a lot of research and time has gone into the making of this video everything I
say during this video is backed by science studies and sources will be
linked in the description below enjoy I think we all know that reading is
somehow good for us well at least that's what our parents and teachers have
taught us so in this video I'm going to look into what exactly are the
scientific proven benefits of reading books did you know in one study they
actually found that 88% of all the millionaires they interviewed said they
read 30 minutes or more each day on self-improvement stuff that's crazy
in the study he indeed concluded that reading was a key factor in their
success and remember this is just one benefit out of 7 so if you want to know
the rest of them then sit back relax and keep watching reading keeps the brain
active and engaged in comprehending different words characters and certain
scenes in a book according to research brain stimulating activities like
reading books and writing will preserve and improve your memory one study
discovered that people with good reading habits experienced a much slower memory
loss than those who didn't read giving the brain and workout with a regular
habit of reading will result in better brain health during older age which
we'll look in through later in this video now the number two benefit of
reading is that a growing number of studies indicates that you get the
chance to smash the like button or maybe they indicate that reading improves your
brainpower and literally changes your mind to stay fit and have a healthy body
you have to workout right exercise keeps us healthy by making our muscles
stronger reading as a workout for our brains like going to the gym as a
workout for our bodies when you read you're improving the function of your
brain or rather said you're improving the brain's connectivity in one study
conducted in 2013 participants were told to read a novel for nine days in the
evening where author that was a five-day washout period where they didn't read so
on those days where participants weren't reading the researchers found that that
was a significant increase in connectivity the bilateral so much for
sensory cortex I hope I somewhat pronounce that right
well anyways it was observed for long-term changes in connectivity which
they found persisted for several days after reading are you feeling stressed
at work or maybe you're having too many balls in the air right now then maybe
you should start reading more often because reading reduces stress
significantly well at least according to a study conducted in 2009 at the
University of Sussex the researchers were looking into at how different
activities were lowering stress by measuring heart rate and muscle tension
according to the research reading was the best way to relax just reading for
six minutes is enough to reduce stress by 68 percent this was a better way to
relax than going for a walk which reduce stress by 42 percent or listening to
music which reduced stress by 61 percent in a 2013 Harvard study volunteers could
either read fiction nonfiction or nothing at all what they found was that
people who read fiction had a better ability to understand others mental
state this is what scientists calls theory of mind which is the ability to
understand that not all people have the same desires intention and beliefs this
also translate into having better empathy something to keep in mind is
that reading literary fiction isn't going to improve your empathy straight
away but research do show that long-term fiction readers do tend to have a better
developed theory of mind the reason for this is that when we meet characters in
a fiction book who are maybe annoying unpredictable and difficult to
understand it puts us in a situation where you might never have been before
and that way your theory of mind is improving since your experience new
personalities and views of other individuals you might also be likely to
approach people in real life which with an interest and humbleness for dealing
with complex people since you will have a higher empathy and this all boils down
to you getting a higher emotional intelligence before we had the internet
books were the ultimate source of knowledge but yet till this day a lot of
great knowledge still stored only in books and there's
books for everyone including endless topics like science self-help history
craft art investing you name it the facts that remains to this day the more
books you read the more information you consume the more you will store in your
brain which translate into knowledge and knowledge lays the foundation for wisdom
I think we can all relate to having the feeling of competition in whatever we
are doing right now we want to be the best of what we're doing so we are
trying to improve all the time by reading books and articles and watching
YouTube videos like trying to improve our craft and reading books to better
understand and improve our abilities in a certain field will for sure increase
your chances to stay ahead of their competition by providing new and
accurate knowledge of this subject let's say a person is getting a job at a sales
firm then there's this other guy that just walks in like he just want to claim
the paycheck I think we can all agree that the guy that's reading about
getting better at sales will with high likelihood outperform the other guy now
there is a reason why highly successful people like Warren Buffett CEO of
Berkshire Hathaway spends most of his time during the day reading he also
recommends reading 500 pages a day maybe you heard about in a mosque well he says
that he learned to build rockets by reading books now if that's not
motivating then I don't know what is and he said just some of them mean people
like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates also reads a lot because they know that
nearly every single problem they encounter has been faced before by
someone else so yes reading is definitely associated with
being highly successful for sure in fact in a book called
change her habits change her life by Tom Carly it shows in a 5-year study that
88% of rich people in college study say they devote 30 minutes or more each day
to education or self-improvement through reading he indeed concluded that reading
was a key factor but success if I remember correctly Warren
Buffett also said something like the best investment you can make it's in
yourself as the saying goes the more you learn the more you earn
reading improves your vocabulary have you ever heard about the term the
Matthew effect well this term refers to a biblical verse which states the
following whoever has will be giving more and they will have an abundance
whoever does not have even what they have will be taken from them translating
this to a more modern way of saying it would be something like the richer gets
richer and the poor get spor which also is a concept that applies as much to
vocabulary as a dust with money two studies confirm this claim in one of
them researchers found that students who read regularly gradually develop larger
vocabularies which also influenced many other aspects of their lives from scores
on tests to job opportunities in conclusion if you read more often and
regularly you will with time develop bigger vocabulary when you get older you
might develop a progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory
thinking skills and eventually the ability to carry out the most simple
tasks the thing I'm talking about is the Alzheimer's disease did you know that
more than 5 million Americans now has Alzheimer's disease and by 2050 it
thought that nearly 14 million Americans over the age of 65 could be living with
the disease unless scientists develop a new approach to prevent it or cure it
although there isn't really a cure for this disease research shows that older
people who reads and solve math problems everyday maintain and improve their
cognitive functioning a study conducted by a Russian University Medical Center
in 2013 found that people who use mentally stimulating activities such as
reading regularly throughout their lives was associated with a slower late life
cognitive decline such as dementia though there's probably more benefits to
reading but the ones I just stated in this video is probably the most
significant ones before ending the video I thought it would be nice to do a
little quick recap on what reading regular you can give us
benefits reading books will improve your memory studies has shown that reading
improves brainpower was also found in other studies that reading is one of the
best if not the best to reduce stress reducing it by 68% to be exact reading
fiction stories will enhance your overall emotional intelligence which
includes empathy critical thinking and judgment
another thing that improve is what scientists calls theory of mind which is
the ability to understand other people's mental states like beliefs intense
desires emotion and so on the Matthew effect is the idea that the richer gets
richer and the poor get spor which also is a concept that applies as much to
vocabulary as a dust with money this means that the more you read the bigger
and better your vocabulary will be and lastly in one study researchers found
that the people who read more regularly throughout their lives were associated
with a slower late-life cognitive decline such as dementia thank you so
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