How do you read and interpret text? (such as books or articles)
I briefly describe aspects of how I do it below:
- I always thought of myself as a slow reader, possibly with low working-memory as well (i.e. ability to remember most recent things).
- It seems my mind works by remembering and questioning way too much, so the working memory is sort of overloaded.
- When I'd compare to others, I'd generally be noticing useless details of the text: typos, repeated words or paragraphs.
- To cope with this limitation, I resorted to mind maps, highlighting, rewriting, and also memorising.
- These days, a technique that seems to help is to use either a glyph / drawing, or a short sentence per paragraph of text, and at the end writing a synthetic version myself (a new text).
I wonder how it is for you?
