The part about habitual speed rings true to me. I am slowly working my way through the Bermúdez textbook on cognitive science and find that my brain “wants” to read at a customary pace, which is too fast for comprehension of a subject I’m relatively unfamiliar with (haven’t touched a science textbook since high school).
Forcing myself to slow down gut-feels like going under the speed limit in the far-left lane on the interstate, like wasting time, even though I conscious-know it’s approximately infinity times more important to understand the text than it is to be able to truthfully say that I did “reading” on all the words in it.
The part about habitual speed rings true to me. I am slowly working my way through the Bermúdez textbook on cognitive science and find that my brain “wants” to read at a customary pace, which is too fast for comprehension of a subject I’m relatively unfamiliar with (haven’t touched a science textbook since high school).
Forcing myself to slow down gut-feels like going under the speed limit in the far-left lane on the interstate, like wasting time, even though I conscious-know it’s approximately infinity times more important to understand the text than it is to be able to truthfully say that I did “reading” on all the words in it.