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Evelyn Wood

Evelyn Wood

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Search complete. 4 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Evelyn Wood".

Oct 9, 2026

Laura CotterHOST
24:23
She tries again, and this time gets the book.
Skye OrchardHOST
24:26
"Make me read fast and good as if my name were Evelyn Wood." Evelyn Wood popularized speed reading, however, she preferred the phrase dynamic reading.
Laura CotterHOST
24:35
She casts a spell to speed read it.
Laura CotterHOST
24:37
Sabrina flips quickly through the book, then goes back to Josh, asking him a detailed question.
Mike MurdockHOST
14:44
But everything seemed hard for me.
Mike MurdockHOST
14:50
I eventually went to the Evelyn Wood speed reading course, and, uh, after a month and a half, I could read thirty-four hundred words a minute at ninety percent comprehension.
Mike MurdockHOST
15:08
They thought that was pretty good because it was same identical thirty-four hundred as our president, John F. Kennedy.
Mike MurdockHOST
15:23
When I was eight years old, my father preached on a Sunday night at his church in Waco, Texas.
Kevin BauderGUEST
38:15
There are lots of rapid reading courses out there.
Kevin BauderGUEST
38:18
I think I must have been in seventh or eighth grade when in our junior high school library, I came across a volume by Evelyn Wood on reading rapidly.
Kevin BauderGUEST
38:31
Now, it didn't make me into a speed reader, but it did help me read more rapidly than I was and using the same techniques to continue to improve in rapid reading.
Micah TanisHOST
38:44
You can read more if you read more quickly.
Mike MurdockHOST
11:21
I did.
Mike MurdockHOST
11:22
I went to a school called Evelyn Wood Speed Reading.
Mike MurdockHOST
11:28
And I would urge you, I don't know if she still has the business or not, but I would urge you to go to it.
Mike MurdockHOST
11:40
And they, six weeks, six weeks of nonstop learning.

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