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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
The couple that I know I know don't talk about it as people call them liars to their faces. For some reason it seems to cause extreme hostility in some people that someone reads faster than they do. Most people don't care if you cook better, walk faster or play basketball like a pro. But reading faster seems to set off the fight or flight syndrome in the insecure  |
10 books a day, at 275 pages average makes 2.750 pages of reading per day. It's about twice the size of my hard cover Lord of the Rings, including appendices.
Ask some random dude in the street:
"Have you read Lord of the Rings?" The answer could easily be "Yes". If you then ask: "Have you read it twice?", then the answer could still be "Yes".
Then ask: "Can you read that book, including appendices, twice in one day?"
Be honest. You'd get laughed at... at the very least.
And you call yourself "below average"? Nah.
Someone telling me that it's "normal" to be able to do that, would be akin to someone at a local chess club stating: "You know, if I'd study chess a bit harder, then I could attain a 2750 ELO rating." Dude... if that's true only partly, you wouldn't be playing in this club.
You'd be a world class star, maybe even busy taking a shot at the next world championship.
Some things are just too fantastic to be believable, even if they could be true for "normal" people. Of course, both the 1000 books a year readers, and the chess world champion candidates exist, but they make up only a handful of people in the entire world.