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How can you not see that graphic media beams itself right into your lazy brain while reading fiction forces you to exert (and exercise) your visual imagination?
by BoingBoomTschak 2y ago
How can you not see that graphic media beams itself right into your lazy brain while reading fiction forces you to exert (and exercise) your visual imagination? Unless you're the type who doesn't form pictures in his mind as he reads on.
And (depending on what you read, of course), reading can give you serious literacy gainz. And focus too, as another poster wrote.
- James_K 2y agoI must admit that I find it honestly laughable and pathetic that people are not able to identify the benefits of reading. Reading makes you smarter in large part from the information contained within the book that you learn by reading it, not from some kind of abstract mental exercise you get from looking at words. If you wish to exercise yourself mentally, you would play video games. Yet despite the high cognitive effort of them, no one attributes to games this great enlightenment that supposedly comes from reading. This is because games do not confer any practical information to the player where a book might to the reader.
- anon22981 2y agoI find it laughable this whole thread is people throwing around opinions instead citations