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READING: Are We Forgetting How To Do It?

The Next Big Idea

The Cognitive Patience to Do Deep Reading in the Digital Age

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CNN's John Sutter talks with author David Uland about the importance of deep reading in a digital age. He says he and his sons have colorful conversations at dinner table on this topic, but that we're all struggling to do it. And you had your own experience, didn't you? You went back to read one of your favorite authors, Herman Hesse. In the Herman Hesse, I knew everything. So I could really just enter it, thought. Instead, it was almost paralyzing my cerebral cortex to try to get the rhythm of his prose,. which is dense, its labyrinthine, it's sometimes nauseatingly circuitous.

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