You can watch everything at double speed and still miss the whole point.
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
Getting through something and taking it in are different activities, and only one of them leaves anything behind. At double speed you cover more material and keep the shape of it rather than the substance, which is why you can finish a lecture and be unable to explain a single idea from it. Coverage feels like progress. It is only distance traveled.
Pick one thing this week to watch or read at normal speed with nothing else open. Afterward, say what it was about in three sentences. If you can, that one counted.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What have you sped through and remembered nothing from?
MORE IN PERCEPTION & ATTENTION
- Ask the “dumb” question. Half the room was confused and waiting for somebody brave.
- Full attention can’t be wrapped or bought on sale, which is exactly why it’s the rarest present a person can hand over.
- Put the phone face down at dinner. The people across from you won’t be there on the screen forever.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.