<story><title>People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts</title><url>https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/meet-the-people-who-listen-to-podcasts-at-super-fast-speeds?utm_term=.jdJ8Pn6MBG#.ioEx4N69Mb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw1010</author><text>Lectures isn&amp;#x27;t just about feeding the information into your brain. Half the battle of learning what the professor has to say is to process the material in your head, to let it bob around in your head a while. I often find that I can get a lot of that work done while still in my seat, as long as I allow those thoughts to bubble up.&lt;p&gt;In other words, allow creative thoughts about the things the lecturer is saying to form – wander around in idea-space a bit – and think about them, while simultaneously keeping up with the thread of the speech. You&amp;#x27;ll gain a lot more from your time in the lecture hall, and it&amp;#x27;ll also be a lot more fun. A lecture shouldn&amp;#x27;t just be (and doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be) dry information stuffing.</text></item><item><author>furyofantares</author><text>I speed listen to podcasts (and audiobooks and speed watch lectures) for an entirely different reason: I am able to maintain attention on the material. I am sure I get less out of it than someone who is able to pay attention at 1x, but I get nothing out of 1x and never got anything but frustration out of lectures in school, so speed listening opened up a whole new world for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>furyofantares</author><text>Genuinely, good for you.  I’m glad that works for you.  But it’s a strange reply.  I’ve described an attention disorder and a method for coping with it and your suggestion is that maybe I shouldn’t have the disorder in the first place.  Which I agree with, but it’s not particularly helpful.
I suppose that’s not fair.  Let me try again: I’d love it if I could mindwander a bit while still paying attention to the lecture, the entire problem is that I cannot do this.  That inability is called an attention disorder.  If I have time to mindwander at all then I immediately get lost in my thoughts and am unable to pay any attention to the lecture.</text></comment>
<story><title>People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts</title><url>https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/meet-the-people-who-listen-to-podcasts-at-super-fast-speeds?utm_term=.jdJ8Pn6MBG#.ioEx4N69Mb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw1010</author><text>Lectures isn&amp;#x27;t just about feeding the information into your brain. Half the battle of learning what the professor has to say is to process the material in your head, to let it bob around in your head a while. I often find that I can get a lot of that work done while still in my seat, as long as I allow those thoughts to bubble up.&lt;p&gt;In other words, allow creative thoughts about the things the lecturer is saying to form – wander around in idea-space a bit – and think about them, while simultaneously keeping up with the thread of the speech. You&amp;#x27;ll gain a lot more from your time in the lecture hall, and it&amp;#x27;ll also be a lot more fun. A lecture shouldn&amp;#x27;t just be (and doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be) dry information stuffing.</text></item><item><author>furyofantares</author><text>I speed listen to podcasts (and audiobooks and speed watch lectures) for an entirely different reason: I am able to maintain attention on the material. I am sure I get less out of it than someone who is able to pay attention at 1x, but I get nothing out of 1x and never got anything but frustration out of lectures in school, so speed listening opened up a whole new world for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anotheryou</author><text>I rather replay the interesting section (for complicated stuff even on normal speed) and speed-listen to what I know and what is easily understandable or booring.&lt;p&gt;With video tutorials I have the same problem. On normal speed I will work ahead, take a wrong turn because I didn&amp;#x27;t know where the lecture would go or drift off in to something slightly creative and than notice that I missed a section where finally something new was explained. So I have to skip back and find where I started missing something (Something really really annoying with audio material; No thumbnails, no search, no skimming backwards, mostly no identification possible from a single frame or word (the easiest way to find a part again, to which I listened before, is to remember where on my journey I was when I listened to that part and where that was in relation to where I heard what is currently playing)).</text></comment>