The Reader's Edge
Digital text is rapidly displacing printed books as the publication of choice. The reasons are apparent as they are quite unsettling: People’s attention span gets shorted by the day, leaving little time to savor the printed word.
This unavoidable reality shouldn’t stop you from picking up a book and exploring an entirely different world between its covers. Reading is and will always be a potent tool for widening your horizon. Reading is about knowledge and discovery; it’s about empowerment and being in touch with the world. Sir Richard Steele, an English essayist, dramatist, and journalist, put it succinctly: “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Neil Postman, media critic and author of such books as Amusing Ourselves to Death and Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, pointed out the ways that reading teaches us to think in a logically connected way. It cultivates a sustained attention span. Readers learn to think in terms of abstract ideas, objective truth, and sustained reflection.
If you want to prepare yourself for great achievement and have more to contribute, try reading more books. Read books from a wide range of genre. Pick up great classics and well-researched material that can help you grow. Even reading a magazine like WOW (World of Women) is a step in the right direction.
Trust me – reading helps you become a better person, equipping you with ideas that can excite, enlighten, and inspire you in many ways.
(Reference: WOW (World of Women) Magazine, vol. 5 no. 3, July-Sept. 2007 “Mayor Marides Fernando’s Corner”, p.2)
This unavoidable reality shouldn’t stop you from picking up a book and exploring an entirely different world between its covers. Reading is and will always be a potent tool for widening your horizon. Reading is about knowledge and discovery; it’s about empowerment and being in touch with the world. Sir Richard Steele, an English essayist, dramatist, and journalist, put it succinctly: “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Neil Postman, media critic and author of such books as Amusing Ourselves to Death and Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, pointed out the ways that reading teaches us to think in a logically connected way. It cultivates a sustained attention span. Readers learn to think in terms of abstract ideas, objective truth, and sustained reflection.
If you want to prepare yourself for great achievement and have more to contribute, try reading more books. Read books from a wide range of genre. Pick up great classics and well-researched material that can help you grow. Even reading a magazine like WOW (World of Women) is a step in the right direction.
Trust me – reading helps you become a better person, equipping you with ideas that can excite, enlighten, and inspire you in many ways.
(Reference: WOW (World of Women) Magazine, vol. 5 no. 3, July-Sept. 2007 “Mayor Marides Fernando’s Corner”, p.2)
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