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How to Build a Cognitive Training Plan | Monday Advice

Aug 24, 2026 · 1h 3m · YouTube

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0:00I've been thinking recently about an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education that several of you sent me.

0:06It was titled, My Students Can't Read.

0:10Let me start here with the intro from the article.

0:13Here's what the intro of the article says.

0:15Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article.

0:21It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago.

0:28Not one student finished it.

0:30When I asked why, a student answered honestly, it was too long and she kept losing track of what the paper was about.

0:38Now, when we hear accounts like this, our normal response is to wring our hands and worry that we're raising sort of a new generation of kids that are barely literate.

0:47But here's the follow-up question that we need to also ask.

0:51Could you read that 20-page article?

0:54Like, honestly, if you were given that much reading, are you still able to do it?

0:59See, I think if we pull on this thread a little bit harder, what soon becomes clear is that we don't really have a great way of quantitatively testing how fried our brains have actually become due to digital distraction.

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