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Mo Salama
I used to hate reading growing up.
Maybe it was because I was a very slow reader and understanding what I read didn’t come easily to me.
Maybe it was because I was swamped with a 110-page reading assignment no matter what day of the week.
Maybe it was because I hated the idea of group reading as an introvert (have one person read some of the passage aloud, move on to the next person, have them read some of it aloud, and so forth).

我從小就討厭讀書。
也許是因為我的閱讀速度很慢，理解我讀到的東西對我來說并不容易。
也許是因為無論哪一天我都被110頁的閱讀任務淹沒。
也許是因為我作為一個內(nèi)向的人，很討厭集體閱讀的想法（讓一個人朗讀一些段落，然后轉(zhuǎn)到下一個人身上，讓他們朗讀一些段落，等等）。

If it wasn’t for reading, I don’t know where I would be today.
Reading transformed my life in countless ways.
Having the freedom to read whatever I wanted is what re-ignited my habit, practice, & enjoyment of reading.

如果不是因為讀書，我不知道自己今天會在哪里。
閱讀在無數(shù)方面改變了我的生活。
有了自由閱讀的權利，想看什么就看什么，這才重新點燃了我閱讀的習慣、實踐與享受。

As J.K Rowling once said…
“If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.”
Those words couldn’t be truer.

正如 J.K 羅琳曾經(jīng)說過......
"如果你不喜歡讀書，那你肯定是沒有找對書。"
這句話是再真實不過了。

I’ll have to ponder that storyline sometime…
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我得好好想想這個情節(jié)......
無論如何，在我們繼續(xù)前進，并開始討論閱讀對認知能力的益處之前，我想讓你知道我研究并收集了47個有科學依據(jù)的方法，以實現(xiàn)激光般集中注意力，加速學習，銳化記憶，并提高精神能量。
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READING BOOSTS CREATIVITY.
Reading allows us to expand our imagination.
It can help us bend our reality in ways we wouldn’t have thought possible.
Being close-minded and rigid in our thought processes is not something that will take us far.
Especially if our society wants to continue to innovate and disrupt from the norm.
When we read, specifically fiction based books, we keep our minds open because we can afford ambiguity.
Research
has confirmed this. It has shown that fiction readers arose as more flexible and adaptable than non-fiction readers when assessing cognitive closure.

#2 閱讀能促進創(chuàng)造力
閱讀可以讓我們擴大想象力。
它可以幫助我們以我們意想不到的方式幻化我們的現(xiàn)實。
封閉和僵化的思維過程不會讓我們走得更遠。
尤其是當我們的社會想要繼續(xù)創(chuàng)新和打破常規(guī)的時候。
當我們閱讀，特別是以小說為主的書籍時，我們要保持思維的開放性，因為我們可以承受模糊性。
研究已經(jīng)證實了這一點，研究表明，在評估認知封閉性時，小說閱讀者比非小說閱讀者更靈活，適應性更強。

READING MAY LENGTHEN YOUR LIFESPAN.
A team at Yale followed 3,635 adults over the age of 50 for 12 years.
They noticed that people who read books for 30 minutes a day lived nearly two years longer than those who read magazines or newspapers.
Adults who read more than 3.5 hours per week were 23 percent less likely to die, and adults who read less than 3.5 hours per week were 17 percent less likely to die.
To sustain longevity, you have to evolve and there’s no better way to continually transform than through reading.

#3 閱讀可以延長你的壽命
耶魯大學的一個團隊對3635名50歲以上的成年人進行了12年的跟蹤調(diào)查。
他們發(fā)現(xiàn)，每天讀書30分鐘的人比讀雜志或報紙的人要多活將近兩年。
每周閱讀時間超過3.5小時的成年人死亡的可能性降低了23%，每周閱讀時間少于3.5小時的成年人死亡的可能性降低了17%。
要想保持長壽，你就必須不斷進化，沒有比閱讀更好的方式來不斷改造自己了。

READING INCREASES INTELLIGENCE.
Diving into a good book opens up an entire world of knowledge.
Reading requires you to focus on the words, sentence structures, and then draw conclusions that relate to your life.
Exposure to new vocabulary not only leads to a higher score on reading tests but also higher scores
on IQ tests.
Additionally, stronger early reading skills have shown to positively impact intelligence later in life according to this study done on identical twins.
And not only can books increase your IQ, but they can also improve your EQ (emotional intelligence).
As we engross ourselves in a good book it can enrich our empathy for others as we sense the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of the characters in the book.
Understanding human psychology is a critical skill that allows us to develop strong relationships with others.
Literary fiction has been shown to have a strong impact in helping us increase our emotional intelligence, according to research published in Science.

#4 閱讀能提高智力
潛心閱讀一本好書，可以打開整個知識世界。
閱讀需要你專注于單詞、句子結(jié)構，然后得出與你生活相關的結(jié)論。
接觸新的詞匯，不僅能在閱讀測試中獲得更高的分數(shù)，而且還能在智商測試中獲得更高的分數(shù)。
此外，根據(jù)這項研究，在同卵雙胞胎上做的測試表明，較強的早期閱讀能力已被證明會對以后的智力產(chǎn)生積極影響。
書籍不僅可以提高你的智商，還可以提高你的情商。
當我們沉浸在一本好書中時，可以豐富我們對他人的同理心，因為我們能感受到書中人物的思想、感受和情緒。
理解人類心理是一項重要的技能，它能讓我們與他人建立牢固的關系。
根據(jù)發(fā)表在《科學》雜志上的研究，文學小說在幫助我們提高情商方面有很大的影響。

READING BOOSTS BRAIN POWER
Not only does regular reading help make you smarter, but it can actually increase your brain power.
Just as physical activity supports the heart, muscles, and bones, intellectual activity supports the brain.
You physically change the structure of your brain while reading.
I like to picture my brain growing, changing and making new neural connections and different patterns as I’m reading.
With age comes a decline in brain function & an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s, but reading on a regular basis may help delay the process — by as much as 32 percent, keeping your brain sharper longer, according to research published here.
As the old adage says — use it or lose it.

#5 閱讀能促進腦力的發(fā)展
經(jīng)常閱讀不僅有助于讓你變得更聰明，而且可以增加你的腦力。
就像身體活動支持著心臟、肌肉和骨骼一樣，智力活動支持著大腦。
當你閱讀時，你在物理上改變了你大腦的結(jié)構。
我喜歡想象自己的大腦在閱讀的過程中不斷成長、變化，建立新的神經(jīng)連接和不同的模式。
隨著年齡的增長，大腦功能會下降，患阿爾茨海默氏癥的風險也會增加，但根據(jù)研究，定期閱讀可能有助于延緩這一過程--高達32%，使你的大腦保持更長時間的敏銳。
正如一句古老的格言所說——要么使用它，要么失去它。

READING CAN RELIEVE STRESS
Every time I feel anxious or stressed out, I turn to a good book.
Losing ourselves in a good book allows us to escape from the worries and stresses of the everyday world.
It allows us to create our own images and ideas and regain a peace of mind.
One study by Sussex University researchers showed that reading may reduce stress by as much as 68 percent!
Reading transports us to different worlds and allows us to experience life from the eyes of different human beings.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin
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#6 閱讀可以緩解壓力
每當我感到焦慮或壓力時，我就會去看一本好書。
在一本好書中迷失自己，讓我們從日常世界的煩惱和壓力中逃脫出來。
它讓我們可以創(chuàng)造自己的形象和想法，重獲心靈的平靜。
一項蘇塞克斯大學的研究表明，閱讀可以減少高達68%的壓力!
閱讀將我們帶入不同的世界，讓我們體驗不同人的生活。
"一個讀書人在死前活了千百次......從來不讀書的人只活了一世。" ——喬治R.R.馬丁
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在這里，我深入探討有關大腦健康、習慣、生產(chǎn)力和自我提升的話題。

評論翻譯

Rita Stewart
Books are like chocolate for the brain. A mind needs a book as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
Reading can take you to imaginary lands, foster understanding of different cultures and let you live lives you couldn't in the real world. Sure, that sounds like a romanticization of reading, but it has very real benefits for the brain, too. Reading allows you to fully submerge you in another person's thoughts and feelings.

書就像大腦的巧克力。頭腦需要一本書，就像劍需要磨刀石才能保持鋒利。
閱讀可以帶你到想象中的世界，培養(yǎng)你對不同文化的理解，讓你過上在現(xiàn)實世界中無法過的生活。當然，這聽起來像是對閱讀的浪漫化，但它對大腦也有非常真實的好處，閱讀可以讓你完全沉浸在另一個人的思想和感情當中。

Reading is an immersive experience that brings your brain alive. It creates its own images and ideas as you lose yourself in a novel. You can actually physically change the structure of your brain through reading. Your brain on books is active. It’s growing, changing and making new connections and different patterns, depending on the type of material you're reading. To the much younger ones, forget your Playstation or Xbox, reading is the original virtual-reality experience for your brain.

閱讀是一種身臨其境的體驗，讓你的大腦充滿活力。它創(chuàng)造了自己的形象和想法，就像你迷失在小說里一樣。
事實上，你可以通過閱讀改變你大腦的結(jié)構，你沉浸于書本時的大腦是活躍的，它在成長，在變化，在建立新的聯(lián)系和不同的模式，這取決于你正在閱讀的文字的類型。
對于更年輕的人來說，忘記你的Playstation或者 Xbox 吧，閱讀是你大腦的原始虛擬現(xiàn)實體驗。

3. It rewires the brain and creates new white matter.
Want to improve communication within the brain? Just crack open a book, because according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, reading exercises —at least in children, according to the study — can alter brain tissue in positive ways.
In 2009, scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just uncovered evidence that intense reading improvement instructions in young children actually causes the brain to physically rewire itself. In doing so, the brain creates more white matter which improves communication within the brain. The results suggest that reading deficits in children can point to specific problems in the brain's circuits that can be treated and improved with reading.

3、它能重新連接大腦，創(chuàng)造新的（腦及脊髓的）白質(zhì)
想改善大腦內(nèi)部的溝通？只要打開一本書就可以了，因為根據(jù)卡耐基梅隆大學的研究人員的研究，閱讀練習——至少在兒童中，可以以積極的方式改變大腦組織。
2009年，科學家蒂莫西凱勒和馬塞爾賈斯特發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個證據(jù)，即對幼兒進行高強度的閱讀改進指導實際上會導致大腦本身的物理重組，在這樣做的過程中，大腦創(chuàng)造了更多的白質(zhì)，從而改善了大腦內(nèi)部的溝通，結(jié)果表明，研究結(jié)果表明，兒童的閱讀障礙指向大腦回路中的特定問題，這些問題可以通過閱讀得到治療和改善。

4. It increases the capacity of your working memory.
A neurobiologically challenging activity, reading is the best kind of workout for your brain for so many reasons. Chief among them is the ability to improve memory, but how exactly does absorbing written information increase your brain's capacity for memory?
Reading involves several brain functions, including visual and auditory processes, phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension, and more. According to the ongoing research at Haskins Laboratories for the Science of the Spoken and Written Word, reading, unlike watching or listening to media, gives the brain more time to stop, think, process, and imagine the narrative in from of us. This increased mental activity helps keep your memory sharp much in the way lifting weights keeps your muscles toned. Reading and processing what is written, from the letters to the words to the sentences to the stories themselves, boosts brain activity.

4、增加你的工作記憶容量
閱讀是一種具有神經(jīng)生物學挑戰(zhàn)性的活動，由于種種原因，閱讀是對你大腦最好的鍛煉。其中最主要的是提高記憶能力，但究竟吸收書面信息是如何提高大腦的記憶能力的呢？
閱讀涉及幾個大腦功能，包括視覺和聽覺過程、音素意識、流暢性、理解力等等。
根據(jù)霍金斯研究室正在進行的口頭和書面語言科學的研究，閱讀，不像看或聽媒介，可以給大腦更多的時間停止，思考，處理和想象來自我們的敘事。
這種增加的腦力活動有助于保持你的記憶力敏銳，就像舉重可以保持你的肌肉健美一樣。
閱讀和處理所寫的東西，從字母到單詞到句子再到故事本身，都能提高大腦活動。

5. It expands a reader's attention span.
Another side effect of this incredible brain workout, reading not only improves memory, but in increases attention spans, too. Because of the sequential narrative style of most books — a beginning, middle, and end — reading encourages the brain to think similarly in sequence, and thus spend more time on building a story rather than rushing through each detail.According to neuroscientist Susan Greenfield and her book Mind Change, the internet has improved users' capacity for short-term memory and ability to multi-task, but it can actually split our attention, unlike reading. When we read a novel, we read linearly, rather than sporadically jumping from tab to tab, and slowly think about the information in front of us. This exercise of taking time to process the narrative, to think about the complex layers of the story and how they fit together, actually increases the capacity for longer attention spans, especially in children.

5、它可以提升了讀者的注意力
這種不可思議的大腦鍛煉的另一個副帶效應，閱讀不僅能提高記憶力，而且可以提升注意力。
因為大多數(shù)書籍都采用順序敘事的方式——開頭、中間和結(jié)尾，閱讀鼓勵大腦按順序進行類似的思考，從而把更多的時間花在建立一個故事上，而不是匆匆忙忙地完成每個細節(jié)。
根據(jù)神經(jīng)科學家蘇珊格林菲爾德和她的《心智改變》一書，互聯(lián)網(wǎng)提高了用戶的短期記憶能力和多任務處理能力，但它實際上會分散了我們的注意力，這與閱讀不同，當我們閱讀一本小說時，我們會線性地閱讀，而不是零星地從一個標簽跳到另一個標簽，并慢慢思考眼前的信息，這種花時間處理敘事的練習，思考故事的復雜層次，以及它們之間的配合，其實可以提升注意力，尤其是兒童的注意力。

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Tim Southee
Reading is perhaps one of the best hobbies in the world, and one of the healthiest. Whether you're reading fiction or nonfiction, a newspaper or a poem, reading is not only educational and informative, it's entertaining and relaxing, too. And, although it is still a widely unexplored area, research on reading has shown its many benefits.Over the years, doctors, scientists, and researchers have confirmed that reading is a stress-reducing activity that can lower your heart rate and blood pressure. It's been proven to improve people's memories, Increase brain power, and even enhance empathic skills. Reading has even been lixed to longer lifespans. It's a magical, and still somewhat mysterious process.

閱讀也許是世界上最好的愛好之一，也是最健康的愛好之一。
無論你是讀小說還是非小說，是讀報紙還是讀詩，閱讀不僅具有教育性和豐富的信息量，還具有娛樂性和放松性。
而且，盡管它還是一個廣泛未被開發(fā)的領域，但對閱讀的研究已經(jīng)表明了它的許多好處。
多年來，醫(yī)生、科學家和研究人員已經(jīng)證實，閱讀是一種減壓活動，可以降低你的心率和血壓。
事實證明，閱讀可以提高人們的記憶力，增加腦力，甚至增強共情能力。
閱讀甚至與延長壽命有關，這是一個神奇的，還有些神秘的過程。

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Anna Lee
Reading a lot has many effects, all of which are positive.
The first main effect is strengthening your vocabulary. For instance, if you are constantly hungry, you could say you have a large appetite, or you could tell people that your appetite is voracious. They both mean the same thing, but you might not understand the second one if you don’t read a lot of books.

大量閱讀有很多好處，這些作用都是積極的。
第一個主要效果是增加你的詞匯量。
例如，如果你一直很餓（ constantly hungry），你可以說你胃很大（ large appetite），或者你可以告訴別人你胃口很大（appetite is voracious），它們的意思是一樣的，但是如果你沒有讀過很多書，你可能不會理解第二個意思。

Second, you become more creative and imaginative, especially from fiction. If you read something surreal you often imagine how it would look, smell, feel, and taste. The more you do this, the better you do it.

其次，你變得更有創(chuàng)造力和想象力，尤其是來自小說的閱讀，如果你閱讀一些超現(xiàn)實主義的東西，你經(jīng)常會想象它看起來、聞起來、感覺起來和嘗起來會是什么樣子，你做的越多，你做的越好。

Third, you learn things you might not learn otherwise. How else might you learn that Dwight D. Eisenhower was nicknamed “Divine Destiny” Eisenhower? Or that the Greek goddess Athena was split into two goddesses by the Romans: Minerva and Bellona?

第三，你學到了一些你可能學不到的東西。
不然你怎么知道德懷特·艾森豪威爾的昵稱是“Divine Destiny”（天命神意）？或者希臘女神雅典娜被羅馬人分成兩個女神: 智慧女神密涅瓦和司戰(zhàn)女神柏洛娜？

Reading improves your memory. You remember and recall things better the more you read.
With all of these benefits, it’s amazing how many people hate reading.

閱讀可以提高你的記憶力，你讀得越多，記憶力就越好。
閱讀有這么多好處，令人驚訝的是竟然還有很多人討厭閱讀。