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Reading Advice

Mere Fidelity

CHAPTER

How to Create Better Habits of Reading

Alastair MacIntosh: I needed to set up a perimeter around my intellectual life so that I could read deeply and well. And that has meant removing things like Twitter from my life. He says social media is part of the environment that you create, one of the places where you develop or have to resist habits of reading. The difference between listening to a text and listening for things within the text is immense, he says.

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