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reading rejuvenates
Do you like to read? I think only what's relevant to your work, or work and stuff like that. What if I told you that reading is rejuvenating? What would your motivation to read change? Motivation to read - well, that's probably silly. You can either want to read or you can't. Either you force yourself to read and get used to it. Or you ignore - this healing habit. Let's talk about reading and youth! Modern people read a lot less now than they did 20 years ago. Internet, movies, social networks imperceptibly, but surely displace books into the background. And there are real reasons for this: we can find the necessary information in the smartphone, and the eternal lack of time allows us in the evening to browse lazily through a social networking feed, rather than reading yet another novel. And this trend is not good, because according to scientists, reading books can do a lot of good for a person. To stay in the context of what we read, we actively engage our working memory. While reading, we have to memorize large layers of information, in parallel to systematize and analyze them. According to a study conducted by American scientist Robert Wilson, older adults who have read books in their lifetime have memory problems 32% less often than those who haven't. And people who didn't read at all lost memory 48% faster than those who read at least occasionally. Essentially, constant reading keeps the brain alert and prevents cognitive impairment that occurs in old age. Take your time. Let's continue our introduction to reading in adulthood. After age 65-70, a person's cognitive function naturally begins to deteriorate. Nothing can be done about it, but brain deterioration due to aging can occur much slower, allowing a person to lead an active life even in old age. Scientists in a long study found that people who had a lifetime of stimulating mental activity (reading, solving math problems, playing mind games, composing stories, etc.)