Speed reading skills will allow you to read very fast if need be. Therefore it gives you confidence that you can handle huge reading loads. Being able to read fast gives you an emotion that you have the control over your work.

I’ve read about 4 of your write-ups on the mind series and i’m really inspired.

Thanks man. Keep up the good job.

As to the questions, here goes. The average adult reads at about 200-250 words per minute (WPM). By the end of the three week course I teach, most of my students have doubled to tripled their baseline speed, and even more importantly, they’ve increased their initial comprehension and their long-term retention, as well. And I have found that they don’t have to settle for that number; with additional, regular practice, people can double to triple that figure in a couple of months after the course is through. You simply have to be willing to put in the time and effort.

And, yes, speed reading is an excellent way to prepare for ANY standardized test, including the bar, the MCAT, the SAT, or any other similar assessment. I used to teach at the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences, the military’s medical school in Bethesda, Maryland, and the students used their new skills to get through volumes of medical texts in short amounts of time, all with positive results.

When you are studying, though, you need to determine your purpose. If you need to recall large amounts of information, speed reading provides techniques for how to flag that information so it is easily retrievable when you need it. If you don’t need to remember something, it’s perfectly acceptable to say “not important” and move on to what you need.

Does that answer everyone’s questions?

@ Dan – Thank you for such an inspiring article.

Speed reading, though, is a skill, and like any other skill, it must be practiced over time to be of benefit. Anyone who promises you that you can be a speed reader in 15 minutes or less is selling you a lot of horse manure. When someone claims something that seems too good to be true, it usually is.

@ Alen – Yeah, speed reading will do amazing stuff and expand your horizons. Have you read the book by Ben Carson’s called “Gifted Hands”, and the other one called “Think Big”?

@ Brenda – We can all become walking dictionaries of some sorts if we learn to speed read.I would love that personally. hehe.

I am a big proponent of taking action as opposed to just thinking big at your laurels. Speed reading helps us prosper by opening our minds to more opportunities.

Speed reading could help me at my job by understanding various technologies faster (saving me time and making me more efficient). I guess it depends on how you look at it. Speed reading alone will not make one prosperous. It is how we apply it.

Whether its a way to Prosperity, thats debatable.Some cannot read or write and the do major things with their lives especially when it comes to art or music.Ill stay off that one but for me I believe it would be a good skill to have.

As for that Howard Stephen Berg chap, I am mersmerized! But I posit? Does his prowess at speed reading actually make this Stevie guy more knowledgabe just because he posseses extraordinary speed reading skills or is it just for show to be leading speed reading honcho but clueless thereafter??? I hope all that 25,000 words a minute makes something out for him!

This piece yet again, was worth my sleepless night while! lol.