{"id":186,"date":"2024-01-01T12:12:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T12:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2024-01-06T03:26:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T03:26:59","slug":"january-2024-learning-speed-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/january-2024-learning-speed-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Speed Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\n<i>This article was written 2024\/01\/01<\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nHappy New Year everyone! Today marks a very special day for me. I have officially been, for 2 full years, reading books every single day (No, not an entire book every single day). Whether it be fiction or not, it doesn&#8217;t matter. But this has been an important habit for me, and reaching 2 years without a miss feels like an important milestone to me. (It should have been longer, but unfortunately I got really sick two years ago on New Year&#8217;s Eve and couldn&#8217;t manage to read on that day).\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nSo, why am I bringing this up? Well, I figured some of you might wonder if I&#8217;ll keep up with my photography challenge and keep taking pictures daily. Unfortunately, this is the end of that one for now, although I&#8217;ve definitely learned a lot from it (more posts to come regarding that). I&#8217;m still planning to take pictures on my own time, and maybe share them here, but I won&#8217;t continue with the daily challenge for now. In particular, I feel like it&#8217;s been negatively affecting my eyesight, likely due to my use of manual focus, thus often looking at an unfocused scene (whether or not I was aware of it).\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nBut while I might not go on with the daily photography challenge, I&#8217;m still planning to have a daily challenge. For a while, I&#8217;ve been wanting to learn speed reading, and today feels like an appropriate day for this. I&#8217;m planning to spend some time everyday for the next few weeks following the guidelines of <a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2009\/07\/30\/speed-reading-and-accelerated-learning\/\">Tim Ferriss&#8217; blog post on speed reading<\/a> and see how I progress (Disclaimer, I know nothing of Tim Ferriss. This blog post was simply recommended to me as a good resource for speed reading). My daily plan is to:\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Measure and record my reading speed\/comprehension with a site like swiftread.com<\/li>\r\n  <li>Go through the 20 minutes exercise to practice speed reading<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nHowever, I don&#8217;t expect to need to make daily progress updates on this challenge, since it&#8217;ll mostly about gathering statistics. It might be a weekly update instead, giving me some time to catch up a bit with my December in Photography posts.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nTake care everyone, and have a lovely new Year!\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was written 2024\/01\/01 Happy New Year everyone! Today marks a very special day for me. I have officially been, for 2 full years, reading books every single day (No, not an entire book every single day). Whether it be fiction or not, it doesn&#8217;t matter. But this has been an important habit for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/january-2024-learning-speed-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning Speed Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skill-learning","category-speed-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}