READING: Are We Forgetting How To Do It?

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Maryanne Wolf is a professor at UCLA and the renowned author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain" and "Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World." She says deep reading makes you a better thinker, communicator, and citizen. But what happens if you lose the ability to read slowly, patiently, and critically? Is there anything you can do to get it back? --- To hear hundreds of bestselling authors summarize their books in 15 minutes or less, download The Next Big Idea app!

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:06.6	I'm Rufus Griskin, and this is the next big idea.
0:10.7	Today, are we forgetting how to read?
0:30.0	It has become clear to me, watching my three sons navigate the world, that the way they
0:39.0	absorb information is very different from the way I did, maybe the way you did growing
0:43.6	up.
0:45.6	Video, they would say without hesitation, is simply a better mode of communication, writing
0:51.6	is old-fashioned that's outmoded.
0:54.0	They're not alone.
0:56.1	Many of my friends report that they do not read as much as they used to.
1:00.6	Instead of opening up a novel, they turn to Netflix in the evenings, indeed, some friends
1:05.0	have told me, and these are bright folks engaged in the world of ideas, that they can't remember
1:10.1	the last time they finished a book.
1:13.3	What has happened to us?
1:15.3	Is reading going the way of the hammered dulcimer?
1:18.1	And if so, is that okay?
1:20.9	I am honestly torn on this question.
1:23.9	On the one hand, I think whenever technology has changed communication, we have resisted
1:29.5	that change.
1:31.5	Socrates thought the written word was a potentially catastrophic threat to critical thinking.
1:37.0	Of course, non-digital natives like me feel not stagia for the good old days.
1:41.7	But my kids have a point.
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