People who love to read, the language shines with poetic light. In life, a person's talent and knowledge are often revealed in his language, his writing, and even his conversation. Sometimes you can tell a person's level by listening the words.
Reading books keeps the brain active. Reading books activates your brain and prevents it from incapacitating. Just like other muscles in the body, the brain needs exercise to keep it strong and healthy. The saying "Don't use is useless" applies especially to your brain.
Reading can also make us feel fulfilled. When a person has nothing to do, his heart is relatively empty, and he has a lot of things to think about, and it is easy to think wildly.
But when you read in your boring leisure time, you will feel that life is full, many life experiences and life principles can be obtained in books, and you can feel the warm feeling, and you should work hard Pursue the life you want.
Reading can reduce your stress, and in the process of reading, reading about people who are different from you, such as people from different cultures or backgrounds, can help you understand their perspectives. Compared with those who do not read, those who read will have a richer understanding of social events and cultural diversity, and those who read will also expand their basic understanding of the world and feel more at ease in it.
Reading enables us to acquire the ability to think in a different position. The biggest difference between those who like to read and those who never read is the ability to reflect. People who like to read have the ability to reflect, and can see things beyond their own thinking ability and knowledge. Even if they cannot understand, they respect and tolerate different ideas and do not attack.
The benefits of reading are many, but effective reading is necessary to reap them. Effective reading includes three factors: one is the external reading environment, and the other is one's own state of mind. The third is whether the content of the reading is suitable.
1. Keep the reading environment clean
The desktop needs to be clean while reading. It's best to have only the book you're currently reading, your laptop, and an electronic clock on your desk. Keeping the desk tidy keeps the entire reading process completely distracting. At most, keep a cup of pour-over coffee or sweet-scented osmanthus tea on hand.
With an electronic clock, you don't have to touch your phone when you want to see the time, and you don't have any distractions in your mind. This feeling will make reading moments extremely enjoyable. At the same time, you can jot down your thoughts and summaries when you read something that inspires you.
2. Keep your inner peace
The premise of effective reading is that the reader must be fully engaged, which is called the flow moment in psychology. If you are not focused enough when reading, the simplest content may be overlooked, causing readers to fail to capture the main points.
It’s like when we have a face-to-face conversation with our friends, one is talking and the other is playing with a mobile phone. The person playing the mobile phone ignores the conversation, which will cause him to miss this conversation that could be called effective communication.
3. Choose the right book
Some books are a good match for our own perceptions, the kind that, by looking at the table of contents, you can immediately see what the author is trying to say. This part of the book is difficult to improve our cognition, it will solidify our original memory, and the room for improvement is very limited.
Some books are completely subversive, or so difficult that you can't read through them smoothly and sometimes self-doubting. This kind of book is not for us either.
There are also books that enhance our cognition, but do not exceed our reading level by much. This kind of book will not cause you any pressure to understand, but it can improve you and enable your brain to acquire new knowledge, so this kind of book is suitable for you.
