12 BENEFITS OF READING BOOKS.

There are many good reasons why you should be an ardent reader. Ranging from being intellectually intelligent, to being smart and calculative, to being cognitive. 

There are so many benefits one derives from reading a book everytime. The following are some of them: 


1. It improves your mentality.

2. It makes you a better and smart thinker.

3. It broadens your knowledge and imagination.

4. Reading helps to exercise your mind. The best way to exercise the mind is by reading.

5. It helps you to reason well and fast.
6. It helps you speak fluently and intelligently too.

7. It changes your perspective about bordering issues

8. It builds your self confidence.

9. It helps you gain the  experiences of the authors of the books you read.

10. It makes you a leader. Readers are leaders. It is what you know more than others, that puts you ahead of them.

11. It makes you smart and intelligent.

12. Helps you to be collected.

Reading helps you feell for others and know there pains. Research has shown that people who read stories of other people's lives, show a heightened ability to understand the feelings and beliefs of others. Researchers call this ability the “theory of mind,” a set of skills essential for building, navigating, and maintaining social relationships.


It builds your vocabulary


It helps prevent age-related cognitive decline.

Reading books can help build your mind's capacity to be cognitive even at old. Reading books and magazines is a way of keeping your mind engaged as you grow older. Once you are engaged in reading or solving Mathematical equations always, over time, you maintain and improve your cognitive ability and function.


It helps to reduce stress

Reading helps to relieve atress. Study  and research has proven the fact that he reading helps to lower blood pressure and relax the nerves. 


Reading helps you sleep better at night.

Reading a book before bedtime can actually help you sleep better. Doctors recommend that you read somewhere else, other than your bedroom if you have trouble falling asleep.

But reading a physical book is far more rewarding than reading from your phone screen, because of the emitting of light from your device, which could keep you awake.


Reading may help you live longer than those who don't.

Research and study has shown that people who read more than 3½ hours every week were 23 percent likely to live longer than those who didn’t read at all.
Those who read books survived around 2 years longer than those who either didn't read or who read magazines and other forms of media.

Reading helps to prevent depression and related symptoms.

Reading strengthens and develops your brain.

Reading literally changes your mind. Reading involves a complex network of circuits and signals in the brain. As your reading ability matures, those networks also get stronger and more sophisticated. So, the earlier you start, the better.

Reading books gives you access to in-depth knowledge. In other words, if you want to become more productive, a book written by someone who has studied productivity for 20 years, will put you at a more advantageous position, than just watching a YouTube of 5 minutes, that talks about the same topic.