Here is the answer:
...Yes, I read a lot.
My mother made me a member of a library when I was just 12. Since then, I have been an avid reader.
Reading makes you an amazing person from a normal person. It brings the joy and thrill of transporting you to a world which has completely different set of events oblivious of the present world. Reading is a process which requires your full attention and if done properly, triggers a series of electrochemical reactions on encountering disparate events in the book. It makes you a better person. You may not have experienced a lot of things in your life first handedly but it gives you the advantage of experiencing them-in different modes.
Based on what you read, reading will always make you a better person. It will improve your vocabulary, embellish your narration and strengthen your skills of analyzing people and situations.
Reading is an integral part of my life and it's difficult imagining life without it.
Read a lot, read whenever you can and wherever you can.
I am an Indian and 21 in age but because of reading, I know so much about different people, places, feelings, customs, traditions and human behavior. I would have been a lot less knowledgeable if it weren't for reading.
It's never too late to start reading. Grab a book today!
...Yes, I read a lot.
My mother made me a member of a library when I was just 12. Since then, I have been an avid reader.
Reading makes you an amazing person from a normal person. It brings the joy and thrill of transporting you to a world which has completely different set of events oblivious of the present world. Reading is a process which requires your full attention and if done properly, triggers a series of electrochemical reactions on encountering disparate events in the book. It makes you a better person. You may not have experienced a lot of things in your life first handedly but it gives you the advantage of experiencing them-in different modes.
Based on what you read, reading will always make you a better person. It will improve your vocabulary, embellish your narration and strengthen your skills of analyzing people and situations.
Reading is an integral part of my life and it's difficult imagining life without it.
Read a lot, read whenever you can and wherever you can.
I am an Indian and 21 in age but because of reading, I know so much about different people, places, feelings, customs, traditions and human behavior. I would have been a lot less knowledgeable if it weren't for reading.
It's never too late to start reading. Grab a book today!
Is it possible to read a 400-page book in one day? David Raudenbush Jr., educator and journalist, shares his experience:
As an English major, I often had read long novels in a very short amount of time. While reading a 400-page book in one day is not always ideal, it is possible.
There are actually several factors that will determine if you can accomplish this. Your reading speed is only one of them.
Remember a few years ago when the Harry Potter books were extremely popular. Adults and children would line up to get the latest book and they would read it in a day. Comments would show up all over the internet in less than 24 hours.
Those books were 700 pages long, or more.
However, the readers had three factors in their favor: motivation, purpose and level of difficulty. First, the were highly motivated to read the novels. Secondly, the purpose was to read for entertainment. Finally, the reading level of the books wasn't that high. If you can read at a fourth-grade level or higher, JK Rowlings isn't going to trip you up with her vocabulary and sentence structure.
Now, imagine attempting the same thing with an assignment to read Invisible Man for an English class. Your motivation might be strong, getting a good grade in the class. However, your purpose, reading for class, will likely require deeper knowledge of the text. That's going to slow you down. Finally, the text is much more complex demanding a higher reading level. If you know you have a test to take or a paper write, your reading will naturally, and inevitably slow down.
So, the answer to the question depends on three factors:
How motivated are you to read the book?
What is your purpose for reading?
How difficult is the reading level of the text?
As an English major, I often had read long novels in a very short amount of time. While reading a 400-page book in one day is not always ideal, it is possible.
There are actually several factors that will determine if you can accomplish this. Your reading speed is only one of them.
Remember a few years ago when the Harry Potter books were extremely popular. Adults and children would line up to get the latest book and they would read it in a day. Comments would show up all over the internet in less than 24 hours.
Those books were 700 pages long, or more.
However, the readers had three factors in their favor: motivation, purpose and level of difficulty. First, the were highly motivated to read the novels. Secondly, the purpose was to read for entertainment. Finally, the reading level of the books wasn't that high. If you can read at a fourth-grade level or higher, JK Rowlings isn't going to trip you up with her vocabulary and sentence structure.
Now, imagine attempting the same thing with an assignment to read Invisible Man for an English class. Your motivation might be strong, getting a good grade in the class. However, your purpose, reading for class, will likely require deeper knowledge of the text. That's going to slow you down. Finally, the text is much more complex demanding a higher reading level. If you know you have a test to take or a paper write, your reading will naturally, and inevitably slow down.
So, the answer to the question depends on three factors:
How motivated are you to read the book?
What is your purpose for reading?
How difficult is the reading level of the text?
Marvel Comics: Who is more intelligent: Tony Stark or Bruce Banner?
Andrew Wolff on Quora answers this question the following way:
I have to point out that the question asked for a binary choice. Reed Richards and Doctor Doom are both extremely smart, arguably smarter than Tony Stark or Bruce Banner, but the question was: which of the two is more intelligent.
The definition of intelligence is tricky here. Both are commonly classified as "geniuses." Yet I would argue that one cannot measure their intelligence on the same scale.
Tony Stark has a genius for gadgets and engineering. His mind shakes hands and chats with conductors, insulators, composites, and alloys.
Bruce Banner tends toward the biological. DNA, RNA, cytochromes, mitochondria, these are the things his mind finds comfortable rearranging.
Give both of them a dying girl in a hospital bed and Bruce will come up with a serum that will put her back on her feet in a day. Tony will come up with an electromechanical prosthesis that will assume the function of her failing biological system and get her back on her feet in a day.
You see? Both smart, but different smarts.
Andrew Wolff on Quora answers this question the following way:
I have to point out that the question asked for a binary choice. Reed Richards and Doctor Doom are both extremely smart, arguably smarter than Tony Stark or Bruce Banner, but the question was: which of the two is more intelligent.
The definition of intelligence is tricky here. Both are commonly classified as "geniuses." Yet I would argue that one cannot measure their intelligence on the same scale.
Tony Stark has a genius for gadgets and engineering. His mind shakes hands and chats with conductors, insulators, composites, and alloys.
Bruce Banner tends toward the biological. DNA, RNA, cytochromes, mitochondria, these are the things his mind finds comfortable rearranging.
Give both of them a dying girl in a hospital bed and Bruce will come up with a serum that will put her back on her feet in a day. Tony will come up with an electromechanical prosthesis that will assume the function of her failing biological system and get her back on her feet in a day.
You see? Both smart, but different smarts.