Tag: skimming
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How well he’s read, to reason against reading!
If Age teaches us anything, it’s that knowledge must be analysed before it is applied. There’s a Goldilocks’ Zone: too little and it might be misinterpreted; too much and it might be misused. I suppose that Wisdom is the ability to find the correct balance. Perhaps the best way lies in examining the way it…
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Call me a fool; trust not my reading nor my observations
Lately -well, since I retired anyway- I’ve been noticing that I’m not retaining as much when I read; I find that I often have to re-read a paragraph to make sense of it: sometimes, the tense seems incorrect, sometimes a name I’ve just read escapes me; and occasionally I skip parts of sentences like words,…