Why reading is important

Reading allows you to gain new knowledge and skills.This is the most important reason of all: by reading articles, essays, and nonfiction books, you learn something new.

If you think about it, today we are extremely lucky: the best minds in the world share their knowledge, skills, and experience in books that we can get with absolute ease and at a very low cost. This easy access is an incredible opportunity that, unfortunately, most people don’t take advantage of. 

Reading can make you more money

The very successful people who have the largest financial fortunes in the world have one thing in common: they read at least 2 books a month.

Reading will definitely help you improve your finances.

The easiest way is to read financial education books that explain how to best manage your money.

In a less direct way, reading and building knowledge allows you to earn more in the long run. 

Reading helps to reflect and analyze

Numerous studies show that reading improves our cognitive abilities and stimulates our analytical thinking. Reading a novel, for example, strengthens neural connections and stimulates the imagination. This happens when we are trying to solve a mystery in a book or perhaps identify the culprit of a mystery. It’s a workout for our brain that can be useful in other situations. Our brains, like muscles, need exercise, and reading is undoubtedly one of the best exercises for our minds.

Reading non-fiction books helps us compare our point of view with the author’s point of view, stimulating reflection and analysis.

Reading is good for your health

Reading helps to avoid neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, etc. According to a study, adults who spend their free time doing creative activities, such as reading, have a 32% slower cognitive decline than others.

Reading also helps us fall asleep faster: a little evening ritual that includes about ten minutes of reading signals our brain that it’s time to sleep, thus allowing us to get more sleep. A 2016 study found that reading can encourage us to take better care of our health.

Reading reduces stress and increases calmness

Is it possible to reduce stress levels through recreational activities such as walking, listening to music, or reading?  Yes, just 6 minutes of reading will have a positive effect on muscle tension and heart rate.

Reading is a great anti-stress tool. It forces us to slow down and get out of the crazy rush that prevails in our daily lives. 

Reading improves your ability to concentrate and your attention span

Concentration and attention have become a very rare commodity today: constantly interrupted by notifications and external stimuli and sickened by multitasking, many of us have become unable to focus on a single activity with the attention required to achieve high levels of productivity.

Reading is a great exercise to learn to focus on one activity, especially in the case of nonfiction books. Such books involve active reading, as they constantly encourage us to compare our point of view with the author’s.

 The Internet has improved our short-term memory and our ability to multitask, but at the expense of our attention span. However, when we read a story, we do so in a linear fashion, analyzing different sequences of the story to put them together in a logical thread: this exercise helps us increase our attention span.

Reading helps you express yourself better

Since elementary school, we know that reading is important for learning to write. Reading a lot helps not only to build vocabulary, but also to passively learn the syntactic structures of sentences. The result is a better ability to express yourself both in writing and orally.

Reading improves memory

Reading is also a great exercise for our working memory. The human brain needs constant training, and reading is one of the most demanding activities. When we read, parts of the brain that have evolved for other functions, such as vision, language, and learning, are connected to specific neural circuits for reading. This heavy mental activity keeps our brains trained and constantly in shape if we read regularly.

Reading is a pleasure

Reading is good and enjoyable. A good book entertains us, fascinates us, interests us, stimulates us, helps us think, teaches us something, and makes us travel.

The best way to read books is to follow the law of pleasure.

We live in a world that is constantly changing, and whether we like it or not, we are forced to face these changes. Only by reading will you be able to keep up to date and understand how to prepare for changes in the near or distant future that will not give you any discounts.