"We really need to come to that place where we're not the center of the world, but rather we see the world," he says. "It requires absolute slowing down and leaving the world behind." He adds: "I think of it almost as a form of meditation ... But it's more interesting than meditation"
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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