Singapore is paying people to read books – can it fix the reading crisis?
A government scheme is giving citizens cash for spending time with a good book. We ask behavioural scientists, along with The Anxious Generation author and psychologist Jonathan Haidt, whether it’ll help make the habit stickCould the solution to the reading crisis lie in paying people to put down their phones and pick up a book? That’s what one government, at…
A government scheme is giving citizens cash for spending time with a good book. We ask behavioural scientists, along with The Anxious Generation author and psychologist Jonathan Haidt, whether it’ll help make the habit stickCould the solution to the reading crisis lie in paying people to put down their phones and pick up a book? That’s what one government, at…
