SpeedDating(SM) : The Smarter, Faster Way to Lasting Love

Want a faster, less painful path to lasting love? Now, a founder of SpeedDating -- hailed by U.S. News & World Report as "the original fast-date service" -- reveals the essential questions you need to ask in order to date, evaluate, and even marry Mr. or Ms. Right. SpeedDating(SM) shows how to judge quickly whether a relationship has a future before a large time or emotional investment has been made.

Based on the worldwide success of SpeedDating events -- a unique form of round-robin dating -- this book translates and expands upon the essential strategies of this dynamic approach to help you date smarter, not longer! Its accessible Q & A format features tools, tactics, and exercises to help you gauge a relationship's true potential. Included are stories of singles who have used SpeedDating's principles to change their approach to dating and find the relationship they were seeking.

For someone in search of a meaningful and lasting relationship, today's dating scene can be brutal. If you want to date with less heartache and heartbreak and a lot more efficiency and fun, let SpeedDating(SM) put you on the fast track to love.

Yaacov Deyo is a graduate of Harvard, where he studied physics and Nicaraguan land reform. On a grant from Harvard, he was involved in conflict resolution in Belfast, Ireland. Returning home, he ran a homeless shelter in Boston. In 1996 he was ordained as a rabbi after seven years of advanced study at the Aish HaTorah Yeshiva. Yaacov and his students created SpeedDating events to help Los Angeles Jewish singles meet each other. Within a year, SpeedDating expanded to more than twenty-five cities worldwide and was featured in major media, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, People, the View, the Early Morning Show on CBS, NPR, and more. Currently Yaacov runs SpeedDating Worldwide, lectures on SpeedDating principles, and is the educational director of Aish Los Angeles, one of the largest Jewish education centers in the country.

Sue Deyo, a graduate of Stanford University, is a dating coach and often teaches the SpeedDating approach to dating. The Deyos live in Los Angeles, California.