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What is something you thought you knew your whole life and only just recently found out you were wrong the whole time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine is that at my age (barely made it into Gen Z on the old end) I just found out today that a Bo Weevil is an insect (beetle) and not some kind of mole or similar rodent.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You mean like imagining a voice speak out your thoughts? Thoughts are so much faster than speech, I feel like having to speak out all your thoughts would slow things down significantly.

The best tip I learned about reading faster is to stop narrating the words in your head, which puts a hard limit on your reading speed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Bro I can't read if I don't read it in my head lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I like the reading tip! I think not many people are aware of it.

My thoughts use meaning, instead a specific words.

The whole interpreting my thoughts as natural language often takes longer than coming up with the tought itself.

This results in:

I often use the intersection of the languages I, and the people I speak with know.
When it's a topic I'm knowledgeable about, I often talk too fast and people find it hard to follow me.
I draw many associations and comprehending the larger picture is easy. Yet I often miss the point in the smaller picture.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Wait, people narrate the words in their head? That must be insanely slow