{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Productive Insights Podcast — Actionable Business Growth Ideas — with Ash Roy","title":"146. Speed Reading : A 7 Step System To Grasp Key Concepts Faster When Checking Emails Or Reading Articles","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":909,"description":"Speed Reading: A 7 Step System To Grasp Key Concepts Faster When Checking Emails Or Reading Articles\n\n\nHello and welcome to episode 146 of the productive insights podcast. This is your host Ash Roy the founder of productiveinsights.com\n\nI’ve been MIA for the last couple of weeks because I’ve been agonising over whether or not to publish this episode. I face this challenge often because I’m always striving to deliver content that is interesting, actionable and useful to you as a listener.\n\nSo eventually I asked my team and they said they’d definitely find it useful. I think they’re biased but I’m going to go with their advice and publish this episode anyway.\n\nSo today we are going to be talking about speed reading while still being able to extract key concepts and ideas from a given body of text.\n\nWe look at how to develop your skills in speed reading, when to use speed reading, (more importantly) when not to use it.\n\nOkay so let's start by defining the term “speed reading” for the purposes of this podcast episode\n\nI define speed reading is the process of rapidly absorbing the key principles, ideas, and actionable strategies presented in a written form (typically in the form of an email, an article or book)\n\nIn today's information overloaded environment the amount of information we are required to process seems to be growing by the minute. We have a lot of emails coming in to our inbox, correspondence from various organizations arriving via snail mail, e-books that created an unprecedented access to information that has never existed in the history of humanity, and gazillions of online articles we tend to browse on the web as we educate ourselves in our business pursuits or chosen careers.\n\nSo clearly, it would be very beneficial to be able to extract the key ideas from a body of text in a shorter space of time.\n\nAnd this is where speed-reading comes in. To me, being able to speed read is almost a superpower in today's information overloaded environment.\n\nBut to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/9b1RpM1m3U08ppoA1O0r7cNVKH_QBA7NI1mjnPne1fg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84NGRl/YTNiMGIxMTU5MGU2/YzFhY2VkODIzM2Q2/NmQ5ZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}