What if your difficulty with reading is not about intelligence, but about how your attention has been trained?

Reading coach and author Reeta Gupta explains why reading can feel difficult in a world designed around endless scrolling, instant stimulation and passive content consumption. She compares reading to physical exercise, showing why the brain must be trained before books begin to feel calming, enjoyable and effortless.

The conversation explores how reading strengthens focus, imagination, emotional vocabulary and independent thinking. Reeta explains the difference between temporary information and lasting knowledge, how digital content can encourage passive consumption, and why fiction can help us become more comfortable with ambiguity and perspectives different from our own.

She also discusses whether physical books are better than audiobooks and e-readers, how to remember and apply what you read, when it is okay to leave a book unfinished, and why biographies can become a form of self-mentoring.

For parents, Reeta shares practical ways to raise readers without forcing children to read. She explains why books must be visible at home, why children should choose what interests them, and why parents must model the habits they want their children to develop.

Watch till the end for a practical conversation on rebuilding your reading habit, protecting your attention and using books to reconnect with parts of yourself that everyday life may have pushed aside.