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The Art Of Reading And SpeedReading.
The art of communication has three grand divisions. The first involves mastery of the subject. The second involves mastery of its presentation, which is usually in written form. The third involves mastery of its reception, which is listening to a spoken presentation and reading of a written presentation.Our schools and colleges originally devoted themselves chiefly to teaching subjects. Many years ago business and professional men began to discover that they were unable to present the subjects they knew in an effective form. Then began the education of writers. Courses in Business English multiplied.
Scientific bodies and technical corporations undertook to instruct their staffs in the art of speaking and writing. Today, in the United States at least, it is fair to say that we have advanced far in making practical writers of engineers, executives, and editors and reporters of trade and technical journals. No country in the world produces nearly so much as ours in the way of clearly written reports, articles, and textbooks dealing with the affairs of business, industry, and the techniques.
But this very success brings to light our deficiencies in the third and last of the arts of communication. We have plenty of people who know their subjects. We have an astonishing number of excellent writers among those who know their subjects. And they are writing far more than their public can read. Can we not train this public to keep up in its reading?
I am sure that we can�at least to a very considerable degree.
This site is for the busy adult who is dissatisfied with the amount of reading he does in the course of a year. It will be of little or no value to school children. Eminent specialists have written excellent books for them. Their problems are very different from those with which we are going to wrestle here. So far as I know, nobody has given the poor adult a serious thought.
And yet all of the world's important reading is done by this same poor adult. The fate of nations hangs on what he reads. So does the trend in the stock markets. So does the march of industry and business. So does the progress of education and every larger aspect of social welfare. Abolish reading matter. Abolish readers. And what have you left? A world of talkers. How much business could they do, as compared with the readers who also talk?
Surely not one-tenth as much. Or, if as much as that in bulk, then surely of inferior quality. For men misunderstand one another far more in conversation than in the printed word. Why so? Because a word once spoken has vanished; and, unless you have correctly grasped its relation to all else that is being said, you become confused.
Did you ever suffer from having your talk reported? Did you ever give an address of which you failed to prepare a summary for the newspapers? Then you know what I mean. We complain bitterly of the blunders the reporters commit when digesting our talk. But we fail to consider that everybody tends to misinterpret what we say, and mainly because the ear does not retain large masses of speech in a form that can be reviewed later as easily as you review a printed page. When you fail to grasp a printed statement, you run your eye back and look the words over afresh. That can't be done with sounds.
So, if you wish to persuade a man quickly, talk to him; for your personality will impress him more intensely than the precise content of your remarks. But if you wish to inform a man, give him your ideas to study with care, in some permanent form.
Talk is the salesman's proper medium. But print is the best one for the buyer, for the manager, and for the junior executive. Talk excites and moves to action. But the printed word conveys truth, instructs, and commands. Salesmen always dislike doing business through the printed word (and this includes the typed letter, of course). Natu�rally! And when salesmen are promoted into executive posts where their primary duty is not selling but managing men and affairs, they tend to carry over this prejudice. They incline to do everything by conversation and harangue. And, without realizing it, they cramp their style badly. Talk, used where print serves better, is a contagious disease in American business.
A legend tells about business man in the beginning of the 20th Century who was then engaged in large-scale international administration and listened to the growls of many subordinates over a strict order which he had issued. The order assumed the visible form of a card propped up on everybody's desk, in all too plain sight. It read: "Verbal Orders Do Not Go Here."
I heard how dreadfully this rule was slowing down work and causing profound spiritual unrest. And yet�and yet! The boss managed to transact several billion dollars of business under this anti-talk law. His name, by the way, was Herbert Hoover; and he was feeding the world.
Talk has two other weaknesses. It must be uttered in the presence of your audience, and its rate of delivery is between one-quarter and one-third that of reading matter. This allows, of course, for the inevitable breaks, silences, minor interruptions, hemming and hawing, and sundry oratorical effects which always creep into sustained con�versation and speeches. Business men seldom average better than 80 words a minute in their talk; but, if properly drilled, they can easily read between 200 and 300 words of serious matter per minute.
In business dealings, all of us tend to talk too much and read too little. This cannot be charged wholly against the salesman's habits and preferences. It is surely caused in no small measure by imperfect early training in school. I am forced to this conclusion by many personal observations. I have seen many distinguished business executives who have graduated from good colleges without attaining the speed or the accuracy in reading which we should expect of a high-school boy.
Lest you conclude that I am picking meanly on the business man, I close with a tale of worst case of all, which reveals that workers in other fields are quite as poor readers. Last year I checked up on the accuracy with which the reviewers of some important books had stated the facts about the contents of the books. Matters of opinion were ignored; only such things as were indisputable were counted. It appeared that about half of the book reviews were childishly inaccurate. And yet here we have to do with people who presumably are fast and accurate readers. Why otherwise should they be reviewing books?
So, you see, we have a large job on our hands! We must help most adults make up for the deficiencies in their early training. I hope this little article helped you, and i hope You take on my free offer of reading articles below. And after that, check out what my fellow speedreader Melvin has to offer.
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