Books, now more than ever. 📚📚📚 - In the Internet Era we've come to view reading as an essential antidote to the constant churn of debased, short-form content. Books help nurture our empathy, ability to pay attention + appetite for complexity- qualities that make us healthier, happier humans. Qualities that are severely at risk today. We get that books aren't for everyone- but many people haven't tried much outside of required school assignments. So if you're not already a reader, we urge you to find a book that sparks your interest and read a couple pages before bed every night. Notice how through this habit, the world seems to open up for you- as opposed to the tense, constricted feeling we're so often left with after scrolling. - Quote from Don Boivin’s substack: https://donboivin.substack.com/ #News #Books #Mindful #DigitalWellbeing #TuneInOnline
To open a book voluntarily is at some level to remark the insufficiency either of one’s life or of one’s orientation toward it. The distinction must be recognized, for when we read we not only transplant ourselves to the place of the text, but we modify our natural angle of regard upon all things; we reposition the self in order to see differently.
Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Screens encourage more utilitarian thinking.