1. Reading. I found most of the stuff online about learning to read better and a couple books from the library. I can’t list any one great book as they all seem to offer ideas. I also bought a computer program to test and practice with, and I really liked it. I increased my reading speed from a pathetic 175wpm to about 500-600 so now I actually enjoy reading! How to increase your speed depends on how slow you are so you need to measure that first. I was really bad so had to eliminate subvocalization first (this is saying the words with the voicebox active). Then it is some simple practice with eye patterns and learning to read blocks of words, not individual words. And there are many techniques to help do that and they really do work!

2. I really kickstarted my reading with a huge list of recommended business books that sparked my interest and there are so many great books out there its just not worth the time to read them unless you know they are great from other’s reviews who you have similar likes/dislikes with. As for Freakonomics, I didn’t really post much of a review, so I’ve updated that post with a bit more info. The book I would recommend most is Marshall Goldsmith’s What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There. Its superb and challenges anyone to examine how you interact with others in life and business to make a bigger difference in everything you do.

3. Sleep is only improved by learning more about it and by getting repetitive and consistent with sleep patterns to ‘train’ the body to sleep better. Most people don’t know anything about sleep but you do it so much!! Its crazy! The key is getting sleep patterns and the right state of mind before going to sleep so that you fall asleep more easily and get to that important healing delta wave sleep pattern quickly. Both your mind and body can ‘learn’ to utilize sleep more effectively so after a lot of training, you can actually require less and less sleep over time.

After reading a few posts – I have some questions for you:

1. Can you teach me how to read faster? I’d search the internet and find some books about it – but that would take me too long. Seriously – give me the cole notes – actually don’t just tell me

2. How about I give you a couple books that I’ve know are great but I haven’t taken the time to read – then you can give me the summary and help me decide if I should invest the time! Let’s start with Freakonomics

3. How can get by on less sleep? The 3 hours I got last night are already used up!

let’s go for lunch sometime…