Jim Kwik teaches a memory technique for numbers by having the audience call out two-digit numbers, which he chunks into pairs and recites forward and backward. His Kwik Reading program claims to boost reading speed by 200-400%, turning a one-hour read into 15 minutes. He argues that saving one hour daily adds up to nine extra 40-hour work weeks per year.
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Let's talk about my name. My name is— hopefully you remember it after today. My name is Jim Kwik with Kwik Learning, and I help people learn quickly. The question I always get about my last name, my last name really is Kwik, K-W-I-K. With a name like Kwik, your life is pretty much planned out. I had to be a runner back in school, and talk about pressure, right? I had to teach speed reading and speed recall. That's what I've done now for 17 years. I teach people 2 programs. One on Kwik Reading, which is our speed reading program, to help people read about 200%, 300%, 400% faster. How many people like to do that? Essentially read something in 15 minutes that normally takes an hour. Now, is that— when you were listening to Alex talk about all those seconds in a day, how many people like to save an extra hour a day? An hour a day, by the way, over the course of a year, how many hours is that? 365. We're gonna do some math here today. 365 hours. How many 40-hour work weeks is that? 9. 9. How many people would like to have 9 extra work weeks a year? That's powerful. 1 extra hour a day. Powerful, right? So this is what we're talking about. So I do this speed reading program. The other one I do is a program called Kwik Recall. And these are the 2 programs I'm gonna talk about today. Kwik Recall is a training program that we do to teach people to remember names and faces, client information, product information. How many people love to give a speech without notes? Powerful, right? Foreign languages, numbers. How many people have a PIN code? You know, you have all these different passwords. How many people like to remember those? And those are the kind of things that we cover. Okay, let's get into it. Ready? I like to, as a group, before you start writing, give me a list of numbers. Like maybe we'll do 20 or 30 numbers, maybe 40 numbers. And then so everyone, and maybe give it to me 2 at a time. So instead of like a long number, maybe you give me 2 numbers. Like, so like, so just say the number like 24. And then pass the mic to somebody else and they'll say 46. And then they'll pass the mic to somebody and they'll say 55. I'll do the best I can to memorize as many numbers as I can and give it back to you. How many people would like to see that? Okay, so please. 13. 13. So I'll make sure everyone's writing what? 13. And then just pass the mic to somebody. 6. Okay, so if it's a 2-digit number, you would say 0-6. Everyone see that? 0-6. 47. Number 47. Hold on, let me do the pace. Okay, 47. 30. 30. 3-0. 04. 04. Hold on one second. 24. 24. Thank you. I'll just repeat it just so I make sure I heard it and everyone else could hear it too. 69. 69. 77. Hold on one second. 77? Okay. 68. 68. Okay. Number 68. 01. 01. One second. Okay. 99. Number 99. You can just pass it wherever. You can pass it behind you or wherever you want to put it. I'm sorry? 02. 02? All right, 02. 20. 20. 87. 87. Hold on one second. Okay. 91. Number 91. Okay, 91. 14. Number 14. 77. 77 again, nice. Wait, now wait, before that was what? 14. 14, number 14. And then 77? 99. Very creative, sir. Number 90, number 99. 56. Number 56, number 56. Okay. 12. Number 12, number 12. Okay. 22. Number 22. Okay, it's a little— there's a little bit of an echo here. Number 22. 43. 43. I don't even know what number we're up to right now. Go ahead. 75. 75. Okay. Okay. 08. 08. Okay. 08. 15. 15. Okay. Why don't we stop there? How many numbers is that? No, digits. Digits. Digits. Single digit. 50. 50. What was the last one? 15. 15. Okay. I'm going to do the best I can to memorize this list, okay? You guys could correct me, see how I do. I'm sorry? Sure. You want me to do it backwards? Okay. 1. No, no, no. Okay. Going forwards, 1, 3, 0, 6, 7— excuse me, 4, 7, 3, 0, 0, 4, 2, 4, 6, 9, 7, 7, 6, 8. 0199022087. 9114779956. 1, 2. 2, 2. 4, 3. 7, 5. 0, 8. 1, 5. Thank you. Backwards. 5180573422216599774119. 7, 8, 0, 2, 2, 0, 9, 9, 1, 0, 8, 6, 7, 7, 9, 6, 4, 2, 4, 0. 0, 3, 7, 4, 6, 0, 3, 1. How many people want to learn what I just did? Okay. So I'm going to apply— I just do this quick demonstration. People see me on my website, you know, kwiklearning.com, do things where I memorize people's names. Audiences, people's names, random words, you name it. My whole core message for this is everybody could do this. Bam.
