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Do Our Brains Hurt Too Much to Think & Read?
Be warned: Carrie swears a lot in this podcast.
So, there’s a feeling among many writers/bloggers/content creators that our brains are too overwhelmed by a high cognitive overload to want to read anything that isn’t super quick and fast.
I get this.
There is a lot of information out there in the world.
Short-form content is, they say, the key.
Tim Denning describes short-form content as “where you share big ideas, be a little contrarian, drop cliffhangers for your stories, and share who you are. It gives people a taste.”
“Many old-school writers want to take a stranger on the street and send them to their newly published book on Amazon. All the reader has to do is give up $15–20 and 15–20 hours of their life,” Denning writes. “None of this works anymore because the internet and all its information have burdened us with a high cognitive load.
“Our brains hurt.”