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Interesting point.. but it also brings to mind that story about the pottery class with two student groups - one tasked with making multiple pots, and the other
by manaskarekar 5y ago
Interesting point.. but it also brings to mind that story about the pottery class with two student groups - one tasked with making multiple pots, and the other with a single most perfect pot.
(https://aliabdaal.com/pottery/ https://aliabdaal.com/pottery/
https://joshdance.medium.com/pottery-class-parable-or-real-examples-of-quantity-leading-to-quality-934760ebbcf3 https://joshdance.medium.com/pottery-class-parable-or-real-e...)
It could be argued that finishing (and enjoying and extracting value from) books is a skill that can be honed by doing the quantity approach, at least initially.
- hughcrt 5y agoUsually I don't read books to increase my book reading skills
- ssivark 5y agoWhy should findings from pottery generalize to reading? It's not like reading is an activity with a clearly defined goal for each attempt, where one gets clear feedback based on which to "improve". If we were discussing a textbook where "reading" equates to solving exercises, I might agree with you. However, attempting to apply a metric-driven approach in a field where metrics are vague/implicit (which books are "high-quality", and what value does one get for the time spent reading them?) sounds like a fool's errand.