“Reading is to the mind
what exercise is to the body”
Sir Richard Steel
When was the last time you read a book? If you haven’t read some for a long time than you have missed a lot. Reading has a significant number of benefits. If you start reading every day you will find out that no matter what you read, the process of reading will help you in nearly all life aspects. And now we will try to count some benefits of reading.
Enhanced Smarts
Reading is an excellent way to get more knowledges. And it is a well-known fact that those people who read have higher intelligence and general knowledge than those people who don’t. Also we can “train” our brain while we’re reading. Brain is just as any other muscle in the body – it needs to be healthy and strong. Though playing such games as chess is as well for mental stimulation as reading. And the most exciting fact is that reading can slow the progress or even prevent Alzheimer’s and Dementia because reading keeps your brain active and prevents it from losing power.
Stress Reduction
Have you ever worked too much? Did your boss get angry with you? Or are you just tired of everything that is going on around you? There is a decision for all these problems – reading. When you start reading a well-written novel you will get at once into a radically different atmosphere which will help you to forget about all the troubles.
Vocabulary Expansion
It is obvious that reading increases your vocabulary and improves your spelling as well. If you dislike novels and magazine issues you may read … children’s books! And it is not a joke – language in these books is likely to be more sophisticated than an ordinary adult’s conversation.
Memory Improvement
Some people don’t believe that reading can improve our memory. But isn’t it a hard job for our brain to keep all the details about the book characters, their history and lots of other nuances that the book contains? Of course it is! And actually it helps our brain to “keep fit”.
Improved focus and concentration
Nowadays it is very difficult to focus only on one thing, and it lowers our productivity. So, reading will be a helpful action before going to work. Just try to read for about 15-20 minutes in the morning and you will feel the difference. After reading you can concentrate on one thing, and you won’t be so stressed after work as you usually are.
Stronger analytical thinking skills
If you can read a book and solve the mystery of the ending yourself, than you can be proud of your brain! Reading makes you think and analyze all the time. When you are reading you try to remember all the details and somehow you can guess what will happen in the next chapter. So, you can not only develop your analytical thinking skills, but also your imagination. You imagine the characters, the places they are living in and what will happen with them in future. So, we can say for sure that reading books is much more better than just watching films based on books.
Free entertainment
There are lots of libraries which can provide you with various books. And for sure you can find the author you will like to read there. But if you don’t have an opportunity to go to library you may just search for any book you would like to read in the Internet.
So now you can see that reading is not something that we don’t need. It has many other advantages and you will see them only after you start reading every day! Just try your best and the world of literature will open its doors for you!