When I was growing up my brother was a natural speed reader with a near-photographic memory.
My mother was an English graduate who felt that reading and education were everything that was important in the world.
My father was a dislexic entrepreneur who felt that education was key.
I felt inferior with my reading, even though my IQ was very high. I felt “what was the point” as my brother was obviously always going to be better than me at it so I was never going to impress.
Reading was a chore. Reading was a bore. Reading, quite simply, was not for me. I joined a book club 6 years ago and until I discovered Audible, I never finished the books.
It took too long, I never had the time and why read when I could listen!
Then I became a life coach and discovered a love and thirst for knowledge in the field. But my reading, I felt, was holding me back and I didn’t feel as though I got enough out of the audible books, I didn’t realise that I was craving structure, note-taking and belief.
Thanks to Jim and his course, I have taken my “comfort” reading from 207 words per minute to 550 and in sprints, I have reached speeds of over 800.
All of this, with full comprehension of the material I am reading. I was given financial documents to read the other day and far from being a chore, I relished the chance to understand and learn the contents therein. I’m thinking of all the good books that I’m going to be able to read - in a week or less - and all the interesting new things I am going to learn. Transformational? YES YES YES, however, this tale has a cautionary end. If you don’t do the work, you won’t get the results.
My mother was an English graduate who felt that reading and education were everything that was important in the world.
My father was a dislexic entrepreneur who felt that education was key.
I felt inferior with my reading, even though my IQ was very high. I felt “what was the point” as my brother was obviously always going to be better than me at it so I was never going to impress.
Reading was a chore. Reading was a bore. Reading, quite simply, was not for me. I joined a book club 6 years ago and until I discovered Audible, I never finished the books.
It took too long, I never had the time and why read when I could listen!
Then I became a life coach and discovered a love and thirst for knowledge in the field. But my reading, I felt, was holding me back and I didn’t feel as though I got enough out of the audible books, I didn’t realise that I was craving structure, note-taking and belief.
Thanks to Jim and his course, I have taken my “comfort” reading from 207 words per minute to 550 and in sprints, I have reached speeds of over 800.
All of this, with full comprehension of the material I am reading. I was given financial documents to read the other day and far from being a chore, I relished the chance to understand and learn the contents therein. I’m thinking of all the good books that I’m going to be able to read - in a week or less - and all the interesting new things I am going to learn. Transformational? YES YES YES, however, this tale has a cautionary end. If you don’t do the work, you won’t get the results.