How to Absorb Books 3x Faster in 7 Days (from a Med Student)

imagine if you could finish a book in one day instead of being like everyone else spending months reading the same book and never making any progress I'm salm I'm a med student and I've had to read hundreds of books at med school and in my bachelor and master's degree and I never wanted to spend hours reading every day like most people did cuz I wanted to spend time doing things I actually cared about so over the years I found the three best strategies you need to massively increase your reading speed and I call it the

Triforce method so the first strategy of this method is to improve your Baseline reading speed and the first part to this is removing your internal monologue and I use a free website Speer to help me do this cuz the idea is your internal monologue that voice in your head when you read limits you to read one word at a time and that obviously caps how fast you can actually go so to read faster you need to just see the words instead of hear them in your head and you might think how but you already do

this like when you're at a stop sign you don't read or mouth stop you just visually process it so websites like Speer let you change how many words come up or let you group words together so that you don't even give time for that voice in your head or time for you to read it out loud but cuz your eyes are fast you'll still process and understand what you read and it might feel a bit weird but I can guarantee it'll feel normal after a day and you'll read at least 50% faster like I started

at 250 words per minute and I can do over 500 now pretty easily even without speeder and straight from a book now the last part of this first strategy might sound stupid but what you need is a visual tracker and I'll help you see why it's good so first look straight at the screen and keep your head still and move your eyes across it as smooth as you can it's a bit jittery and not smooth now put a finger or a pen in front of you and track that there you go it's better just like

that cuz when you just read with your eyes it's not that smooth cuz there's these micro adjustments so you end up double backing on sentences and if you're trying to read at 600 words per minute that time obviously adds up but a Tracker keeps your eyes moving at a consistent rate where you don't let yourself go back so over time increase the speed that you use your tracker and you'll see your reading easily go up by another 100 words per minute and now the second strategy of the Triforce method is making sure to have a

reading strategy cuz knowing when or how to use the techniques is just as important as the techniques themselves and 80% of this strategy is knowing that 8020 rule where 80% of the knowledge comes from 20% of the book and this is what saved me a lot of time for non-fiction books so I'll explain with an example how this works so a non-fiction book like Atomic habits has a lot of examples for a relatively small bit of useful advice so when I went through the book I applied the 8020 rule I sped through most of the

pages by getting rid of my internal monologue and by having that visual tracker and when I noticed that small Golden Nugget of advice I slow hold down the visual tracker to let myself think and absorb that key information better because obviously reading at over 700 words per minute is going to give me lower comprehension than if I slowed down and read at 500 words per minute so adapting the techniques depending on what you're reading is a big part of actually reading what's relevant instead of trying to absorb details that just don't matter cuz that's effectively

the same as highlighting every single sentence it's not going to help you in any way okay so now your reading speeds up and you have an idea of when to use those techniques but none of this actually matters if you don't remember what you read like let's see the last chapter you've read from a book can you summarize that to me in a sentence or two cuz I know so many people that say oh yeah I read a book last week but they haven't actually learned anything from it and if you feel attacked by me

saying this then that means what I'm saying is true but you're here cuz you want to improve and that's good so you need to work on the third and final strategy of the Triforce method and that's about summarizing and consolid dating and the idea is there's no point reading a lot if you don't understand what you're reading like you should have a good level of comprehension so at the end of every page summarize it to one or two lines and even if nothing important was there nothing important counts as a summary and as you do

this your brain's going to naturally engage more with the text and you'll retain information a lot better like this is what I did back when I applied to med school and did my admissions exams I had to get quick at getting relevant information from paragraphs of text and because I did these things I scored in the top 1% and on top of summarizing I said you have to consolidate and it's more for non-fiction books where you should take some form of action like when I read Atomic habits it mentioned keeping track of every habit you

have so naturally it only makes sense that I actually do that and not just forget about it a day later and I'd actually just stop reading until I've taken action for at least a whole day cuz the point to this is learning is about changing your behavior after you've been exposed to something so if you don't change anything you haven't actually learned anything and yeah I do get the difference between reading for a need of learning something versus reading purely for the enjoyment of it like reading poetry or fiction books but one thing where you'd

always want to use techniques to be faster and better is for typing and in this video here I talk about how you can triple your typing speed in only 7 days so click this video and actually consolidate what you learned from my advice by taking action after