Since you are reading these lines, I congratulate you because it means you are reading “something”. Increasingly, people have renounced themselves from reading books. It has become a complicated movement for people to pick up a book and read it.

People prefer to watch short videos instead of reading written sources such as books, magazines, newspapers, etc. The answer to the question “Excuse me, would you like to read a few lines?” is usually that books are a thing of the past, that you cannot improve by reading books, and that reading books does not help anything, we only read the author’s imagination. However, reading is not such a simple process. There are 4 phases of reading a book. Then, evaluating what we read, passing it through an analytical thinking process, and recording it in our memory improves the capacity of our brain a little more each time. Of course, there are a few tasks we need to do to get the most out of this process. We need to take notes while reading or studying, we need to do sports to help with the last part of the process, and finally, we need to have a good sleep both before and after reading. In addition, the source you are reading must be tangible because reading from a physical source helps the human brain to work diagonally.

Texts read from physical sources convince the human brain more that they are reading something. If you want to read something from a physical source, here is the August edition of VOICES.

Ömer Çakmak