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Nothing much happens if you’re on the outside looking in, because learning to read requires a miraculous feat of brain circuitry, fueled by a crucial and equally invisible ingredient: attention.
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…reading is a demanding activity that shapes you in mind and body.
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Whether we’re looking for information on a diagnosis of cancer or writing a work report, uncertainty is an essential component of the process, not an unwelcome impediment to learning.
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Reading literally and in a larger sense is an act of will, spirit, attention, and confidence.
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The possibility of clinging to the surface of life has always existed. And yet in honing the art of skimming across infinite texts are we losing the hard-fought skill of delving beneath the surface?
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To navigate the literate world, we must build a literate brain, then work past uncertainty to construct our own frameworks of interpretation.
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…we cannot make meaning out of the unsifted and the random, no matter how hard we try.
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To fully understand the rich intricacy of any writing… we must go deeply into the text.
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…books provide an unending adventure not only of the mind but of the senses.
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Reading… transforms mere marks on a page into meaning through a powerful blending of sight and sound.
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