Re:IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018)
by scotty79 on Saturday May 14, 2022 @09:06AM
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> I've had increasing trouble reading books for years.
Me too. But I read way more than I read when I devoured scores of books. I just do it in the web browser.
I always had very short temper with books. If the book didn't captivate me with first few pages it never got read by me. I just moved to another one.
I always really liked anthologies of short stories, because amount of the ideas to amount of text was the best there. Way better than when the author stretched just a handful ideas into a novel.
So now, with internet filled with so many interesting texts I have real trouble with books, because my short temper got even shorter. I also know a lot more of the ideas than I did when I was younger so it's hard to encounter something novel to me. So a book, that's captivating, dense and novel is really a hard find. And others get ditched by me at some, usually very early, stage. I just have even less patience for them than I had ever before.
Me too. But I read way more than I read when I devoured scores of books. I just do it in the web browser.
I always had very short temper with books. If the book didn't captivate me with first few pages it never got read by me. I just moved to another one.
I always really liked anthologies of short stories, because amount of the ideas to amount of text was the best there. Way better than when the author stretched just a handful ideas into a novel.
So now, with internet filled with so many interesting texts I have real trouble with books, because my short temper got even shorter. I also know a lot more of the ideas than I did when I was younger so it's hard to encounter something novel to me. So a book, that's captivating, dense and novel is really a hard find. And others get ditched by me at some, usually very early, stage. I just have even less patience for them than I had ever before.