My good buddy Matt Cheney reached out to me to do an interview with Ramit Sethi who runs the site iwillteachyoutoberich.com, who he has been working with on a financial bootcamp project. I’d first heard about Ramit through Matt, who convinced me to buy Ramit’s book, “I Will Teach You To Be Rich”. I did so, ordering it through Amazon, and letting it sit on my shelf for a couple of months, as I was just recovering from all the books I read for the Alt-MBA program that we were just wrapping up. I figured I get to the book eventually.
For someone like me who is incredibly busy knowledge worker, I can think of no better productivity tool that to read faster. I must confess I took my first encounter with speed reading was in high school in a class devoted to study skills. I actually learned quite a bit in that class including the importance of taking a break. One more time where a teacher had a fundamental impact in my development. The next time I came across speed reading was during my second semester in college at Appalachian State University. Again I improved my speed greatly. That was over 15 years ago, so I was due for a checkup.