I have been reading for quite long now. I have experienced and felt the importance of reading immensely throughout the time. There are a lot of people who are always like “Man, I’m not a good reader”. And if you are one of those and even if youre not. There are many reasons why reading is important but after knowing these 8 reasons, I hope you will regret why you didn’t like or even try reading in your life until now.

Reading increases knowledge

The most effective way someone can increase their knowledge is by reading. The only way information throughout history was preserved is by reading. Today all the knowledge you see around you can be yours only if you start reading.

If youre interested in anything you can acquire that knowledge by reading. For that, you can watch a video or read an article but these are not the most effective way. A person who has spent many years of his life in a particular field and then has written a book, you can literally read that book in a week and gain all the knowledge that took someone many years.

That is how powerful reading books are and that reading is still the most effective way to increase your knowledge.

Reading improves our vocabulary

Have you ever asked your friend who has a great vocabulary what did he do to build and even maintain his vocabulary? If you ever did Im sure the answer was that he/she reads. 

That says it all you need to read to improve your vocabulary.  When we read we usually face a lot of new words , those words make us search them or google them. 

In this way we are introduced to  new words and our vocabulary improves overtime.

Reading improves our sleep

If you are someone who struggles to sleep at night reading can be your magical solution. People who are readers generally tend to fall asleep when they are reading before bedtime. Even I myself read before bedtime it helps me to have a great sleep.

The main reason behind this is when we read before bedtime the sleep hormone (Melatonin) production increases in our brain. Which eventually helps us to get a better sleep.

Reading helps to reduce stress and depression

In current times stress is an obnoxious thing that if cannot be managed can lead to depression. And if youre depressed about life and everything reading can be your solution.

Reading is a wonderful choice to reduce stress and depression. It distracts our minds from our day-to-day problems and helps us to relax our mind. 

For most of the people and even for me reading works as an stress management system. So, without delay try incorporating reading in your life if youre stressed and deppressed. Reading as little as 10 mins and reduce your stress level you can only imagine.

Reading helps to generate new ideas

For generating new ideas someone has to acquire a lot of knowledge. The most effective way to gain knowledge is to read. This leads us to the fact that reading helps to generate ideas.

Through reading, we are exposed to new concepts regularly. After understanding these concepts when we visualize them we can generate new ideas.

Here comes the funny part, I realised that I need to make a website reading books while reading a book. Haha.

Reading improves our focus 

Focus is the new GOLD. Currently, if you look around yourself almost everyone is distracted with something, most people are glued to their screens of a phone or a laptop or any kind of device. 

On the other hand, due to reels, the attention span of people has become short. Deep focus is what people lack now. 

Reading takes a lot of focus. A distracted person will find it hard to read. That is why reading regularly will increase your focus. It has increased mine. Those who will be able to focus will be the winners of the coming future because everyone is distracted. 

Reading improves our critical thinking and problem-solving ability

To survive in the current world critical thinking and problem solving these both skills are really necessary for everyone. Specially for professional doesnt matter what your industry is having these two skills can aid your expertise to a next level. 

You can ask what is the need of it? Because we can just only google almost anything that we want. Google might give you all the factual and datas but it might not be able to help think from different point of views.

By reading you can have a idea about different point of views which will eventually help you to think from a different point of view.

All successful people are readers

The most pf the billionaires of the world are great readers at first millionaires. If you ever watched any interview of bill gates or elon musk. When they are asked that how were they able to pull off this much of an influence and money and issues and everything. They told that they read books. Elon Musk also said he learnt builidiong rockets by reading books .

So, you can have an idea that how reading books can change your life. And how important it is to read books.

Readers are Leaders.