Who is a reading person? Why people who love to read are better than others

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Well... I bought this excellent collection from 1983, of fantastic quality, on excellent paper, with beautiful illustrations, the other day for 10 rubles at the Olympic Fair. In the same “heap” for the same 10 rubles there were quite a few good publications, incl. classical literature. The seller generally seemed to have no idea who she had laying around there and what the selection criteria were. But the deepest impression on me was that 50% of second-hand book sellers to whom I asked with the question “do you have Celine”, scratching their turnips, answered that “Celine is probably not there, but there is Selinger. Will you take it?” Indeed, what is the difference in essence... The surnames are almost the same root :)

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Recently, the fashion for reading, fortunately, is gaining momentum. A person who does not read books is perceived by most young people as limited and not having a sufficient level of intelligence. No matter how rude it may sound, it’s really worth thinking about the horizons of a person, which is limited to glossy magazines/imageboards/news feeds on social networks - emphasize what is necessary.

But I will not be ironic about those who neglect literature. A friend of mine (who doesn’t read, of course) once said the phrase: “What’s the point of reading, it doesn’t bring any benefit.” At that moment, I completely lost all words from indignation. After all, a person who loves books knows very well about the benefits of reading.

Therefore, in this article I want to take revenge from my friend and talk to you about the benefits of reading.

1. A person who reads always has an advantage over those who neglect reading.

First of all, a well-read person is always one step higher than someone who can count the books he has read in his life on his fingers. And here we mean the attractiveness of the reading person to the opposite sex. Remember the slogan of the series “The Big Bang Theory”, which read “Smart is the new sexy”? When a person comes out of that age when a partner’s appearance meant literally everything, there is a desire to see in his partner not only a beautiful picture, but also an interesting interlocutor. What can you talk about with a person who doesn’t read?

2. When you read, your imagination works to its fullest.

Isn't this a reason for a creative person to read a lot? Only a book lover knows this feeling of disappointment while watching another film adaptation of another book. After all, while reading the filmed book, you imagined everything completely differently, brighter, richer, more beautiful. And then a significant part of the work was thrown out, the event was depicted differently from how it was described in the book, and the main character is generally strange...

3. You have something to keep yourself busy.

Imagine the situation: you just woke up, it’s wildly cold outside, so neither you nor your friends have any desire to leave the house. Your day turned out to be completely free, and you planned to spend it watching movies, TV series or a computer game. And then, because of an accident, the power at the station is turned off for the whole day. What to do? Horrible! But you have an excellent way out of the situation - a book. And for the whole day you are immersed in another world, watching your own movie in your imagination, which is much better than the films you wanted to watch. What would a person who doesn’t read books do in such a situation?

4. The book allows you to escape from your problems for a while.

And you won't need a large amount of alcohol or anything else to forget. Just pick up a good book and start reading it. After a couple of dozen pages, you won’t notice how you stop thinking about your problems. You will simply escape to another world for a while. And who knows, perhaps in this book you will find a solution to your problems.

5. Books give you a deeper view of the world.

As you read, you become calmer, make more informed decisions, and choose your social circle more carefully. And this is not due to the fact that after reading a dozen books you gained a lot of knowledge. It’s just that any book requires the reader to think about what is happening in it. And this habit of thinking about a work carries over to events in real life.

6. Reading brings variety to life.

If you don’t have the opportunity to go on a trip around the world right now, read a book about a country or about such a trip. When you and the main character return home from long wanderings, you will notice that your desire for a change of scenery has been slightly satisfied. Of course, books cannot replace a real trip, but an adventure novel will act on you like a vitamin against the blues.

7. You will make new acquaintances and friends.

Books bring people together. Every person who reads knows those moments when it turns out that someone you know also read the book you recently read, and it also changed his mind. There is nothing more pleasant than sharing your impressions of what you read and finding support in the words of your interlocutor. And, of course, in the age of the Internet, you can discuss books on forums or somewhere else and find new like-minded people.

8. You will have something to pass on to your children.

And here the books themselves fade into the background. The important thing is that you have enough information and knowledge to give your child practical and wise advice. A developed imagination will allow you to come up with your own fairy tales, and a parent who tells a fairy tale rather than reads it is much more admired by the child. Well, you can come up with a more interesting story.

9. It is easier for people who read to learn.

This pattern has been noticed for a long time - a person who reads books is easier to learn than one who neglects literature. It is not known what exactly gives such a result - more developed thinking or already acquired perseverance - but the fact remains a fact.

10. Beautiful speech.

A book lover will outshine a person who prefers to avoid reading. And there is absolutely no pleasure in communicating with someone who has a meager vocabulary. Who wants to wait until the interlocutor remembers the right word, replacing the gap in speech with a moo like: “Uh... well... that's... sort of... in short.”

In conclusion of the article, I want to say that you should not go to extremes and replace all types of activities with reading. There are many worthwhile films, the Internet is full of useful information, and computer games can also develop some skills. So, keep a balance in your hobbies and develop yourself.

A PERSON WHO READS IS A SUCCESSFUL PERSON!

(speech at the regional conference “Russian Language Days”;

May, 2013-2014 academic year)

Hello! I am a student of class 5A at Kozhevnikovsky School No. 1 Maria Usacheva, I present to your attention the work that we did together with my classmate Karina Agapova, and it is called “A person who reads is a successful person.”

From childhood we are told that “A book is a source of wisdom and knowledge.” This is certainly true. Although you don’t see actively reading schoolchildren very often these days. For example, some of our friends honestly admit that they don’t read anything at all. And they say that reading books is a waste of time. And this saddens us. The book contains untold riches, it reflects the entire human experience. That is why the answer that is often heard in lessons in our class is surprising: “I read it, but I didn’t understand anything.” Two conclusions can be drawn from this:

1) read inattentively, thoughtlessly;

2) didn’t read at all.

The book is an indispensable tool that helps to form moral principles, moral principles and cultural values.

From early childhood, a person gets acquainted with books. They will accompany him throughout his life. They will be his constant companions, help him understand difficult issues, and solve the most important problems in life.

The book teaches us to be kinder, softer to each other, teaches mercy and empathy. She becomes our faithful friend at a difficult moment, when we need to find the only solution that will help us get out of the current situation.

A book is truly a reliable friend. You can contact her with any question. Books are our irreplaceable helpers.

The role of books in human life is great. Without it, neither education nor the culture of our society would be possible. It is the book that stores everything that humanity has accumulated over all the centuries of its existence in various fields.

Well, now I want to talk about the role of reading in our class.This school year, our class took part in the school competition “The Most Active Reading Class.” Based on the results of the first half of the yearwe took first placeand we are very proud of the result, we want to continue to be active users of libraries and participants in competitions aimed at developing reading abilities.

We keep a classroom reading diary, where we place materials from extracurricular reading lessons, open lessons, photographs from classroom reading and educational and research conferences, paste in illustrations for works of fiction, and write syncwines on various “reader’s” topics. I brought our cool reading diary and want to show it to you. (PASS THE DIARY TO THE FIRST ROW)

In our class, reading competitions are held, which develop our speech and cultivate a love for books. For example, participantsreading competition dedicated to M. Yu. Lermontov, steel 20 our classmates(out of 23). In the competition"Attempt at writing" (as part of an open event dedicated to M.V. Lomonosov), 4 students from the class they wrote poems in honor of the great Russian scientist. They passed us and2 educational and research conferences, in preparation for which we studied encyclopedic and documentary literature, and learned to work with Internet sources.5 students in classtook part in the school stage of the competition"Living classic" two represented our school at the district level, one of our classmatesbecame the winner of the competition. Our class regularly conducts To Classroom on promoting reading among peers.

We keep in touch not only with the school library, but also with the central library. Three times during this academic year we attended educational literary events organized by library staff. Thus, we can conclude that students in grade 5A actively participate in activities aimed at developing speech, broadening their horizons, developing creative abilities, and draw strength and inspiration from books.

After we conducted a survey in class to find out what our classmates like to read, how often and for how long they read, we concluded: some children in our class do not want to read, do not want to visit the library, preferring to look for information in Internet networks.

We see a close connection between reading and grades in Russian. Without daily thoughtful reading, it is impossible to become a literate person.

Today, in the age of computerization and the dominance of videos, young people need to read. And not only because the book is a source of knowledge. Reading enriches the reader’s inner world, develops feelings, makes you think about yourself and others, and teaches you to be attentive to what is happening around you. By reading books, we broaden our horizons, enrich our vocabulary, and develop our memory.

We hope that in the future the situation will change, and Her Majesty the Book will take its rightful place in the lives of each of us.

Understanding other people, their feelings and emotions is an important prerequisite for effective communication and the ability to find Therefore, most would like to know how to read people, whether it is possible to guess from facial expressions and gestures what a person is thinking about, and how to use this information in communication and cooperation. Such mutual understanding of each other could significantly reduce the time spent searching for sincere interlocutors and weeding out unsuitable people in life.

Why do you need the ability to understand people?

One could say that it is not necessary to understand the people around you, there is no need to learn to read them like books, because you can communicate without this knowledge. But modern society requires communicative skills in almost any field of activity. Therefore, you need to increase your emotional intelligence, learn to understand other people and apply this knowledge in practice.

The ability to read people like open books will help you build a dialogue more easily, quickly come to a common opinion, and achieve your goals. This is especially important when working with people; this skill is useful to every leader. When it is necessary to achieve a certain return from subordinates, you need to understand how to get it with the least amount of effort.

Basic rules for understanding your interlocutor

Before trying to read a person like a book, it is important to understand that we learn most of the information about the interlocutor from non-verbal signals, facial expressions, and gestures. And when a person says one thing, but the position of his body and facial expression say something else, the interlocutor develops a double understanding of the situation. And often non-verbal signals inspire more trust.

Another factor to keep in mind to understand how to read a person like a book is to understand their needs and wants. Every conversation has a purpose, every collaboration and communication leads to certain results. Understanding these goals and desires of your interlocutor will make it possible to correctly interpret all his words and emotions.

It’s not for nothing that they say: “People are like books, and we read them.” Any gesture, look, sigh, change can say much more than a spoken phrase or voiced thought.

The meaning of facial expressions

Many would like to know how to learn to read people like a book, and the first clear page in this “book” may be the ability to understand facial expressions. And not just one part of the face, but a complex. After all, it often happens that the lips smile, but there is anger or hatred in the eyes. The main points of understanding facial expressions include the following:

1. When a person is truly happy, he smiles not only with the corners of his lips, his cheeks also rise, and the muscles around the eyes are activated.
2. When experiencing disgust or dislike for something, a person’s upper lip rises, and the skin on the forehead near the bridge of the nose wrinkles.
3. If anger is growing in a person’s soul, his lips will be tightly compressed and his eyebrows will be drawn together in the center of the bridge of his nose.
4. When a person is sad or sad, the outer corners of their eyes droop, as do their lips. The gaze becomes distracted.
5. A person who is afraid of something involuntarily widens his eyes and opens his mouth slightly. Horizontal folds appear on the forehead.

By remembering these simple signs, you can quickly figure out how to read people, and eventually succeed in this.

Related factors for understanding interlocutors

When trying to understand and “read” another person, it is important to take into account his life circumstances, hobbies, marital status, health, mood and other important factors. For example, you can often hear complaints from friends about lack of money. But when these words come from an unemployed, lonely person, there is more sympathy for him and a desire to help than from a hard worker who simply does not know how to allocate expenses.

It is important not only what circumstances have developed in the life of a particular person, but also how he relates to them. Understanding this will give a direct answer to the question of how to read people. After all, one person treats even lack of money with ease and confidence that he can cope, while the other falls into despair and seeks help and support from others. Therefore, it is pointless to draw conclusions from facts alone; one must also take into account various accompanying factors in the life of the interlocutor.

Eyes are the mirror of the soul

A person’s eyes, like no other part of the body or face, can help to understand the interlocutor and find a common language with him. By the eyes you can understand a person’s mood, well-being, and even recognize when he is telling the truth and when he is lying. It is much easier to read the eyes of close and familiar people than with strangers. The eyes of a loved one are familiar and understandable, their reaction to certain words is remembered over time, and even reading thoughts from their eyes becomes possible.

To understand the eyes of a stranger, you can remember several basic signs:

1. If the eyes are wide open and shining, this most likely means the interlocutor is interested and enthusiastic.
2. By how often a person averts his eyes, interested in his surroundings, we can conclude how involved he is in the conversation.
3. If the interlocutor averts his eyes, most likely he does not want to talk or assumes deception.
4. A dull look and constricted pupils indicate a negative attitude towards the interlocutor or the topic of conversation.

The eyes can say a lot, and an observant interlocutor can understand much more than the lips say.

Ability to ask questions correctly

To understand how to read people and connect with them, it is important to be able to ask the right questions. Sometimes what matters more is not what to ask, but how to ask it. After all, the same question can be asked in different ways.

To understand a person, you need to be interested in his opinion and attitude to the situation, and not just listen to a dry presentation of facts. The following questions will help with this:

1. Why did you do this?
2. How did you feel at that moment?
3. What are you going to do next?
4. What help do you need?

In order for a person to open up and become understandable, it is important to earn his trust. And this can only be done by being sincerely interested in the life and well-being of your interlocutor.

While studying at school, and then at university, entering adulthood, almost every person visits the library. Some people consider this place to be special, others perceive the library as a huge “warehouse” of books.

To learn more deeply what a library is, as well as to understand the impact it can have on a person, we decided to talk with the director of the Centralized Library System named after N.V. Gogol by Vera Vasilievna Skalenchuk.

- Is your education related to your current job?

I graduated from the library department of the Kemerovo Institute of Culture, and my whole life is connected with this profession.

- Do you now think that your choice of profession was conscious?

Many years have passed since that time. The idea of ​​the profession has changed several times. But I believe that the choice of profession was conscious from the very beginning. I have always looked at librarians as people from some other life. As a child, and then as a teenager, I visited the library very often; I simply adored its atmosphere. However, when I graduated from school, I thought that I would be a teacher. Then, when I was already working in my specialty, I had to collaborate with educational institutions. I was told that I have a teaching gift. It only helped me in my work. At the initial stage, I was the head of the youth department. I always managed to find a common language with the guys. Pedagogical abilities came in handy many times later. Working in a team with different people, it was necessary to be able to find an approach to each person.

- Does college prepare a person for a big, adult life, or do you have to learn everything all over again after graduation?

I can talk about my profession. The theoretical knowledge that the educational institution gives us is slightly different from practice. In the last years we had textbooks and disciplines on organizing work. However, during our educational practice, we saw the work not as the reader sees it, but as if from the inside. Many of us had traditional ideas about the library as a place where it is cozy, comfortable, and pleasant to be. When we started working, we began to understand that great effort had to be made, including physical effort, to make everything truly convenient and comfortable for the reader.

- Do you think that when choosing your path, you should listen to the opinions of others or should you only believe in yourself?

Listening is never harmful, but a person must always make the choice himself. I don’t remember my parents or anyone else telling me what profession to choose. It so happened that I chose this profession not on advice, and apparently not on my own. Sometimes chance plays a big role. Our institute was just opening, and I decided to try to enroll. It turned out that this choice was to some extent random.

- Can a person who has chosen an unloved profession realize himself in work?

I think not. You need to love your profession. If the work is burdensome, then you will be able to perform it technically well, you will study the entire mechanism of the work, but you will never put your soul into it. But what satisfaction can there be from work if you don’t bring anything of your own into it, if you don’t live by this work, if, while doing work, you think about something extraneous?

- How do you feel about the fact that more and more people use the Internet to obtain information and less and less go to libraries?

I take this for granted. It is no longer possible to influence this situation. The era of the Internet has arrived, and our halls are noticeably empty, but the course of history cannot be changed. Naturally, the Internet is a very convenient and fast way to search for information. Through the Internet, a person can find resources that we cannot offer. No library can have all sources. We ourselves actively use new technologies. On our website we post an electronic catalog of books and the full texts of some local history publications. More than 43 thousand people visited our website in 2011. A second computer room was opened in the Central Library. All branches have the opportunity to work on the Internet.

- Is it possible that over time real books will be completely replaced by electronic books and the Internet?

Probably not. Firstly, because there is a huge difference between reading from a screen and reading a book. The happiness of communicating with a traditional paper book and immersing yourself in what you are reading cannot be compared with reading an electronic book. But I'm talking specifically about fiction. What excitement you feel when you pick up a book, for example, from the last century. This cannot be expressed in words.

- Are there books in the library’s collection that are rarities?

We have books from the 19th – early 20th centuries, Pushkin’s lifetime editions. The collection of such books includes about two thousand copies. These include fiction, educational, and encyclopedic publications. By the way, we have a complete electronic catalog of these publications. The further we get from that time, the more valuable these publications become. And you always feel excited when you deal with such a book. Each book has its own story. How did she get to us? What kind of hands was she in?

- Do you think a person who reads and a person who doesn’t like to read look at life differently?

A reading person is generally a deep person. He has a special spiritual world that allows him to be deeper and more versatile. A person who does not read simply limits himself. Books teach a person to live and see. I'm not even talking about poetry, which generally inspires and gives an incentive to life. Prose, especially classics, creates a certain vision of the world. A reading person is a very interesting conversationalist. Conversations with such a person are always very meaningful. You can always find out something, learn something from him. When you communicate with people who read, you want to talk to them again and again.

- Which books influenced you specifically?

Classic literature accompanies a person throughout his life. No matter how many times you read such works, so many times you will discover something new for yourself in them, because this is very deep literature. Therefore, first of all, I was influenced by classical literature. This literature is bottomless, which is why, in my opinion, it is and will always be the basis of our development.

- Recently, Vladimir Putin proposed making a list of one hundred books that every graduate should read on their own. He suggested creating this list with the help of cultural authorities. How do you feel about this idea?

One hundred books is somehow artificial, a round number chosen. I don't think it's necessary to stick to certain numbers. But the idea of ​​recommending the most valuable books to young people is not a bad one. It would be good if this list included both classics and modern books. Such a list should include both Russian and world literature. It should also include scientific literature. In my opinion, people recommending books for this list should be well-known cultural and scientific figures, recognized as authorities. By the way, our library has published the book “Among Book Worlds,” in which our honorable readers share their literary preferences and recommend books that influenced their worldview and their lives.

- Do reader preferences change over time?

Certainly. Once upon a time there were queues for books that are now at used bookstores. Once upon a time we tried to subscribe to the classics, to collected works, but now our children and grandchildren are getting rid of this literature and bringing it to us. If earlier there was a huge demand for foreign and Russian classics, now almost no one is interested in this literature.

- Are there many young people among the library’s readers?

According to statistics, about fifty percent of library readers are young people. Previously, the halls were simply overcrowded with young people; they made up about seventy percent of the readers. Unfortunately, there is a clear trend towards a decrease in the number of young readers. They prefer to visit the library virtually by visiting our websites.

- How does lack of interest in reading affect the level of youth culture?

There is currently a decline in the literacy rate of young people. And this suggests that young people are reading less. When a person does not read, he does not see the correct, good text in front of him. In addition, a reading, thinking person behaves more culturally and expresses his thoughts logically, unlike people who do not read. I understand that in our time some new forms of communication are appearing, new words are included in speech, but still the basis of people’s communication should be a literary language.

- Is it possible now, in your opinion, to increase interest in reading?

We try our best to attract all segments of the population to read, this is the main goal of the library. We do not lose hope that it is possible to revive interest in reading. Nowadays, almost from kindergarten onwards, they are trying to instill in children an interest in books. We have developed a program to teach children to read. But it is important that the love of reading is instilled in the family. Of course, a person can come to the book on his own. A love of reading can appear even in adulthood, because it is never too late to pick up a book. Therefore, we believe that it is possible to increase the level of reading culture.

- Finally, what would you like to wish and maybe even recommend to our readers?

Skalenchuk, V.V. “A person who reads is a deep person” [Text]: [interview with Skalenchuk V.V.] / Ekaterina Pyatibratova // Kuznetsk worker. - 2012. - May 5 (No. 51). - P. 2: photo.