Each of us lives only one life, but the book allow to gain the wisdom of thousands of people. When the author writes, rewrites and edits, it converts your words into a better version of yourself. Reading, how would you spend your time with a clever man in a meditative state.
Like any other technology, books, read without a goal, do not give anything. But if you learn to properly evaluate, select and purchase books, reading habits can develop invaluable.
1. You will become smarter without any magic pills
Books - the best replacement nootropics - drugs designed to stimulate brain activity, improve memory and increase the ability to learn. If nootrops over time cease to have any effect, then the reading is constantly improving your mind. Moreover, all the side reading a long time ago well-known effect, which clearly can not be said about the pills.
2. You will constantly update their knowledge
Most of the books written when the author was in a state of flux. Writer transmits his wisdom with almost no impurities ego. When the reader wades through these words and is included in its own state of flux, the magic happens.
Reading the appropriate amount of time, you will feel as if your mind has been upgraded. After this update, you will be easier to prove himself in the conversation, and more you bleed the writing skills.
3. You will learn how to be alone
American philosopher Eric Hoffer once said: "Alone with him we are in bad company." But this can be corrected, although it will have to work hard.
While reading the book, pausing for thought and constantly improving ourselves, we are able to develop a habit to sit quietly in a room alone. So it is possible to overcome one of the major problems of mankind mentioned by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal: "All the misery of people only comes from the fact that they can not sit quietly in his room. "
4. You get used to learn from experience directly
The thirst for wisdom - the only desire that can be satisfied without problems, without risking too carried away. After reading enough, we are charged with good ideas and courage, therefore, ready to explore the world.
When we feed off someone else's wisdom, we are pleased to go on a trip with the hero of the book. This means that we are guaranteed to get a first-hand experience in the real world.
5. You will learn to meditate
The more we read and spend time with books, the more concentration and accumulate the more we want to practice awareness and meditation. Through reading, we become calmer and more patient, learn to focus on a single thing for a long period of time.
6. You will understand the benefits of strategic isolation
"We need to alienation, not to go crazy in this culture," - said an American writer Terence Kemp McKenna. Reading - one of the newest socially acceptable reason to be alone.
If you want to be respected around you, there is no better option strategic isolation than books. They rescue from the crowd.
7. You'll get used to speak the truth
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the writerI am calm, of course, that his writing task I will do in all circumstances and from the grave - even more successful and conclusive than alive. No one to block the paths of righteousness, and for the movement of her I am willing to accept and death. But, perhaps, many of the lessons taught us finally stop the pen of the writer during his lifetime? It has never graced our history.
There are many people who hate to think. When they hear something clever, then they react like animals. Many can not stand when someone is trying to get to the truth and to understand how the world works. And the most important secrets, as noted by the American philosopher Leo Strauss, it is often hidden in the books.
Most creative people know this and believe that the only way to bring the truth - it's a book or a parable. Throughout history, those who are forced to think of others, were usually scapegoats, banished from society or even imagine the creatures of hell. Books allow all this move and, in spite of everything, to spread their ideas.