How slow reading can change your brain



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30 thoughts on “How slow reading can change your brain”

  1. I actually usually read out loud when reading any book, I silently ready text message and comments and things. Needless to say I read slowly, and I usually have a pencil in my hand and I mark things as I read or make notes, so I read even slower.

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  2. Love slow reading. Even though I've doing consistent slow reading x years, it came a time when I understood that to consume vast amounts of information reading fast is the way, still I enjoy slow reading.

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  3. Very insightful. As a musician, when I compose, generally I run against a deadline which makes me rush into finishing the track quickly. But when I take my time and act slowly my compositions tend to have more integrity. What's interesting is when I rush, sometimes, it takes more time to finish a song. It is important to digest each step before moving to the next one. I think it's just like mindfulness..

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  4. Thanks for bringing up such an important subject in such an interesting way. I think it’s no coincidence that the Greek empire advanced so quickly and in such great depth because of the library of Alexandria.

    My method for reading is “slow reading”, often resulting in reading paragraphs three or more times. This is necessary during the research phase of writing an in-depth, technical book, because I can then reduce a section to keywords in a mindmap. Once in a mindmap, I can easily rearrange the keywords in a more suitable format for my book and then polish paragraphs for elegance using the Plato’s structure of “ethos, pathos and logos” which I paraphrase as “principle, affective example & reference, logical conclusion”.

    You’ve definitely got me more interested in “sharpening the saw”.

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  5. Thank you! This is wonderful! I’ve always enjoyed reading and still love holding a book in my hands: usually my Bible. I value reading slowly as it enables me to think about the meaning being portrayed. I love to narrate the Bible to others and emphasize each and every word. It’s interesting to read and speak a sentence several times – each time putting emphasis on one word, then the next time the next word etc. This brings an entirely different slant on that one sentence and it’s enlightening. This is a rapidly declining art form which has to impact our lives wether we recognize it or not.

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  6. Augustine lived a little before the dawn of the European Dark Ages. (and, like other "dark ages" and the "Dark Continent," the adjective "dark" only referred to the fact scholars and lay people knew very little about the subject. the maps of five of the world's continents were almost completely filled in, but the interior of Africa was blank, because of African diseases and its difficult geography.)

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