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No, no Lloyd Blankfein, you have not read this to completion yet while simultaneously running a huge bank, sorry. No one with ANY day job is going to have that book finished any time soon, let alone a Fortune 100 CEO.

Why? Reading 1000 pages takes what, 12 hours, if you're not particularly fast. If you just read for 30m a day, that's less than a month. What's so unbelievable about that?

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Is ~80 pages per hour an average reading speed? That sounds fast to me!

It is absolutely not average. 200wpm would give ~22 hours. In this crowd, I can imagine 10-12 hours would be feasible (especially if you skip/skim the occasional boring paragraph). Anyway, who needs retention when you get to announce you read a 1000+page book?

When I said particularly fast, I meant for a regular book reader, not an average person. I'd compare it to touching your toes: being able to do it doesn't make you an athlete, even if the average fat slob like me can't do it.

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