Reading books is useful for relaxing, relaxing, learning and even for medical purposes! By reading, a person develops his ability to think. And reading is the best way to change a person’s thinking.
When reading another book, a person first of all gets new information - it doesn’t matter which book he is studying at the same time. New information develops memory and thinking, thanks to it a person thinks better, first about whether this information was useful, true or false, and then about higher matters - how it fits into a person’s thinking, which changes in his mind. The process of reading books involves and develops the human ability to think, and this is what, and not the very ability to read books and enjoy this process, is most valuable here.
The development of imagination and imagery
Reading books contribute to the development of the human brain at the level of imagination and imagination. One who rarely reads books lives only his life, but regular readers are in hundreds of realities, live many lives with the heroes of books, travel to thousands of different places. This enriches the human consciousness, fills it with a variety of images that he himself could not reproduce due to the limited thinking of each individual person. Therefore, reading helps to expand the boundaries of individual knowledge, allowing you to adopt the experience and imagination of the authors.
This is also the reason for the development of human imaginative thinking. After reading the description of an object, the reader reproduces it in his head, as if making an independent picture of what is happening. Such constant training of the imagination contributes to the development of thinking no worse than their own attempts to recreate some kind of image.
Develops intelligence and language
Regular readers have a better developed language and general level of intelligence compared to those who almost never read books. Reading enthusiasts have better memory, they have stronger neural connections in the brain, and in old age they are less likely to suffer from brain diseases, dementia and other diseases associated with memory loss. In addition, books can cure depression and loss of interest in life better than any doctors and antidepressants.
Reading a book, a person receives from her the same emotions that he would have received in reality. The brain makes practically no difference in the level of impressions received between the real and the imaginary. Therefore, reading, you seem to actually live these events, filled with new experiences and impressions. The life experience gained through books is a great opportunity to avoid many life mistakes.