Reading is Magic, Part 2
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Part two of reading is magic. |
| 0:06.4 | It's one more thing. |
| 0:08.1 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:09.6 | One more thing. |
| 0:12.9 | I love reading practically more than just about anything on Earth. |
| 0:19.3 | And at this point in my life. |
| 0:21.2 | And I came across a good thing on why literature is good for your brain. |
| 0:25.6 | I haven't brought it on the air because I don't know if anybody cares, but there are claims. |
| 0:29.1 | And it kind of fits into with what you were talking about yesterday and today, that literature |
| 0:34.8 | does things to your brain that are good for you overall. |
| 0:38.0 | But most people don't read literature and they do fine in the world and did before literature |
| 0:43.0 | came along and well after it's gone. |
| 0:45.4 | So I don't know. |
| 0:46.8 | I don't know what I think of that. |
| 0:48.0 | You got to define your terms, do fine and stuff. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, it depends on your personality type of thing. |
| 0:52.6 | But anyway, if you missed yesterday's one more thing podcast, just grab it and listen to it now. |
| 0:58.9 | And then this is part two of that discussion. |
| 1:02.0 | Long story short, absolutely brilliant piece of writing by a fellow by the name of Sam Chris with a K-K-R-I-S, who's talking about scientists from the Soviet Union who went to a remote village that was completely illiterate, |
| 1:15.3 | and found to his shock that the people had a tremendous problem thinking abstractly at all. |
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