Your Brain on Reading (Why Your Brain Needs You to Read Every Day):
Reading puts your brain to work.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to your body.
It gives us freedom to roam the expanse of space, time, history, and offer a deeper view of ideas, concepts, emotions, and body of knowledge.
Roberto Bolaño says, "Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach."
Your brain on books is active - growing, changing and making new connections and different patterns, depending on the type of material you're reading.
(Via The Startup)
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