Mildred retweetledi
Another way to look at it is this: many people sincerely desire the intellectual dividends of reading, but genuinely struggle to develop an appetite for the act itself.
In such circumstances, learning does not need to stall simply because the page does not beckon. There are other tributaries through which knowledge flows. Podcasts, lectures, and the vast repositories of thought scattered across YouTube can serve as surprisingly fertile grounds for intellectual nourishment.
They may not replicate the particular discipline and contemplative depth that sustained reading often engenders, but they can certainly stimulate curiosity and keep the mind in a state of healthy motion.
What I would prefer, therefore, is that our collective concern be directed toward the far more troubling disposition of intellectual complacency. The real danger lies in an indifference to sharpening the mind, and in the tragic atrophy of curiosity.
If someone does not naturally take to reading books, yet seeks knowledge in earnest, even if by unconventional routes, that impulse deserves recognition.
Nehemiah Abba Obeze@obeze_abba
I’ve realized that many people don’t actually love reading books. They love the identity of being someone who reads books. The aesthetic of it. The photos. The intellectual vibe. But the quiet discipline of reading slowly and thinking deeply? That part is very unpopular.
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