reading densely for an hour a day completely rearranges your nervous system. the urge to scroll and other high-dopamine activities fades away. your thinking becomes calmer and deeper. i experienced this today after a long time: i was deeply immersed in the writer’s thoughts; the whys, hows, and whats going through their mind. your frequency shifts to a meta, high-order cognition that lets you observe both your own thinking and the writer’s.