In high school I had to take the ‘Evelyn Wood Speed Reading Course’.
As someone with ADD, this actually helped studying. The main idea is to read the first sentence in the paragraph, glance through the remainder of the paragraph, then move to the next paragraph, if I remember correctly. It involves skimming, reading chunks of words rather than individual words, and not internally vocalizing the words.
A required course at Ranken was ‘How to win friends and influence people’
This was for students planning to be service writers.
The last 5 years of my career the owner moved me from the shop to the front office. My body really appreciated that. My mother told me I could sell her her own wedding ring. People trusted me and the single women were treated like my sister would be. I would guess 70% of the people dropping their car off were women, even if there was a man in the family.