The Read Well Podcast

📚 Read Slowly - Take Notes - Apply the Ideas Battle Your Brain Rot with HARD Books Hello Reader, Have you come across the term “Brainrot” yet? It comes from our lifestyle of busy living, screen swiping, and “working in a state of semi-distraction” (Newport 43). 📥 We’re swamped with shallow work, the kind of tasks that do little to feed the growth of our brains. We spend most of the day checking email (shallow), multi-tasking (shallow), and moving too quickly (you guessed it – shallow). 🧑🏫 We...

📚 Read Slowly - Take Notes - Apply the Ideas Do You Need More Time to Read? Hello Reader, There’s never enough time to read. That’s the point. Reading is an activity of expansion. It adds to your life and makes it better, rather than something that must be done to avoid pain. It falls into the category of “should” tasks. 🏋🏽♀️ I should go to the gym. 📞 I should call my mother. 📚 I should read a book. We intend to do things that are good for us, but we often put those things on the back burner....

📚 Read Slowly - Take Notes - Apply the Ideas How to Set Reading Goals for 2025 Hello Reader, I love this time of year. Things are winding down, families are coming together, and the world seems to get a little more introspective. I always take a week off between Christmas and New Year's to work on my goals, yes I'm one of those people, and I've picked up a few strategies over the years that have made my reading goals more helpful. 5 Tips for Setting Your 2025 Reading Goals: I like to choose...

📚 Read Slowly - Take Notes - Apply the Ideas Why Philosophers are Weird (And Wonderful) Hello Reader, I’m pleased to report that philosophy is not dead. It did not go the way of the Dodo with the death of Socrates, Nietzsche, or Foucault. We have living and breathing philosophers today, still writing and pondering the mishaps of our nutty world. One of those living philosophers, Dr. Michael Huemer, points out in his book Knowledge, Reality and Value, that “Philosophy may be the only field of...

📚 Read Slowly - Take Notes - Apply the Ideas 5 Books I HATED But Now I LOVE Read On the Web → Hello Reader, I’ve grown as a reader. I can tell because books that once made no sense to me are now intertwined with my soul. The more we read, the better we get at focusing, visualizing, and thinking. Reading is like going to the gym for the brain—if you read well. Speed-reading or skimming doesn’t offer the same benefits as reading slowly and taking notes. Anyway, here are five books I hated but...