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Against 3X Speed
Reading isn't a race: Every new reader thinks that the answer to their problems is to learn how to speed read so that they can get through books 2-3x faster. But the problem is that the best books have to be read slowly. An amazing book will force you to put it down and stare at the wall because you'll need time to reflect on it and put your brain... See more
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And I was stunned when cognitive psychologists I spoke with led me to an enormous and too often ignored body of work demonstrating that learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like
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Book Chugging - Piece that explores the dynamic behind chugging books and offers an alternative.
“Combine this with our hyper-productivity culture today where speed and output are the key metrics by which we need to do everything. All of sudden my internal dialogue started looking like this:
‘Read more! Read more! Read more! Chug! Chug! Chug!’
I
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