Books are good for your brain. These techniques will help you read
more.
Turn yourself into a bookworm.
Popular Science:
1.01.2019 by Dan Seitz
Reading
books can exercise your brain and even boost your emotional intelligence.
Despite this, about a quarter of all Americans haven’t read a book in the last year and our overall book-reading time is on the decline.
In
the new year, it’s time to buck this trend. But how do you find the time to
read full-length books—and why should you bother in the first place?
Why
you should embrace books
Science
has found that reading is essential for a healthy brain. We already know
reading is good for children’s developing noggins: A study of twins at the University of California at Berkeley found
that kids who started reading at an earlier age went on to perform better on
certain intelligence tests, such as analyses of their vocabulary size.
Other
studies show that reading continues to develop the brains of adults. One 2012 Stanford University study, where people read passages
of Jane Austen while inside an MRI, indicates that different types of reading
exercise different parts of your brain. As you get older, another study
suggests, reading might help slow down or
even halt cognitive decline.
Words
on a page can also improve your emotional intelligence. A 2016 overview of the issue demonstrated that fiction
readers tend to have a well-developed sense of what psychologists call “theory
of mind.” This is the ability to attribute mental states to yourself and to
others, and to grasp that other people may have different desires, emotions,
and thoughts. As a result, regular readers show
more empathy for other people.
So
books can not only stretch your brain, but also make you a better person. Now
to dig down and actually read more. READ MORE >>
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