Speed of sound reading

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Useful techniques for business reading.

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Very interesting and enjoyable.

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Very good - remember name by association. Pointer made me focus better.

“I went on a speed reading course. I read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It’s about Russia,” quipped Woody Allen.

Websites, the latest report, books, newspapers, the small print… so much to read and so little time. But we might as well not bother picking them up as skimming through and missing the critical points.

Speed-reading is more than just taking in the words quickly; it also requires comprehension and recall. And different types of information require different types of speed-reading (eg, a railway timetable vs. a legal contract).

This workout introduces reading strategies that will let you absorb a report in minutes, pull out the nuggets from a lengthy book in half an hour and get the gist of a long-winded e-mail in less time than it takes to say ‘Microsoft Outlook’.