tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post3326459612333680606..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: The sin of enhancement and the claims of giftednessJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-63170180664506559702007-07-17T22:29:00.000-04:002007-07-17T22:29:00.000-04:00No, no, it leads to no different results, just dif...No, no, it leads to no different results, just different routes of getting there! i.e. I would have to make more sensible choices about what to read in the first place if I was not such a maniacal reader (or for instance to write better drafts the first time round if I was not willing to slog through a million fast edits). It's like these elite marathoners--they all carry different training loads, you've got to have pretty high mileage if you want it to be good, but "pretty high" might mean 80 for one person and 130 for another, quality is to a great extent more important than quantity per se.<BR/><BR/>(And it is not all the time that I read like that, just that I can when I want to! Again, the sports analogy is close, I keep on telling myself this when I get frustrated that I can't increase my training volume without risking injury--cumulative effect of years of reading like this makes me capable of processing a lot now...)Jenny Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-81093465901032876552007-07-17T15:16:00.000-04:002007-07-17T15:16:00.000-04:001500 pages a day? That explains a lot, though it c...1500 pages a day? That explains a lot, though it certainly makes the rest of us mortals wonder why we bother.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.com