How Long to Read The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

How Long Does it Take to Read The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction by Jamie Kreiner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later. It is easy to imagine that our state of constant distractedness is peculiar to the digital age, but distraction has been a concern in every era—perhaps never more so than for Christian monks living in Ireland, Iran, and the places in between, from 300 to 900 CE. Though they quit the world for lives of seclusion, monks still struggled to concentrate, and they came to perceive distraction as a fundamental problem of consciousness. As the...

How long is The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction?

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction by Jamie Kreiner is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction aloud.

What Reading Level is The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction?

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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