by Abby Marks Beale | Mar 15, 2013 | Speed Reading
When you were a student and told to write a paper, you dutifully went about doing your research and coming up with a thesis statement. Then, before jumping into writing your magnificent paper, you created an organizational structure, otherwise known as an...
by Abby Marks Beale | Mar 1, 2013 | Speed Reading
Don’t you just marvel at people at work who talk about the books they read and what they learned? You think, “Good for them, they’ve got time to read. . . but I don’t.” Yes, time is certainly a factor but what’s one of the best ways...
by Abby Marks Beale | Feb 15, 2013 | Speed Reading
Myth –It is impossible to read a whole Sunday newspaper, on Sunday! While doing research for my book 10 Days to Faster Reading, I discovered that a daily edition of a big city newspaper contains approximately the same number of words as a typical novel. And the Sunday...
by Abby Marks Beale | Feb 12, 2013 | Speed Reading
Have you ever read something but don’t know when, or if, you will ever need to actually use it? And if questioned a few weeks later about the subject, is your memory vague, at best? Myth – I can’t, nor will I, be able to remember everything I read. Truth – You will...
by Abby Marks Beale | Jan 15, 2013 | Speed Reading
Myth – I have to read every word to understand. As with many of the myths, we hold them because someone, most probably an elementary school teacher who was helping us learn how to read, told us we HAD to read every word. If we didn’t, then we won’t...
by Abby Marks Beale | Jan 1, 2013 | Speed Reading
In the past 25 years, I’ve worked with thousands of individuals who, previous to meeting me, had no idea what their true reading speed was. But they all had their self-made perceptions. Most consider their reading speed to be slow with only a few believing it is fast....