Learning Challenge: Reading About Empathy

• These notes are from this article: "How reading makes you more intelligent and empathetic

• This article says that reading makes us healthier, smarter, and more empathic animals
• as a future English teacher, I agree! 
• Reading requires patience, diligence, and determination 
• This is true, like reading is real work! All the decoding, thinking, and the eye strain
• I like how it points out that reading seems like even more work with the social media age- Twitter makes it feel like your reading/learning, but it's not enough to get the workout of reading a book!
• Reading can increase white matter! And it helps information be processed more efficiently!
• Reading also allows us to practice empathy! Sharing other people's emotions. You experience their joy and pain as your own
• Can you learn to understand others more? Yes
• Reading helps with fluid intelligence, reading comprehension and emotional intelligence
• It helps you write better also! 
• This article was fun, but I really already knew most of this information. One thing I didn't consider was the attention aspect of reading. It used to be so easy for me to focus on a book, but now with my smartphone/TV/social media, I find it very hard to concentrate.
• One of the reasons I love to read is because of empathy. 
• You really do care about more people the more you read. It makes you consider and imagine things you never would have thought about. 
• I feel like I become a nicer, more understanding person everytime I read a new book.  
• I would like to learn more about the other ways that reading affects the brain. There has to be something about speaking/word building that only happens when you read
• I also want to know if reading can improve memory. I want to say yes, because I want to have a better memory! 

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Reading and Empathy
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