Benefit 2: You’ll Keep Your Mind Alert. One unexpected benefit of increasing your reading speed is that it can actually give you mental energy as you read. How many times have you tried reading in bed before you fall asleep, only to wake up an hour later with your book still open and see that you have read nothing? Or how many times do you feel yourself growing more and more distracted as you read, forgetting paragraphs immediately after you’ve read them? This doesn’t have to happen. Increasing your speed means making your mind and body more alert, and therefore more likely to keep going
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Benefit of speed reading
