Some people don’t want to take the time to read. However, there are a number of benefits to actively reading some of these blog postings. Active reading engages a number of the parts of your brain and is preferable to passively absorbing someone else’s opinion via audio or visual stimulation. That does not make these forms of learning less valuable, but making the time for reading carries benefits that passive education alone doesn’t offer.
Here are but some benefits to taking the time to regularly read.
- Reading comes with so many benefits that successful people take the time to read daily.
- Reading can improve brain function, can spark your creativity, help grow your understanding of certain concepts, and even improve brain connectivity to help you get more done.
- In a world that screams in your face and offers endless amusement, a word from the Greek word amousos meaning “without muses”, it refers to being without reflection, pondering, meditation or being absorbed in thought. Reading is a stimulation that requires you to engage your brain cells and stimulate your creativity. Reading inspires your imagination, feeds your dreams and hopes, and introduces new ideas, thoughts and positivity into your life.
- Reading reduces mental decline up to 32% in old age. Reading aids cognitive development, expands your vocabulary, demands your concentration and attention, and increases your common world knowledge. It also contributes to decision-making, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Reading can reduce stress. It is an easy, free, and rewarding form of self-care, a type of self-investment.
- Reading can educate, and broaden our perspectives and it increases empathy for others and builds social consciousness. Reading unlocks a part of our brains that is otherwise untouched and opens our eyes to new thoughts. It helps you to create new realities for yourself.
- Reading broadens our understanding; helps us learn new things; allows us to benefit from the experiences of others; expands our vocabularies in a world where people often communicate with shortcuts like “LOL” and “SMH”. Reading makes us more socially adept because reading broadens our understanding.
- Reading stimulates our minds; improves our focus; and allows us to get away from the stresses of reality for a bit.
- In our fast-paced world, we’re used to things happening quickly and many of us walk around with our focuses fragmented. Reading takes time and requires that we concentrate. We need activities like this that help us slow down and fix our attention on one thing for an extended period of time, that allows us to relax and get away for a bit in order to manage stress and refresh ourselves.
