“So many books, so little time.”

-Frank Zappa

In 2009, at age 60, I decided to change my life.

I had always dreamed of practicing law. The problem?  I would have to pass the difficult Arizona bar exam.

I graduated law school way back in 1974.  I hadn’t looked at a law book in over 35 years. The exam was just 4 ½ months away.

Here I was, an old guy, competing against young, freshly-minted law students who had just completed three years of intense study.

The bar exam pass rate is often less than 65%. Many told me there was no way.

When I received the box of bar review books, it was so enormous I could hardly lift it.  How could I possibly plow through and remember all that material in just a few months?

Well, I’m proud to say that I not only passed the exam, I snagged the #1 score in the state.

How did I do it? By necessity, I had to find a more efficient way to study.

So I developed a new learning technique; a way to learn twice as much in half the time.

I named it L4X.

After the exam, I was so excited about this new way to learn that I had to share L4X with everyone. I asked a New York editor if he thought it would make a good book.

He said, “Absolutely!”

He totally loved the idea, and said to be a book it needed 160 pages.

I told him I could explain it in 10.  He reiterated that major publishers want at least 160 pages.

He suggested I “fill it out.” 150 pages of fluff. Seriously? 

That got me thinking. Most books are structured around creative core concepts like L4X. They can usually be explained in mere minutes. The rest is filler and fluff.

This revelation was the inspiration behind RapidFire Books.  No fluff.

Key concepts from great books in 6 minutes of audio each week.

Listen with coffee or driving to work. You learn in minutes, not hours.