Lin Yutang wrote in The Art of Life: "Reading gives people a kind of elegance and flavor, which is the whole purpose of reading. Only reading with this purpose can be called art." ..
Reading books as art will make you have a distinctive temperament in your bones. If you compare a reader with a non-reader, it is easy to show.
Although reading can't make you rich in luxury goods and gold, can the benefits of reading be measured in material terms?
65438 +0? Reading is your window to broaden your horizons.
There was once a TED speaker. She is an English-speaking reader. When she found that the books on the shelf were mainly British and North American authors, she realized that she had entered a literary blind spot.
So she made a list of authors in 196 countries, and asked everyone to help her translate or find translated English books on her blog. It took me a year to experience the cultures of different countries.
Finally, she was deeply touched: one year's reading exposed my blind spot in looking at the world, and reading made me understand my ignorance and opened my eyes.
Reading can experience 1000 kinds of life; You can only live once without reading!
Number two? Reading is a magic weapon for you to think deeply
? In the era of "internet plus", people have become accustomed to using mobile phones to get information, get information and even read books. Fragmented information is pouring in, and you may not have time to digest it; All kinds of small video software make your leisure time no longer boring, but you have no time to think hard.
If people spend a lot of time to get fragmented information instead of reading books, then they will generally only pay attention to events or reports of events, and meditation is of no value at all.
If you can calm down and read a book and deeply feel the joys and sorrows of the protagonist in the book, or the ordinary or turbulent or tangled life, maybe you will have a deeper thinking about your life.
By reading, you may have a deeper understanding of life; If you don't study, you can only indulge in your seemingly "thriving" "happy world".
Number three? Reading is a weapon for you to speak elegantly and improve your self-cultivation.
? "Poetic and pretentious" is always used to describe the temperament and accomplishment of a scholar. Reading makes you exude a quiet temperament and cultivate a calm attitude towards life, which is not vulgar, violent or extreme.
There is a joke on the Internet:
When you see the sunset, ...
What comes to your mind is: "The sunset is lonely in Qi Fei, and the autumn water is the same as the sky."
Instead of: "Lying in the trough, so many birds are so beautiful, so fucking beautiful!"
This is the gap in cultural heritage.
Reading, there is an elegant temperament in the bones; If you don't study, you will indulge in vulgar pastimes without knowing it.
Number four? Reading can make you open-minded and wiser.
When I first resigned to take care of my children, many relatives and friends didn't understand. Perhaps most of them think that I am incompetent and can't find a job, so I am forced to take care of my children at home.
Even visiting relatives will talk behind their backs: "What's the use of reading so many books? I am still a graduate student, but I still take my children at home! "
At first, I was not convinced and replied, "It doesn't matter if I take care of the children!"
Later, I read a book when I was idle at home, and realized the different fates of people in the book. I understood that there are many kinds of people, and I don't always have to follow the secular eyes to consider life.
In this way, it is relieved. If you meet this kind of person again, you don't need to argue, you have a good life, and you don't need to explain to outsiders.
Reading doesn't necessarily make you smarter, but it can make you smarter; If you don't study, you may never get out of the "entanglement" again and again.
There is a good saying: God is fair, everyone's life is only once, we have no way to determine the length of life, but we can increase the width and height of life. Reading is the best way!