Speed Reading

 I think speed reading is a skill every professional should have. At a professional level you need to read alot of material to keep your knowledge of the sector fresh.  In software engineering sector I must keep up to date with the latest developments in the software lanugage like perl, java,php and xslt.

John F. Kennedy: The former President of the United States backed the tactics of speed reading and encouraged his staff to receive lessons.

Jimmy Carter: Another President of the United States, Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, both avidly read and enrolled in a speed-reading course while at the White House. Several other staff members also partook in the learning.

Howard Stephen Berg: With a claim to the title of fastest reader in the world, Berg is said to possess a reading rate of 25,000 words per minute. He exclaims to have read War and Peace in 15 minutes, meaning with each minute, he was able to devour 90 pages. This claim is slated as unsupported in official records. His controversy skills also bring up the issue that he may enter a trance-like state when reading.

Jacques Bergier: With a history of chemical engineering, journalism, writing, and espionage, Bergier wrote books on fantastic realism and accomplished many things in his life. As a natural speed reader, Bergier was known to read up to ten books in one day.

These great people show me that speed reading will help you be a great and admired person.

I took the following speed reading test: http://www.readingsoft.com/index.html

I got 386 wpm(words per minute) with a comprehension of 55%.

I want to increase my reading speed to 500 wpm with a 70% comprehension with in the next month. By the end of september I should have this task complete. I will then do a different speed reading test to see how much i have improved.