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12239664 No.12239664 [Reply] [Original]

what are the long term benefits of getting into reading regularly

>> No.12239665

>>12239664
virginity

>> No.12239670

>>12239664
You can feel superior to people without having to accomplish anything meaningful

>> No.12239672

thinking more critically and engaging more with the world around you
unironically makes you smarter, I've only been seriously reading for the past 3 or 4 years after not reading throughout my mid-late teens but I've noticed a nice improvement to my spoken vocabulary. also some books are just like, fuckin beautiful, man. beauty is underrated

>> No.12239678

You don't have to live in your life while you read.

>> No.12239680

>>12239672
on top of this, less time spent idling online has greatly improved my concentration, self-confidence, and overall well-being.

>> No.12239689

Been reading a lot. Absolutely murdered the reading and verbal sections on the GMAT exam without even studying for it

>> No.12239715

Feel like a less bad and slightly smarter consumercuck

>> No.12239730

>>12239664
>what are the long term benefits of partaking in the wisdom of generations upon generations of people
Gee I dunno, anon. >>12239672 probably has it right.

>> No.12239754

>>12239664
Your vocabulary and writing abilities should increase, not to mention you will become better read.

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>>12239664
you learn how to face some things IRL because you already saw them in proxy/lit/ so it's like knowing some textbook chess plays that are useful when the real game kicks in.
>mfw a friend was having an affair outside marriage and came to me asking for a point of view so I told him about the Ulysses and Sirens thing
>mfw he didn't understood shit and sink his boat while that siren chant lasted only two months after his life went to shit
It definetely helps IMO

>> No.12239781

>>12239664
Better reading comprehension for whenever you need it, irregularly.

>> No.12239784

The main benefit is you can have a lot of fun.

>> No.12239804

>>12239777
I honestly think of novels as philosophy-light. Good novels have morals and themes that permeate every day experiences; no, they aren't as to the point or as content-laden as real philosophy, but all reading has it's purpose.

>> No.12239844

>>12239804
yes kinda thing the same only that IMO art lit>philosophy. Why? well because as Nietzche put it, a philosopher in the end is an attorney of his own thruth. No philosopher presents to you the shortcomings of his system, or the consecuences of adopting his ideas to reality. They present an impolute image with no dirt or dust.
On literature you get fictional players that face consecuences, that have disadvantages, that are human. IMO a good fictional book goes intuitevely deeper.

>> No.12239879

>>12239844
good point, although philosophy reaches grades of complexity and depth far from narrative literature. I agree that literature can be more entertaining and more capable to put one in touch with some aspects of life, but its objective is just different from philosophy's, which imo aims at giving an explenation as wide and as complete as possible of things

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>>12239664
>>12239844
It's a cultural practice if you can believe that. And crazy enough, if you look hard, you can find out why you'd benefit from willingly practicing. Almost as if it were like a fucking meditative practice that could say was Western and produced an almost illuminating effect on the user similar to some felt by Buddhist Monks after decades of practice.