more sure. Don't give up to discouragement. Success in any calling is but the natural outcome of sure and accurate knowledge. Gregg Shorthand is so simple and rational that it commends itself to everyone, and you can surely learn it. Have confidence that you can do what others have done and you will do it successfully.
TRANSCRIBE YOUR NOTES.
Several years ago we made an attempt to study one of the early English methods of stenography without the aid of a teacher. We progressed finely, could take rapid notes, and every Sunday endeavored to report our minister's sermon. We "followed" him some way behind, but we got it down somehow. After church, however, came the ordeal—to transcribe it. Only a word here and there could be read and the rest was unintelligible. There was nothing to do but to begin the study of shorthand again, and with another system, for being young and foolish, we conceived the idea that it was the system that was at fault. The next time we had a teacher who insisted upon our reading every shorthand character we wrote, and then all difficulties of reading vanished. Take warning by our experience.
If you wish to be successful with shorthand, read all your notes, or better still, transcribe them on the typewriter. You will learn more by transcribing
