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Fragmented Reading is Making You More and More Stupid
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Fragmented Reading is Making You More and More Stupid

Feng Xu
Psychology Open Class, 2017
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Many people in China and elsewhere try to take advantage of every little scrap of downtime. With the proliferation of the mobile Internet and social media, the number of wemedia channels and paid-content companies in China has exploded, and people subscribe to massive amounts of articles and podcasts to read or listen to when they have a moment of spare time. Feng Xu, a therapist and blogger on the wemedia channel Psychology Open Class, presents his case against “fragmented reading” and prescribes a way to break the habit. Ironically, he is making this appeal to the public using the same medium and writing style that he fervently attacks in his article. Nevertheless, his challenge of the “knowledge consumption trend” that has taken hold of China in the last two years makes his perspective interesting. getAbstract recommends this article to young professionals, procrastinators, people with cellphone addictions and people who want to make better use of their time.

Take-Aways

  • People spend the scattered free moments they have during the day reading supposedly educational content from wemedia channels and pay-for-knowledge apps rather than from books.
  • Content from these platforms is designed to entertain rather than educate, so it tends to be polarizing, superficial and addictive.
  • Reading this kind of content will shorten your attention span and decrease your ability to learn and apply critical thinking.

About the Author

Feng Xu is a blogger and therapist who writes for the WeChat wemedia channel Psychology Open Class.

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