The era of reading
By: Daehee Cho
Tags: Must Think, Stop Reading, The Shallows, Books And Authors, Think

More people read than in the past.

Children born as smartphones go beyond popularization and become fully established in people’s lives are born with new smartphones.

2020 smartphones and children born in 2020 have something in common.

It is smart.

Being smart belonged to being good at studying in the past.

Specifically, it belonged to sitting at a desk and studying.

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But smart in 2020 is different.

He judges the situation quickly, is personal and cares less about others, but feels superiority and depression at the same time in his own appearance to others.

Rather than showing a direct appearance, they try to show the appearance through an agency.

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The role is played by YouTube and Instagram, and the influence of the role is also excellent.

Since this article is also shown to others, its influence is growing more than in the past.

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Thinking about the difference, I started reading short articles.

People started to skim rather than read.

It scans quickly and quickly catches what you need.

They know how to pick only words and use the parts that are useful to them.

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2020 children can inherit this trait.

Rather than looking at the sentence and the whole, it focuses on parts such as words and keywords, and prioritizes the sense of feeling for words rather than focusing on context.

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My brain structure is also changing like that.

I am reading words rather than reading text.

The difference is that you look at words and think.

It is to slowly chew the words.

This is because the context varies depending on whether the word is in Chinese characters, pure Korean, or foreign language.

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The time of concentration is getting shorter and the speed of revealing the excellence of knowledge is decreasing.

Compared to the past, geniuses are disappearing, and people using information are increasing.

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I am reading, but I am not thinking.

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The point to consider here is that in reading, we must read while looking for the origin of the text such as the rationale, cause, and source.

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Although e-books and paper books are constantly being released, most books are made up of the senses and there are many emotional books.

Books that can agitate a person’s emotions to some extent are useful.

However, a sufficient basis must be supported according to the purpose of the book that is read as an individual and the book that has a different meaning by using the book.

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There may be many reasons for this thought, but today’s reason began with reading this book.

‘The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember’

Currently, I am focused on absorbing information by reading books and reading articles on the Internet.

There are fewer and fewer attempts to determine the source of information.

And I feel that I am moving away from genius compared to the past.

The cause is regarded as the power of thought.

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As the habit of thinking less and moving faster while reading, I developed a strange habit of reading.

You have to focus on the essence and practice getting closer.

Write your current thoughts on a blank piece of paper and practice emptying them.

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Listening less, reading less, spitting out more, and practicing slowly.

Holding a pencil again, it comes back to the habit of organizing the brain through sensation and thinking time in the hand.

It’s a pleasant day.