BEST ADVICE FOR SLOW READERS

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Great advice. Can’t believe I’m just learning this at 76 🤨. So 10 pages a night it is! Maybe I’ll cancel my newspaper and read books instead 😊 I’ve only just come across your channel - thank you so much ☺️

As I've grown older, I've realized that this is the best way to read, savoring the words, conversations, characters. In fact, the whole experience is richer. Bravo for expressing this so well!

At so many art exhibitions people walk up to a painting, whip out their mobile phone, take a quick snap and completely ignore what’s hanging in front of them. They then move on to the next one, as if each work photographed is a conquest. It’s extraordinary, though it’s mainly younger people who do it. Perhaps many people take the same approach to reading.

Slow reader here and this definitely inspired me to be more mindful about what I'm reading and be more immersed in the experience so thank you :)

Slow reader here. This is INSPIRING. And not just for reading, for life. Not an understatement. Thank you Tristan for allowing me to accept my reading speed and be happy with it. :)

Also, many of the books you mention (Such as Dickens, Thackery, Dumas, etc.) were issued in serial fashion, so the original readers were forced to stop between chapters and wait a week to get the next installment (like an episodic TV show nowadays). This gave the people time to talk to other readers and to think about what might happen next and to reflect on what they had already read (or perhaps to go back a reread something they particularly enjoyed or had trouble understanding; or something they got a new angle on by talking to someone). By all means, take your time reading these great books. Heavens knows the writers took time to produce them. The words were placed there for you to read, not to speed through as fast as you can (Imagine what Dickens would think about that!). He liked to perform his books, which means that they would be delivered at talking speed).

Slow reader here. I stopped setting my reading goals as “X number of books per year”. I changed my reading goal to “always have the NEXT book chosen” and I’m much happier 😊

When I was young I would stay up all night reading. Now I’m 50 and went to audiobooks, but oh I miss a comfy chair, a blanket and a coffee with a good book!

“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

Your channel is a gift. Keep doing what you're doing, Tristan!

I recall that John Steinbeck was a slow reader by his own admission. In the back of one of his books, he published some letters with an editor and said this much: "I literally move my lips. Elaine [Steinbeck's wife] can read four books while I mumble through one. But I guess this isn't going to change."

A few years ago, I re-discovered my love for reading fantasy novels and started to follow BookTubers for recommendations. Because they seemed to fly through so many books in a year, I pressured myself immensely because of my slow reading speed. How could some people read 50, 60, ..., 100 or even more books in a single year while I only manage to read 10? Now that I thought about what you were saying, my mind compared speed reading with reading a summary. You might learn what the book is about but you will never get near the level of satisfaction you reach when you really immersed yourself in the story. You get to know the characters like your family, you suffer with them during their struggles, you get annoyed by their bad decisions, you celebrate with them when they reach their goals, ... building a connection like this takes a lot of time. Thank you so much for this video. I will embrace being a slow reader and enjoy the journey much more!

I'm re-listening while I work today. If there were book tube oscars, this would get best video of the year. I cannot express how much I needed to hear all of this. Thank you, Tristan !

He GETS IT. This video was like a psychedelic trip for me because I'm watching a complete stranger on the screen reading my mind. I've been on a reading slump for 4 years, whoring from genre to genre, making reading lists, goals, projects and deflating shortly after. The problems he described are exactly what has been happening to me; I've been a reader all my life so I don't understand why the reason behind this never dying slump. Thank you, Tristan. Know that your video made me feel immensely better.

Recently I have found myself reading each word as if I were reading out loud to a child. I got greatly annoyed at myself and tried to speed up. I put this new experience up to aging (I’m 67). But after listening to your video, I realized that I was really slowing down because I was enjoying the book (Middlemarch). I subconsciously wanted to put myself into the story that I was enjoying so much. Thank you for helping to give myself permission to slow down and enjoy. Great video, as usual!

'What matters is you keep reading, and enjoy the story'. Excellent advice. Thank you Tristan.

What matters is discipline. Just do it! Educate yourself. Never trust others to educate...

It’s the journey, not the destination. This true for probably everything in life. When we rush in order to have accomplished something, we not only deprive ourselves of the pleasure of experiencing the journey, but we may even find ourselves unable to reach the sought-after destination. If I don’t take the time to really learn a difficult section of a piano piece, I will never be able to play it well. If I don’t work through a lot of problems, I will never truly understand the science or math subject I am studying. When we are too focused on reaching our goals, we tend to approach the process too superficially, and so we never achieve mastery.

Clearly some of the best advice (philosophy) on reading. Being a reformed 7 book a weekend reader who has discovered that audio books can be cranked up to double speed, I am taking a deep breath. Yes, life is too short not to enjoy chocolate!