Its day 23rd of 90 days daily writing challenge to improve my English writing and thinking skills. The aim of this challenge is to reach a level of proficiency where writing high quality articles becomes effortless.
I have consumed lots of content that emphasized on how reading is crucial for our brain so I decided to give it a try and have personally benefitted a lot. This article is all about the benefits that I am noticing since I have started reading.
Increased Knowledge
First thing first, the biggest benefit I have had from reading is expansion in my knowledge. Reading has helped me a lot to explore various subjects and topics which has caused a great deal of increment in my knowledge. In order to learn and earn experience out of great people’s life this is a must have skill. If writing and speaking is the way to convey the knowledge then reading is the way to grasp them.
Expansion of vocabulary, idioms and phrasal verbs
Not only has reading exposed me to a lot of new words but also to idioms and phrasal verbs which have helped me a lot at my writing skills too. Now I have a lot more words in my knowledge to use them whenever required. The major benefit of this is whatever new words, idioms and phrasal verbs I learnt from previous reading contribute to a better experience at my current and future reading.
Better Understanding
Reading is a cognitively demanding task which requires a lot of thinking and processing to understand things therefore it increase our cognitive abilities. Whenever I read something that’s new to me, I try to understand it which generally takes time but surely ease the understanding in future reading. Reading provides with a lots of illustrations and examples to go through which highly contribute in further understanding of various subjects and topics. In short whatever I understood from previous reading serves as an catalyst to better understanding at my future reading.
Increased focus and memory
Whenever I read anything I try my best to concentrate as much as possible and in the process of doing so, I have seen major improvement in focus and memory. I always try hard to concentrate as long as possible in order to break my previous record which I have found to be very benefiting with my ability to focus. Increased focus surely helps in grasping the subject better hence contributing to better memory too.
Better Communication
It’s obvious from all the benefits mentioned above that they certainly contribute to better communication. Like having more knowledge and better understanding helps with more things to say, having more vocabulary or new words provides ease in explaining things, having better focus and memory surely benefits in effective listening and understanding which in all contributes to better communication.
My experience writing this article
Writing this article required a bit more thinking than the previous ones as this time I have tried to push myself to come up with bit higher quality article. I may edit this article in future in any case if I find more better points to add.
Time it took me to write this article
It took me approximately 1 hour 25 minutes to finish this article. To me this is quite good of an improvement due to the fact that this article is well versed than the previous ones.