How does reading increase the quality of our life?

Question

How does reading increase the quality of our life?

Answer 1

besides all the answers given by earlier posters - how reading is good for mental & spiritual health - knowledge, imagination, stimulation, understanding, world view, etc. , reading helps me fall asleep & sound sleep is essential for good health. I'm serious.

however, for true gains, one should read critically & analytically - very often we take the written word as gospel truth without thinking or debating or considering varied views/perspectives. that brings in prejudices, half-baked knowledge, improper application ....

Answer 2

I read a book last night that is an excellent answer to your question.  "The man who forgot how to read" by Howard Engel, with an afterword by Oliver Sacks, M.D., describes the difficulties of Howard after he had a stroke that caused him to lose the ability to read.  

Howard had be involved in literature all his life and loved to read.  It was a source of much pleasure and also his occupation as a mystery writer.  

"One hot midsummer morning, a novelist Howard Engel, picked up his newspaper from his front step and discovered he could make no sense of it.  The letters had mysteriously jumbled themselves into something that looked like Cyrillic one moment and Korean the next."

The book describes how profoundly the loss of what we all take for granted affected his life.

A good and easy read.  I recommend it.

Answer 3

It exposes us to new ideas and increases our vocabulary.  It transports us to worlds different than our own.  It challenges our minds

Answer 4

Simply by just reading stimulates the brain. That helps to absorb greater knowledge in various aspects to one's life. It helps accumulate informative views and facts that can be so useful in everyday living as when the brain is warmed up by reading the reflexes also becomes active. Although good reading articles that can only provide the proper informations and facts even better entertaining ones that are liable to emit great values, new learned ideas and, reminders of  earned knowledge from the past as to review or recall up forgotten useful issues or articles too. Reading strengthen the quality of living as if by doing it so as a habit, previously empty minds will be filled of new views and those who where already had stored knowledge in them will enhance more of what they have gotten from gaining practical or even intellectual knowledges. Learning things in this world is limitless as of one of the greatest way to fill it is by reading. Then minds put these readings into their lives by implementing it so to prosper in so many different ways. As we grow each day in our life.

Answer 5

Ignorance never provides the correct answers.

Answer 6

Dear Jona Jee,

In a simple, decent and discreet path to an applied Understanding, please apprehend self  to read... learn... study... know... approve... apply... then its been imbibed or imbued as a Understanding.

READING is the nearest and self-free path to master ones growth even beyond the attains of incredible worths & values, by dint of discipline and endeavours in purview of Orderliness.

READING leads to Learning. LEARNING is but the EYE of Mind, aheading its journey to ones Quantum of  KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge is but the role'providence to Know or Knowing of  a Being to being of Beingness. To Know the Unknown and also to Re-know the Known, both qualify self with KNOWLEDGE.

Furtherance to said herein, this source of gained or attained Knowledge on its approval and application, it gives a discreet Wisdom unto an applied UNDERSTANDING. At times, this applied Understanding equates ones Self to Know of DIVINITY, through an ONTOLOGICAL process of exploring within the realm of Inner'Self to Higher'Self unto Divine'Self.

In an esoteric parlance its been axiomatically and beautifully quoted as...

"LOGO IS WORD INCARNATE ; WORD IS DIVINITY INCARNATE"

" WORD  KNOWN  IS  GOD  KNOWN "     .... charanjeet singh ....

Now, can you imagine the Worth and Values of READINGS... it not only increase the Quality of Life, but All of Life and Livingness... One as an Institution within Oneself.

Last not the least, READING is the rare process where an Objectivity and the Subjectivity holds the bound in togetherness, thereby assigning Self to a High Understandings

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Answer 7

Reading habit gives you more knowledge. One becomes wise by reading authentic books written by good authors. Reading useless books will not get you any useful stuff.

When you gain more and more knowledge, you can handle the life's difficult and challenging situations in a tactful manner.

Answer 8

Reading requires us to use our imagination while reading.  Imagination is the fuel for every invention, whether tangible or not, that improves the quality of our lives.

Answer 9

Reading provides knowledge and knowledge is power.

I wish you intelligence as luck tends to run out when you need it most.

Answer 10

because it increases our vocabulary, improves our spelling and depending on what you read increases your knowledge on a broad range of topics