Does Speed Reading Have a Direct Correlation to Income?, Mysticism, reading, forums, Numerology, Sun Signs, Divination

Posts: 5109 · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:17 am

It is almost back-to-school time. Imagine this note from your son or daughter:

Dear Mom/Dad,

School is starting soon. I wish summer could last just a little longer. I am enjoying playing with my friends, but I am also nervous about school. I don't feel as smart as the other kids. They seem to breeze right through the tests and I feel frustrated and nervous. I heard this year the work gets harder, and I am a little scared. I heard about this guy named Ron White, and he is the USA Memory Champion. He says he has a program that can really help me and costs less than my shoes. Can we get it? Please.

Love,
Me

Your son or daughter may not send you that note, but it isn't too far from the truth. As school starts again, I would really love to help your student (ages 8 to graduate school) with their grades. I recently received an email from a student studying for the bar exam and she praised my Memory in a Month as the program that “saved” her. I also recently taught this to a 10-year-old who memorized all 44 presidents in one evening. I can really help them. Can you get it for them?

1. Does Speed Reading Have a Direct Correlation to Income?
by Ron White

It has been said that standard education will get you jobs, and self-education will make you fortunes. This is no doubt true, and I believe that reading is a key skill necessary to self-education. Statistics say the average CEO in America reads four or five books per month, while the average American reads one book per year! This same statistic goes on to say that 60 percent of those average Americans don’t even get past the first chapter in that one book! You may shrug your shoulders and say, “OK big deal—so what? I am not a reader and why should that bother me?”

Whether it should bother you or not is for you to decide. I simply share the facts with you. So here is another interesting fact: The average CEO of a Fortune 500 company will earn an average of 536 times the salary of the average employee of the company he runs. This means that the employee of that company will work for a year and a half to equal the salary of the CEO for one day! What an extremely amazing and true statistic! Now, I am not going to suggest to you that the only difference between the CEO and the average employee is that the CEO reads a lot of books and the employee doesn’t, but I will suggest to you that is one of the major differences.

Now, if it is true that knowledge and even reading has a correlation to income, and I believe that it does, then wouldn’t it be logical to conclude that it is in our benefit and interest to learn to read faster.

So the good news is that you can learn to read faster. However, the more important factor here is that you can read faster WITH comprehension. You see if you simply read faster but do not comprehend or recall what you have read, then what have you gained? Not only is speed reading with comprehension and retention possible for the human mind, but you’ll be glad to learn it really is not a tough chore. The challenge is in learning the system. Because we know your brain is very systematic, we can actually train it to read faster. Thomas Jefferson said that if we do everything that we are capable of we would truly astound ourselves.

The human mind is the greatest computer ever created. Nothing in the world will ever compare to it. It is a truly phenomenal machine that, when fed, will respond with results that will astound you. Benjamin Franklin told us that if we take the pennies from our pockets and put them in our heads, our heads will then fill up our pockets once again. This is so true. The person who invests time educating himself will reap a lifetime of extra knowledge, fun and income.

So let’s do what Franklin suggested and spend our pennies on books. As we read these books faster and faster and gain more and more knowledge, we’ll look back in amazement as our knowledge and quality of life increases. By increasing your reading speed, you are doing just one of the things you are capable of. My hope is that it will spark a fire in you to learn even more, and in doing so develop and use more of your potential. Do this by continually learning and feeding the flames with information, knowledge and action.

2. Quotes of The Week
Skills

“You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.” —Jim Rohn

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” —Pablo Picasso

“What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.” —Brian Tracy

“What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.” —M. Scott Peck

“You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.” —Albert Einstein

“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.” — Francis Bacon

“To become successful and outstanding at something, we don’t have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.” —Earl Nightingale

“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” —Larry Bird

“The more you know, the less you need to say.” —Denis Waitley

3. Learning Leads to Earning by Jack Canfield

What kind of reading material is on your coffee table? Or do you not have enough time to read with all the television that you watch? OK, so what kind of programs are you watching on television? The sad truth is that most people spend more time being mindlessly entertained than they do developing their skills and learning their craft.

So what are you doing right now to further your education in what you’re passionate about? Are you waiting for the right opportunity to come knocking before you will develop the skills you will need for it? Get ready now! The more information you have, the more advantage you have over the people who don’t. Reading for just one hour a day will greatly increase your level of success! There are so many things to read to develop your mind, from finance to psychology, from economics to business writing, from health to computers. For one hour a day you could be studying the wide array of subjects that can help you live successfully.

Successful people did not wait for someone to call on them to be an expert before they gathered all the knowledge they could about their specialty. They were ready when the opportunities presented themselves. Spend your time reading and learning, too. Read biographies and autobiographies to study the ways of other successful people. Read often, review what you’ve read, and apply at least one thing from what you’ve learned.

Attend conferences, trade shows, training seminars and success rallies. Remember to be teachable! You can’t learn a thing if you think you already know it all. Just allow yourself to let go of needing to be right and looking smart. Listen to those who have achieved success. Open yourself up to letting others help you create new ways of thinking. After all, you can try something out and if it doesn’t work for you, you can discard it.

Find out what you need to know and learn in order to be ready for your opportunity. Start now! Make a list of things you could be doing to prepare yourself. Do you need to take a class in your spare time? Do you need to ask your boss what it will take to get to the next level? Do you need to research the market to find out how to break into it? Will you need to gather a library of good reference materials? Tackle your list!

And when you are successful, don’t stop your learning habits. Keep up with your industry. Keep making improvements. Keep studying the masters. Be powerful by being as knowledgeable as you can be, by learning news ways to do things, and by being more effective and efficient in your life.

The more you know about your passion, the more money you will make doing it. The more you learn in advance, the better your chances of landing the opportunity when it comes to you, and the better your chances of creating the opportunity for yourself!