Reading As A Conversation With Ourselves
Author Maryanne Wolf champions deep reading as an invitation into conversation with ourselves. She focuses on three brain activities inherent in our thinking capacity as humans.
Empathy
Empathize With Others’ Experiences
“What each of us does in our deepest most immersive forms of reading - welcome the other as a guest within ourselves, sometimes become the other. For a moment in time, we leave ourselves and return expanded, strengthened and changed.”
Growth and Expansion
Open to New Awareness
“There is a final moment in the reading act when an ‘arms-wide’ expanse in the reader’s mind opens up and all our cognitive and affective processes become the stuff of pure attention and reflection.”
Imagination
Imagine New Ways of Being
“Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming emerges to enrich a reader’s store of hypothesis about how life is to be understood.”
why imagination?
