I used to feel ashamed of being a "slow" reader — now I'm grateful for how naturally my mind interrogates or befriends an interesting text. It's a shame most of us are taught to read under the perverse assumption that the purpose is to "consume" "material."https://twitter.com/naval/status/1184549088949350401 …
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If you don't read very much despite "wanting" to, it's probably the case that you need to re-learn what it feels like to enjoy reading something. In practice, this means that when you find yourself wanting to *stop* reading, you stop. Good reading is mostly about *not* reading.
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The typical successful adult human is so broken that they could read 30 pages from the middle of a dictionary and not find the experience fundamentally different from reading whatever it is they're reading to signal to other successful adult humans that they enjoy reading.
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If you want your brain to be a burro, the easiest way to do that is to take something long and pointy and give your frontal lobes a few stirs. If you want a vibrant life of the mind, you have to sometimes do things because you actually fucking want to do them. Reading especially.
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Wait wait wait... I’m still trying to get through your last tweet. Stop writing for the love of all that’s good.
#SlowDownThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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