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Hello, Robin! This might not be related to your article so I apologize in advance. However, ever since I started taking your advice to heart by purposefully undereading (reading like 5 to 10 pages per day) I encountered a small issue.
And it has to do with the fact that I don’t retain the things I read, or only retain 5% of the things I read and this sometimes makes me feel like I’m wasting my time. I’m a very slow reader. It takes me about an hour or an hour and a half of full concentration to read 10 to 15 pages of a normal kind of book.
Do you have some advice for this based on your own personal experience with reading long books?
And by the the way the book I’m reading at the moment is “How to read a book” by Mortimer J. Adler.
The chapter on literature kind of spooked me out because it told that you have to read an entire novel in one sitting in order to grasp the overarching idea of the piece of literature. And I don’t think I have the stamina for it.
So, uh, thanks for taking the time reading my comment! ✨
Hello, Robin! This might not be related to your article so I apologize in advance. However, ever since I started taking your advice to heart by purposefully undereading (reading like 5 to 10 pages per day) I encountered a small issue.
And it has to do with the fact that I don’t retain the things I read, or only retain 5% of the things I read and this sometimes makes me feel like I’m wasting my time. I’m a very slow reader. It takes me about an hour or an hour and a half of full concentration to read 10 to 15 pages of a normal kind of book.
Do you have some advice for this based on your own personal experience with reading long books?
And by the the way the book I’m reading at the moment is “How to read a book” by Mortimer J. Adler.
The chapter on literature kind of spooked me out because it told that you have to read an entire novel in one sitting in order to grasp the overarching idea of the piece of literature. And I don’t think I have the stamina for it.
So, uh, thanks for taking the time reading my comment! ✨
You're helping keep the humanities alive Robin! Totally love this...