It really frustrates me that people, even very successful and capable people I know, take pride in finding every excuse they could to not read a book. Reading critically is how you learn about the world, but whenever I ask people to read a book so we can talk about it, it’s always “I’m too busy, give me a short summary instead”
First, if factory workers 100 years ago who worked 16 hour days can still find time to read, you can too; Second, if I know how to summarize an entire book into a paragraph and have it convey the full meaning of the book, I wouldn’t be telling you to read it.
Ignorance is a choice.
Yeah it’s a bummer. Proud ignorance has to be one of the worst human traits possible.
You’re gatekeeping what reading is. Good thing your comment and this article are both videos so I didn’t have to read them.
Probably because it’s boring as shit.
Even audio books, the authors point out, are not the equivalent of reading but a poor substitute for it.
I’d love to see the data that they have to backup this claim. I remember reading a while back that listening to an audiobook gets all the same mental benefits of reading a book, as long as you are reading above a 5th grade level (basically sounding out words).
Was that for reading for enjoyment or for information. In my experience I find folks who prefer written documentation over video explanations tend to figure out and perform things better. I also find those who mostly get their information from videos have a hard time understanding and doing due diligence on sources and thus tend to get emotional over things that are not entirely true or presented in a very slanted light. While you can rewind to double check something said before in a video I find few people, including myself (and I likely do do it more than most) will bother to rewind and do the double check. When reading its much easier to page back and check that item. Its also way easier to assess data from multiple sources and you can chekc particular parts of writings within minutes easily wereas finding and checking areas of videos where they all talked about the same thing is not so easily. Even scrolling around a forum or search for things is easier. Heck searching to get text is much more likely to quickly find you something than search video for a specific thing.
It was in reference to reading for enjoyment. There’s definitely a huge benefit to having written documentation to search through for technical purposes for sure.
yeah and that applies to evaluating news articles as well which is pretty much what keeps one from avoiding being manipulated by fake news.
It’s not hard to believe. The brain is wired for visual memory.
What about oral history?
The Super Bowl was pre-taped four months ago in the same Nevada hangar where they faked the moon landing.
That’s how they win all the bets.
Bro. Lol.
Cool story
No, that was in Area 52. They were having a staff potluck in the other location.
Plot twist: those who read were just manipulated into thinking they’re not vulnerable to manipulation!
Ironically, I didn’t read this. But, I think the premise is dubious in that text is only a medium. Hell, text itself can range from tabloid articles to research papers.
How is “reading” any different from “watching”, or “listening”? It’s all about quality of the material, not how to consume the media.It sounds to me, that the issue is less with people reading, the article mentions that people do read, and more to do with a lack of critical thought about what is being read.
Critical thinking skills are the most important skills to build during a child’s education, its surprising they arent focused on even more than they are now.
Too much critical thinking doesn’t make for good little wage slaves or soldiers.
What is the difference in reading a book vs reading a news article, blog, forum comments, etc? What makes a book superior to other forms of written text? You’re reading words put down by a human being (and not AI in either case, hopefully) for various reasons; to entertain, to inform, to shock, to inspire…
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