1275: Remember Books? by Ali Cornish with Everthrive on Reading for Personal Growth & Development

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🗓️ 8 June 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Ali Cornish of Everthrive shares her thoughts on books. Episode 1275: Remember Books? by Ali Cornish with Everthrive on Reading for Personal Growth & Development Ali Cornish created Everthrive as a response to the increasing pace, materialism, and detachment of today's society. Through words and photos, she brings awareness to the importance of living simply, healthfully, and authentically. Life can be better lived when we disconnect from distraction, slow down, and focus on what is truly important. In addition to managing and contributing to Everthrive, she also helps others create compelling content for websites, campaigns, and social media ventures through The Media Acorn. The original post is located here: http://everthrive.org/blog/2018/2/14/remember-books Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1275.
0:03.3	Remember Books by Ali Cornish with Everthrive.org, and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:08.4	Happy Saturday, and welcome to one of the only podcasts in the world where blogs are narrated
0:12.3	to you for free. That's with permission from the authors. I'm going to keep this intro nice and
0:16.8	short, so let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
0:24.5	Remember Books by Ali Cornish with Everthrive.org
0:28.4	Since the birth of the smartphone in 2000, I've noticed how books have slowly taken second
0:34.1	fiddle to mobile devices. Over 77% of Americans own smartphones, so it's without question that
0:40.6	most of us gravitate towards the convenience of reading on a screen. Many of us readers rely on the
0:46.0	ease of accessing millions of books on Kindles, Knooks, mobile phones, and other handheld electronic
0:52.1	gadgets. Some of us might even admit that our reading is limited to glancing over the latest
0:57.6	news headlines scrolling through Facebook status updates, skimming Instagram captions, or browsing
1:03.3	through 140 character blurbs on Twitter. Fortune reports that more than 90% of individuals aged 18-49
1:11.6	read solely from a mobile device. In addition, Fortune found that nearly 65% of all people read
1:18.8	primarily from a mobile device, which is up from 22% in 2013. That number goes up as age decreases
1:26.1	with more than 90% of individuals aged 18-49 reading solely from a mobile device.
1:32.2	Today's youth dubbed Screenagers read almost entirely from personal devices.
1:37.7	It's easy to understand how books have been cast aside. Admittedly, books can be bulky,
1:43.2	they depreciate quickly, and they do not offer multiple layers of engagement like smartphones do.
1:48.7	However, books have been the literary medium of choice for hundreds of years, ever since Gutenberg
1:54.4	so wonderfully bestowed the printing press upon us in 1440. Smartphones and personal mobile
1:59.6	devices have only been for a tiny fraction of that time, the first one appeared less than 20 years ago.
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