"Reader Come Home" by Maryanne Wolf - Book Review
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The Importance of Reading
Research showed a 40% decline in empathy in our young people over the last two decades. The loss of empathy is attributed largely to their inability to navigate the online world without losing track of their real-time face-to-face relationships. To read closely, or to read for entertainment, different bridges from the brain become activated - including multiple areas involved in motion and touch. When we learn to connect these processes over and over and over in our reading, it becomes easier to apply them in our own lives,. understanding with ever greater percipacity, and perhaps wisdom, lie, others, think, and feel as they do.
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