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READING: Are We Forgetting How To Do It?

READING: Are We Forgetting How To Do It?

FromThe Next Big Idea


READING: Are We Forgetting How To Do It?

FromThe Next Big Idea

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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Maryanne Wolf is a professor at UCLA and the renowned author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain" and "Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World." She says deep reading makes you a better thinker, communicator, and citizen. But what happens if you lose the ability to read slowly, patiently, and critically? Is there anything you can do to get it back?
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Released:
Mar 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Next Big Idea is a weekly series of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading thinkers. Join our host, Rufus Griscom — along with our curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — for conversations that might just change the way you see the world. New episodes every Thursday.