You’re Not Stupid: How to Quickly Understand Difficult Books |
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To get a free written summary of this video, you can download one here: https://go.elizabethfilips.com/hardbooks To make your life easier: 0:00 Intro 0:51 Training Your Brain: The Shakespeare Technique 7:47 Training Your Focus: T is for Troll 10:29 Training Your Eyes: There’s No Going Back As a huge fan of speed-reading (and listening, and watching, and talking), I’ve been practicing how to get through information quicker and quicker my whole life. While I’m pretty confident in my ability to skim through text super-fast, when it comes to actually understanding it, that is a different matter. When speed-reading hard texts I’m limited by my tiredness, quickly drifting focus and ability to actually comprehend what is going on. Here’s how I train my brain, my focus and my eyes to overcome those problems, read and learn a lot quicker :) How to Speed Read Difficult Books: Train Eyes, Brain & Focus Remember What You Read: How To Memorise Hard Books in 3 Steps The Speed Reading Technique That Will Quickly Improve Your Life WHO AM I: I'm Elizabeth, a medical student, painter and Podcaster in London. I love to think and talk about life, art, medicine, books and meaning. And also how to find the time to do those things. If you'd like to watch me paint and talk about life, I do that on my podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5NsPe2poaBRA0IPdTxJTQA) and if you'd like to read my thoughts and book notes, I have a newsletter you can join (https://go.elizabethfilips.com/newsletter). 👽 My Book on Organised Chaos: How to Succeed Without Habits or Consistency: https://lizziefilips.gumroad.com/l/krcnc 🧠 My Notion Templates to Work Better With Yourself: https://lizziefilips.gumroad.com If you want to stay in touch: 💌 My Newsletter - https://go.elizabethfilips.com/newsletter 🎙My Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5NsPe2poaBRA0IPdTxJTQA 📕 My Book Club - https://go.elizabethfilips.com/thepensieve 📸 My Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/elizabeth.filips/ 💻 My Website - https://www.elizabethfilips.com/ 🐥 My Twitter - https://twitter.com/lizziefilips Or leave a comment, I (try to) answer 100% of comments :) |