Jim Kwik

Bill Gates reads a lot.

Like John F. Kennedy, you know, leaders are readers.

He was a very fast reader.

He was said to have read every morning six newspapers with one cup of coffee.

Most people, it's the opposite.

It takes like six cups of coffee to get through like a newspaper, right?

And that's the challenge.

But he's, you know, let's say, you know, he said to read 800 to 1,000 words a minute.

But if he could talk at, the average talking to is about 200, 250 words per minute.

There are like 700 words per minute he's not pronouncing, right?

You don't have to pronounce words you've seen before, but that's how we were taught as a kid.

Like a lot of what accelerated learning is, just like success, is unlearning.

Bad habits.

When you were a kid, you had to say the words out loud because the teacher needed to know you're pronouncing the words phonetically correctly.

But later on, remember this, your teacher said, read quietly to yourself.

Read silently to yourself.

And that's when you took that external voice and you put it internal there.

And it's been there ever since.

Here's a point.

When we listen to podcasts or audio books, how many people like to listen to it at 1.5 or 2x or 3x?