SGT University Latest News: Reading is a skill that is getting short-changed nowadays thanks to the constant barrage of short videos we receive through social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube.
We desire all of our content to be in video form – short clips thanks to the reels – even content that is educational and informative in nature.
This is a dire tragedy because reading can never be replaced by watching.
The way our brains engage with a text while we read is a two-way process. We are active consumers of information; we think more deeply when we read, and this helps our brain develop the necessary cognitive skills like logical reasoning, vocabulary, and inference.
The danger posed by consuming all our media through a video format is that we become passive consumers when we watch.
We don’t necessarily think deeply when we watch a video; even if we try to, we can’t because the fast format of video content ensures that we never truly have time to think about the information we see and engage with it deeply.
Watching mindless videos is like consuming junk food. It feels good while we are consuming it, but afterward, we feel guilty for wasting our time.
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Reading a book is a great way to enrich our lives, and in this article, we will go through the top five ways reading books can enhance your life.
Here are five reasons why:
- Improves mental health: Reading books lead to reduce mental stress, lowers blood pressure, and heart rate, and helps fight depression. It can also help curb the cognitive decline that comes with age. Also, reading books can help improve memory and concentration.
- Increases knowledge and vocabulary: Reading books leads to an increase in knowledge and vocabulary, which can help a person communicate better and understand the world around them deeply. Also, reading books increases a person’s knowledge of various topics, one’s knowledge is no longer confined to a single domain.
- Boosts creativity and imagination: Reading books stimulate creativity and imagination, allowing one to explore new ideas and perspectives. Reading a book forces your brain to imagine the scenarios written in the text, this inadvertently enhances imagination.
- Enhances empathy and understanding: Reading books can help you understand and empathize with different cultures, experiences, and perspectives. Reading a book about a person’s life is like having that person sit beside you and tell you their whole life story.
- Provides entertainment and relaxation: Reading books can be a great source of entertainment and relaxation, allowing you to escape into different worlds. It has been shown that reading a good fiction book is more rewarding, relaxing, and refreshing than watching a television show.
Reading books can also be beneficial for college students in several ways.
- Recreational reading can reduce psychological distress and help students cope with mental health problems.
- E-books can serve as useful tools in classrooms to engage students in interactive reading.
- Peer tutoring with e-book reading can enhance students’ reading comprehension.
- Reading books of interest and appropriate skill levels can induce a state of “flow,” an optimum psychological state that can improve concentration and control.
In conclusion, reading books can enhance your life in many ways, from increasing your knowledge and understanding of the world to improving your mental health and boosting your creativity and imagination. So, pick up a book, put that phone down – pause your Snapchat and Instagram for a while if you have to – and start reading today!
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Here are some cool books that college students in India should check out, as they are both interesting and informative:
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
SGT University is one of the best universities in Gurugram and Delhi NCR, offering an excellent environment for students to develop a passion for reading.
