| If you are involved in business activities then time | | | | attitude. Now I am able to consume information |
| shortages can be frequent. Therefore ideas for | | | | at fast pace, which allows for fast decision |
| saving your time and being more productive can | | | | making. In business there is less time for making |
| be very useful. One option for saving time is to | | | | decisions than in academic life. At the same time I |
| learn techniques for increasing your reading speed. | | | | started to receive more and more information. I |
| As we consume much information through | | | | think that the number of emails I receive has |
| reading and information is vital for doing business | | | | tripled over the last two years. And I have to |
| successfully then faster reading speed can make | | | | read more all kinds of documents. If my reading |
| a big difference. | | | | speed were slower then it would be difficult to |
| If I take my personal example then many of my | | | | cope with that kind of information flow. |
| activities depend on the reading speed. For | | | | Due to my business activities I use more internet |
| example writing my blog, online courses, or | | | | resources such as websites, blogs or company |
| communicating through e-mail. Besides it, I run | | | | resources. I have to know what is happening in |
| two companies, of which one is an investment | | | | the market and what my competitors are doing. |
| and insurance broker company and the second | | | | If you want to be successful in business then you |
| one is selling health products. If I were slower | | | | have to educate yourself all the time. There is no |
| reader it would take more time to keep an eye | | | | other possibility for keeping up with the fast |
| on these businesses. | | | | changing world. And again it means that you have |
| Actually if I had not taken up speed reading I | | | | to read a lot. If you are a beginner in the field of |
| would probably not have become an | | | | business then you have to read even more. For |
| entrepreneur. Some years ago I was focused | | | | example, although I had been teaching classes in |
| only to academic career, and it promised be a | | | | economics for many years, my knowledge in |
| safe job and stable income. And I did not believe | | | | management and marketing was not so great |
| that I was capable of achieving more. I had | | | | and I had to make it up. You have to deal with |
| always known that I am not the type of a | | | | your weaknesses and a businessman has to be |
| businessman and until recent I was satisfied with | | | | an all-rounder. |
| it. | | | | But reading texts will not earn money directly for |
| But when I became capable of reading faster | | | | me. And if I spend the whole day on reading then |
| than normal people do then it gave me a huge | | | | I will not have time for other activities. Therefore |
| boost in self-confidence. From that point on, the | | | | reading fast will clear time for other tasks, which |
| academic life seemed to be too slow and | | | | will generate your income. If I were slow in |
| unproductive. I wanted for more. Then I started | | | | reading then I would probably have to work 14 |
| teaching speed reading classes and I did all the | | | | hours a day and still not be able to get things |
| marketing on my own I saw that I was able to | | | | done. It would be very stressful and will result in |
| do business on my own. Soon I started other | | | | burnout sooner or later. But being a fast reader |
| business projects. | | | | helps me to avoid that kind of trouble. |
| Being able to speed read has changed my | | | | |