How to read books to bring 10 expected benefits?

(Baonghean.vn) - Reading books not only provides knowledge, but also brings you many more benefits. However, do you know how to read books effectively?

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10 benefits of reading books:

- Personality improvement:Books will help you realize the value of rules of conduct in life, ethical standards, have a more positive outlook on life, know how to love and understand others, know how to share difficulties with others, know how to condemn bad habits and unethical behaviors.

From there, we form a more positive way of thinking, always aiming for good values, for our own interests in relation to the interests of those around us. Good books to develop personality that you can read are: Seeds of the Soul, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Stop Worrying and Live Happy...

- Brain stimulation:Scientific studies have shown that reading regularly will help slow down the aging process of the brain, reducing the risk of Alzheimer's. Like any organ, the brain needs to be active to stay healthy.

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- Providing knowledge:Whether we read actively or passively, we all absorb more or less knowledge. Books provide useful knowledge to readers – a factor that contributes to the improvement of many aspects of life such as career, finance, health, etc.

- Expand vocabulary:The more you read, the larger your vocabulary will be. Fluency in communication is one of the factors that determine success in life. The more concise you are, the more confident you will be. Research has shown that people with good vocabularies are promoted much faster than those who communicate poorly.

- Strengthen memory:When reading a book, you will have to remember the content, main ideas, characters, layers of meaning, lessons… to be able to understand the following passages, or when you want to share the book content with someone. With each new amount of information that the brain receives, the command center will create new brain cells.

- Practice critical skills:Especially with detective/crime novels, readers will be able to use all their reasoning and analytical skills to discover the mystery, sometimes even before reading the last chapter. Critical analysis skills are essential in daily life as well as at work.

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- Increase concentration:In modern society, a person often has to do many things at the same time, multi-tasking skills have become an important factor in life. Reading helps increase concentration, strengthens coordination between senses and body parts.

- Practice writing skills:Along with the expansion of vocabulary, the writing skills of those who read a lot of books are also improved significantly. You will approach many writing styles, literary techniques used by authors and be more or less inspired by them.

- Achieve peace of mind:More than just relaxing, a good book can also put readers in a state of absolute peace. Reading stories with optimistic, uplifting content can lower blood pressure, help the mind be happy and cure mild mental illnesses.

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- Entertainment, stress relief:No matter how big the problem is in work, love or family, just open the page of a book and the reader will immediately enter another world. A good book will help you relax and forget all the troubles in life.

The most effective way to read books:

1. Before reading the book content

- Determine the purpose of reading:The purpose will govern your entire reading process. By determining the purpose, you will avoid wasting time reading and instead focus on the important content you want to learn.

The purpose of reading a book will determine the direction of the problem in the same book. For example: When reading the work Chi Pheo by Nam Cao, some people learn about the author's description and interpretation, some learn about the love story of Chi Pheo - Thi No, some analyze the circumstances and life of people at that time...

So, setting a reading goal is the first important step we should take.

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- Find the book address:You should read the first and last pages of the book to know: Book title, author name, publisher name… This will be very useful when you want to introduce to your friends a good book that you have just read or bought or borrowed from the library shelves.

- See table of contents:The table of contents reflects the general outline and basic content of the book. Reading the table of contents will give you a rough idea of ​​the content as well as the order of the sections arranged logically according to the author's intention. At this point, you ask the question: Why did the author arrange them in this order? From there, it inspires you to find the answer in the book's content.

- Read the preface:You should read the preface to know what the book is about and for whom it applies. Through the author's preface, you can guess the author's intention, visualize the basic content, the purpose of the book that the author desires, and know the most important issue that the book will address.

2. Start reading the contents of the book

To grasp the content of the book, to acquire knowledge, you must study the book in depth. To study the book effectively, you must have the right reading method:

- Think positively when reading:There are many people who read a lot of books but read completely passively, absorbing everything according to the author's guidance, leading to the result that the number of books you read is inversely proportional to the knowledge you receive. Actively thinking when reading is always visualizing the ideas in the book into specific images, objects, and events, comparing and associating with existing knowledge and practical experience to discover the nature of the problem, clarify questions and increase your understanding.

From there, you will transform the knowledge in the book into your own forever. Thinking while reading also helps you exercise your brain, increase your memory and intelligence.

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- Concentrate while reading:Concentrating while reading is the best way for you to think carefully, think positively and remember the content of the book. To concentrate, in addition to your own efforts and inspiration, you should choose a quiet, airy, well-lit reading space, read in a comfortable position but should not lie down because it will harm your eyes and reduce your ability to remember.

- Practice reading techniques:Reading techniques are the actions you use in the reading process. Techniques must be practiced regularly to achieve the best results. While reading, there are some points you need to pay attention to:

+ Read with your eyes and brain, not with your mouth.

+ Avoid reading back too much.

+ Vertical eye movements when reading.

+ Read at variable speed: Read important passages slowly and carefully; read unimportant passages quickly and skim.

+ Try to understand the meaning of the whole paragraph, don't pay attention to words or sentences.

+ Practice reading quickly, grasping and quickly capturing the main, basic points of the problem.

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You should also practice to gradually increase your reading speed. However, reading quickly does not mean reading voraciously or in a hurry, but reading quickly means quickly, sufficiently, and accurately summarizing the content. You should judge before reading, if you have a purpose for reading, which parts are important, you read carefully, which parts are not important, you skim, avoiding the time-consuming reading.

To practice reading speed, take a book, choose a page to read quickly and then write down the content you have captured. Read it again to see if you have recorded enough and correct content. Practicing like this regularly will definitely improve your reading speed and absorb knowledge faster.

- Take notes while reading:Taking notes is an important and indispensable step in the reading process. Taking notes will help increase the ability to concentrate, memorize knowledge, and synthesize issues. In particular, taking notes is the act of summarizing the core content and the main points of the entire book, and later, when necessary, you just need to reread those notes to understand all the issues the author mentioned in the book.

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How to take notes:

+ First you state the book's topics.

+ Write down the main points.

+ Write down good quotes, valuable, specific, easy-to-understand analysis.

+ Record readers' comments and reviews about the book.

+ Write down the knowledge you gain from the book and the questions you still have so you can find answers in the next books.

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