“What, I wondered, is the message buried in the medium of the printed book? Before the words convey their specific meaning, the medium of the book tells us several things. Firstly, life is complex, and if you want to understand it, you have to set aside a fair bit of time to think deeply about it. You need to slow down. Secondly, there is a value in leaving behind your other concerns and narrowing down your attention to one thing, sentence after sentence, page after page. Thirdly, it is worth thinking deeply about how other people live and how their minds work. They have complex inner lives just like you.” ReadingBooks Book:Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again Source: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
“I realized that the collapse in reading books is in some ways a symptom of our atrophying attention, and in some ways a cause of it. It’s a spiral – as we began to move from books to screens, we started to lose some of the capacity for the deeper reading that comes from books, and that in turn, made us less likely to read books.” ReadingBooks Book:Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again Source: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
