Improve Your Reading Skills - Why You Should Improve Your Reading Speed And Comprehension

By Adam Harley

Reading skills can make the difference between being productive and not being productive. They can make someone look intelligent, if the person has read a lot; and they can make another look like a fool, if that person hasn't read enough. Reading is the best way to go about learning things in general. They may not be the best way to go if you want to learn how to golf, but later on they will be the best way to go if you want to refine and perfect your golf swing. There is always something to learn from books. If you're interested in increasing your reading speed, and improving your comprehension, and upgrading your reading skills in general, you should learn how to speed read. But more about that later - first let's talk about George Santayana.

George Santayana was a poet, essayist, novelist, and philosopher. You may know him best for once saying "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Classic. But he also said: "The wisest mind has something yet to learn." I think this is even more significant. Santayana realized that absolutely everyone has room to improve and to learn. There is no learning cap. There is no actual reason for anyone to stop learning and reading - even for the wisest of people.

Everyone should continue learning and educating themselves constantly. George Iles agrees with this point, saying once that true students never want to stop learning. His exact words were "Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student." I like to interpret this as: not being educated well enough is the main cause for people to want to stop their education. If they were educated well in the first place, they would want to continue learning more and more.

Once we agree that reading is extremely important, we must also see that it's not the end-all be-all learning method. Lord Chesterfield - one of my favourite "gentlemen" of the 18^th century - once said "Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them." In other words, your sources of information and knowledge should not only be books, but people too. If you want to learn something new, unpredictable, and possibly engaging, try talking to some people. You'll find that discussions and conversations can be very useful and entertaining - unless your idea of a conversation is "Hey, what's up? See you later!"

But that's not to bring down the value of reading. Reading can be the fastest and most effective way of learning and gathering information. If you're serious about improving your reading skills - which you definitely should be - then click this link and learn how to speed read. Now, keep in mind that real speed reading is much different from what you probably think it is. Do yourself a favour and go to that page to learn more about it.

This author does most of his reading at about 600 words per minute. As he needs to read a lot every day, this fast reading saves him hours and hours a day. Speed reading has become not just a hobby, but a necessity to keep up his productivity level. Go to http://www.speedreadingisreal.com to learn more about how you can start speed reading while maintaining a high level of comprehension.

How To Learn From The Success Superstars Part 2

By Michael Cheney

EVIDENCE THAT WE ALL KNOW HOW TO MASTER MOMENTUM

Have you noticed how almost everyone you meet is excelling in one area of their life? You will know people who are in great health or those that have a great job or are great with their kids. You might know someone who is great with money or great with their community or church. Why is this?

It's because we have all mastered the way of creating instant momentum - we're just not aware of it! That's why you rarely come across people who are excelling in ALL areas of their life. You might be lucky and know one or two people who seem to do everything excellently but usually people have one major strength and a series of weaknesses.

It doesn't need to be this way. The reason it happens this way is that people believe that the area of their strength is a natural gift or talent or something they are especially suited to or enjoy more than everything else. This is true to a certain extent but what we don't realise is that we can begin to feel in this way about EVERYTHING we do if we just start to investigate our one major strength.

THE BRAIN BEAUTIFUL

Take people who are great at body-building for example. They are often the envy of those around with their toned bodies and bulging biceps. But there are tactics and thought processes they have applied to shape their bodies in this way.

Of course, the muscles don't just pop up out of thin air - they are the result of repeated actions over long periods of time. But what is the cause of these actions in the first place? The answer is THOUGHTS.

Body builders have powerful muscles because they have first had POWERFUL THOUGHTS.

Building muscle takes time, discipline, self-control and pain management! There isn't really ANYTHING that people aspire to achieve that cannot be accomplished by using these qualities. And yet we all believe that our one key strength (whether it's health, finances or relationships etc.) is so strong because it's who we are.

If you start to apply the tactics you use to gain INSTANT MOMENTUM when you perform your key strength what you experience is nothing short of a miracle. You start to discover that your real strength lies in your ability to think, motivate and move yourself into instant action by applying a certain set of thought patterns.

BECOME A SUPERSTAR PERFORMER

This is when life becomes really exciting. You start to excel not just in one or two areas but in everything you do. You become a superstar performer across the board.

Think of yourself as round inflated ball. Each part of the surface of that ball is a particular discipline or habit that you perform. Now if you have hole in that ball what you do think is going to happen? That ball is going to deflate! You can be great in 90% of areas but just ONE SINGLE HOLE in ONE area will let the whole thing down!

This can be hard to grasp at first - how could your ability to build wealth, for example, affect your health? Well aside from the direct impact of not being able to afford the best, healthiest foods and gym memberships / equipment etc. there is an even more dramatic effect at play here.

As in the ball metaphor - any one weakness or slippage DEFLATES your self-esteem. There is a small partr of your mind, sometimes even your unconscious mind, that knows you are not performing in this one area. To put it bluntly - your mind can start to think you are living a lie.

"Why are you pretending to be an outstanding performer by demonstrating excellence in this area when it's clear you're not as in this area over here you're not applying the same principles and disciplines?"

DON'T PUT A PIN IN YOUR DREAMS

It has taken me decades to grasp this simple lesson and I hope you are able to learn it quicker!

The quality of your life and the heights that you reach are not determined by the things you do. The quality of your life is determined by your willingness to master specific, momentum-creating thought patterns repeated for every area of your life via daily disciplines.

Or stated another way - it's not WHAT you do, it's HOW WELL you do it and your mastery of what MOTIVATES AND MOVES YOU applied across all areas of your life that will ultimately shape your destiny.

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