"I was lost in my own, my own digital bleed over from the dominant reading mode," he says. "What I'm telling people to find their way back home." The author has found that if he book into his day, with really an effort to enter even a paragraph or a page of theology and philosophical reading, it can help him rediscovered himself.
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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