There’s a dead zone between skimming and scrutiny where you could play slow games without analyzing them and get neither the immediate benefits of cognitively-demanding analysis nor enough information to gain a passive understanding of the underlying patterns.
I think this is a good point. I think there’s a lot to be said for being intentional about how/what you’re consuming. It’s kind of easy for me to fall into a pit of “kind of paying attention” where I’m spending mental energy, but not retaining anything, but not really skimming either. I think it is less cognitively demanding per unit time, but gives you way worse learning-bang for your mental-energy-buck.
I don’t think I fully understand this dead zone or why it happens, but I am suspicious that it also plays a pretty large role in a lot of ineffective/mainstream education.
I think this is a good point. I think there’s a lot to be said for being intentional about how/what you’re consuming. It’s kind of easy for me to fall into a pit of “kind of paying attention” where I’m spending mental energy, but not retaining anything, but not really skimming either. I think it is less cognitively demanding per unit time, but gives you way worse learning-bang for your mental-energy-buck.
I don’t think I fully understand this dead zone or why it happens, but I am suspicious that it also plays a pretty large role in a lot of ineffective/mainstream education.