Your Phone is Killing Your Ability to Read | Deep Questions Podcast by Cal Newport

00:00:00.000 | All right, we got one here from Jeff. Jeff says, "Does context switching affect

00:00:04.400 | reading comprehension?" Yeah, it does. If you're trying to read a book, but you keep initiating

00:00:11.600 | context shifts, like you have to keep checking your text messages because there's like a

00:00:14.480 | conversation going on, or you keep checking your inboxes, or if you're like me the last few days,

00:00:20.240 | you're constantly checking updates on the baseball collective bargaining agreement coming together,

00:00:26.480 | you're going to remember much less from the book. Your mind is going to have unrelated

00:00:30.720 | networks that are activated and some relevant networks inhibited. You won't understand that

00:00:37.040 | as well. So if you're reading something you care about, just read. And if you want to communicate,

00:00:41.600 | go off and communicate. Separate those two things.