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> I find it easier to concentrate for an hour or two on a video than a book. That is because video does not requires you to concentrate. Imagine a book which i

> I find it easier to concentrate for an hour or two on a video than a book. That is because video does not requires you to concentrate. Imagine a book which is required to be read in 1x or 1.25x or 1.5x or 2x only. Pretty impossible to read, isn't it? You know, some paragraphs may require several hours to be read. Video just doesn't support to be consumed at different speeds per paragraph.

magic123_ 5y ago
How can you seriously say "video does not requires you to concentrate". I'm genuinely curious as to why you would think this is true.
- posed 5y ago
  While reading you're more prone to analyze and think about the subject, while videos are sort of mechanized, in which generally people don't pause and reflect on what's being said.
- eimrine 5y ago
  > "video does not requires you to concentrate" My English is not enough eloquent yet, so I share my anecdotal evidence. Some sentences in books is not understandable if reading only once, and we usually do not go to next one if the previous has been not understood. It is OK to read a sentence 5 times and to read another 2 places in previous parts of a book in order to understand that sentence. Going to a special place from previous parts of lecture might be a pain because of needness to re-listen some extra materials. While watching video it is too easy to skip that hard sentences especially if professor is too charismatic to let us feel the needness to stop his lecture for a moment in order to think. And it is too hard to re-listen only the part is needed for re-listening, like when you can not parse one word (0.5 seconds long), so you press backwards and you realize that you need to relisten extra 4.5 seconds each re-reading. That circumstances leads us to just keep listening while the pyramid of non-understanding actually grows on.
abainbridge 5y ago
I can't even read light fiction. I read the first Harry Potter book once. To give a feeling of how hard reading is for me: it took me longer than working out how car understeer and oversteer physics work from first principles and making a simulation in C++ [1]. [1] Admittedly crap 2D car sim https://github.com/abainbridge/car_sim https://github.com/abainbridge/car_sim
Agamus 5y ago
I'll appeal to aphantasia here again. For me, I love to watch videos, but the visual images vanish the moment I stop watching. As such, they are an inefficient way for me to learn. I retain more when I read. I suspect this is at the root of disagreements about 'visual learners', etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

magic123_ 5y ago

How can you seriously say "video does not requires you to concentrate". I'm genuinely curious as to why you would think this is true.

posed 5y ago
While reading you're more prone to analyze and think about the subject, while videos are sort of mechanized, in which generally people don't pause and reflect on what's being said.
eimrine 5y ago
> "video does not requires you to concentrate" My English is not enough eloquent yet, so I share my anecdotal evidence. Some sentences in books is not understandable if reading only once, and we usually do not go to next one if the previous has been not understood. It is OK to read a sentence 5 times and to read another 2 places in previous parts of a book in order to understand that sentence. Going to a special place from previous parts of lecture might be a pain because of needness to re-listen some extra materials. While watching video it is too easy to skip that hard sentences especially if professor is too charismatic to let us feel the needness to stop his lecture for a moment in order to think. And it is too hard to re-listen only the part is needed for re-listening, like when you can not parse one word (0.5 seconds long), so you press backwards and you realize that you need to relisten extra 4.5 seconds each re-reading. That circumstances leads us to just keep listening while the pyramid of non-understanding actually grows on.

abainbridge 5y ago

I can't even read light fiction. I read the first Harry Potter book once. To give a feeling of how hard reading is for me: it took me longer than working out how car understeer and oversteer physics work from first principles and making a simulation in C++ [1]. [1] Admittedly crap 2D car sim https://github.com/abainbridge/car_sim https://github.com/abainbridge/car_sim

Agamus 5y ago

I'll appeal to aphantasia here again. For me, I love to watch videos, but the visual images vanish the moment I stop watching. As such, they are an inefficient way for me to learn. I retain more when I read. I suspect this is at the root of disagreements about 'visual learners', etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia