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Re: Life Happens at 1x Speed

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To me it's that the information density of video or audio content can vary wildly, much like writing. But while with writing your speed of processing it can adjust more or less automatically with how much you need to think about it what you're reading, with video and audio you need to take positive steps to do the same thing. And in general most people most people can listen faster than most people can speak, much like most people can read faster than most people can write. But then I can understand the impetus to just plow through information like quantity is all that matters, so if you're overdoing that it makes sense to try to pump the brakes.

Re: Life Happens at 1x Speed

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post #5

I consume most of my video/audio informational content at 1.5x or faster. It wasn't FOMO or that I felt unproductive. I just felt that some of the content was going too slow for my thought process and leaving me kind of hanging, waiting for the next bit of information so I could continue coming up with my conclusions about the topic. But if I'm slower that day or feel that the topic is too dense, I don't mind at all…

> I much prefer to consume content as text than audio or video.

I could not agree more. For me, audio is the worst way, video is the second-worst way.

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