EPISODE · Jan 26, 2017 · 13 MIN
Sorry, But Speed Reading Won’t Help You Read More
from Science, Spoken · host SpokenLayer
The late Nora Ephron famously felt badly about her neck, but that's minor compared to how people feel about their reading. We think everyone else reads faster than we do, that we should be able to speed up, and that it would be a huge advantage if we could. You could read as much as a book critic for the New York Times. You could finish Infinite Jest. You could read all of Wikipedia. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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The late Nora Ephron famously felt badly about her neck, but that's minor compared to how people feel about their reading. We think everyone else reads faster than we do, that we should be able to speed up, and that it would be a huge advantage if we could. You could read as much as a book critic for the New York Times. You could finish Infinite Jest. You could read all of Wikipedia.
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Sorry, But Speed Reading Won’t Help You Read More
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