The note from the Deans Office read Please appear at my office at 2:PM promptly. It was hand signed, Dean Reppy, Law School.

My face flushed, I felt a knot in my stomach, and coughed to clear the broken glass from my throat. It was a sure-thing this was not an invitation to be editor of The Law Review.

Two recent exams came back with failing grades. The freshman year is the hardest, they said. No joke in college I was a star, here it was impossible to keep up with the daily reading assignments.

The mental movies in my minds eye began broadcasting death-and-destruction. My father freaking-out, mom sobbing in the kitchen.

My fiance, she was returning my ring. The climax of my movie was me - sweeping the floor in my dads candy factory for life!

The Meeting

I pushed open the door and sat where he pointed.

Son, have you considered the plumbing industry? The money is good and you would not be discombobulated by examinations proving your ineptness.

Would you prefer to resign or wait for the inevitable?

I heard my voice thunder I want another option. There is more to me than two failing tests. Uh, sorry for yelling.

Sonny, did you know Albert Einstein said, Insanity is repeating the same actions, expecting a different result! You have two-months to finals what will change?

I heard my voice pipe-up, I am signed up for an advanced speed reading course that will triple my reading speed and double my memory. Evelyn Wood guarantees I will read, comprehend and memorize three case studies in the time it takes me to half-finish one now.

Never heard of her how long does her witchcraft take?

Must be synchronicity two-months, and my first class starts tomorrow night,Dean Reppy. I wont disappoint you, my family and fiance. Did you know that President Kennedys White House staff took her course?

Nice rebuttal sonny. You are certain you would not rather lay pipe it is a noble and honorable occupation?

Dean Reppy if I do not ace my finals, I will withdraw from school immediately. I was in the top ten percentile at college, give me a last chance.

He nodded and pointed to his door. Now I had to sign up for that damn speed reading course.

Studying or You Snooze, You Lose.

In the first week I was convinced that they had stolen my $150 and offered gobbledygook in return. If I was a slow reader before, they taught me to absolutely dread opening a book. I practiced without hope, and I was not disappointed.

The second week of practice using my peripheral (side) vision, and a pacer to underline the sentences something strange occurred.

I timed myself reading a law case, finishing it and answering the ten questions, in half the time it ordinarily took. Maybe the improvement was plain old studying I doubled my daily hours hitting the law books.

I tried it a second time with a Torts textbook. This time I was 55% faster 450 words per minute instead of 200 wpm, and I got 9 of the 10 questions correct. It got better the following week.

The finals were a cinch; I aced each and every one of them, with time to spare.

In my senior year came the Bar examination the whole enchilada for lawyers it was a like a 3rd grade test to me passed both halves on the first-crack. Yes, really! Even Dean Reppy smiled and congratulated me.

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Well, thats the story Jerry. Oh yeah, soon after graduating I invested and became one of Evelyn Woods partners. The program graduated two-million, including the White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter.

Funny I never learned to lay pipe, and even became useful to thousands of law students and others with SpeedLearning 100. Google me up H. Bernard Wechsler.

See ya,

copyright 2006 H. Bernard Wechsler