Reading for thinking and mind expansion
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Sifat Siddique
Many things in this universe are co-related like gathering of honey bees symbolizes blooming of fresh flowers and the sudden scurrying of squirrels for nuts indicates the oncoming winter! Similarly, if one is regularly prone to reading habits, one's imaginative power, innovative ability and creativity ---all are very likely to improve.
When a novelist writes a novel, he takes us into his world of sentimentality and livelihood only via his words. His descriptions, comparisons and anecdotes take us to that very level of vitally and visualisation where we are forced to experience every thick and thin of what he wants us to witness. This is the reason why we so much enjoy reading books and why some people even get addicted to them. This repeated practice of reading, that is imagining, develops the ability to presume and predict situations and circumstances to a great extent. We laugh with mirth when the patient tortoise wins over the boastful rabbit, burst out into tears when Harry Potter dies so suddenly and jump on our feet in protest when the code gets into the hand of the Professor other than Langdon. All this is the power of imagination that causes us to live every concurrence till the very end of a story.
Another branch of imagination is innovation. Where there is a thought, there is a try and there is a creation. If we do not develop our imagination, all we will be creating is the same unwanted things. No new discovery or expansion would take place. In a book there are many occurrences which we perhaps had neither heard nor seen before in reality. But still we are experiencing it. Books on time machines, anagrams and algorithms---all help us to think about the things which we would have never thought before. And the most beneficial output that we get through reading books is the questions that they succeed in triggering inside us. These questions drag us into getting deep into a matter until and unless we are quenched with the answer. Innovation is nothing but the solution of one's curiosity and thus books highly help in showing us how to locate for our confusions.
A creative mind is never in vain! So is not a reader. The numerous use of vocabulary, the playing with the words and expressions filter our thinking process. We all know how to talk but very few people know how to express. Books do not restrict themselves to a single topic, and so does not the creativity which they induce. Knowledge gets vastly broadened and thoughts break out of barriers. We start thinking about a particular issue from different perspectives and thus deprive ourselves from being single minded. The tendency of using creativity in our professional field, education and personal life becomes easier for us as we get to know how to reach for them. And anything which comes from heart is unique, is priceless!
Reading helps us to know the different aspects of life and thinking helps us how to make them better. And since one compliments the other, reading is a habit that definitely helps in burnishing our thoughts and imaginations!
Many things in this universe are co-related like gathering of honey bees symbolizes blooming of fresh flowers and the sudden scurrying of squirrels for nuts indicates the oncoming winter! Similarly, if one is regularly prone to reading habits, one's imaginative power, innovative ability and creativity ---all are very likely to improve.
When a novelist writes a novel, he takes us into his world of sentimentality and livelihood only via his words. His descriptions, comparisons and anecdotes take us to that very level of vitally and visualisation where we are forced to experience every thick and thin of what he wants us to witness. This is the reason why we so much enjoy reading books and why some people even get addicted to them. This repeated practice of reading, that is imagining, develops the ability to presume and predict situations and circumstances to a great extent. We laugh with mirth when the patient tortoise wins over the boastful rabbit, burst out into tears when Harry Potter dies so suddenly and jump on our feet in protest when the code gets into the hand of the Professor other than Langdon. All this is the power of imagination that causes us to live every concurrence till the very end of a story.
Another branch of imagination is innovation. Where there is a thought, there is a try and there is a creation. If we do not develop our imagination, all we will be creating is the same unwanted things. No new discovery or expansion would take place. In a book there are many occurrences which we perhaps had neither heard nor seen before in reality. But still we are experiencing it. Books on time machines, anagrams and algorithms---all help us to think about the things which we would have never thought before. And the most beneficial output that we get through reading books is the questions that they succeed in triggering inside us. These questions drag us into getting deep into a matter until and unless we are quenched with the answer. Innovation is nothing but the solution of one's curiosity and thus books highly help in showing us how to locate for our confusions.
A creative mind is never in vain! So is not a reader. The numerous use of vocabulary, the playing with the words and expressions filter our thinking process. We all know how to talk but very few people know how to express. Books do not restrict themselves to a single topic, and so does not the creativity which they induce. Knowledge gets vastly broadened and thoughts break out of barriers. We start thinking about a particular issue from different perspectives and thus deprive ourselves from being single minded. The tendency of using creativity in our professional field, education and personal life becomes easier for us as we get to know how to reach for them. And anything which comes from heart is unique, is priceless!
Reading helps us to know the different aspects of life and thinking helps us how to make them better. And since one compliments the other, reading is a habit that definitely helps in burnishing our thoughts and imaginations!