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I read this book after reading your recommendation, Rose, and found it very powerful for reawakening how much I value reading. Especially reading long-form, print books. It truly is a different life experience than reading articles online, or skimming. I find it very stabilizing, at a time when many people are going off-kilter.
Jasmine, what a perceptive observation!
It could be that reading long-form print books IS stabilizing, because it grounds readers in our humanity.
Living like a virtual being in a sea of data? What a pathetic choice, even if made inadvertently!
Some of you Goodreaders might like to see a related blogpost, to be published minutes by now at my blog. Soonish, it will appear at my blog feed here on Goodreads as well.
Look for "Demand Quality Books for Children."
This article was drawn from my experience here on Goodreads, as a book reviewer.
At my blog, this morning, Danielle brought up a fascinating set of comments in the context of "I'm Too Smart to Need a Teacher."
(That's a blogpost you can find at the Rose Rosetree dotcom and also here on Goodreads, where my blog articles are shared for all in this community.)
Responding to her series of comments, I told Danielle how inspired I was by the standout book, "Reader, Come Home."
One of many blockbuster ideas in this magnificent book is how author Maryanne Wolf describes her scientific research into two different styles of reading, which I'll call "traditional reading" and "skim reading."
In comment conversations this morning, "I'm Too Smart to Need a Teacher" -- seems to me, it was quite relevant to my Goodreads review of this book.
(Starting with Comment #92 and continuing.)
"I'm Too Smart to Need a Teacher" includes an overview of common mistakes that seemingly flow that assumption, or are related at least.
Danielle flagged Mistake #4 – the idea of skim reading to recognise what you already know, as opposed to actually learning something.
While Maryanne Wolf's approach is scientific, including her understanding of how cognition intersects with reading styles, my approach is that of a consciousness engineer.
In that context, I think it is important to appreciate an underlying motivation -- or even inherent choice -- made by those who strongly prefer to skim read.
Regarding the work of many self-proclaimed teachers or healers, who target skim-readers -- smug recognizers who aren't learners, really -- of course, these teachings and healings are unlikely to stand up to any kind of scrutiny.
Writing done through AI is not the only threat today to authors and readers who care about legitimate learning.
Writing done by pseudo-teachers and pseudo-healers, whose market is skim readers -- seems to me, doing this is all too human. And equally grotesque as foisting unacknowledged AI creations upon unsuspecting readers.
This morning Danielle started a thought-provoking conversation at my blogpost about "I'm Too Smart to Need a Teacher -- 7 Goofs."
Incidentally, if you search for this, include those quotation marks in your search. So far this converstion spans Comments 151-166.
Danielle observed that there *is* a certain smugness to merely recognising and not learning – a smugness that the reader (or potential learner) already knows enough and doesn’t need to learn any more.
She prompted me to write:
How limiting, Danielle, and other Blog-Buddies, when people assume:
I SEE, therefore I am.
And also:
I called this approach "the exaltation of the visual: How to be shallow in one easy lesson."
Danielle concluded her comments by writing, I have also read Maryanne Wolf’s book “Reader, Come Home”, based on your recommendation, and I learned a lot from it.
Hello, Goodreaders,
Right now I'm beginning to research the impact on CONSCIOUSNESS of using the new technology Google AI Mode.
Even a brilliant neuroscientist, like Maryanne Wolf, studies the impact of reading on the BRAIN, and vice versa.
The BRAIN, not human SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
The latter is my field, as the Founder of Energy Spirituality®.
Currently I'm beginning to explore this new kind of AI, wrapped up to seem convincingly human - because that's Google AI Mode.
Sweetened with GPT so that it really can seem trustworthy, like a friend. Though it sure isn't human at all!
My last two blogposts here on Goodreads - and also at the rose rosetree blog - explore this timely new topic.
I invite all my fellow humanistic readers, who care about living with your full humanity, to take a look at these two articles:
"How to Live as a Spiritual Person in a World of AI"
And "6 Protection Tips for Using Google AI Mode. Series Part 2."
Let me know what you think!
If I had to name a favorite book - something I'm not a fan of doing - "Reader, Come Home" would still be it.
Just saying.
For me, "Reader, Come Home" is the one book that I wish everybody on Goodreads would read.
Do any of you have other nominees for that kind of wish?
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I read this book after reading your recommendation, Rose, and found it very powerful for reawakening how much I value reading. Especially reading long-form, print books. It truly is a different life experience than reading articles online, or skimming. I find it very stabilizing, at a time when many people are going off-kilter.
Jasmine, what a perceptive observation!It could be that reading long-form print books IS stabilizing, because it grounds readers in our humanity.
Living like a virtual being in a sea of data? What a pathetic choice, even if made inadvertently!
Some of you Goodreaders might like to see a related blogpost, to be published minutes by now at my blog. Soonish, it will appear at my blog feed here on Goodreads as well.Look for "Demand Quality Books for Children."
This article was drawn from my experience here on Goodreads, as a book reviewer.
At my blog, this morning, Danielle brought up a fascinating set of comments in the context of "I'm Too Smart to Need a Teacher."(That's a blogpost you can find at the Rose Rosetree dotcom and also here on Goodreads, where my blog articles are shared for all in this community.)
Responding to her series of comments, I told Danielle how inspired I was by the standout book, "Reader, Come Home." One of many blockbuster ideas in this magnificent book is how author Maryanne Wolf describes her scientific research into two different styles of reading, which I'll call "traditional reading" and "skim reading."
In comment conversations this morning, "I'm Too Smart to Need a Teacher" -- seems to me, it was quite relevant to my Goodreads review of this book. (Starting with Comment #92 and continuing.)
"I'm Too Smart to Need a Teacher" includes an overview of common mistakes that seemingly flow that assumption, or are related at least.Danielle flagged Mistake #4 – the idea of skim reading to recognise what you already know, as opposed to actually learning something.
While Maryanne Wolf's approach is scientific, including her understanding of how cognition intersects with reading styles, my approach is that of a consciousness engineer.In that context, I think it is important to appreciate an underlying motivation -- or even inherent choice -- made by those who strongly prefer to skim read.
Regarding the work of many self-proclaimed teachers or healers, who target skim-readers -- smug recognizers who aren't learners, really -- of course, these teachings and healings are unlikely to stand up to any kind of scrutiny.
Writing done through AI is not the only threat today to authors and readers who care about legitimate learning.Writing done by pseudo-teachers and pseudo-healers, whose market is skim readers -- seems to me, doing this is all too human. And equally grotesque as foisting unacknowledged AI creations upon unsuspecting readers.
This morning Danielle started a thought-provoking conversation at my blogpost about "I'm Too Smart to Need a Teacher -- 7 Goofs." Incidentally, if you search for this, include those quotation marks in your search. So far this converstion spans Comments 151-166.
Danielle observed that there *is* a certain smugness to merely recognising and not learning – a smugness that the reader (or potential learner) already knows enough and doesn’t need to learn any more.
She prompted me to write:How limiting, Danielle, and other Blog-Buddies, when people assume:
I SEE, therefore I am.
And also:I called this approach "the exaltation of the visual: How to be shallow in one easy lesson."
Danielle concluded her comments by writing, I have also read Maryanne Wolf’s book “Reader, Come Home”, based on your recommendation, and I learned a lot from it.
Hello, Goodreaders,Right now I'm beginning to research the impact on CONSCIOUSNESS of using the new technology Google AI Mode.
Even a brilliant neuroscientist, like Maryanne Wolf, studies the impact of reading on the BRAIN, and vice versa.
The BRAIN, not human SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS.The latter is my field, as the Founder of Energy Spirituality®.
Currently I'm beginning to explore this new kind of AI, wrapped up to seem convincingly human - because that's Google AI Mode. Sweetened with GPT so that it really can seem trustworthy, like a friend. Though it sure isn't human at all!
My last two blogposts here on Goodreads - and also at the rose rosetree blog - explore this timely new topic.I invite all my fellow humanistic readers, who care about living with your full humanity, to take a look at these two articles:
"How to Live as a Spiritual Person in a World of AI"And "6 Protection Tips for Using Google AI Mode. Series Part 2."
Let me know what you think!
If I had to name a favorite book - something I'm not a fan of doing - "Reader, Come Home" would still be it.Just saying.
For me, "Reader, Come Home" is the one book that I wish everybody on Goodreads would read.Do any of you have other nominees for that kind of wish?
Wishing it were sold (and bought) in airports, train stations, gas stations. Wherever people -- particularly parents -- might benefit from the practical wisdom in "Reader, Come Home."