Why?

I realized the catastrophe brought to me by "wool-gathering". To those who don't know about this word, it just simply means you read without understanding because you are thinking of other things other than the one your are doing. IT is nonsense reading in layman terms, but nearly not nonsense in another scholastic way since you are reading what you should.

Nevermind the word plays, the real deal is that many of us sometimes experienced this. Many of us realized the fact that reading is more of a challenge rather than listening. Except you have the courage to get the ball rolling once you have started it.

I've read an article that the average time a person can read on FOCUS is 20 minutes. Pretty short, although for an accountancy student like, I really have to take the guts to read whole day. Imagine the stress it will bring you if you read without understanding.

Stressing it out, I found solutions to this antagonizing skeptics. READING through a good comprehensive READING book helped me a lot to pass through those READING stuff.


RULE #1. 
READING requires IMAGINATION.

Surveying through a book is the initial step towards success. Looking at pictures may help but honestly book's authors don't mind this, paying good illustrators to make their books look like fan art usually when things aren't needed at all. Instead of paying illustrators the artistic fee, they mind making their books as thick as the thickest dictionary you may find in your damn school library. Well, I guess , in my humble opinion, IMAGINATION (sparkle, sparkle) will help you absorb the lessons you are about to dive into (more than a pool, huh?). Try thinking of things, like a concept map. Instead of getting into the complexities, why not make a mental image of all the things you are about to review, visualize all concepts by linking it through each possible dots until you make a perfect and artistic mental art, that worth more than a Picasso or Da Vinci masterpiece.


RULE #2
WHY?

To get through a book, A QUESTIONABLE MIND will help you sort out chaotic things. After you imagined the topics, try to formulate questions that will help you understand fully. Like what is always told during your school years," those who asks more are clever" rather than just reading the book and imagining what it's like, try to be questionable, why this? why that. etc. etc.


RULE #3
GET the LENS and THE MIND, focused on the TARGET

You know, reading is not only just about imagining, or questioning what's IN THERE, it requires maintaining you view. Imagine looking through the lens of a camera and suddenly someone pushes you, do you think you can get back to where you are focusing, obviously not. It is not always easy to recover where you have just ended. Your focus is very essential. Even a tiny concept away from your mental map may ruin the whole picture, not unless you have a very good BACKUP and you can get together lost mental images of you topics.


Well, there are things that is outside the scope of this three rules, but all through my studying, they have been become my sine qua non. No more no less, that guarantees me of reading luck and expertise. I always try to perfect this three rules so that all through my life, books will always be just below my dominion.



-credits to reading comprehension guide prentice hall, composition and grammar volume 1 -4