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Speed Reading Secrets (Official Site) Dear Fellow Reader, If you ever wanted to read books with the speed of a Harvard genius (spending only 20 minutes reading that which now takes you an hour)... while dramatically improving your ability to remember and comprehend what you read... this may be the most important letter you will ever read. HERE IS WHY: My name is Dennis Campbell, and until very recently I was your basic “slow reader.” I had a love/hate relationship with books – in the evening I’d enjoy curling up in bed with a good mystery novel, maybe even stay awake a little longer to find out “whodunnit”... while the next day at work being stressed out of my mind because of the staggering amounts of reading chores. I swear I’ve been sitting at my desk, looking at the piles in front of me, one emotional hair-trigger away from tossing the whole mess and never reading another word the rest of my life. Doesn’t it drive you nuts? I had no control over my day-to-day reading, even after 16 years of schooling, including college. Whenever I read something I was “mind-wandering” and blanking out on text segments because of outside distractions. I had to reread and continuously refer back to material to understand and remember it. I was literally going at a snail’s pace. That’s how I ran into Jim Nilzon. And my life instantly changed forever. In a few short days after listening to Jim’s advice... I had infused my reading skill with a new power to understand what I was reading as I read it! (This allowed me to maintain speed without having to reread bits and pieces to get comprehension!) I had improved my ability to concentrate and learned how to avoid outside distractions that interfere with reading! (Incredibly helpful at work where I was constantly disrupted by noise, people, etc.) I saw a 249% improvement in my ability to process information! (Where it used to take me over 8 hours to read a 300-page book, it was now taking me less than 2 1/2 hours. A 50-page technical report was taking me 30 minutes... a one-page business letter 40 seconds!) To my amazement... And it just gets better and better! My bad reading memory completely disappeared... and I began to remember and recall information as if I had magical powers. But it’s not magic at all! You see, what I learned from Jim had almost nothing to do with me... and everything to do with the amazing new reading technique he’d developed over the years. He calls it “Visual Flow Reading”, and he got the idea close to 20 years ago while going to commercial pilot school in New Mexico and being frustrated with his own ability to read. This website will teach you that technique. It will show you how to read faster than you have ever done before. And it will reveal THE MISSING LINK that allows you to understand, with crystal clarity, even difficult materials at unheard-of reading rates. Read Jim's incredible story below where he tells you HOW TO SLASH 40 MINUTES OUT OF EVERY HOUR YOU READ... Sincerely, Dennis Campbell From: Jim Nilzon Bellingham, Washington Thursday, 10:22 a.m. It’s true. I was actually afraid I was going to wash out of flight school because of my poor reading skills. My luck turned when one of my ground school instructors, a World War II fighter pilot named Conrad Strickland, suggested I try a “twist” on reading he had heard about. Incredibly, it worked. My speed shot up by about 50%. But the amazing thing wasn’t so much that I was able to increase my speed – I was already reading much slower than the average person. The amazing thing was... Anyway, this “quick-fix” technique got me thinking... If it’s this easy to bump your speed up by 50% in a lousy two minutes... what will it take to go higher... or even... MUCH higher? So I began digging around in the library of New Mexico State University (this is where I did most of my aviation studying) for books and research materials about reading and learning strategies. I skimmed local bookstores for any books about the brain. And I even sent for some special reports by mail from an expert in London. After a very short period of time of using the new technique and trying out combinations with some of the other methods I had found, I was able to read at a speed of about 450 wpm. By now, I was in control of my pilot studies, because my ability to learn had improved quite a bit, too. This gave me a LOT of free time. But instead of going out with my pilot buddies drinking beer (you should have seen some of these guys) or enjoying the New Mexico sun by the pool, I spent afternoons and weekends at the library experimenting with speed reading techniques. This paid off in spades. Right after graduation in January of 1989, I had found the “golden grail.” In addition to having earned my Commercial Pilot License and FAA Flight Instructor Certificate... my reading speed had shot up to... A Shocking 1,168 Words per Minute! And not only was I reading 8 TIMES my initial speed... but I was doing it with higher comprehension than ever before! Comprehension is the key to rapid reading. The rule of the game is that you can never go faster than you understand something. If you do, you’re wasting your time. This is where most speed reading courses fail. They teach you to increase your speed, but they don’t teach you to maintain comprehension at the same time. Many of these programs are really nothing more than plain old skimming in disguise. Move your eyes over the page like a couple of bees in a bottle, and there you have it. Pathetic. You also need to understand that as a skilled speed reader you’re not reading everything at the same speed like mindless robot. You vary your speed according to... (1) how difficult the reading material is... (2) your level of vocabulary... (3) how familiar you are with the subject, and... (4) your purpose for reading. So if you ask me how fast I read, my honest answer would be: “It varies. I can go at amazing rates over 1,000 wpm when reading lighter materials like novels, biographies, news articles etc. But for something as complex as meteorology or technical books on airplane systems, I slow down to around 600 wpm to maintain comprehension.” But considering I couldn’t even read a simple novel over 156 wpm before, you have to agree the results are pretty decent. Even when the material is extremely technical, I still go almost 4 times faster. And when I show you my method, you can easily do the same. Think about it: Even if you only read at 3 times your present speed... You can shave off 40 minutes from every hour you read!      Or, if you want... You can read 3 books in the time you used to read one! Do You Have What It Takes to Become a Speed Reader? Now, your obvious question is of course: Can I do this? Do I have what it takes to read 3 times faster than I do right now? And can I do it without losing comprehension? Let’s begin by addressing the first question and then we’ll talk about comprehension more in detail. The initial reaction most people have when I throw numbers like these on the table is that it’s downright impossible for them to attain it. In fact, learning to multiply your reading speed IS difficult to do. But only for a small category of people – those that have a reading handicap like dyslexia. So how do you know if you have a reading handicap? How do you know if you’re dyslexic? Easy. All you need to do is a simple test with your daily newspaper. Pick an average article and read it out loud to a friend or family member for a few minutes. If on average you get stuck on more than one word in ten, there might be a problem. The rule doesn’t apply if it’s a foreign langue and your vocabulary in this language is so-so. I’m talking about if you’re an American and you’re reading an English language newspaper and have problems with more than 10% of the words. We call this the newspaper test. Most people pass it. And if you pass it you can quite easily become a speed reader and go from where you are right now to reading 2, 3 or even 5 times faster. Here is the important part: I don’t care if you read that newspaper slowly. I don’t even care if you’re going painfully slow. All I care about is whether or not you can read without getting stuck on individual words or letters. It’s really that simple. My course caters to normal, slow readers. It is not directed at readers with a handicap. And the reason a normal reader – even someone reading as slowly as I used to do – can increase their speed to such impressive levels so quickly, is that OUR READING TECHNIQUE (the one we were taught in school) HAS SO MANY MISTAKES BUILT INTO IT, IT’S SCARY. Note: If you suspect you have a reading handicap, your best course of action is to get in touch with a reading specialist that is equipped to handle these kinds of things. Like I said, Speed Reading Secrets is not a remedial course, it is directed to those that can already read normally. Speed = Big Bucks The big payoff from learning this stuff is the pride and peace of mind that comes with knowing you can zip through your daily reading in a third of the time it used to take. But you’ll also be worth a heck of a lot more to other people in monetary terms. Here’s what I mean... According to recent surveys, the average working adult spends from 1 to 4 hours a day reading material necessary for the performance of his or her job. When that employee stops messing around with all that reading material like a snail and begins flying through work at 300% higher speed, he is going to put a big smile on the face of the guy upstairs... ...Simple arithmetics reveals that he can suddenly provide his employer with between $8,000 and $20,000 more productive time each year! That’s why good reading skills have become one of the most valuable assets a person can have in the modern information economy. It’s MONEY IN THE BANK. In fact, I began to understand how valuable good reading skills really are, when Ericsson, the telecommunication giant, called my company up in 2000 and ordered one hundred thousand dollars worth of speed reading training for their employees. It’s true. I swear it on my mother’s eyes. One order. One hundred grand. What stops most people from becoming effective readers, however, is a little “lie” they have bought into (and I’m now getting to my answer about comprehension I promised earlier). It was sold enthusiastically but unknowingly by their teachers back in fourth grade. This lie was swallowed by all students because teachers are supposed to know what is right and what is wrong and help us become good readers. Have you heard the lie? "The Slower You Read Something, The Better You’ll Understand It." But in fact... the OPPOSITE is true! You see what most reading teachers (9 out of 10 are slow readers just like everybody else) don’t know, is that scientific research proved OVER 30 YEARS AGO that... "When we read at higher rates we are feeding information into our brain closer to its normal thinking speed. And this is the speed at which the brain prefers to absorb data. In other words, the key to memory and comprehension is to allow the brain to capture whole ideas and concepts – not disjointed words and sentences, which is what we get when reading slowly." The old word-at-a-time way of reading is like eating rice and picking each grain up by itself, rather than picking up a forkful. Soon the arm will be tired and the rice cold. What I’m saying is this: If it were true that slow reading is the key to great comprehension, then all slow readers would understand and focus on a far higher level than the faster ones. But we both know this isn’t true. The reality is that deliberately slow readers not only waste time by going slow, they frequently have horrible comprehension. Listen: The Conference Board (a large research organization) released a report in 2006, titled, Are They Really Ready to Work? 431 companies with a combined workforce of 2 million U.S. employees were polled about the skills of new entrants of the workforce. The report stated: “63% of employers ranked reading comprehension ‘very important’ for high school graduates. Yet 38% consider most high school graduates deficient in this basic skill.” The report went on to say, “Forty-nine percent of employers in the manufacturing sector cited this basic skill is lacking in job entrants...” 38% have reading comprehension problems! Can you imagine that? I don’t know about you, but that just about says it all to me: The way we are taught to read in school, simply does not work. They tell us to read carefully. And when we don’t remember? Be even more careful. They tell us to go slow. And when we don’t comprehend? Go even slower. Go slower?! That puts the brain to sleep faster than if someone walks up from behind with a cloth soaked in ether and puts it to your face. A lot of readers know what I’m talking about. I mean how many times have you opened a workbook to learn something, and the minute you start reading you get an overwhelming feeling you need to lay down and rest? I can tell you this: That used to be me ALL THE TIME. Friend, that’s the brain saying, “Bye bye.” Comprehension – gone. Does that mean all you have to do is move your eyes faster over a line of print and, presto, you’re Einstein? Sorry. It doesn’t work that way. And this is the secret ingredient I added to the basic technique my groundschool instructor, Conrad, gave me in 1988. The secret which has allowed me, and the thousands I have shared this technique with for the past 18 years, to not only read incredibly fast... but also... obtain rock solid comprehension. To give you an idea of what is possible, here is an actual progress report of readers using my strategies successfully... My students got these results from just reading a text straight up and down against the clock and doing a comprehension test afterwards.... However... whenever the purpose is a serious one – for example, when you need to talk intelligently on the subject, give a speech, ace a test in college, write a report, etc. – we add specific comprehension strategies you can use to “deep study” the text. This adds far more than 12% to your comprehension. Ironically, I consider high physical speed the least important part of reading. Apart from comprehension, the most important part is knowing... How to Read ONLY What You Need For Your Purpose And AVOID READING IN THE FIRST PLACE! Now THAT’S how you save time. And that is why my method has a gigantic arsenal of easy-to-use tools to help you: See the big picture in everything you read and quickly find the essence in large volumes of information... Read faster without sacrificing quality (you’ll discover how you can cram the reading you need to do in the time you have available – and never miss what’s important)... Collect, arrange and classify information and make it easy to find in the future... plus, quickly compile information and make it available to others... Concentrate, focus and understand what you read – even with phones ringing, coworkers walking into your office babbling, or schoolmates buzzing around your desk while you’re studying... To prove to our students how powerful this concentration strategy is... while they are reading, we literally stand in front of the group (usually 25 people) lifting chairs up over our heads, dropping down and doing push-ups and other crazy stunts. When we ask them afterwards if they knew what was going on in the room, not a single one has a clue... they were all too immersed in the text. Stop passive, boring reading and crush reading fatigue... Remember a LOT more of what you read without slow re-reading and going over the same tedious material again and again. It’s silly to think you have a bad memory – I’ll show you how to encode the material properly while you read so you can easily access the information in your mind weeks or months later... Now, let me ask you this: Doesn’t it make sense to master a broad range of skills like these rather than learning a single technique that, all it does, is allow you to go through your book at 200 miles an hour like a raging bull? You’d be a fool to use just a single-dimension approach – right? RIGHT! And doesn’t it also make sense to obtain these skills from someone who for close to 20 years has taught speed reading to thousands of people in seminars, private coaching sessions and self-study programs with proven results? Wait! Before you answer, let me issue this... **WARNING** I am red-hot boiling MAD! I am mad because it breaks my heart when I see how innocent people with reading difficulties are being taken advantage of on the Internet. Just because the Web makes it possible to do so, all of a sudden dozens and dozens of “instant experts” crawl out of the woodwork. People who perhaps have read a couple of books on the subject of speed reading... then slapped together some cheap e-book in a hurry, and built a website to sell it. I even had one student in 2001 who, right after training with me, decided he was ready to write a book. I read the book after it was published (it was sold in bookstores). He had misunderstood the whole concept and was doing more harm than good to his readers. FACT #1: Knowing how to speed read, and knowing how to teach speed reading, are two different things. FACT #2: The term “Speed Reading” is neither proprietary nor describe a certain type of technique or method of rapid reading. There are as many techniques as there are frappuccino blends in a Starbucks coffee house. An estimated 75 to 80 percent don’t work AT ALL. How do I know? Because I have read most, if not all, of the books published on the subject since 1924. I have gone through the products that are being sold on the Internet with a fine-toothed comb. And I have attended many, many seminars over the years. Some techniques are great, but most are not even worth the paper they’re printed on. I can promise you this: When you follow my simple step-by-step reading plan, you will... (1) Learn a method that WORKS and works FAST... (2) Learn speed reading THE RIGHT WAY so you can acquire the skills with minimum frustration... and (3) Learn a broad range of skills so you can become a FLEXIBLE reader – not only enjoy your favorite authors the traditional lazy way, but also be selective and fast whenever the situation calls for it. And if you worry that you don’t have what it takes to become a powerful reader – please don’t. You see.. Many of my students I’ve worked with wouldn’t consider themselves good or even average readers... but their results certainly speak for themselves: “I cannot believe how easy it is to read faster. I started out reading 282 words per minute -- now I read 916 wpm for novels, and 632 for more technical reading! For the first time what I read is clear as a bell. It's like you say Jim, going slow gets in the way of understanding. “I am so grateful to you for releasing your secrets to the rest of us who have been struggling with slow reading all of our lives. “Many, many thanks!”  Michael Stevens  San Diego, CA “I have embraced a new truth: If a person needs improvement in an area of life, they usually need to learn a new SKILL. “Too many people make the mistake of thinking that something is wrong with them if they are slow readers, and that they'll never be able to overcome their obstacle. That used to be me. “I can testify to the fact that Jim's course gives you the skill(s) you need. Period.”  Elisabeth Fletcher  Atlanta “I work in the research department of a large company and I spend somewhere between 20 to 25 hours per week just reading. It includes everything from reports, scientific journals and newspapers to online research. “I never believed learning these techniques could make such a difference in my job. I can honestly say that I get as much done in half the time after the course and save between 8 to 12 hours per week. This allows me, first of all, to finish all my reading at the office and not bring material home over the weekends. It is such a relief. “My husband also tried the techniques and he loves them. Next, we are going to allow our 12-year-old son to learn them. I am very excited and hope they will help him get ahead in school. “Thank you so much.”  Mary Phillips  Santa Ana, CA “Hi Jim. I just wanted to drop you a quick note to tell you about the results I have gotten with your program. “First of all, you have no idea how much I've been struggling with my reading - especially in my early school years. After learning your techniques it's like I feel I can take on anything. I went from 269 to 891 words per minute and even increased my comprehension by 10%!!! “When I read the story about your background I felt a connection. I thought, if he can do it so can I. And I could. I am very, very grateful for what you have created. I just wish I had known about this before I went to college. All that stress - gone.”  Peter Robinson  Portland, Oregon “Thank you Jim for a wonderful program. I really enjoyed going through it. “My reading speed went from 319 words per minute to 673. I confess that I've cheated a bit with the exercises so I know I will be able to read even faster. The biggest surprise is that my reading comprehension has increased significantly. I find it easier to concentrate and experience hardly any disruptive thoughts during reading. This used to be a problem and I am grateful that it is gone.”  Sofie Lambert  Chicago, IL “Me and my mom decided to work together learning speed reading secrets. I decided I was going to try to beat her and I did. :) “Here is what happened. I was reading much slower than mom when we started, 198 words per minute and she was reading 302. After about one week we were both equal, about 500. Then after three weeks I was at 782 and she was at 759 in the final test. We both got the same on reading comprehension and both feel we understand more now of what we read. “I am just 15 years old and I think that anyone can become better at reading by learning this. It was not difficult at all. Easy to understand and clear writing. The exercices were a little tough at times but it paid off. “Thank you.”  Suzanne Smith  Texas “The most amazing thing with speed reading secrets is that the method seems to work on all types of books. 90 percent of the books I personally read are business related and I literally fly through them. When I say I read three times as many in the same amount of time, I'm not joking. You might think that understanding would suffer by going this fast. But no, it is actually better! “What I like about this program (and I've tried one or two in the past that didn't work) is that it takes a quality approach to information processing. To me that's huge since I'm always responsible for what I read and need to relate newly aquired knowledge to others in work related situations.”  Thomas Reinhart  New York, NY “As a researcher and reader of scientific articles I’ve really been helped by the techniques Jim teaches, both by the way of reading such articles and how to memorize them.”  Lars-Fride Olsson  Senior Researcher, PhD, Gambro Group “It would be an understatement to say that this speed reading program has changed my life. Before, I only had time for the front page and the editorials in the morning newspaper, now I have time to go through it all. Study literature that made me give up right from the start, I now go through with ease. During the summer I have read several great classics that I have always wanted to read, but never had time for. Jim’s course is the most important one I have taken during my 4 years in college.”  Lukas Lejring  Stockholm School of Economics “I have probably attended some 30 different training programs during my career. This one belongs in the top three!”  Claes Valberg  Tritech “Is this reading method for everyone? You better believe it! I thought I was stuck with my slow reading forever, boy was I wrong. I’ve added 725 words per minute to my speed – which gives me a total of 985 wpm!!! In addition, my comprehension has increased by 10 percent. I’m a much different reader, thanks to Jim.”  Donald Sanders  Finance Manager “I am currently studying for a Masters Degree in Education, where we have a huge volume of material thrown at us in a short space of time. As a result of using Jim’s speed reading techniques I have been able to read four books in the time I used to read one. I almost feel guilty going through and learning the contents of assigned books so easily.”  Linda  New York University, New York “I have never before experienced a more powerful and measurable improvement in such a short period of time. The results are sensational considering how quickly and easily I tripled my reading speed with an increase(!) in comprehension. The only thing I regret is that I didn't learn this 20 years ago.”  Lars-Lennart Carlsson  AstraZeneca Are these readers any different than you? No, they are not. They represent businessmen, businesswomen, students and ordinary people with the same kind of skills and intelligence you bring to the table. The only thing they did was to put their doubts aside... and give this new method a try. If you too, can simply put your doubts aside for a short time. You can see for yourself just what it’s like to read two, three... even five times faster than you ever dreamed possible... concentrate like a zen master during reading... and comprehend and remember so much, so fast, your colleagues, school mates and teachers will think you are cheating! Let me show you how to become a master of information and gain an almost magical advantage over everyone else you’re competing with. Who ever said business – or even school – should be fair? Success goes to the most astute and agile-minded, the best prepared and proactive people. And almost always, the best informed people will win out. My method will enable you to “out-read” and “out-learn” your competitor – and in the process, catapult your business or personal career to the success you deserve. I want to help bring your skills to the next level with what I’m calling... Speed Reading Secrets An “Insider” Shortcut Program To Develop Killer Reading Skills That Will Supercharge Your Reading Speed, Your Comprehension, And Your Ability To Learn… Even If You Flunked English! Here’s the deal... For years the only way to learn this amazing reading method was to go to one of my seminars... and that wasn’t cheap! In fact, since my company started doing the seminars in 1997 we have been charging $1,500 for our three-day standard program – per person! And my fee for private lessons was $295 per hour, with a minimum of 10 lessons in a package! That is, if you could nail me down for an appointment. And I would have gone on giving only seminars and private lessons for staggering fees, until I realized a very simple economic fact: If I would take some time off from my hectic schedule and write a self-study course... and sell it to people for a slight fraction of my fee... maybe within a year’s time so many people worldwide would buy the course that I would never have to give a personal lesson or seminar again! I could actually make a better living by charging “spare change,” while enlarging my audience, than I could by putting 25 people in a room and charging them fifteen hundred bucks a head. So that is exactly what I decided to do. This is an unbelievably exciting package... designed so you don’t risk a dime checking it out in your own home! What you get is a GIGANTIC manual containing 320 pages of highly-guarded reading secrets. The package details exactly everything you need to know to master the Visual Flow Reading technique in the shortest time possible, and I’m taking it waaay beyond what you saw in the mini e-mail course (did you take the test-drive?). Nothing has been left out... you get the same instructional format that I use for my hyper-expensive private lessons and seminars... with the added advantage that you have it all written down, so you can go over any part you like until it becomes second nature! PLUS: With my personal insert Speed Reading Coach you can coach yourself in a convenient Q&A-format to avoid any type of difficulty during training. These are the things I have come across time and time again working face-to-face with my students over the years – things that could lead to unnecessary frustrations. Speed Reading Coach will make the ride smooth and easy. And here’s the best news of all: When I do something, I always try to go the extra mile (I guess it’s part of my “eliminate-all-doubts” personality). So when I developed Speed Reading Secrets I began by doing 6-months of extensive research where, again, I read up on all the new discoveries in the field of reading, memory and learning science. I then plugged these findings into my course to make it better than it has ever been. Not only that, but I took an entire year off to write the course so it would be every bit as good as my private lessons and seminars where I guide my students personally. With that said, let me give you a peek into what you’ll discover inside the Speed Reading Secrets ‘At-Home’ reading program... Here is Just a Tiny Sampling of The Topics Covered: The instant cure for “mind wandering” and boredom during reading! (This will make laser-sharp concentration so easy, it’ll be like flicking a light switch on or off.) Exactly how to apply the six simple key segments of Visual Flow Reading – so you’ll be able to spot-check your progress... and master the technique faster than anything else you’ve ever attempted in skill development! (And read comfortably and naturally, like you were a born rapid reader!) Why you need to understand how your eyes operate to be able to eliminate the 5 most critical reading mistakes you make... right now! (The accumulative effect of these mistakes slows you down by at least 65%.) How to avoid energy-sapping during reading – and guarantee yourself repeatable high-energy, high-performance sessions when you read and study! How to use the secret of “soaking up” entire groups of words for maximum speed! (Traditional reading robs you of this potential speed – while the Visual Flow Reading technique actually increases it five-fold!) Naturally fast readers: What they are doing. How they are doing it. How they have learned how to do it. How to stop “hearing yourself read” (called sub-vocalization) and get meaning mainly from seeing! (Breaking out of this common practice will improve your reading speed and comprehension simultaneously!) Reading in bed: When it’s good for you. When it’s bad. Why. The 3 rules which govern how quickly you can read and comprehend a text segment! (By complying with these rules you are assured to always read at your most effective speed!) How to go from 240 wpm (the average reading speed in America) to 1,200 wpm – without skipping a word! (Reading 960 words a minute faster means reading 57,600 more words in an hour... or about 190 extra pages in a novel!) How to flash right through a book with the “executive” technique – automatically skipping the boring details – automatically scooping up the main ideas as fast as you can travel down the page! (You will never read a book from cover to cover again!) How to correctly take rapid, abbreviated notes at meetings and presentations – which 99 of 100 people do so incorrectly it actually defeats its own purpose (instead of providing the exact-recall certainty you can have by doing it right!) How to handle worst-case scenarios: when you forget you have a test, are expected to do a presentation at a moment’s notice, have an hour to read a book... and the like! What you must eat on days you are reading and writing... and... exactly when you should eat it. (Prevents drowsiness big time.) How to “expand” your vision so you can see everything on a page in a glance – it’s like photographing the pages of a book, one by one! (This trick will save you enormous amounts of time when looking for specific information in large volumes of text!) Why newspaper and magazine editors try to “force” you into reading their publications in a certain way... and... why not to read the way they want you to! (These strategies allow you to go through the morning paper in 15 minutes tops – not missing a single article!) How to read scientific journals and technical reports with less effort! How to define your purpose for reading something… and… then use the techniques which will enable you to meet that purpose at lightning speed! The secret patterns of how writers organize their material… and… how to use them to quickly find the information you need! (Often this can save you two thirds of your reading time, sometimes even more!) How to absorb the key ideas of most books in 30 minutes... burn a magazine article into your memory in 5 minutes... master the heart of a business report in 3 minutes – and file these facts away in your mind in such perfect order that you can pull them right out again at an instant’s notice. (This will allow you to back up every point you make in a conversation with dozens of impressive facts... and fill every one of your statements with authority and conviction!) PLUS: How To Become An Online Speed Reader: A new way to approach websites and unearth the information you need from them. (This strategy can cut down the time spent on the Internet by 75 to 80% – and it takes less than 20 minutes to learn!) The 8 telltale signs of websites that provide low-quality information and try to cheat you! (This is critical info if you ever use the Internet for research or make purchases online!) A simple little technique that will automatically insure you read 2.7 times faster on the computer screen! (How much time will this save you? It allows you to read an hour’s worth of material in 22 minutes!) STUDENTS – Stop Wasting Time With Ineffective Study Techniques... And Get Better Grades With Less Work: Did you know that… a college education is worth $37,000 more a year in earnings? The average US worker with a bachelor’s degree earned $56,000 in 2008 compared with $19,000 for the average worker without a diploma. That’s an extra $1,665,000 (over 1.6 million dollars!) by the time you are ready to retire at 65! But most American students, even those with the greatest native intelligence, perform well below their potential in school. In fact, according to a recent U.S. Department of Education study, more than 95% college-bound high-school seniors lack the necessary reading skills to enable them to succeed in college and their future professional lives. That’s why I want to show you... What top students at Yale and Harvard do when they’re pressed for time! (Warning: Use this conservatively – studying is so fast and results are so dramatic you might be suspect of cheating!) The most important questions to ask in setting your learning goals! How to completely lose respect for those 1,000-page books most people get sick just looking at! The correct way to take study notes... which instantly transforms them into a computer-like “mental printout” that reflects a profound understanding of the material! (This alone will significantly enhance your ability to remember and use the material you study!) How to cut a big, scary learning project down to manageable size, and give yourself super confidence in coping with it. Trust me, when you apply these strategies and tactics you will never again be stressed out by school. How to study better and faster with the new cutting-edge methods that help students get top grades in as little as one-half the time others spend! (It will be so easy to keep up with your studies that you will have time to hold down a full-time job!) The art of setting up the perfect reading environment – few readers have a clue about how to do this! (Set it up the wrong way and you’ll impair concentration and may even ruin your learning efforts!) The “energy conservation” rules of study almost every reader breaks... giving you up to 5 straight hours of concert pitch performance! (You’ll see an incredible leap in your day-to-day productivity.) The simple little tip that will automatically insure that you ALWAYS read what is most important in your textbooks! (All top students have this down – it’s the reason their test results often land in the top 5% of the class!) How to develop questions as you read to be able to read “between the lines,” make connections, synthesize information, and think both critically and creatively. Your single best “one answer” technique to memorize the contents of books – if you never learn anything else from Jim, this technique will assure you pass any written or oral exam... even on college level! (And it’s so simple you will be shocked!) And much, MUCH more! You begin enjoying these benefits very quickly – in most cases, after a few hours or days. But it doesn’t stop there. Day by day, week by week you’ll feel your mind, your abilities, your personal power grow stronger – until you realize that you’re performing as well or maybe even better than elite students at Yale, Harvard and Princeton! And even that’s just the beginning. You’ll also begin realizing that... The Stress And Anxiety That Have Plagued You For Years Are Vanishing Before Your Eyes. ... you will respond more effectively to personal and professional challenges. ... you will create more time in your day. ... you will manage your daily reading without frustration and fatigue. ... you will stay on top of current reading. ... you will confront intimidating materials with confidence. ... you will rediscover the joy of reading. ... And not only will your skills give you a much more relaxed attitude towards information. Just imagine being able to learn anything you want, being able to excel in anything you want. Pretty much, the doors are open. Okay, let’s cut to the bottom line: How much is this program? Look, obviously this isn’t going to be like buying some cheap book in a bookstore nor should it be because this deals with highly specialized knowledge. This is advanced training and it generates specific, measurable results that saves you bundles of cash over time, so it merits being pricey. I hope the figure you’re thinking about is, well, not astronomical, but large enough to be grounded in reality. As you recall, I already shared the fact that my seminar attendees paid a sizable $1,500 tuition for our 3-day workshop and that’s not counting, hotel, food, travel expenses and time away from the office. And for private consulting one-on-one I charged $295 per hour with a minimum of 10 lessons in the package. Since 1997 I’ve also sold an “underground” self-study course (not meant for the public) exclusively designed for executives and staff of large corporations who couldn’t get away from the office for three full days. To be fair to seminar attendees who paid $1,500 we charged $600 for this course. One colleague tried to convince me that I should charge the same $600 for the Speed Reading Secrets ‘at home’ course since it is even more advanced. I seriously considered it. However, I am not greedy and didn’t want to put this critical skill out of reach for students (who never seem to have any money). So I’m not going to charge anywhere near $600 or even my $295 hourly rate. In fact, to keep the price down to a minimum I have made the program available for immediate download. That way I save money on manufacturing and fulfillment and can pass on the savings to you. I’m going to discount Speed Reading Secrets vs. the original ‘at home’ course down to a generous $49 (a full $551 discount). However, I will only extend this steep discount to the first 250 people who order. After these 250 copies are gone I will raise the price to $97 – because this is the price I really had in mind from the beginning. These copies can go fast so please understand that I can’t guarantee this price if you leave the website and come back to it in the future. Now is $49 a lot of money? Frankly, if you’re someone who “gets it” you’ll immediately jump at this bargain and order right away! However, if you’re still asking yourself – “is it worth it?” let me mention a few points to consider... There is no doubt you are going to do a lot of reading this year. If you’re like me you probably read for at least two hours a day... Now that’s 10 hours per work week or approximately 500 hours for the whole year. If your time is worth a mere $20 an hour and you cut your reading time in half (that’s being extremely conservative) – you will have saved yourself five THOUSAND dollars! If you look at it another way, your total tuition comes down to just 13 cents per day if you spread it out over a year. Thirteen cents! Now, do you really think there is a better skill you can invest a measly 13 cents per day in that can reward you so richly? I seriously doubt it. My prediction is you’ll make back your tuition in a couple of days. Like I said earlier, results come right away – plus, the program is highly action oriented and designed to meet real-life reading situations you encounter at work and in school. This is a MASSIVE program. 10 lessons all in all that will teach you everything you need to know about reading and learning. Just take a look at the Contents of this 320-page monster course. Nothing has been left out. PLUS you’ll get 4 valuable gifts -- A $89.95 Value, FREE! FREE GIFT #1: The Secrets of Taking Any Test! – a $22.50 value, FREE! Because test-taking is a skill apart from learning course material, you might still score low even if you have studied hard. Here’s the truth no teacher will ever tell you – PLUS what you must do to handle anxiety, a big cause of failure for test-takers. The three anxiety traps that are set to smash your nerves to pieces... Four essential steps you must take even before you start the test to manage time... conserve energy... and make sure your memory works dutifully... How to develop ideas during long, gruesome essay tests and write creatively and accurately without getting stuck... Questions you don’t know the answer to: When to guess. When never to guess. How to become an educated guesser... Test-taking strategies for different types of tests – multiple choice, true/false, matching, essay, oral exams – plus, how to prepare for each one... And much, MUCH more! FREE GIFT #2: Fortune 500 “Sneaky Tricks” For Saving Time! – a $17.95 value, FREE! In this startling exposé, I reveal your deadliest time traps and how to fight each one. You’ll discover... How to make procrastination work for you: Secrets to saving both money and time by simply doing – you got it – nothing... Are YOU selling your time too CHEAPLY? How to calculate what your time is worth and collect every penny... Why working harder actually decreases your productivity – PLUS, why “more time” is not what you need... The Piggyback Principle: The crucial time tactic that can help you squeeze hours out of your work week... Can you get the job done in half the time? You certainly can – if you avoid these 11 common productivity killers... And much, MUCH more! FREE GIFT #3: 50 Ways to Get Better Organized! – a $19.95 value, FREE! You don’t have to stand idly by while your life is falling into a disorganized chaos of clutter. In this eye-opening guide, I introduce you to 50 powerful organization principles for taking control of your money, house, time, family – and life’s big changes. Fortunately, organizing is easy. You only need to understand a few guiding principles and hands-on techniques to keep your life in order. I’ll show you how to... Handle paperwork quickly and efficiently... Create the perfect, easy-to-maintain filing system that’s best for you... Keep clear financial records and pay bills on time... Complete projects and meet deadlines on time... Handle household matters from laundry to grocery shopping... Unclutter the spaces and places around you... And much, MUCH more! FREE GIFT #4: How to Make Your Child a Good Reader! – a $29.55 value, FREE! Younger Americans read less and they read less well. Because they read less well, they have lower levels of academic achievement. In fact, nearly two-thirds of American teenagers drop out of school and this is deeply connected to declining literacy and reading comprehension. With mediocre reading and writing abilities people do less well in the job market. Numerous reports on the nation’s reading trends show that poor reading skills correlates heavily with lack of employment, lower wages and, unfortunately, crime. This special report reveals how to build a stronger language foundation and strengthen your child’s reading ability at an early age... it reveals step-by-step how to make reading a natural part of your child’s life. You don’t need to be a teacher, or even the best reader, to help—with a few simple activities, including your time and interest, you can prepare your child for future academic success in a big way. The 5 important ways to get your child to love reading instead of hating it. Do you employ all 5?... 3 secrets to turn a first-grader into an avid reader... How to prepare your child for success in school... Disability and learning problems: Simple ways to find out if there is cause for worry, or if what you’re observing is normal for your child’s age... 7 ways to take charge of the TV (and even use it as a learning tool)... The right way to learn with computers... Language-building activities that will help your child read better... How and why comprehension often turns into a problem for children – and the two things you MUST do to prevent it from happening to your child... And more. You Also Get A No-Risk 100% Money-Back Guarantee! Here’s how it works: Order your personal copy of the Speed Reading Secrets Self-Study Course, and use it like you owned it. If, for any reason or for no reason at all, you aren’t completely satisfied within 56 full days (by which time I think you will have saved a ton of time on your reading) – just send back the material, and I will personally guarantee you get a 100% refund of your money. There will be no questions asked, and no hassles, either, at any time. And, please don’t forget, when you try out Speed Reading Secrets you also get the 4 free reports as my gift to you. It means that if you ever decide to take me up on my guarantee, the reports are yours, FREE to keep, just for putting your trust in me. Fair enough! Would you try to fly an airplane without training? Probably not! But reading a book is far more intricate than flying an airplane. So why go on learning and reading with tools that haven’t changed much in the past 100 years (reading is still taught the same way it was taught in the early 1900’s) instead of giving your brain the tools it needs to get the job done quickly and effortlessly? I’ve done everything I can to get you started. I’ve made this website available with dozens of critical facts about reading. And, I’ve given you a chance to try out our basic technique so you can see for yourself how quickly speed reading works. ...But the fact is, nobody can take responsibility for your reading skills but you. If you decide that you want more speed, more comprehension... that you want to use your brain more effectively so you can remember what you read... that you want to eliminate troubling learning blocks and stop worrying about tomorrow... you can have the successful life you deserve. I’ll show you how. Or, you can decide to do nothing. Accept the limitations of being a slow reader. Trust your fate to the techniques you learned in school that only deliver results to a small percentage... and leave the rest of us confused, frustrated and anxious. Only you can decide if your life – and the educational accomplishments you depend on – is worth 13 cents a day and a few hours of your reading time. I strongly recommend that you give Speed Reading Secrets a chance to give you the reading skills you deserve. I hope to be welcoming you to our speed reading family today. Click here now to download your course in the next 5 minutes