SMART PEOPLE READ ALL THE TIME!

SMART PEOPLE READ ALL THE TIME! | Ecency

So you wanna be smart? Read! Read!! Read!!!

Alot of persons don't read. The truth is that when you don't read, it shows in your thoughts, words, actions, investments, successes and infact your entire life is the sum-total of what you have read.

The worst plague is a society that punishes readers and rewards average free-lancers. They call them different kinds of names including nerds, bookworms, geeks, etcz just to make them appear uncool. I choose to rather call them the infovore. We all have seen how smart readers (even without formal education) have changed the world. Case in point: BILL GATES.

In this modern internet age, it has become very easy to generate and share information. Yet, many would rather loiter around on social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter instead of getting this information. Many times I get asked questions about things that are hidden in plane sight. You know why? People don't read.

This reduction in the reading culture may be partly due to the presence of new media like social media, video sharing sites like Youtube, Netflix and other alternatives to the hard-and-fast traditional approaches. However, nobody is to blame, its already well-established that the attention span of our modern youth is dropping rapidly.

Scientists have proven times without number that there's an above average positive correlation between reading and intellingence. The relationship between reading and academic achievements, success and excellence are well-known phenomena.

Let's explore these with some more details;
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE IMPORTANCE OF READING?

According to a paper published by Anne Cunningham of the University of California in Berkeley, reading is by far the best way to train your mind. More than conversation and even being read to.

Active reading increases your language vocabulary.
When you read more you learn new words which you can apply while writing or speaking. It therefore means that a reader is generally a better writer than a non-reader.
Reading broadens your view of the world thus making it less likely that you will fall for fallacies.
Reading helps preserve memory and reasoning into old age. Many young people act demented these day. You know why? Simple, they never read. Many have turned to couch potatoes watching
You can learn valuable lessons from novels, books, magazines, newspapers, journals, blogs. The thing is you never know when or where your knowledge may apply tomorrow. You could pick up a million-dollar idea from a simple blog post or even apply a life-saving technique learned from a book you read years ago.

Fluid intelligence is that ability to solve problems, understand things and detect meaningful patterns. Of course, you can read little or nothing at all and still be brilliant at reading between the lines of a conversation. But in today's world, fluid intelligence and reading generally go hand in hand. In fact, the increased emphasis on critical reading and writing skills in schools may partly explain why students perform, on average, about 20 points higher on IQ tests than in the early 20th century. The so-called Flynn effect is named after James Flynn, a New Zealand professor who has devoted much of his career to studying the worldwide phenomena of increasing IQ scores."
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Here on Steemit I see alot of people who find it difficult to read. They just skip reading posts and comment "nice post" on it. This is appalling. There is so much knowledge to be gained from reading posts here on steemit. Crypto-knowledge, Investment & Business knowhow, Thoughtful posts, Life lessons, and infact general knowledges of all kinds. Skimming and skipping posts is depriving yourself of the valuable content here on Steemit.

So I still leave you with the same statement I opened with;