There is a neat book I picked up in Highschool called The Manual: The Ultimate Study Method. It was cool. It advocated multiple forms of meditation for concent

There is a neat book I picked up in Highschool called The Manual: The Ultimate Study Method. It was cool. It advocated multiple forms of meditation for concentration training so you could speed read a book. Using your increased concentration, which was mentioned as super important, you'd do pass 1 of 3 speed reading through using the Visual Method mentioned. Meditation and clearing your head were mentioned specifically to reduce regressing, but it was okay to regress. Pass 2 would involve creating an outline of all the topics and information. Pass 3 would be creating a visual mind map of the information. Point for me was that speed reading helps only to filter or get a first pass on something, but I doubt anything really complicated can be understood by simply speed reading it. Or even simply reading it once.