This week, let's get beyond the headline and examine how our relationship to long-form reading has changed, and what we can do to rescue our attention through a digital diet.
Sources mentioned in the video:
The 2017 estimate of how many words we read daily:
https://askwonder.com/research/words-average-smartphone-user-reads-per-day-compared-users-vision-problems-adhd-ntzomu34l
The 2023 study on The Reverse Flynn Effect:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289623000156?ref=amugofinsights.org
'On Ultra-Processed Content' by Cal Newport:
https://calnewport.com/on-ultra-processed-content/?ref=amugofinsights.org
Companion article for this episode:
https://www.amugofinsights.org/how-i-trained-my-attention-to-read-again/
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