<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>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>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></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>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>rconti</author><text>I was studying for a cert and needed to review some material faster so I started doing 1.5x and 1.7x up to 2x. What&amp;#x27;s amazing is how quickly you adapt. The pauses in speech seem to take FOREVER, even at 2x, and when you slow down to 1.5x it seems positively glacial. But you&amp;#x27;re right, you need to focus. It leaves a lot less time for letting your mind wander. You don&amp;#x27;t get anything for free. I sometimes watch NFL condensed games and they cut out all the non-play activity so you can watch a game in 40 mins-- which sounds great, but you realize it&amp;#x27;s 40 mins of intense focus if you want to follow what&amp;#x27;s going on.</text></comment>