Reading

I’ve turned to Sup Forums for advice several times and I often get told to read more often. I started reading the first Game of Thrones novel somewhat recently because I really enjoyed the show. How does reading actually benefit you? And what would you recommend that I read?

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GoT. Yikes. Ok user, read the Bible, read LotR, read anything and everything by Nietzsche. Read Plato's Republic. Read Starship Troopers. Read Sun Tzu's Art of War. 1984, Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange. The Oxbow Incident. Reading exposes your mind to different perspectives and serves as a time machine. You can peer into the minds of some of history's greatest thinkers. It also expands your vocabulary.

>How does reading actually benefit you?
Exposure to new ideas that are longer than 140 characters or shitposts on a Burnei spice trading board. Put down GoT and try one of pic related

Reading in general develops your concentration, focus, and critical thinking if you read actual books and digest them instead of poppy garbage like fucking game of thrones.
Read Storm of Steel, read Hemingway, fuck read some basic bitch philosophy.
On top of that you just might get exposed to new ideas and ideals to enrich yourself with.
But really stop reading shit like GoT. Its worthless masturbatory fiction. If you want the same feel go read an actual history of Europe if the lack of dragons doesnt frighten you off.

This, I fell for the GoT meme and I still regret reading it.

Oryx and Crake. Catch 22. Seawolf. State of Fear. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Pillars of the Earth.

You have poor taste.

It depends what you're in to, books cover literally every topic in existence so you're bound to find something.

Personally I'd recommend pic related. Recent release and probably the most interesting read I've ever had.

Try reading something that doesn't spend 3 paragraphs talking about what horses are wearing.

No.

Yes, your tastes are just mainstream crap and unfocused on any subject matter. All it will do is lead one to have an uninspired mindset.

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>hipster posting this hard

Hahaha so true

GoT is literally stonk womyn queen yaassssss frees the shitskins and takes over the ebil white continent. It couldn't be more obvious kike propaganda.

I'm not a hipster. Hipsters like trendy trash and what's hip. I'm just pointing out most of you guys are quite uncreative and uninspired. It's not a big deal.

What do you read?

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Feel free to start dispensing knowledge O ancient one

This thread: haha xD

Finished Plato's Rebuplic a but ago. It was a bit of a slow read but it paralleled a lot of modern politics and social structures we see in the west. It also illustrates/foresees a breakdown of the system because of modern culture and politics. Not only does it give you historical failures and successes to learn from, it can offer a roadmap in navigating new ideas and theories being talked about. Reading Atlas Shrugged now, and the book is making me think of ideas on how to start a business and succeed where others have failed. It also outlines the importance of a public image and political backers. The better question is how do books NOT help?

I dont know what's all the hate for asoiaf, I've read 4 books and I enjoyed it. It's great fantasy, really. And you can learn a few things from the heroes of the novel because it steers away from the usual fantasy cliche.

>i started reading
>fucking fictional world with zero benefit
Sage

Reading is incredibly important for your mind. It not only expands your vocabulary, but it improves your imagination, and to a certain degree, your ability to think.
As for books, I recommend a combination of fiction and nonfiction. The nonfiction expands your knowledge, and the fiction is both pleasant to read and helps your imagination.
Read some Steven Pinker (start with Language, Cognition, and Human Nature). I'm currently reading some of his works, and they're fascinating. As for fiction, I'm not a good source for reading materials, but the Rot and Ruin series is pretty good in my opinion.
The most important part of reading is to do it often. Read a little bit every day, if you can. Doesn't have to be a lot, but the more you can the better.

>Steven Pinker (start with Language, Cognition, and Human Nature).
He's not very good. I have a lot of better cognitive Neuroscientists to recommend. It depends what area of the field intrigues you though.

>Rot and Ruin series
Sounds like superficial, shallow trash.

Prefereably you shouldn't read shitty pulp. Non-fiction or some of the classics if you're thirsty for something with a plot, but even in that case history books are agood substitute.

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You're right on both points, actually. They're just good places to start, because it doesn't sound like OP reads much. Who's in your neuroscientist catalog?

Just read OP.
Does not really matter what you read as long as you keep picking the book back up.
If you find a book boring just stop reading and find something new

You're better off just reading a textbook (or skimming to the parts that interest you). Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain by Mark F. Bear was what we used in my Neuroscience Intro class. If any subject avenue interests you afterewards, then I recommend looking into journal articles.