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Summary When it comes to deep reading, our brains were not wired to be good at deep reading it is a skill. But with practice, discipline, no distraction, and going at your own pace, reading might actully get deep.
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eep reading, at its ultimate, is a place of discovery of other, a discovery of beauty and a discovery and even appreciation for our ability to think outside the bounds of our everyday lives.
Tracking This is how Wolf is trying to wrap her points she is making her most main points in the text and making it sound very powerful so it stays in our head.
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Deep reading takes discipline. It takes practice. It takes finding just a pocket of time a day to devote to it.
Restatment For the thrid takeway it is all about discipline. It takes practice to get good at deep reading it just does not come like that.
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we weren't necessarily built for deep reading. That was our first takeaway. In her books, Wolf details all the steps our brains need to take in order to enter a state of deep reading. It's a lot, and that's under ideal conditions with nothing getting in our way.
Restatmemt Us humans are not wired for reading it is a skill. A skill that you have to practice with real good stratagies.
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Takeaway two is screens are fine if you're skimming. But if you want to deep-read, you have a better chance of minimizing distractions if you read on paper. Like she says, prints allows us to go at our own pace. But if you pick up a paper book and you're still having a hard time to really get your way inside of it, don't worry - it's happened to the best of us.
Restatment When you are trying to deep read it is important to note that you need to keep the districations down to a minimium.Its really hard to not have any distractions but try your best.
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Takeaway three
Tracking During the middle of the transcirpt it is the takways that I will be learning throuout the text. I am going to go back and re read the beggning part of the text because I can tell it was not sticking with me.
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Takeaway two - reduce distractions. Yes, that includes the phone you're probably listening to this on. Chuck it in a drawer and give an old-fashioned paper book a shot.Takeaway three - Deep reading is a discipline. If you want it, you're going to have to make time for it. It doesn't have to be too much time. I mean, life happens, but make deep reading something you can practice regularly.Takeaway four - read at your own pace and the book's pace. Sometimes, deep reading means you're not crushing dozens of books a month or whatever. Take the time to really engage with what the author is saying.
Reaction Adding in here the takeways that is making it so much more easy for me to understand the main ideas and really understand what I was really supposed to get out of the reading.
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He said it's that fertile miracle of communication that occurs in solitude. And at the heart of it is the point where we, the reader, go beyond the wisdom of the author to discover our own. Deep reading is when we enter that space. I call it home. I call it sanctuary. Kishjen (ph), my dear novelist friend, calls it the space of interiority. It is that place where only we can go to think at our deepest, best, even most disciplined level about our insights and our associations, our reflections.
Reaction It might just be becuase im not a creative thinker like this but the way she is saying this it is very confusing to understand.
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invention. It doesn't exist in our brain. Rather, we have to learn it. And that means our brain has to make a new circuit.
Tracking I can tell this is the start to the introduction. Maryannne wolf is setting up her introduction to inform the lisennters what the text is all about.
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But let me let you in on a deep, dark secret. I find reading extremely difficult. Ever since I was a kid, through college as a literature major, and especially now, when every book I read is competing with my phone for my attention, it's always a fight to achieve that level of locked-in, deep reading.
Reaction Very relatable. Hooked me in very fast which is great so then I want to stay for the rest of the text.
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