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Really? 2.0 Speed — What is your hurry?

Erikjan Lantink
3 min readMar 28, 2023

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At what speed do you listen to audiobooks or podcasts?

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re one of my kind. You’re unaware you can playback your favorite media at a different speed.

Frankly, until recently, I didn’t know either.

Until a client of mine, who I had given a tip for an audiobook in the morning, came back to me the next day stating:

“Done. Do you have any more tips?”

I asked him whether he had been listening continuously for the whole day, to which he replied that he had listened to all his audiobooks at double speed.

Wow, I said. That’s interesting and also a pity.

After a lightly heated debate about whether listening to books at double speed was helpful, we agreed to disagree.

I was reminded of our conversation this morning in the gym when I started to listen to the book “More Time to Think” by Nancy Kline.

It’s the sequel to her first book called “Time to Think.”

The reason I got reminded of my double-speed conversation was not only the book’s content but the way the author narrates it.

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Erikjan Lantink
Erikjan Lantink

Written by Erikjan Lantink

Business & Leadership coach. Interim Leader. Writer. Speaker. Former Retail Executive (general management; operations; HR)

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