2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
In the modern world, many people ask themselves the question: How to become successful?
Someone in the movement to success is hindered by the fear of making mistakes. A person asks the question: "Is it possible in life to make fewer mistakes or not make them at all?"
Someone cannot model the future in order to predict the development of a situation and the consequences of decisions made at the moment.
Someone cannot achieve what they want because of the inability to understand people, their feelings and the meaning of behavior.
Someone cannot have the necessary influence on people to achieve success, because they are not able to express their thoughts in words intelligibly to others.
Someone's ability to achieve success is hindered by the patterns and stereotypes of thinking and behavior imposed by others.
You might be surprised to find that there is one very simple but really effective answer to all of these questions:
reading fiction classical literature.
Researchers at the University of Washington in St. Louis used brain scans to study brain activity while reading fiction. It found that "readers mentally simulate every situation they encounter in the story." The brain uses the same neurons that repeat the described actions in real life: if the hero puts a pencil on the table, then in the reader's brain parts of the brain that are responsible for muscle control are activated, and when the character passes through an open door, zones that control navigation and spatial orientation are excited …
The reader's brain is not just a mirror. Benefits of Reading:
The actions taking place in the book are intertwined with his experience and already gained knowledge. Each reader creates his own world and settles in it - as if it were real. When reading, the reader recreates the successes and failures described by the author. The mistakes made by literary heroes become experienced as their own. Awareness of the consequences of such blunders comes and the knowledge of how to avoid them.
As a result, a person in real life avoids unfavorable situations more easily, does not make possible mistakes, and removes the consequences of his failures faster and more efficiently. "Literature is not just a simulation of social experience," scholar David Comer Kidd told the Guardian, "it is social experience."
In 2009, an experiment was conducted at the University of Toronto, the creators of which wanted to explain how much the emotions evoked by literature can change the personality of the reader. The researchers selected 166 students and asked them to take a standard test that describes personality and takes into account characteristics such as sociability, conscientiousness and compliance. After that, one group of respondents was given to read Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog", and the control group was presented only with a summary of the same work, cleared of the literary language. After that, both groups were again asked to take the test. The results showed that the results of people who read the original text changed much more than the results of the control group - and the effect was due to the emotional response of the story. Interestingly, all readers have changed a little differently. In the mind of the reader, each book is rewritten anew, and the mind itself is also rewritten by the book.
In 2013, the New School for Social Research published an article in Science, which explained how fiction can strengthen the human "theory of consciousness", the ability to understand other people's feelings and thoughts.
If you retell what you read, then speech and the ability to use speech as an instrument of influence develop. A well-read person becomes an interesting interlocutor and a welcome guest at any event, as he is always able to maintain a conversation or set a new topic for conversation.
Reading classical literature enriches vocabulary, increases literacy and clarity of speech, develops memory and independent thinking, broadens the horizons and shapes the worldview.
Reading alone will not make you successful, but it will greatly increase your chances of success and provide tools for personal development.
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