Re:Ask HN: What are your hacks to learn faster?
by WheelsAtLarge on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:05PM
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I haven't taken a speed reading course but I've learned to skip read. I read the main idea of a paragraph and move forward. It's a good way to get the gest of a chapter so you have some idea of what the chapter is about as you read the detailed text.
Re:Ask HN: What are your hacks to learn faster?
by sn9 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:16AM
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For those curious, this kinda stuff is explicitly taught in Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book, which is precisely about how to extract the maximum value from a book rather than speed reading.
Now I look at the cover, back, chapter list, flip through the chapters a few times looking for high-level things that pop out, do it again, then look through the index for things that have lots of references. Then I can start reading the book, and I have a better idea of what I'm in for. Plus it's much easier to be engaged when you aren't so religious about the 'right' way to use a book.
That kind of thing has let me learn stuff I would otherwise feel too intimidated or unsure about.