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How to Regain the Habit of Deep Reading?
When laptops and smartphones are saturated with text, we often find we have neither the time nor the attention to read for fun.
We are living in an era of proliferation of short texts and stagnation of long texts.
For young children, in contrast to teenagers and young adults, reading for pleasure is increasingly rare. Two recent studies point to a disturbing but now well-established trend —reading for pleasure has become far less common among children.
This generation experiences reading as drudgery, rather than the joy it can be. But in 1980s India, books were infinitely more alluring than the stodgy diet of news and agricultural programs.
Aside from delight, the benefits of reading —a greater sense of empathy, tolerance, curiosity, but these depend on the sort of focused reading that now seems so hard to achieve.
In a landmark 2018 study, Pablo Delgado and Ladislao Salmerón tested what is known as the "screen inferiority effect" —and discovered that readers of a printed text were better able to reduce their mind-wandering than readers who accessed the same text on a computer.
We tend to skim when we read on screens, but our attention is held far more easily on the printed page.
Of course, few of us are able to abandon smartphones and computer screens. We can absorb information in multiple mediums if we learn how to focus our attention with intention.
We can make a conscious decision to consume less —less news, less online drama, less junk reading —and to create a device-free space in each day. And slowly, you will find your ability to concentrate and be fully immersed in a book has returned.
You may also noticed that it's easier to follow complex arguments, and to retain a strong visual sense of fictional worlds in contrast to the watery impressions of a book formed by skim-reading.
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