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I listen to a lot of podcasts and YouTube videos at 3x or 4x speed now, having slowly built up the skill over a few years. It's pretty nice now and saves time,
by satvikpendem 6mo ago
I listen to a lot of podcasts and YouTube videos at 3x or 4x speed now, having slowly built up the skill over a few years. It's pretty nice now and saves time, and it's remarkable how well the human brain can adapt to such input.
- brador 6mo agoYou recall nothing and you know it. You're just wasting time you could use for something useful or meaningful in your life. Kids call it "Anxiety cope" but I don't agree.
- thrownthatway 6mo ago[flagged]
- ragazzina 6mo agoCan you recall 3 lines of dialogue from the latest movie you watched?
- brador 6mo agoIf you're listening to a podcast at 3x you're trying to learn something. No one is trying to learn watching a movie.
- HDBaseT 6mo agoPodcasts aren't entirely learning, a lot of podcasts are pure entertainment, such as comedy podcasts. Sure you can "learn" something from a Sports Podcast or a Comedy Podcast, but you could also say you are "learning" from a podcast which just reads out random numbers. You could "learn" at 33 minutes, 11 seconds, the number 6 is read out, then 8, then 1 but I wouldn't call that learning, or at least its pointless learning.
- satvikpendem 6mo agoMaybe you can't but I can recall whatever I need to.
- a012 6mo agoI’m the opposite, I can’t stand the fast speaking videos. But I also speed up 1.2x to 1.5x if the videos were too slow.
- thrownthatway 6mo agoI’m struggling to understand your definition of opposite here. Wouldn’t opposite mean you listen at sub 1x speed. Whereas as your definition seems to be ”I’m the same, but less so.”
- Rendello 6mo agoI watch most talks at 2x speed or 1.5x if it's a really technical topic. Bryan Cantrill excepted!
- bonoboTP 6mo agoI took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and I was able to go through War and Peace in 20 minutes. It’s about Russia.