In this episode, I talk about:
- How digital distractions have turned even the most avid readers into casual readers
- What deep reading is and how it can boost your executive attention by training your brain to concentrate for long periods of time
- The paradox of requiring focus to engage in deep reading, in order to improve your overall capacity for focus
- The benefits of deep reading for other cognitive functions and its role in the development of key intellectual and emotional skills
- Why what you read is less important than how you’re reading it
- How the offline reading experience is different to the online reading experience, and why skim reading is causing you to develop cognitive impatience
- The possible impact on your personal and/or professional life from failing to maintain an ability to read longer, denser, or more difficult texts
- Whether you can engage in deep reading using e-readers such as the Kindle, and the effect of such devices on your ability to comprehend and retain what you read
- Practical steps you can take to cultivate a deep reading habit and restore your attention
View show notes including links to all the resources and tools mentioned: https://thedigitaldietcoach.com/008
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