Brian Tracy - Notes on power reading

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Just found someone's notes on Brian Tracy's power reading method on my hdd. I've been searching for an ultimate speed reading method that will ensure maximum recall in optimal time, and I think it doesn't go faster than this.

Power READING: Combinations of speed-reading and retention of the main ideas.

0. Choose a book you want to read.
1. Read two or three words in from the beginning of the line
2. Finish reading two or three words
3. Put your hand the page and sweep down the page as if you were brushing breadcrumbs from under the printed material.
4. Discipline yourself to do this for 20 minutes at a time.

Why it works:
- Prevents back skipping.
- Prevents talking in your head.
- Alters your perception of how fast that you can read.
- Highway driving vs driving at 30kph

POWER READING TECHNIQUE:

1. Over view, skim and scan the entire book.
- 5-10 minutes.
- Ask questions, who was author, note credits, predominance in the field, publication date. Look at table of contents. Glance at reference in the index. Get a feel for the structure of the book.
- Fastest way to deal with reading is to not read a book that isn’t worth your time.

2. Preview: glance quickly through each chapter.
- 3 minutes per chapter. (30 minutes for the book)
- Scan read at 7 sec per page.
- Look to see if it will add to your knowledge.

3. Sketch out what you already know about this topic.
- Alerts your mind to what is coming.
- 3 min / chapter. (30 minutes)

4. Create questions so that you read with purpose when you begin.
- Be clear about what you want to get out of the book
- What are the main ideas in this book?
- What supporting evidence is there?
- Are the facts up to date?
- What’s in it for me in learning this material?
- What’s new about this material?
- What can I use from this material?
- 3 minutes / chapter. (30 minutes)

5. Read for key ideas… read the text one chapter at a time.
- 15-20 seconds per page.
- Underline new ideas, put ticks or question marks or explanation marks in the margin
- 8 minutes per chapter (80 minutes for the book)

6. After view, for the pattern of the material and the difficult ideas.
- Re read the chapters stop at difficult sections
- Look for the pattern for the argument
- Figure out how all the information related to each other.
- Read allow sections that you didn’t
- 10 minutes per chapter (100 minutes)

7. Make Notes and learning maps on the book.
- In learning map
- 10 minutes / chapter (100 minutes)

8. Review your Notes, next day, next week and next month.
- 5-10 minutes reviewing the notes a day later.
A week later.
A month later.
- (30 minutes total)

Total time 6.5 hours for a serious 250 page text book.
This technique is done 2 times faster than regular reading and you will have over 10 times the comprehension.

Power reading is not about reading every word it’s about getting the idea from the book.