Five reading methods

Information reading method

The purpose of this kind of reading is only to understand the situation. We read newspapers, advertisements, brochures, etc. Belongs to this reading method. For these materials, readers mostly use the method of fast reading, and their eyes should scan quickly from word to word like electronic scanning, so as to capture what they need in time and discard irrelevant parts. Anyone who wants to understand the current situation or study a certain period of history is indispensable. However, whether you need to interrupt, intensive reading or pause for a moment of reflection depends on the material you read.

Reading methods of literary works

In addition to content, literary works also have rhetorical and rhythmic significance. Therefore, you should read slowly and hear every word clearly. If your lips don't move, it's only because you are lazy. For example, when reading the word "stress", the throat muscles should move at the same time. When reading a poem, you should pay more attention to the sound, even if a syllable is missed in a line, you can still hear it. When reading prose, we should pay attention to its rhythm, listen to the sounds before and after the words, and get our own perception and understanding from metaphors or combinations of words. Only by making full use of this language reception ability can writers' works absorb their intelligence, imagination and writing skills. This auditory reading method-receiving text signals through eyes, translating them into sounds, reaching the throat, and then understanding them, is ultimately related to our imagination.

Reading methods of classic works

This method is used to read philosophical, economic, military and classical works. Reading these works is as slow as reading literary works, but readers often look away from the book and think carefully about every word in the book to capture the author's true intention and understand the profound philosophy. It is worth noting that if we read literary works by reading classic works, it is often easy to ignore the characteristics of literary works and make readers fall into the corner of the so-called history of literary concepts.

Anesthetic reading method

This kind of reading is just for fun. Just like taking narcotics, readers forget their existence and get carried away in infinite fantasies. Such readers are generally not interested in their own experiences and feelings, and put themselves completely out of the book. If we read the famous works with narcotic reading methods, readers can only get some superficial plots with their own fantasies, which will reduce the immortal famous works to the level of vulgar works by Yuanyang Butterfly School writers. Reading Anna karenin casually is like reading a lame love triangle novel. Anesthetic reading will reach its peak when it is about to enter adulthood. Anesthesia reading of young people is the reason for the poor quality of a large number of literary works.

Schematic diagram of principle comparison between traditional reading and fast reading methods

First, compare the reading methods.

We can divide reading into two categories: one is the traditional reading method (commonly known as slow reading), that is, reading one by one according to several words, such as words; The second is the fast reading method, that is, reading the text in groups as a whole, and the "group" often contains one line, multiple lines or even the whole page. This is a reading method that allows us to quickly receive information from written materials.

Second, compare the process of brain processing text information.

In the traditional reading mode, after the text information stimulates the eyes, the retina transforms this physical process into a biological process of neural activity, which is transmitted to the visual center of the brain, processed by the visual center, then transmitted to the language center, then transmitted to the auditory pathway, and finally transmitted to the memory center by the auditory pathway. This is a process of reading to yourself. Even if it is a high-level silent reading, the external actions are well controlled. Therefore, when ordinary people read (using traditional reading methods), they are actually "reading", not really "reading". Fast reading is a kind of reading mode of "direct reflection of eyes and brain". The whole text image generated by the light stimulation of written text information on eyes is directly transmitted to the right brain for memory in the form of images, and then the text image is analyzed by the brain. Fast reading is a kind of "eye-brain direct reflection" reading method, which omits two optional intermediate links, namely the language center and the auditory pathway, that is, the text signal is directly reflected to the brain memory center for understanding and memory. This is a reading method that only uses vision. Therefore, the "eye-brain direct reflection" type of fast reading is the real "reading". Many people are confused about this and think they don't have this ability. In fact, the fast reading method only applies people's image recognition method to the reading of words and changes the traditional reading habits formed by people over the years. This can be done completely, and everyone can learn.

Third, compare the degree of eye-brain coordination when reading.

Because people's thinking is very fast, especially when using internal speech thinking, it has strong jumping and contraction, and it is often a flash. In the traditional reading mode, the auditory pathway must participate in the process of text information reaching the brain memory center. Because the auditory pathway converts words into sounds, and sounds can only be transmitted to the brain one by one in a "serial" way. Therefore, the traditional reading method can't provide enough information for the brain to process quickly and massively, which makes them unable to coordinate their work. Of course, the efficiency is very poor, and the reading speed is naturally affected and restricted. Speed reading method is a kind of "direct reflection of eyes and brain" method which scientifically uses vision and brain. This "eye-brain direct reflection" reading method omits the two dispensable intermediate links of language center and auditory pathway, and directly reflects the text signal to the brain memory center for understanding and memory. Therefore, the words seen by the eyes can enter the brain center "in parallel" at the same time like images, providing information at a speed that matches the thinking speed of the brain.