If you’re yearning for some learning, you’ve come to the right place. Today’s Workplace Therapist Show guest is the World’s Fastest Reader and holds the Guinness Book of World Records title (for reading more than 25,000 words a minute and writing more than 100 words a minute!) to match! Howard Berg joins me to explain the value of schema, comprehension and EQ for faster learning.

Dive In:

04:00 Meet Howard and hear how he discovered his love for the library.

07:00 “We’re taught what to learn, but not how to learn.” Howard on teaching students to read faster from ages 8 to 92. 

08:00 Howard on his Guinness Book of World Records title for being the Fastest Reader in the World.

09:00 The #1 pain point Brandon hears in the workplace: time is everyone’s most precious resource. 

10:30 “People don’t want to read fast, they want to learn fast.” With information doubling every six months, where do we start? Howard walks listeners through how to learn faster.

13:00 The value of schema, comprehension and EQ for faster learning. 

16:30 How do we determine schema? 

21:00 Reading is part of the process called learning. So – what is learning? What is it that you want to accomplish? Howard guides us on the answer.

23:00 Three roadblocks business leaders face: Schema (not building rapport), what you need to know and how to use it (memory) and EQ (awareness of your audience).

24:00 An exercise on how to learn. (We remember 10% of what we read, 90% of what we say.)

33:00 Howard talks building EQ. What state does your team need to be in to do what you’re asking them to do? 

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