Chapter 2 Synthesis Post

There was a scenario mentioned in the text that stuck out to me the most. The text read,  "Have you ever noticed how you can drive your car across town to a friend's house, daydream all the way there and still arrive at your destination?" (Subject Matters 30-31). This hit home for me because it happens way too often. When going to a new destination, we tend to have GPS or directions that we are reading or listening to intently. Once something becomes routine, we tend to have our mind on other things and fail to pay attention to small details as soon as we get comfortable. The same thing happens when we read. If we are familiar with a subject or topic, we tend to skim and not read every single word and look deep into the meaning. If there is a reading about a subject we are unsure about, we try to pick apart the reading and make sense of it piece by piece, almost paying too much attention to it. Often times we read things, and nothing gets stored in our brain or memory because of the wording or the content being read. If we have no idea what topic a reading is on, like the cricket one at the beginning of the chapter, it is just in our nature to read the words and be okay with not understanding the context or what the reading says as a whole.

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