
LEARN 200% FASTER…
How to cope with insane reading loads in a few weeks of short, enjoyable online lessons and LIVE ONLINE COACHING
Life is not a joke. There is so much to LEARN!
You need to learn new stuff every day. And AI makes it WORSE.
How would you like to do it FASTER?
And avoid wasting huge sums of money.
Because I did an MBA and it nearly killed me.
Why? Because I was unprepared for the workload.
Then I discovered this incredible stuff which will amaze you. What is horrifying is that this stuff is generally not taught at school, college or university.
We all have too much to do and to read.
I once sat through a workshop with Tony Buzan, the inventor of mind maps. He asked us to bring along a textbook we had never read before.
First, he tested our study speed.
Then he taught us some remarkably practical things about how the brain works — and, more importantly, how to study in ways we were never taught at school.
Then we tried it.
I was staggered by how much faster I could get through new material.
That experience changed the way I learned, worked and eventually taught others.
And it made me wonder:
Why on earth are we not taught how to learn?
We spend thousands of hours at school, college and university learning what to learn.
But how many hours do we spend learning how to learn?
Very few.
There is a better way.
Let me introduce you to Dr Richard’s Advanced Creative Thinking Skills programme.
This is a practical learning and thinking system based on workshops I have taught to thousands of managers, students and professionals over many years.
You can work through it at your own pace — in short, manageable sessions — while also benefiting from live online coaching.
The aim is simple:
Help you learn faster, remember more, think better and cope with information overload.
What could change for you?
Within a few weeks, you will learn techniques designed to help you:
- Read substantially faster while maintaining comprehension
- Get through textbooks and business books far more efficiently
- Organise large quantities of information
- Take better notes
- Remember more of what you learn
- Prepare presentations faster
- Think through complex problems more clearly
- Improve creativity and problem-solving
- Handle exams and presentations with greater confidence
- Remember names more reliably
- Reduce wasted time in meetings
- Cope better with information overload
And you will have access to live online coaching to help you put the techniques into practice.
“Just wanted to say I have been studying online for a year now and the way this course is set up is extremely inspiring and does not compare with anything I have seen before.”— Michael Geel, Full-time Law Student
What you get
Learn to love learning again
Imagine being able to approach a difficult textbook without feeling overwhelmed.
Imagine getting through your pre-course reading in a fraction of the time.
Imagine having a system for extracting the important information, organising it and remembering it.
That is what these techniques are designed to help you do.
Remember more
You will learn practical ways to improve both short-term and long-term memory.
You will also learn when to review, so that you spend less time endlessly rereading material and give important information a much better chance of sticking.
Read faster
The Turboreading section teaches a structured approach to increasing reading speed while maintaining useful comprehension.
For anyone facing enormous reading loads, this alone can transform the way work feels.
Learn how to learn
The Power Learning section brings the methods together into a complete system for approaching difficult new material.
It is particularly useful for people tackling demanding professional qualifications, university courses, technical material and business books.
Think more creatively
You will learn practical techniques for releasing mental blocks, brainstorming more effectively, generating ideas and approaching problems from new directions.
Who is this for?
You will get enormous value from this programme if:
- You feel overwhelmed by information overload.
- You want to upgrade your qualifications.
- You are struggling with the volume of work you need to get through.
- You have never regarded yourself as a particularly good student.
- You need to learn important new material quickly.
- You regularly have to solve complex problems.
- You make presentations and want to prepare them faster.
- Your work requires you to gather and organise large amounts of information.
- You want to help a son or daughter prepare for university or college.
- You procrastinate because getting started on a difficult task feels overwhelming.
- You are trying to balance study, work and family life.
If you recognised yourself anywhere in that list, this programme was designed with people like you in mind.
Your Instructor

Dr Richard Broome
Trainer of thousands of managers, students and professionals in South Africa and Australia.
Richard has an Electrical Engineering degree from Natal University, an MBA and a PhD in Management Psychology from the University of Cape Town.
He has trained thousands of managers and professionals in thinking and learning skills in South Africa and Australia.
His background has included management consulting, aviation and decades of teaching practical thinking skills.
The course grew from his own experience of struggling with an overwhelming MBA workload — and then discovering techniques that dramatically changed the way he approached learning.
“Brilliant. Life changing….. I will take this forward to others.”
— Irashan Surbun, Management Consultant
“It was a life-changer. Despite putting the hours in, I scraped through year 1 of university. I then did the course and my academic marks shot up, without necessarily working harder.”
— Terry Mulke, Businessman
What is inside the programme?
You don’t just get a few tips.
The programme takes you through a complete system.
Your Incredible Brain
Understand why we struggle with learning and how better thinking habits can improve memory, creativity and productivity.
Mind Mapping and Dumping
Learn practical methods for capturing ideas, organising thoughts, planning presentations and structuring difficult problems.
Turboreading
Learn techniques designed to help you read much faster without simply racing over the words.
Memory Max
Learn how memory works during and after learning, how to review efficiently and how to use practical memory systems.
Power Learning
Bring the techniques together into a systematic approach for getting through large quantities of difficult material.
Problem Solving and Creativity
Learn how to break through mental blocks, brainstorm effectively and generate better solutions.
Stress Management
Learn practical approaches to managing the stress that often accompanies demanding workloads and study.
And there are some very useful bonuses
You will also learn ways to:
Solve problems more creatively
Use your brain more effectively when you need fresh ideas.
Communicate better
Organise your thoughts so that presentations and briefings become clearer and easier to prepare.
Conquer information overload
Stop feeling as if you are trying to drink from a fire hydrant with a thimble.
Remember names
A particularly useful skill in business and professional life.
Cut wasted meeting time
Better preparation and better thinking can make meetings dramatically more productive.
This is practical learning
The programme is not designed as a series of academic lectures.
The sessions include examples, exercises, recordings and downloadable material.
You work through the material mission by mission.
You can spend roughly half an hour a day over several weeks — or move through it much faster if you have the time.
And you can join live online coaching to help you stay motivated and ask questions as you progress.
What other participants have said
“By far the most useful course I have ever attended. Effective methods that can be applied immediately both in the workplace and to life in general.”
— Standard Bank IT Architect
“Excellent course — met and exceeded my expectations. Fun, stimulating and thought provoking! Thanks for unlocking my mind!”
— Systems Manager
“I feel very positive about the rest of my life and have so many new facts/ideas and ways of improving all aspects of my work and personal life.”
— Mutual Analyst Programmer
Organisations whose people have attended Richard’s training
Over the years, participants have come from organisations including:
BHP Billiton • ABSA • Old Mutual • First National Bank • Nedbank • Standard Bank • Sanlam • Liberty Life • ESKOM • Shell • Sasol • Telkom • Commonwealth Bank of Australia • Westpac • Macquarie Bank • University of Queensland • Queensland University of Technology
…and many others.

Frequently Asked Questions
When does the course start?
You can start immediately.
The online course is self-paced, so you decide when you begin and how quickly you progress.
How long do I have access?
The original programme was offered with lifetime access, allowing participants to return to the material whenever they wanted a refresher.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
The original offer included a 30-day money-back guarantee.
[NOTE TO RICHARD: Keep this section only if that is still the guarantee you want to offer.]
My story
I did not discover these techniques because learning had always been easy for me.
Quite the opposite.
I had completed an MBA and was working as a management consultant in Johannesburg. I was struggling with workload, career demands and the feeling that there simply were not enough hours in the day.
Then a friend told us about a workshop on mind mapping.
That workshop introduced me to a completely different way of thinking about learning.
I became fascinated by the fact that nobody had taught me these methods at school or university.
Eventually I trained with Tony Buzan and began teaching the techniques myself.
My wife Vicki and I started running workshops through a business that became Thinking Skills Training.
From those early workshops the programme grew.
Over the years I taught these skills to managers, students and professionals in South Africa, Australia and elsewhere.
And the feedback kept telling me the same thing:
People desperately need to be taught how to learn.
Imagine what this could mean for you
Imagine:
- Getting through important study material in a fraction of your current time
- Feeling in control of your reading rather than buried beneath it
- Helping your children develop better study techniques
- Preparing presentations without hours of panic
- Remembering more of what you learn
- Organising difficult ideas more clearly
- Feeling more confident when faced with unfamiliar material
And above all:
Imagine no longer believing that learning has to be painfully slow.
You have very little to lose — and an enormous amount to gain
You will get access to a practical collection of learning and thinking techniques that have been taught to thousands of people.
You can work through them at your own pace.
You can return to them when you need them.
And you can use the techniques in study, business, presentations, meetings and everyday life.
Ready to learn differently?
Start now and discover what happens when you learn how to use your brain more effectively.
Choose your payment option
One-time payment
$497 PayPal to think@icon.co.za and I enrol you manually.
30-day money-back guarantee.
P.S.
You have spent thousands upon thousands of hours learning things during your life.
Isn’t it worth spending a little time learning how to learn?
That may turn out to be one of the most useful things you ever learn.
