Environmental stimulation and learning experience will promote the regeneration of brain neurons. For example, when each of us is learning new things, such as new languages, new skills and new paths to go home, when we see new faces, the neurons in the temporal lobe of the brain will multiply. Therefore, in order to keep the brain in the best condition, we need to know new contents, learn new knowledge and accumulate new experiences, instead of repeating what we have done very skillfully every day.
Reading is a very challenging thing in itself. In the process of reading, we need to understand the author's intention, master new knowledge, experience the protagonist's feelings and imagine different scenes ... These intangible skills and feelings affect the brain to varying degrees, and then affect our lives.
"How to Transform the Brain with Reading" points out that "reading has a very dramatic effect. Because I read a book, I choose to take a certain path, which may change my life track in an instant. Sometimes people don't know how the books they have read will affect them, but the changes are happening quietly. " It can be said that reading has the function of "instantly changing life" and "imperceptible effect".
Author Kenichir? Mogi, Ph.D. in Physics, University of Tokyo, is now a brain scientist, and studies the relationship between brain and heart with "sensitivity" (subjective feeling) as the key word. The author has read a lot of books. During his study in Cambridge University, he realized that "learning is reading", and his research direction of brain science also originated from the book "The Emperor's New Brain", in which the view that "intuition questioned artificial intelligence" had a great influence on his cognition. He is also a very enthusiastic otaku. Because of his love for butterflies, he read a lot of books, expanding his understanding of butterflies to his interest in science as a whole. His main works are Creative Brain, Learning Method of Flexible Use of Brain, Working Method of Flexible Use of Brain, etc.
How to Transform the Brain by Reading takes the digestion and absorption of knowledge by the brain as the breakthrough point, and tells readers the author's book selection method, the author's reading method and the method of combining reading with practice with a large number of cases. According to the characteristics of the brain introduced in the book, this paper will interpret the relationship between reading and the brain, and share Kenichir? Mogi's reading methods.
First, the effect of reading on the brain.
1. When reading, data will accumulate in the temporal lobe of the brain.
At the beginning of the article, we mentioned that learning behavior will promote the continuous regeneration of hippocampal gyrus nerve in temporal lobe of brain. It is pointed out in How to Transform the Brain with Reading: "The temporal lobe is the place in the brain that controls people's memory, hearing and vision, and has the function of storing their own experiences."
When reading, many people have this feeling: they will laugh when reading, cry when reading some plots, and feel wronged for the protagonist when reading ... We can understand the feelings and emotions of the protagonist in the book; When reading books and articles by different authors, we can learn about the author's way of thinking and life experiences, which mobilize our senses to varying degrees, and these processes of feeling the author and protagonist constantly accumulate information and data in the temporal lobe of the brain.
These information data are unconsciously accumulated in our brains and filtered and absorbed by them. Feeling "deja vu" about some things and situations can well explain the brain's storage of experience.
2. Reading is a learning behavior that makes the brain happy.
When people feel happy, the brain secretes a substance called dopamine, and the brain grows on the basis of happiness. On the contrary, when people do something for pleasure, the brain often wants to simply try it once. "How to Transform the Brain with Reading" mentioned that "the brain secretes the most dopamine when it completes something it thinks impossible or something it thinks impossible."
Infatuation can explain this phenomenon well. Some people will be fascinated in the process of learning, mostly because the brain feels happy, keeps repeating learning behavior and forgets to stop. Therefore, we can make effective use of this feature of the brain and realize its rapid growth through reading.
For example, injecting stimulants and addiction are typical practices of providing dopamine from the outside, which is not helpful to the improvement of the human brain, because the brain does not secrete dopamine and cannot get proper exercise.
Reading can temper people's language.
The difference of language ability determines people's ability to express themselves accurately and the way to communicate with others. Even the way a person looks at the world and acts is related to the language he uses. Humans have been using language all their lives. And everyone has their own idiomatic words and expressions.
The book "Parents' Language" proves with a large number of scientific experimental cases that "parents' language is a necessary stimulating factor to determine the superiority and durability of a child's specific neuronal circuits and to prune other neuronal circuits. Parents' vocabulary and speaking style have a far-reaching influence on children's mathematical ability, spatial reasoning, their own behavioral constraints and moral quality. "
The book is the crystallization of the author's language day and night, and it is the product of the joint efforts of many people. Their language refinement is more rigorous than ordinary articles. Through reading, we can be familiar with the author's language style, idiomatic words and expressions, and accumulated reading can make us understand the author's style imperceptibly and form our own language style.
4. The book you read is "dangerous"
Books are dangerous things, because many books contain things that subvert human civilization and violate the common sense of ordinary people. "
For example, strickland, the hero of The Moon and Sixpence, can abandon his wife and live an unimaginable life in order to realize his dream. Such a book is not only a warning to people, but also a warning to the world: remind people to have dreams in their hearts and work hard for them; It warns people whether they should abandon their wives and pursue their dreams carefree like Strickland.
Reading "dangerous" books, the distress and entanglement caused by reading-this spiritual shake is an indispensable part of the brain growth process. This kind of impact on the brain can often refresh cognition and bring opportunities for thinking.
A book is a mirror. How to read it depends on your worldview and values. We should read from the perspective of "we are the creators of our own lives", rather than being influenced by books.
5. The knowledge in books will ferment and grow in the brain.
"How to Transform the Brain with Reading" points out: "Once knowledge is accumulated in the brain, it will form a' feeling' that determines people's actions."
Zhihu had a question that hit many people's hearts: "I have read many books, but most of them have been forgotten by me. What is the significance of reading? " The best answer is: "I ate a lot when I was a child, but now I can't remember what I ate." But what is certain is that some of them have grown into my bones and flesh. "
We can't see, touch or even feel the accumulation of knowledge in our brain, but it is undeniable that many times this knowledge will automatically combine with our past experience and future imagination, so that you will have new meanings and ideas, and new meanings will give birth to new problems, and new problems will have new insights, which will be fermented repeatedly and eventually precipitate in our minds, forming "wisdom and insight":
Teacher Zhou once said when he was a guest, "Life is meaningless, but the process of finding out whether life is meaningful is meaningful." . Reading is the best way to find the meaning of life.
Second, how to read
1, read translated works and quality books.
First of all, make a statement about quality books: what kind of books are quality books?
Different people have different answers. Some people think that books that can learn knowledge are excellent, some people think that books that can master methodology are excellent, and some people think that books that broaden their horizons are excellent ... but no matter what kind of books, we must treat life with an "excellent mentality". Such books are of high quality.
When reading, you can start with reading classic books in various fields. These books have been tested by many generations and handed down, which can be said to be cultural treasures. In How to Read a Book, Kenichir? Mogi also suggested some excellent books worth reading, so I won't go into details here.
The translated works have different cultures from their own countries. Reading such works can help us master "world-class" knowledge, broaden our horizons and expand our own pattern.
2. Miscellaneous reading is because the brain is interested in new things.
We don't know what kind of knowledge will be useful for our future development, because none of us can predict our own life, but we can accumulate knowledge through miscellaneous reading in different fields and form our own unique knowledge network in our brains. This network can help us understand history, explain phenomena, and to some extent help us predict the future and make judgments in advance.
In the process of reading, the author Kenichir? Mogi read a lot of books, because he was interested in UFOs and supernatural photos. Because of my love for butterflies, I read many popular science books. Theology and science have always existed and debated in society. Kenichir? Mogi pointed out in his book: "Only after you really understand it can you clearly determine which side you are on." After reading a lot of books, he realized that there is no absolutely correct textbook in the world. We should all form our own unique values and methodology and look at the problem from our own perspective.
3. Reading books with different backgrounds
Many classic works are written in a specific era and background, but sometimes, we don't know the background at that time, and naturally we can't read the charm. The author suggests that we can "interpret books with modern background", which has the following advantages:
First, we can find the similarities between history and reality and find out the laws of social development.
Second, under the current situation, we should explore the wisdom of our predecessors and understand their thoughts.
Kenichir? Mogi mentioned Natsume Soseki's works many times in How to Read a Book Effectively. When reading "Sanshiro", he felt that the great writer gave an objective and fair evaluation and treatment to the Japanese education problem that he had been puzzled for a long time. When I read Anne of Green Gables, I changed my cognition and attitude towards the world because of an unexpected sentence.
Read foreign books with your own background and classic books with modern background, and you will find reading interesting.
Our brains are plastic. Reading club has a profound influence on the plasticity of the brain. These influences are invisible, intangible and inaudible, but they have become our thoughts, behaviors, ways and feelings, affecting our future life. If you want to change your attitude and life, try the reading method suggested by Kenichir? Mogi in How to Transform Your Brain with Reading and Form Your Unique Values.
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