{"id":389,"date":"2006-02-05T23:02:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/speed-reading-techniques\/"},"modified":"2006-02-05T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T23:02:53","slug":"speed-reading-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/speed-reading-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed-Reading Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been reading this article which was posted on Digg which is about Speed-Reading Techniques and I think some of them are quite good, I wont copy the whole article here.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the introduction to it!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was a Bible college student when one of our chapels featured a guest speaker who taught us how to speed-read. At the time I didn&#8217;t need the skill since most collateral reading assignments in my courses were under 500 pages, but I started practicing just for the fun of it &#8212; sort of like a private parlor game. However all that changed when I wound up in graduate school at Princeton Seminary and several Profs. expected me to read several thousand pages of collateral along with the five or six textbooks. That&#8217;s when I got serious about speed reading. Here is the collection of what I practiced then, and picked up since. The first thing I had to do was toss away the reading myths I had held so long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indwes.edu\/tuesday\/speed.htm\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been reading this article which was posted on Digg which is about Speed-Reading Techniques and I think some of them are quite good, I wont copy the whole article here. But here&#8217;s the introduction to it! I was a Bible college student when one of our chapels featured a guest speaker who taught us how to speed-read.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/speed-reading-techniques\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speed-Reading Techniques&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}