Six Greatest Ideas for the Art of Reading
Idea 54: The effective reader
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and writer
‘It is the good reader that makes the good book,’ said the American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. But what makes a good reader?
Reading is the fourth of the core skills of communication. Perhaps more than listening it is the forgotten or neglected one. Few books on communication give it the space it deserves.
One difficulty is that the English language doesn’t have separate terms equivalent to hearing and listening for the written or printed ...
