10 Days to Faster Reading, Day 9

This is part nine of my time with 10 Days to Faster Reading, a book on the Personal MBA Quick Start reading list. To read all posts related to this book, see 10 Days to Faster Reading on JustAJot.

Day 9, Reading on a Technical Track

Technical reading. Technical material is material “with unfamiliar vocabulary or terminology, numbers or statistics you must know, or completely new information.” Day 9 of 10 Days to Faster Reading teaches us how to better read technical material.

The explained suggestions include:

• Pre-view
• Become familiar with unfamiliar terms
• Identify your purpose and responsbility
• Look for 5W’s and H (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How)
• Modify a faster reading strategy
• Re-view

The book’s content is becoming a review of everything previously discussed, with a few little helpful hints thrown in here and there. On to the tool of the day.

The tool of the day is referred to as “the thumb push.” The thumb push is very similar to the white card method discussed in day 1, but using your fist instead of a white card. I’ll leave it up to you to figure it out, and if for some crazy reason you can’t, buy the book! Or just buy it anyway, it’s worth it if you want to improve your reading skills.