Why you must Read more over Watching? -Importance of Reading

Why Reading is Important?

Have you ever thought that why successful people read a lot? They spend a bulk of time in reading books and articles. Why does Bill Gates advices people to read books? Why does he reviews the books on his website that are the best for us? 

Well is reading that important?

Yes, reading is very important for the growth of your mind. You know what happens to a machine when it is not used for a long time. It gets jammed. The same applies to our brains. If you don’t use our brain meaningfully and effectively, it gets rotten, it gets jammed –Just like that machine. Reading is an exercise for your mind which keeps your mind activated. ‘Your body will act in the way your mind will think.’ If your brain doesn’t know what to do and how to do a specific task, it will get stuck and will of no use. If you don’t feed your brain with the knowledge it will get stuck. Have you ever heard the quote said by George Martin “A Reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” Most of the successful people read every day. They prefer reading over watching. Great persons like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, and Jeff Bezos read a lot of books. All the knowledge and skills they have acquired is through reading. Reading enrich the mind by providing knowledge. Therefore, great personalities always advices to read as much as you can.

As long as a person is busy doing something, he/she exhibits a positive and normal personality. The moment a person is idle, negative thoughts enters the mind. The person begins plotting mischief, pranks, and perhaps even vengeance. These are all traits of the Devil or Satan. Hence, it has been said that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. Even a good mind will run to waste if left unengaged for a long time. The world is moving faster each day. No one can afford to remain illiterate. Everyone has to keep up with the knowledge of times. The man who unleashed Microsoft onto the world; Bill Gates, reads 50 books a year. The result is that he is one of the richest men in the world. This is the power of reading.

Why you should read?

1} Reading improves Vocabulary

When you read, you encounter some new words, the meaning of which you don’t know. And when you check out the dictionary for it, you get aware of the meaning of that word. This increases your vocabulary. As you read, you come across new words, phrases, writing styles. This increases your knowledge.

2} Increases Imagination Power

Reading helps us to imagine what we are reading. It improves our imagination and thinking capacity. The more you read, the more imaginative you become. As Albert Einstein has said, “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” Whatever you read about, you imagine a different world of your own. And that is the best part of reading.

3} Your Thinking Capacity Increases

Reading enables us to think. It gives our minds a topic that we should think of. This critical thinking nourishes our minds. For example, if you are reading a novel of Sherlock Holmes, then it definitely enables you to think of various characters involved in that story. And when you think of it, your mind gets sharpened. You think of it wisely and deeply to understand the whole scenario of the story. And this improves critical thinking. The deeper you think, the more you understand.

4} Improves Futuristic Approach

Reading will improve your thinking which indirectly improves your futuristic approach towards a situation. And this will happen anonymously. Futuristic approach will increase through reading. This will change your attitude towards the world and you will see everything with a positive attitude.

5} Build-up confidence

Reading gives you knowledge, knowledge makes you resourceful. When he/she faces a difficult situation, one is able to tackle it better. The mind of a person who is acquainted with knowledge, is able to come up with many ways to solve a problem. He is not bogged down by paucity of thoughts. He can even think-up new ways of doing things. This raise your confidence level.

6} Helps in increasing Social Interaction

As you are acquainted with knowledge then you must share your knowledge with whoever you want. You may share it with your family, friends and colleagues or on social media platforms. Humans are social beings and in the world of smartphones, we are losing our ability to socialize. So therefore you must pass on your knowledge to others.

7} Improves Writing Skills

Reading surely improves your writing skills. Reading affects your ability to become a better writer. Literally, you must try to write down something after you have developed the habit of reading. It also improves your language and construction of sentences and paragraphs.

8} Reading will improve your Concentration Power

In the world of internet, we humans have lost our patience. We cannot focus on one thing for a longer time. Due to this, the stress level rises. But if you read for an hour daily, you will remain more focused because while you read, you are imagining things and you are focusing on the part you are reading. So this eventually increases your concentration. Reading books is considered as meditating. As meditation improves concentration so does reading.

9} Reading improves Analytical Skills

It improvize your analytics. By reading books, blogs, articles, etc. you will analyze it in your mind and you will develop your thinking skills eventually.

Some other Advantages of Reading are,

1] Gives you a new way of living

2] Makes you smarter

3] Improves memory

4] Creativity level increases

5] Reduces Stress

6] May lead to better future

7] Reading light-up new ideas

8] Improves communication skills

Why should we prefer Reading over Watching?

You must Read books over watching TV or videos. A study performed by Gregory Burns and his colleagues at Emory University showed that reading has increased connectivity in parts of brain that were related to language. There was also increased activity in the sensory-motor region of the brain. 6 minutes of reading can reduce stress levels by 68%. In another case, watching too much videos or TV resulted in a lower quality of communication. But reading books increased the level of communication. And all the benefits that are mentioned above cannot be acquired by watching. It can only be done by reading. Therefore we must prefer reading over the visual content.

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