Your Brain on Books

From preschool to old age, it never changes: One of the best ways to grow and stimulate your mind is to read often, widely and deeply.

Here are four great reasons:

♣ You cross-fertilize ideas. When you read outside your normal genre, you encounter new ideas to combine with your previous knowledge and inspire innnovative  thinking.

♣ Reading is almost as good as doing. The same brain areas used for learning new tasks also kick into gear when simply reading about them.

♣ It encourages logical thinking. Story structure helps you organize things into a beginning, middle and end, linking cause and effect.

♣ It can improve your brain structure and health. In both children and adults, reading has been shown to pump up important areas of the brain.