Usually, it takes several days for people to finish reading a book. According to the law of forgetting (which will be mentioned later), after reading a book, you basically forget 7788. Therefore, it is suggested to use fast reading to shorten the time of reading a book as much as possible and reduce the probability of forgetting the front after reading. Of course, in addition to fast reading, the purpose of fast reading is to quickly establish a knowledge map of books through fast reading, and quickly find the main points and important contents in the book, so as to intensively read and improve reading efficiency.
Most of my books now use speed reading. Some simple books are two or three thousand words a minute, and some difficult books are more than one thousand words a minute. Overall, the efficiency has been improved many times. Usually it takes many days to finish reading a book, but now one or two days is enough.
On the one hand, mastering fast reading requires long-term reading accumulation, such as the accumulation of reading skills and knowledge (you can read faster if you are familiar with it); Any kind of ability can not be acquired casually, and it takes time and energy to learn.
2. Strengthen your understanding and memory of the contents of the book by "answering irrelevant questions".
This involves a reading method, that is, before reading, according to the information such as book catalogue and reading purpose, ask a few questions first, and then answer my questions with some of my existing knowledge; After reading the book, answer the questions raised before reading again according to the contents of the book; Finally, compare the answers before reading and after reading to see how many of your answers are the same as what the author said. We need to pay special attention to these "unknown, unexpected and omitted" places.
This method should play a good role and be combined with fast reading. Because fast reading can make you finish reading quickly and prevent you from forgetting a lot after reading for too long; At the same time, fast reading is also very helpful for you to proceed from the whole, quickly grasp the key points, and quickly answer questions.
This way of answering questions can not only stimulate your thinking and memory of existing knowledge, but also make you realize what new knowledge is, so as to focus on it and deepen your memory.