Is it true, reading makes you 'smarter'?
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Is it true, reading makes you 'smarter'?
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- Daily Alice
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If a person actually thinks about what they read, and uses their own reasoning skills to form their own ideas and opinions about what they have read, then reading can make that person smarter.
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That's not to mention you will learn things related to the actual content of the book e.g. history, how to grow a certain plant, physics and religion etc.
So basically anything you read will make you overall smarter - or at least the potential to be smarter, simply because of the biological response your body has to outside stimuli because it tries to adapt. So that person who said it depends on what you read was incorrect. Although they were also correct.
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-- 19 Dec 2013, 18:31 --
If this were Facebook, I would "like" this.Sherlock_1 wrote:What I've found is the more I read, the more eloquently I am able to construct arguments. I don't know if that translates to being any smarter, but it certainly opened up opportunities in different fields, opportunities I don't think I would have had if I didn't read as much as I do.