Reading books is good for your brain. Even just fiction [0].
But I do think people often approach this issue wrong. Especially, as demonstrated by the OP article:
> “Daniel Shore, the chair of Georgetown’s English department, told me that his students have trouble staying focused on even a sonnet,” Horowitch wrote.
It's a wrong question to ask why people can't focus on a sonnet.
The real question is: why do the students who are not interested in literature choose to major English? What societal and economical incentives drove them to do that?
But I do think people often approach this issue wrong. Especially, as demonstrated by the OP article:
> “Daniel Shore, the chair of Georgetown’s English department, told me that his students have trouble staying focused on even a sonnet,” Horowitch wrote.
It's a wrong question to ask why people can't focus on a sonnet.
The real question is: why do the students who are not interested in literature choose to major English? What societal and economical incentives drove them to do that?
[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4733342/