Prioritize Reading. Part 2:
Today we are only going to talk about the next five methods of increasing your reading volume. Maybe we will slip in some bonus material...
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kevinholochwostaut
Dec 11, 20236 min
Prioritize Reading
In the previous Your Brain of Tomorrow, we discussed the importance of reading for the neurobiology and mental health of any individual....
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kevinholochwostaut
Nov 28, 20232 min
Dribs and Drabs
Technically, Dribbles and Drabbles. The history of short, short supper short literature is not new. The legendary story popularly...
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kevinholochwostaut
Nov 21, 20232 min
Out Loud
I do not know if you have ever read out loud to yourself. If you haven’t you should. Even the articles you read on your phone, though...
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kevinholochwostaut
Nov 19, 20232 min
What is a library?
I started to think about this question today when it was pointed out that my wife and I own more books than we can read in the remainder...
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kevinholochwostaut
Nov 7, 20233 min
Biographies… Reading for Character
I do not read very many biographies. I read none in my youth, and only began to entertain reading them when I was about 30. Now, though I...
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kevinholochwostaut
Oct 31, 20234 min
Read the change… Part 4: The Doom Loop
This is not a video game reference. It is instead trying to pull together the ideas in this short series into what I call the doom loop....
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kevinholochwostaut
Oct 24, 20234 min
Read the change… Part 3: What Humans Want
Humans seek out bad news. We are hardwired to do so. Here is an example of why. You live in a small village, under the Dunbar number,...
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kevinholochwostaut
Oct 10, 20234 min
Read the Change, Part 2: The Algorithm
Several people have commented on the last reading blog, Read the change you want to see in the world. Because of some of these messages,...
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kevinholochwostaut
Oct 4, 20233 min
Read The Change You Want to See in The World.
I have talked about reading fiction, reading nonfiction, reading genres, reading large and reading small. Today, I want to talk about...
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kevinholochwostaut
Sep 26, 20232 min
What Genre Is It?
We are all alike. I’ve noted before the similarities between fantasy and science fiction, but I have started to read more broadly of...
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kevinholochwostaut
Sep 19, 20233 min
Seminal Works
I have talked before about reading books you loved as a child; the books that made us. I have talked about rereading books which I have...
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kevinholochwostaut
Sep 12, 20232 min
Leave Your Genre Behind
I was struck recently by an interaction with someone who was so unaccustomed to reading outside of their own genre, when they read a...
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kevinholochwostaut
Sep 5, 20232 min
It’s good for you…
Reading is good for you. Have you ever heard of the Mathew effect? “The Matthew effect,” is a term that refers to biblical verse Matthew...
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kevinholochwostaut
Aug 29, 20232 min
Science fiction vs. Fantasy vs. MacGuffin
By the title, I don’t I mean to say that all science fiction has bad science. It doesn’t. But a lot of science fiction books do. By no...
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kevinholochwostaut
Aug 22, 20232 min
The Books That Made Us
I have been considering returning to several books I enjoyed when I was very young. Not a child but not even a teenager. I am almost...
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kevinholochwostaut
Aug 15, 20232 min
What Do You Know?
I have heard it said, and generally agree, we cannot write what we do not know. Sometimes when we read novels the errors stand out to...
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kevinholochwostaut
Aug 8, 20232 min
In Defense of Purple
Purple prose: “Overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by drawing undesirable attention to its own extravagant style...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jul 25, 20232 min
You Are What You Eat
It has been said you are what you eat. People take this to mean it has to do with food. Perhaps they should. The origin is summarized...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jul 18, 20233 min
Trust
Today is all about nonfiction, because today is about trustworthiness. Do you trust what you read? Should you? There are many good and...
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