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Life Kit

How To Focus While Reading

Life Kit

NPR

Business, Health & Fitness, Education, Kids & Family, Self-improvement

4.5 β€’ 4.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

If you'd like to read more, but you're finding it difficult β€” maybe you can't focus, you feel slow or like you're not enjoying the books you tried β€” don't give up! These four reading strategies will help make reading a little easier and more fun.

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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0:12.1

Learn more at RWJF.org.

0:15.4

Hey, everybody, before we start today's show, I want to say here at Life Kit, we know this is a really difficult time

0:21.7

for everyone. Things are uncertain and stressful, but we're grateful to be able to bring you the

0:28.1

tools you need to navigate life right now. One of the reasons we're able to bring you tips about

0:33.1

money, family, and health during this time is because of our listener donations. So please,

0:39.3

if you're able to, give what you can to your local NPR station today. Head to donate.npr.org

0:47.0

slash life to get you started. Hey, Life Kid, it's Dalton Young from Orange County, California,

0:54.1

currently self-isolating in my apartment in Brooklyn, New York.

0:57.9

My personal tips for coping include Marie Condoing your safe space and listening to the LifeKit episode about effectively participating in the TV streaming world.

1:06.4

I just started to try with Disney Plus and would highly recommend Frozen 2.

1:10.9

Thank you to everyone at NPR and Life Kit for the wonderful content during all of this.

1:15.1

Stay safe and healthy.

1:16.6

Bye.

1:19.4

Hi there.

1:20.3

This is Megan Kane, managing producer of Life Kit.

1:23.5

And since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, I've heard from so many of my most bookwormy friends.

1:29.6

They're having a really hard time right now focusing on a book.

1:33.1

Just when we most want to get lost into a book, we can't.

1:36.6

Well, we have some tips in this episode, which we originally made to help anyone who didn't really read that much become more of a regular reader.

1:45.7

And we really hope it helps you right now. Okay, enough of me. Here's the episode. Hi, I'm Julia Furlan, and this is NPR's

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