Ryan Holiday

It never holds up over the long term.

Well, I think speed reading is a scam.

Oh, interesting.

I don't think it exists.

I'll tell you this.

I have never met a very wise or well-read person who has ever talked to me about their speed reading techniques.

Interesting.

The people that I know that are wise and the people that I know that read a lot,

The one thing they all have in common is that they spend a lot of time reading.

Yeah.

Right.

By the way, they see this as time well spent and it's not something they're trying to rush through or get done faster.

The only way that you can read more quickly is to have read a lot and to have a basis of knowledge that allows you to not skim, but to not have to stop and look a bunch of things up.

Right.

Yeah.

If you decide to sit down and read a book about the Civil War, you're like, wait, who are all these people again?

Where are all these places?

And then when you're on your 14th book, which I embarrassingly have read or, you know, when you take something you're really interested in, you have a comfort and an advantage that allows you to go a little faster.

So I think speed reading is definitely one.

Listening to audiobooks on various speeds to me is not, if you took a speed reading course and they're like, okay, what you do is you download a book on Amazon and then instead of listening to it at the 1x speed, you just press this little button and it's 3x.