If you want to increase your reading efficiency, Mackay prescribes the following formula, called "SHARK". It stands for Skim, Highlight, Assess, Reread, Keep.
Here's how it works: Go through your business reading pile at a quick, even pace. Skim for what you can take in quickly, what you don't need to know and what you need to read in more detail. Assess what you just read. (Do you need to reread it? To save it? To route it?)
Reread in greater detail the items that are truly worth your attention. Keep and label just the clippings you want filed.
If sharks could read, they would read just like they eat: tear into the food, then circle the feeding area looking for the morsels they missed that are worth going back for.
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