Do you want to read significantly faster than you do today — with stronger comprehension, sharper focus, and the confidence to handle any reading material your work or studies demand?

• Do you lose focus while reading and find your mind drifting before the page is finished?
• Do you feel that your professional or personal growth depends on your ability to process more information, more efficiently?
• Do you want to understand the 21 Reading Habits of Highly Skilled Readers — and know which ones would make the greatest difference in your life right now?
• Do you want a reading system that evolves with you — adapting to your changing needs, your material, and your goals over time?

Whether you are looking for executive speed reading coaching or a private reading coach who builds a system around your specific professional demands — this programme was designed for exactly that.

If you can say a genuine yes to any of these questions, this programme was built for you.

PROGRAMME INTRODUCTION:

Over 21 years of coaching more than 19,000 students, I have developed a structured private reading coaching system that does not just teach you to read faster. It builds the complete architecture of a high-performance reader — the speed, the comprehension, the focus, the habits, and the tools to convert everything you read into retained knowledge and decisive action.

This is not a course you watch and forget. It is a live, 1-on-1 coaching programme, delivered through HPR Coaching hosted live sessions, tailored entirely to your starting point, your reading material, and your goals.

Every session is built around where you are, not where a generic curriculum assumes you should be.

WHAT THE PROGRAMME COVERS:

The 8-week programme — High-Performance Reader — includes:

• Reading Speed and Eye Movement: We begin with the Core Speed Reading Exercise, taken step by step in your first session. Most clients see a measurable improvement in reading speed within the first exercise. The daily practice that follows builds that improvement into a permanent new reading speed — not a peak you have to strain to reach, but a new floor that becomes natural.
• Speed and Comprehension — Training the Two Together: Speed and comprehension are not opponents. They are two facets of the same skill, trained in a specific sequence for a specific reason. You will learn why reading at around 60 to 70 percent comprehension during speed exercises is not a compromise — it is how the brain builds durable reading fluency. The comprehension work deepens from session three onward.
• The Previewing System: Before you read a book, a report, or a chapter, a skilled reader already knows its structure, its key arguments, and where his attention belongs. I will teach you an eleven-step previewing method that transforms how you approach any reading material — saving time, improving retention, and giving every reading session a clear purpose before it begins.
• The HPR Active Reading Method: Active reading is not highlighting. It is a specific, pencil-based marking system — the PMC Protocol — that keeps your attention engaged, captures what matters in the moment it matters, and builds a retrievable map of every book you read. You will use this method across all your reading material from session four onward.
• The Cognitive Recall System: Retention is not about reading slowly. It is about capturing the right things at the right moment and reviewing them in the right sequence. The Cognitive Recall System gives you a complete note-making and recall architecture — including keyword chains, margin notation, and a layered review process that keeps what you read accessible weeks and months after you finish the book.
• Three Advanced Tools — One Complete System: In session six you receive three proprietary tools that work together as a single retention and recall system: the Layered MindMap Capture Recall Method, the Simple Keyword Q&A Chain, and the Cognitive Recall PRIMO Prompts. Together they transform how you process, organise, and apply what you read.
• The 21 Habits of Highly Skilled Readers: In session seven, I introduce you to the full landscape of what a highly skilled reader looks like — 21 specific habits that define the readers who have made reading a lifelong, compounding advantage. We discuss which of these habits would serve you most right now, and use a structured friction assessment to identify exactly where your next development step lies.
• Reading Non-Fiction, Work-Related Text, and Textbooks: The skills you build on fiction in the early weeks are applied to the material that matters most in your professional or academic life. Whether that is industry reports, leadership books, legal documents, or university textbooks, the programme adapts to your specific reading demands. For clients pursuing further studies — an MBA, professional certification, or university programme — study skills, note-taking strategy, and test preparation are available within the programme on request.
• 8 Reading Comprehension Tests: You have access to eight reading and comprehension tests throughout the programme. These are used weekly to track your progress, separate the felt sense of comprehension from the measured reality, and give you a clear, objective picture of how your reading is developing. Unused tests remain available after the coaching ends for continued self-assessment.
• The Reading Habits Self-Assessment: Before we begin, you complete a 20-question Reading Habits Self-Assessment — a structured questionnaire that surfaces the specific habits and misconceptions currently affecting your reading. This ensures that every session is calibrated to where you actually are, not where a generic programme assumes you to be.
• A Growing Resource Library: Throughout the programme you have access to a curated collection of reading guides and articles — including 11 Simple Tips on How You Can Read a Lot More Novels and Fiction, 11 Tips on How to Read Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Biographies, and Handbooks, HPR: 52 Reading Tips You Should Keep in Mind, 7 Steps to Upgrade and Improve Your Habits and Skills Through Reading, and the HPR Speed Reading in the Workplace PDF workbook. These are browse-at-will resources — not required reading, but recommended when your questions point directly to them.

The 12-week Mastery programme — High-Performance Reading Mastery — All-Inclusive:

• HPR Mastery extends the 8-week programme into a complete, 12-week system for the reader who wants to go all the way. Every element of the 8-week programme is included. What the final four weeks add is something that does not exist in the standard programme — a structured methodology for taking any habit or skill you identify as your most important next step and hardcoding it into your daily life through deliberate, reading-based practice.
• Those four weeks are the Advanced Habit Architecture™ — AHA™.
• AHA™ runs in two identical two-week cycles, each targeting a different habit or skill. In week nine, the HPR Skills and Habits Friction Assessment — which you first encountered in session seven — is used again to name your primary development target with precision. Four to seven books are selected around that target, read during the week using the full HPR reading system, and distilled into a clear map that answers one master question: what three things do these books collectively recommend that someone at your specific level of experience should do right now? Week ten converts those three recommendations into a daily practice — five to ten minutes per exercise, sequenced and designed around your current level. The cycle then repeats in weeks eleven and twelve for a second identified habit or skill.
• By the end of week twelve you have six new daily practices underway simultaneously — two targeting the specific habits or skills your friction assessment identified as your most meaningful next steps, and four reading habit bonuses built across the four AHA™ weeks that accelerate everything else. The oldest of these habits has been running for fourteen to twenty days by the time the programme ends. The daily practice continues after the coaching closes. What the four weeks provide is the architecture — and a simple, repeatable process you can run again independently on any habit or skill you choose to develop next.

HPR Mastery clients receive 12 reading and comprehension tests in total — four additional tests beyond the standard 8-week programme — supporting continued self-assessment throughout the AHA™ weeks and well beyond the coaching period.

This is the programme for the professional or student who does not simply want to read better. They want reading to become the engine of everything they build next. Book by book. Habit by habit. Skill by skill. One day at a time.

INSTRUCTOR:

Jon Bjarnason, is an Icelandic entrepreneur, Cognitive Performance Expert, and Speed Reading Coach & Master Trainer with 21 years of experience as a private reading coach working with more than 19,000 students across Iceland and internationally. He is the founder of Speed Reading Simplified and Hraðlestrarskólinn — Iceland's leading speed reading school — and the creator of the HPR Coaching system.

A fourth-generation entrepreneur and bestselling author, Jón has been a featured guest on Icelandic radio and television and a sought-after speaker at corporate seminars and institutions across Iceland. He found his calling teaching speed reading while studying Corporate Law, and has since built a coaching methodology that combines cognitive performance science with 21 years of direct teaching experience across thousands of individual students.

Every client he works with receives a programme built entirely around their starting point, their reading material, and where they want to go

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