There’s a moment in every great piece of writing, if you’ve done it right, when the reader stops skimming.
Their eyes slow. Their breathing changes. Their body shifts forward.
They’re no longer “reading.”
They’re receiving.
That’s compression.
Not the corporate idea of brevity. Not trimming words to hit an arbitrary length.
This is emotional compression—the art of condensing maximum psychological weight into minimum space, so the nervous system surrenders before the conscious mind can fight back.
It’s when every word lands with felt gravity.
When the reader’s body says:
“That’s true. That’s me. I’m in.”
If you’ve been reading Neuro Insider for any length of time, you’ve felt it. You’ve known it.
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