How reading books changed my life

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Books are respected medium for gaining information and insights. They help you to think better and see bigger picture in life. They are way to learn things in fast way and know about people and things what happened to them in past.

Everything is processed in books. You can learn anything and everything from books, from sex to developing good habits, secret of getting rich to managing finance and emotions etc.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 ( 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒏𝒆𝒚).

Two years ago, I started reading books. Whenever I look back to myself, I think this was the best decision and habit that I developed. Whenever I compare my old version to my present version, I feel myself unrecognizable.

Books impacted every aspect of my life. I know and understand things in better way, have knowledge about many topics of society, marketing and economics and I make better decisions in life. Here are some areas where reading books impacted me positively.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱

We are blessed with a mind like a monkey. As monkey who never likes to sit at a single place and tree for a moment. It keeps changing location and tree every moment.

𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆. 𝑨𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒋𝒐𝒃 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆.

But to read books you have to maintain sharp and focused mind like a monk. Without focus you will not be able to read just a page of book.

𝐵𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝐼 𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑. 𝑀𝑦 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑘𝑦𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑏 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒, 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒.

𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆

Words are most powerful tool at our disposal. You can alter views of people, change their mental landscape and can make or break them with your words.

𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎. 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆’𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅.

𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒔. 𝑰𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓.

By reading books I have come to know about many words that have same meaning but different effect on people because of perceiving and processing mechanism. Now I don’t run short of words and use best words during communication.

I have realized that Choosing right words makes person cool, calm and light up its mood and wrong words make people angry, defensive etc. so feed your mind with positive and encouraging words to improve your communication and connection in life.

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 ( 𝘈𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘏𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘴)

Social media is one of the most common addiction among people of every age especially in youth. Most of us are not aware of it and they pay cost in form of time.

Moreover it creates anxiety, feeling of Fomo, Fopo ( fear of public opinion), steals our happiness and make us dull and unproductive.

Reading books helped me to overcome social media addiction. I am medical student and have little time to enjoy life. When I shifted my mindset from social media to books it proved like winning a million dollars lottery. Quitting social media helped me to

. Renormalizing my brain.

. I gain control of my life.

.I became able to step out from feeling of Fomo and Fopo.

. I have more time to enjoy nature, friends company and make new beautiful friends.

𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴

Reading books give you mental stimulation. when you read books, your neuron are fired and build connection with each other to remember character and events of story. It keeps our neurons active.

When you give yourself mental stimulation and your neurons are active, your become less vulnerable to dementia, Alzheimer’s and many other mental complications.

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚. 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒙𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒙𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.

Moreover reading books release happy hormones like dopamine, serotonin etc which increase physical as well mental well being. They lower your stress hormones also.

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻

We humans work on rule of award or punishment. Anything that is awarded, release happy hormones is repeated over and over and things which cause punishment or uncomfortable are avoided. Reading books awards you mental well being, improved focus and develop healthy habits.

The purpose of writing this article is to share the benefits that I got by reading books and tell people that how reading books can change their life and how is it benefits for them.

If you want to reap the benefits, start reading books and you will amazed with the benefits.

Written by

Asif Nawaz

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