf;
- have more time n your hands to spend
with your family;
- be in a better position to meet
deadlines, as you won’t be bogged down with reading;
- be in a better position to take on more
work and maximise your income potential;
- have less stress and frustration, as
you’ll have been able to complete all your reading tasks
within their given time;
- increase your comprehension and
memory of the material you’ve read: it’s a proven fact
that speed reading material is more likely to increase your
comprehension of what you have just read than if you
word-for-word, or re-read, material.
As you can seen then, the benefit of
being able to speed read as an entrepreneur is that you
are in a better position to manage your business more
successfully and with less stress attached to the tasks you
need to complete!
About the author:
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Melvin Ng teaches speed reading
through his
16-Minute Speed Reading Audio Program.
This breakthrough technique
Guarantees to
Double your reading speed in just
16 minutes!
http://www.bestspeedreadingcourse.com
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