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Slow Reader? I Am. It Helps My Career (And Will Help Yours Too)

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By Dr. Anthony Metivier, PhD | Updated August 6, 2026 I once signed up for a speed reading course during my years at York University because I thought being a slow reader was bad. I mean, I’ve always read a ton, but I wanted what everyone wants. More books down the hatch in less time. Well, let me save you from wasting time and money on speed reading courses. And show you why slow reading is actually a good thing. For one thing, what that speed reading course actually delivered was a set of bizarre eye exercises and instructions to stop subvocalizing. Worse, the instructor suggested I cease hearing the words in my head. When I asked why, the teacher gave me a clearly pseudoscientific answer, and I could spot his word salad because I had also recently taken an anthropology course about the role of scammers in society. What I quickly learned however is a very simple and empowering fact. Being A Slow Reader Is Not A Defect And for many people, taking your time while reading isn’t a problem that needs fixing. In fact, readers who get the most out of books tend to read slowly on purpose. It’s just that they pair their pace with various methods, such as priming books and taking notes using Zettelkasten. And because experts tend to focus their reading efforts within categories, often they create the illusion that they read more than they actually do. That’s an effect created by staying in your lane, as Nir Eyal put it a few years ago on the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHNkne6Cnvo Why You’re a Slow Reader (And Why That’s Not Always a Problem) There are many reasons why some people fail to read at a rapid clip. But not all of them are problems. Some of the things we’ll discuss are entirely circumstantial. In other words, they have nothing to do with you. When you understand these points as I explain them below, your potential for making positive changes goes way up. That’s because, believe it or not, some books are so badly written that they can literally ruin your ability to read. I’m not joking either. There’s a condition called cognitive deskilling, and by exposing yourself to hard to read books and then blaming yourself for not understanding them, negative thoughts about yourself can arise. When that happens, as discussed by Andy Clark in The Experience Machine, you start predicting that the next book you read will also be a poor experience. This “predictive processing,” as scientists call it, winds up making future books harder to read. Let’s stop that from happening to you by going through these reasons. All you have to do after that is put my suggestions into action and perhaps go through my list of books on learning for more suggestions like The Experience Machine. What About ADHD and Slow Reading? A lot of people who have completed my Read with Momentum program have asked me: Does ADHD make you a slow reader? Or is reading slowly a sign of a learning disability? Ultimately, you have to get the answers to such questions from a qualified professional. But I can tell you that my friend Jonathan Levi, creator of Superlearner, substantially improved his reading speed using techniques I don’t use myself. I worked with Jonathan on several projects and saw both his ADHD tendencies and his reading skills myself. In my view, how quickly he could read is not all that relevant. He was a careful memorizer of information. And more importantly, a skilled thinker about the information he consumed. One interesting point: Jonathan used some of the speed reading techniques I fully and completely criticize. But he’ll be the first to tell you that he found using them very tiring. He pulled them out selectively. And never at the expense of not reflecting deeply on what he was learning. Think of it like this: It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re travelling in the wrong direction. So for most of us, the following set of suggestions is bound to be the better bet. One: Your Vocabulary Needs Boosting A lot of people read at a decent pace, but they have to keep stopping to look words up. This is probably one of the biggest issues readers who want to improve their reading speed face. Why? Because vocabulary ability is directly related to reading comprehension. So how do you improve your vocabulary? Set a goal to memorize 260 words you don’t know or with which you have lost familiarity over the next 30 days. I’m confident this will speed up your reading. And to help you out, I created this tutorial on how to memorize vocabulary. Do This To Build Your Vocabulary While Reading Here’s one simple exercise I use to learn new vocabulary while reading without breaking my flow. I’ve been doing it a lot during my recent law memorization project at law school. Rather than stop reading whenever I come across a word I don’t know, I place a small dot in the margin. I call this the Margin Dot. I limit myself to a maximum of three ...
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