How Reading Changes Your Brain
Most people know reading is good for them. But what does it do to the brain?
We hear and read all the time that reading is one of the best habits to develop. Successful people like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Emma Watson have touted their insatiable appetites for devouring new information as one of the key ingredients they’ve needed for their achievements. And we all know where that information can be found: in books.
Besides the obvious fact that reading more opens us up to new information and shows us new ways of connecting sets of information, what is not as widely known by most people are the ways reading changes our brains.
Neuroscientific evidence outlined below shows us that there are many ways that reading actually changes the circuitry of our brains. In doing so, reading helps us become sharper and faster at solving problems and accessing the information we’re storing. The neuroscientific evidence therefore tells us that reading is advantageous not just by putting new information into our brains, but also by actually changing how our brains work.
