Do you want to read? What is the difference between reading and not reading?

Reading is really an old topic, which makes it difficult to write new ideas. But we still need to write today, but if the conclusion of today's article is that books are the ladder of human progress, we should read more books and read good books, then there is no need to write today's article. So, let's write something different today. What is reading? What is the essence of reading.

Why do we read? Why do we read. Before we ask the essence of reading, we should first ask what is the essence of books.

The emergence of words has subversively changed the way people retain and disseminate information, and directly increased the forward rate of human cultural development by an order of magnitude.

To say what is the greatest invention of mankind, I personally think it is the creation of words. The emergence of words, so that the original can only exist in people's memory, can only be passed down from mouth to mouth experience can be accurately recorded and preserved, and can be read by anyone.

The inheritance of human cultural experience, as well as the dissemination of information, directly achieved a leap at the moment of the emergence of words. Since then, the development speed of human civilization has been transferred from the green train to the rocket. You should know how difficult and long it was to learn a skill from a master in ancient times. After three years of worship, starting with sweeping the floor and fetching water, the master was happy to pass on half of your moves. Finally, he had to hold on for fear of teaching his apprentice to starve to death. Today, you can only use your hands to search the Internet, and countless materials will come to your eyes. Even programming, copywriting, design and other high-level skills that do not require high requirements for the hard environment. You only need to have a computer that can connect to the Internet at home, and you can complete the learning from entry to proficiency. All this convenience can be achieved on the basis of the emergence of words, which makes the cost of carrying and disseminating information low enough and efficient enough.

Book is the carrier of words. What is the essence of book? It is the record and inheritance of human experience in various fields.

What we read is what others summarize and share their experience in this field in their field. (this article does not talk about novels, essays and other purely recreational reading, so don't be too clever.) Why do we read it? Because we have problems that cannot be solved, or for a certain purpose, we need to solve them with the help of others' method experience. When many people mention reading, they always think of how many books they have bought to read in the reading examination at school.

As everyone knows, communicating with others is reading books, watching videos is reading books, browsing information, brushing short videos, and even traveling. These behaviors that can make you gain artistic experience can be called "reading".

Instead of having to sit on a stool with a book in your arms and read it solemnly, it is called reading.

It solves the problem of what is reading and why to read (the book here refers to the book in the traditional sense). Of course, our purpose of reading is to gain experience and technical excellence, and there are also various ways of doing "reading". Why is reading books the most recommended way? Because it is cheap and convenient enough and has enough system.

If you think about it, for dozens of yuan for a book, you can bring home the most cutting-edge and systematic experience of the best in this field. In this age when ordering a takeout and drinking a cup of milk tea are both in the twenties and thirties, it's simply not too cheap. As long as there is a sentence in the book, a concept and a knowledge point can help you, the return is at least hundreds of times, and Buffett's return on investment can't catch up with this return on investment.

Cheap, convenient and high return rate is an advantage of reading. A more important function is that books enable you to systematically understand, recognize and learn an industry. Being able to see both forests and trees is a core keyword. Many times when you analyze a thing, you can only draw a superficial conclusion, and others can have profound insights. In addition to others' rich background knowledge points, others can put a single point they see into their own knowledge system, and connect this single point with other knowledge, so that they can analyze a thing from a broader and deeper dimension, Naturally, he can draw a deeper conclusion than you.

Therefore, pay attention to me, read more books together, and read good books.