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[Studies have shown](http://www.pnas.org/content/106/14/6008.full) auditory memory is typically inferior to visual memory, and while most of us can read for hours, our ability to focus on a speech is more constrained.
A Speech Is Not an Essay
John Coleman
“Rewilding”.
The metaphor suggests precisely what to do: If you want to have wilder, curiouser thoughts, you have to avoid the industrial monocropping of big-tech feeds. You want an intellectual *forest,* overgrown with mushrooms and towering weeds and a massive dead log where a family of raccoons has taken up residence.
Rewilding Your Attention
Clive Thompson
A familiarity, the sun in the sky or if I’m lucky, a road sign will point me in the right direction. Reminding me that I was never lost. Just out finding myself.
If We Knew Why, We Wouldn’t Be Doing It [386]
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