Ways of Attending: How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World by Iain McGilchrist
Published 2018 · 9,075 words · about 1 hour at an average pace
How hard is Ways of Attending: How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World to read?
Ways of Attending: How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World scores 51 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 52 out of 100
- Neuroscientific and philosophical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Clear sentences in a short lecture format.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Almost entirely about modes of attention, which resists concrete grounding.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Short; a summary rather than a case.
How Ways of Attending: How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World is regarded
Ways of Attending: How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World holds a literary regard score of 34 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.