Reading provides numerous cognitive, emotional, and social benefits. It increases knowledge by exposing readers to new information and perspectives. Reading improves imagination and creativity by transporting the reader to new fictional worlds. It is also beneficial for stress relief, sharpens critical thinking skills, and boosts vocabulary and communication abilities. Regular reading keeps the mind active and engaged and offers a source of pleasure and lifelong learning.

1. Why reading is important
Prepared by : Lata Mangesh

2. Introduction
 Reading is the kind of exercise that keeps your mind
active and healthy. It is important to develop the habit
of reading not only for knowledge but also for personal
growth and development. It develops positive thinking
and gives you a better perspective of life.

3. Importance of reading
 Knowledge:
It is rightly said that reading are the best source of
knowledge. Every time you read you get new bits of
information and knowledge that are useful. The
more knowledge you possess the more wisely you
handle various situations in life. The knowledge you
get from reading is the true wisdom as you may
lose anything in life but not knowledge.

4.  Improves Imagination:
Reading fictional stories can take us to a new
world. We actually visualize the whole setup in the
fictional world and get familiar to characters. It
develops our imagination and makes us feel
amazed. We imagine and fantasize fictional stories
and characters in your mind.

5.  Wise use of time:
Reading good books means making good use of
time. It is a perfect way to stay occupied and at the
same time learn something and have pleasure.
There is so much that we gain from reading. It is
the best way to relieve our stress and enhance our
mood.

6.  Boost self-esteem:
By reading more and more books we communicate
better and are well informed. Since we are more
confident, productive and dynamic. It builds our
confidence and leads to higher self-esteem.

7.  Improves Creativity:
The more reading develops our thoughts and ideas. Our
mind opens up and start thinking in a new direction.
We start thinking more creatively way.

8. Helps Socialize:
Reading improves individual’s communication skills
and boosts confidence. It also enhances our
socializing skills naturally as we are more
confident about our abilities and knowledge. We
can always share our knowledge and reading
experience with friends and family. It also makes us
more empathetic towards others.

9.  Sharpens our Mind:
Reading is vital for the development of brain as it
boosts our thinking and understanding. It enhances our
critical thinking and analytical skills. It also improves
the brain function. Reading gives us knowledge,
information and new perception.

10.  Self Improvement:
Reading helps us develop positive thinking. Reading is
important because it develops our mind and gives us
excessive knowledge and lessons of life. It helps us
understand the world around us better. It keeps our
mind active and enhances our creative ability.

11.  Reduces Stress:
No matter how stressed or depressed we are due to
personal life, work or any other problem in our life,
reading a good book reduces our stress completely and
enhances our mood. Reading helps us calm down our
mind, releases strain from the muscles and slows down
our heart rate.

12.  Increases Knowledge:
Active reading is the process that enables lifelong
learning. It is an avid thirst for knowledge. Books
enable us to have glimpse in to cultures, traditions,
arts, history, geography, health, psychology and several
other subjects and aspects of life. We get amazing
amount of knowledge and information from books.

13.  Develops our Analytical Skills:
By active reading we explore several aspects of life. It
involves questioning what we read. It helps us develop
our thoughts, express and opinions. We engage our
mind in understanding and thinking higher.It
stimulates and develops your brain and gives you a new
perspective.

14.  Boosts our Imagination and Creativity:
Reading takes us to the world of imagination and
enhances our creativity. Reading helps us explore life
from different perspectives. While we read books we
are building new and creative thoughts, images and
opinions in our mind. It makes us think creatively,
fantasize and use our imagination.

15.  Improves Communication:
Active reading increases your vocabulary
exponentially. You learn the art of using words
creatively and effectively. You are able to communicate
your thoughts and ideas effectively. Overall it will boost
your confidence and enhance your communication
skills.

16.  Reading is Pleasure:
Not only is reading important for knowledge and
information but it is an addiction. Once you indulge
yourself into reading a good book, you will surely get
addicted to it. It offers intense pleasure to read a good
fiction and entre a whole new world. You go through
several new feelings and emotions while you read.

17.  Books are Our Best Friends:
Books really are your best friends as you can rely on
them when you are bored, upset, depressed, lonely or
annoyed. They will accompany you anytime you want
them and enhance your mood. They share with you
information and knowledge any time you need. Good
books always guide you to the correct path in life. You
will never regret the company of a good book.

18.  Books are Your Best Teachers:
Not only can good books be your best friend but also
the best teacher. Reading good books will give you
immense knowledge, information and a completely
different experience. Reading will give you a new and
better perspective of life. It will teach you new lessons
of life.

19.  Great Pleasure:
When we read a book, for pleasure. We just indulge
themselves into reading and experience a whole new
world. It always gives lot of pleasure to read a good
book and cherish it for lifetime.

20.  Books Help us Sleep Better:
Reading a book is recommended as one of the best
habits to calm down our mind before go to bed. It helps
relieve stress. So, instead of using cell phones or
watching TV we can always read a good book for a
sound sleep.

21.  Communication Skills:
Reading improves our vocabulary and develops our
communication skills. It helps us learn how to use our
language creatively. Not only does it improve our
communication but it also makes us a better writer.
Good communication is important in every aspect of
life.

22.  Develops Critical Thinking:
The chief benefit of reading good books is that it
develops our critical thinking. The more we read the
deeper we understand and process the information.
Critical thinking is important in life to manage day to
day situations.

23.  Reading Develops the Imagination:
T.V. and computer games have their place, but they are
more like amusement . Amusement comes from
towards “a” {non} and “muse” {think }. Amusement is
non thinking activities. With reading a person can go
anywhere in the world or even out of it!

24.  Discover New things:
 A person who knows how to read can educate
themselves in any area of life they are interested in. We
live in an age where we over flow with information, but
reading is the main way to take advantage of it.

25.  Reading is also a kind of motivation
Reading is also a kind of motivation that works
wonders in when it comes to de-stressing. Reading
motivational books can really change our life for better.
Reading autobiographies can also encourage us to work
hard and stay dedicated to achieve our goals. It helps us
become a better person in life.

26.  Develop Writing Skill
Good reading also inspires us to write. Many writers
get inspired and gain expertise by reading more and
more. We learn the art of using language and enjoy
playing with words.

27. Priceless activity :
 Reading is one of the most important and priceless
activities. If you have ever read a book in life you will
know the pleasure and perks of reading. Reading is the
kind of exercise that keeps your mind active and
healthy. It is important to develop the habit of reading
not only for knowledge but also for personal growth
and development. It develops positive thinking and
gives you a better perspective of life.

28.  Brain Exercise:
Reading also tends to strengthen and build more
strong brain connections.

29. Faithful friend:
Reading of good books is no doubt very faithful friend
of a reader. They never betray but accompany the
reader, either sitting alone or traveling. Those who are
habitual of reading feel comforted with books. It
soothes and relieves tension and loneliness. Medically it
also plays a vital role to eradicate depression and
unrest. Books are great assassins of boredom. It just
kills the boring time.

30.  Entertainment
Reading is the best cheap or free entertainment we can
get. Love our library and any bookseller, because these
books can open up the world we might never have
imagined.

31.  Reading makes us smarter
It is rightly says that reading makes us
smarter. Readers display greater knowledge of how
things work, vocabulary and language development, as
well as information on people, places, and things.

32.  Reading improve our vocabulary :
Reading improve our communication skills. The more
we read the more new words our brain start gaining
new words and adding into the vocabulary folder of our
brain.

33.  Reading makes us success in career
Creativity, imagination, and thinking play a great role
in our career. Creativity is really important to be known
as different. Doing something differently explore our
imagination and we start thinking deep (critical,
analytical). This is not possible without reading and
learning.

34.  Books guide, teach and share our pain with like a
good friend:
Books play a big role as a friend of a human being.
Whenever you feel alone and dominated get a book and
start learning. It will immediately start communicating
with us. If we’re sad they will make you happy and give
bet compassion.

35.  Conclusion:
There are many perks of good reading habits. It keeps
our mind active, strong and healthy. Reading is
important for our overall personal growth and
development. Besides, we never feel bored or lonely if we
develop good reading habits.

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