Episode 61: How To Develop a Total Learning Solution in Your Life with Howard Berg

This week Mike talks with knowledge mastery strategist Howard Berg about some insights and tips on how you can increase your ability to learn faster, comprehend better and retain more. 

Howard Stephen Berg is recognized as the world’s fastest reader thanks to the cutting-edge accelerated learning techniques he developed that turn information overload into information assets. Howard is a graduate of S.U.N.Y., Binghamton where he majored in Biology and then completed a four-year Psychology program in one year. His graduate studies at several New York City colleges focused on the Psychology of reading. Howard has appeared on over 1,100 radio and television programs including Neil Cavuto, Jon Stewart, and Live With Regis. His brain-based learning strategies have been hailed as a major breakthrough in publications like Forbe’s FYI, Selling, Men’s Health, Red Book, and Bottom Line Magazine, and have been featured in dozens of newspaper interviews throughout North America.

• All information doubles every six months more is printed in one week than an all human history through the year 1800. 
• A lot of people in business today use a paradigm that works and it works well for them.
• 30% of all existing jobs will be gone in five, 10 years. 
• The only job security you have in today’s fast-changing information-based economy is between your ears. 
• Why it’s very important that everybody learned to adapt.
• What makes most businesses fail is not competency in the core business but competency in business skills.
• You only remember 10% of what you read and 90% of what you say and do.

• “Think of 5 million truck drivers replaced by robots. Why would they replace them? They don’t sleep. They don’t take vacation. They don’t need sick days. They don’t need any overtime. They can go 24 hours a day.” – Howard Berg
• “Your either learning new things quickly and faster and be burnishing yourself, putting yourself into a new position or you’re being obsolete in the not too distant future.” – Howard Berg
• “Today the revolution is knowledge.” – Howard Berg
•  “I use reading to find what I don’t know and need to learn. I don’t want to know everything. I want to know everything I need to know. I don’t want to waste time learning things. I know already with things that I don’t need, which waste more time.” – Howard Berg

• Howard’s Company Website – www.BergLearning.com
• Howard’s LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/howardstephenberg/
• Howard’s Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/howard.berg.988711 

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