Cal Newport
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And they're willing to go farther towards this.
Like we know there's people who are really committed to physical fitness and we're impressed by it.
We should be equally impressed by these examples.
I get up early and read 100 pages every day.
I just don't use social media at all.
These are the type of things that are leading to really positive impacts in people's lives.
So I think that's a good collection of messages to talk about here because this revolution is going to happen, and I would like you to be a part of it.
All right.
What do we got as our second one here, Jesse?
All right, so I haven't read this article yet that Rob sent us, so we're going to do this in real time together.
Let me pull it up here.
The title is from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The title of the article, uh-oh, My Students Can't Read.
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent and likely to get worse.
Let's just read the intro to this, Jesse.
I'm sure this is going to get worse before it gets better.
Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article.
It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago.
Not one student finished it.
It's not positive.