"I believe the first line of the first chapter of Proust and the squid is we were never born to read," he says. "We rearranged the very organization of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think." The Greek alphabet seems to have been an enormous benefit to our species as a whole, CNN's John Sutter writes.
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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