John F. Kennedy used to do it, and he also encouraged his staff to follow his example. No, we’re not talking about having dinner dates with Marilyn Monroe – but setting aside time to learn how to Speed Read.

JFK, who would arguably have been the greatest President the United States ever had given long enough to prove it, was an avid supporter of speed-reading. It no doubt enabled him toContinue Reading…

Life on this planet is fascinating. It has been for centuries, and will continue to be so for decades to come. Yet as the world evolves, and spirals in ever more complex ways, so it becomes harder to get a handle on what is happening around us.Continue Reading…

You’re sitting at your desk, twiddling your pen, and thinking what am I doing still here, sat at this desk? Why aren’t I over there at that desk, in that office? You know, the one next to the Manager? There might be many reasons – but there might actually only be one. You just haven’t got that edge that Jones has. But why has Jones got the edge? Because they are using their brains just that little bit harder thanContinue Reading…

Are you one of these people who enjoy reading but find it hard sometimes to concentrate for long enough to understand what exactly it is you are trying to take in? Do you have to read books that you’re not really interested in, but have to read as part of your job, or training? It is annoying, and a hard slog wading through page after page of boring text because we have to.Continue Reading…

Imagine having the power to read three times faster than you already can. What would that mean? Well, think about it. Remember that book you had always wanted to try, but just couldn’t face it’s 800 pages? What was it called? Oh yes, War and Peace. The very thought of tackling that enormous tome is enough to put anyone off – but if you’re reading speed is slower than most, then War and Peace is oneContinue Reading…

There are many techniques available for people to increase their reading speed, at the same time retaining the information they are reading about. Obviously, like anything that requires an improvement, learning to read faster takes effort, and the desire to achieve results, and much depends on the individual and their capacity for learning, although it is generally considered that virtually anyone can achieve successful speed-reading rates.Continue Reading…

It was Einstein who said we only use 10% of our brain’s capability, and there have been others who suggest that we don’t even use 10%. Consequently, efforts have been expended in an attempt to help us fill that void with a whole range of techniques designed to maximize out potential as human beings.

Speed-reading, Scanning, Skimming, Photo Reading, are some of the techniquesContinue Reading…

People have had the ability to read quickly for centuries, but it was not until shortly after the Second World War that the term Speed-Reading came into being. Schoolteacher Evelyn Wood coined the phrase after discovering the technique accidentally when witnessing the remarkable speed with which her university professor was marking her 80-page term paper. Mrs Wood went on to found the first school for speed-reading in 1968, and ever since Continue Reading…

Speed Reading is all the rage at the moment. Everyone is doing it, from the High School student to the University Professor, the Wall Street banker to the A-List celebrity, even mums, and dads, and your Grandma. Why? Because people around the world are realizing that they need to be bale to read faster if they are want to be able to keep up with the modern world, and its ever-increasing speed.Continue Reading…