Kris Madden | Speed Reading Techniques

5 Books To Teach Yourself Speed Reading

August 9, 2011 By mark ways 4 Comments

The internet is quite a powerful tool to learn new skills. A set of keywords on your favorite search engine produces hundreds of pages of reading material. As you know from your own experience, it would take ages to read them all. Well, one good technique is to filter results and preselect them for reading. Another one is learning to read faster, and, with the help of books.

Speed reading techniques have been taught since the 1980’s. Through the years, different styles have been developed supposedly to help us read and understand more in less time. Below we review five speed reading books to help you get started. [Read more...]

How To Relax Your Eye Muscles

February 13, 2011 By mark ways 1 Comment

Most readers are probably used to do one focus stop for each word while reading. We jump from word to word in order to get their meaning. This habit means a lot of work for the eye muscles, and as those muscles are not very strong eyes can quickly get tired from reading. A few tips to relax, train and warm up your eye muscles. Includes a video with instructions. [Read more...]

Video Interview with Kris Madden

January 10, 2011 By Speed Reading Tips Leave a Comment

The two videos, Part 1 and 2, screen an interview with Kris Madden about the aim, benefits and techniques of speed reading. They have been on YouTube for a quite a while now. However, I found the interview interesting as it provides a valuable insight of what students can achieve when learning to speed read, and what actually not. [Read more...]