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Hey you, I'm interviewing Howard Berg, the Guinness World Record for fastest reader. And this guy has got courses on how to read faster, how to memorize stuff better, and increasing your learning capacity dramatically. And you've got to listen to his stuff because he puts out loads of tips.

He shows you a little bit how to do it during the podcast. And he's got some... Great stuff to share apologies in advance for the crap audio on his end at the beginning and at my end for some reason Near the end, but the interview gets better as we go on and we have a good laugh. So check it out Okay, hi words welcome to the podcast thank you for having me You're very welcome.

I was very interested to read your LinkedIn profile Yeah, so you're the Guinness Book of World's record holder as the world's fastest reader. I got it in 1990 and no one ever replaced it. Wow. So you're pretty fast at reading then. I can read 80 pages a minute. At least I did in 1990. I'm getting a little older and I don't think Mark Spitz is going to win any more gold medals.

I still read very fast. I, I know that when, when I read in 1990, I didn't wear any glasses, so I could see the whole page right away. Now I wear glasses, so I would say I'm a little slower, but I've read 30, 000 books. So my understanding is much higher. Alright, 80 pages a minute, that's fast. I read the healthcare bill on Cavuto, which was a, um, Fox station, um, business station show, and I read the 1500 page bill in 50 minutes, and then I did an analysis.

And everything I predicted happened.

That's amazing. I'm just looking through all your achievements. There's quite a lot. Um, you've been featured on over 1100 radio and television programs. That's correct. I just was in Thailand. I was on the national broadcast system, went to about 10 countries in Asia. I've been on in Oslo and Copenhagen.

I've been in London. I was, uh, I was on the home shopping channel in London about 25 years ago. So I've been all over the world, Canada, the U S and, uh, been on lots of shows, lots of newspapers, Forbes, FYI, Redbook, men's health, bottom line. Uh, it's been very exciting, more exciting than these that could help people.

So I use my publicity to get to people to show them I can help them solve the information overload that they're experiencing at work and their kids are having at school. And to me, me doing it is a sideshow. You doing it is a breakthrough and that's much more important to me. And you have a book which is in its 28th reprint, the super reading secrets.

That's correct. That was my Time Warner book. And I did a book for Barons. It was kids, a funny backstory. Barons called me and said, we want you to write a book for students. I said, you didn't, I didn't send you a proposal. I said, we picked you already. We want you to write the book. I said, okay, but now you need to send a proposal.

So I sent a proposal and another editor of the week later says, we can't use you. And I was like, okay. And the next week, the first editor called and said, when can you write the book? And I was like, well, they called me last week. They said they couldn't use me. He says, well, when you sent the proposal, we took your name off it.

We want our proposals to stand on the merits of its content, not the reputation of the writer. And so they send it out for...