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Strategic Strikes is not for the faint-hearted communicator. Patrick Riccards—a veteran strategist with decades in political warfare, crisis PR, and nonprofit leadership—offers a blunt, battle-tested guide to mastering communications when the stakes are high and the plan’s gone to hell.

This audiobook is built on a powerful truth: Spanish and English share thousands of cognates—words that look similar, sound similar, and mean the same thing. By learning how these words work, you can rapidly expand your Spanish vocabulary without memorizing endless lists.

Bigger & Fancier Words gives you one impressive word a day, but this time the vocabulary is turned up a notch. These aren’t just words to know—they’re words to drop casually into conversations to sound suspiciously brilliant. Every word comes with a clear definition, a hilariously memorable sentence, plus synonyms and antonyms to round it all out. That’s right—your brain is about to get a vocabulary glow-up.

Understanding written material at 2,000 words per minute (wpm) may sound like speed reading. This may be splitting hairs, but I would like to limit the term "reading" to verbal reading. Understanding written material at 2,000 wpm doesn't happen with verbal reading. It happens by Vicoding. Visually (Vi) looking at the words or code (code) and silently going directly to understand it...is Vicoding. Vicoding is how you directly understand written words or code at 2,000 words per minute, not by verbal reading. These are two distinct processes.

This is part of a Self-Training Course. This is the "Prep For the Exercises" -Only- for the full course. Training yourself is not normal for most adults. This is the prep or guidance only on how to set up, train and do the exercises of the course to be able to understand written material at 2,000 words per minute. This is guidance on how to train yourself to learn to visually read.