{"id":1365,"date":"2015-09-06T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/2015\/09\/06\/recuperando-el-placer-de-la-lectura-libros-en\/"},"modified":"2015-09-06T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T22:28:00","slug":"recuperando-el-placer-de-la-lectura-libros-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/recuperando-el-placer-de-la-lectura-libros-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Recuperando el placer de la lectura\u2026\u00a0(\u00ablibros\u00bb, EN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Guardian; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;\">We are still learning how to live in this information ecosystem, and how to build the ecosystem for humans rather than for the information.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2015\/09\/how-making-time-for-books-made-me-feel-less-busy\">How Making Time for Books Made Me Feel Less Busy<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #414141; line-height: 28px; max-width: 100%;\"><strong style=\"max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: small;\">Understanding Our Brains, Part 1: Dopamine, pleasure, and learning bad habits<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<div style=\"color: #414141; line-height: 28px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u2026Humans brains, it turns out, are built to privilege new information over just about anything else (including, some&nbsp;suggest, food and sex). The promise of that new information\u2026triggers the release of a neurotransmitter\u2014dopamine\u2014in the brain. Dopamine makes us more alert to the promise of potential pleasure, and our brains are wired to seek out things that generate dopamine.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #414141; line-height: 28px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">There is a learning loop to this process\u2014new information + dopamine = pleasure\u2014that lays down neural pathways that \u201cteach\u201d your brain that there is a reward for pressing the email refresh button\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #414141; line-height: 28px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"color: #414141; line-height: 28px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: small;\">Understanding Our Brains, Part 2: The energy costs of flitting around<\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"color: #414141; line-height: 28px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">While the addictive attraction of new information is one side of the problem, the other side is the cost of jumping from one thing to the next and back again.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #414141; line-height: 28px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The typical human brain is about 2% of the body\u2019s weight, but it consumes in the range of 20% of the energy\u2026&nbsp;when you are relaxing or staring out the window, your brain is \u201cat rest,\u201d and uses around 11 calories per hour. Focused reading for an hour will use up around 42 calories. But processing lots of new information takes around 65 calories per hour. \u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #414141; line-height: 28px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Every time you pop out of your work to read an email, it costs you not just time, but energy too. \u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #414141; line-height: 28px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 0.3rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: small;\">So what do we do?<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #414141; line-height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Keep on reading\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are still learning how to live in this information ecosystem, and how to build the ecosystem for humans rather than for the information.&nbsp; How Making Time for Books Made Me Feel Less Busy Understanding Our Brains, Part 1: Dopamine, pleasure, and learning bad habits \u2026Humans brains, it turns out, are built to privilege new  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}