For the books on your shelf, the questions in the margin and the habit of coming back.
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Even though most of us already know that reading is a highly beneficial activity, not all of us are aware of how much its efficiency can be enhanced through a couple of simple tweaks. Whether you read for fun in order to relax, or you do it to learn, the reading experience can be improved
Even though reading in itself has a lot of benefits, both for our mental and physical health, there are things we can do to enhance the experience. While most of us find pleasure in spending an evening lying on a couch and reading, the experience would be significantly different if we were to choose to
Our quest to do more reading is more often than not detoured by several factors that make up our day-to-day life. More time spent working, more chores to do around the house, and a hectic and fast-paced lifestyle, all contribute to a constantly decreasing amount of reading we manage to do. And since we are
The importance of reading is irrefutable. From reducing stress, to building character and opening up a whole world of knowledge, leafing through a good book is one of the greatest pleasures known to man. There’s a pretty big number of interesting facts about reading and we skimmed through most of them to compile this amazing
Since the way the world currently works pushes us to communicate more and more without actually speaking, many of us started struggling with social interactions. We text so much and use so many other ways of communicating, that we sometimes find it difficult to have a conversation with a person face to face. We sometimes
If you’re anything like us, you probably found yourself wondering at some point in your life how many pages can you read in an hour or how long does it take to read 100 pages? Well, because we know a simple statistic is not going to cut it for you, we started looking into the
Being happy is becoming more and more challenging these days. Despite living the easiest, most peaceful, and having constant access to all the resources we can possibly need, true happiness is harder and harder to find. Depression and anxiety are more common now than they ever were in our history and stress is now such
When it comes to improving our memory and our ability to increase the speed and efficiency of our information retention capabilities, scientists are constantly hard at work trying to find the secret to the perfect memory. A lot of different memory-enhancing strategies have been developed over the years, some more efficient than others. The chunking
Being able to remember more from what we read or learn is something that can have a huge impact on the way we process information and how long it takes us to learn new things. As a species, we struggled for centuries and have put our most brilliant people on trying to figure out the
Our quest to improve our memory and ensure we remember everything we read or learn started many generations ago. The perfect memory would be a very valuable trait and is something that has baffled scientists for hundreds of years. Several mnemonics devices have been invented, studied, and developed with this exact purpose, to help us
The way we retain information as we read is an important aspect of the reading experience, and one with an undeniable importance. Reading is one of the most powerful learning tools at our disposal and our ability to retain information is responsible for the amount of time and effort we are forced to put into
The “reading vs watching TV” battle has been going on ever since the invention of television programs. While the enthusiasm of being entertained without putting in any effort of their own has won over the hearts of millions, if not billions of people over the years, the debate on the benefits of books vs TV
