Importance Of Reading Books In Our Life

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LIVE A THOUSAND LIVES WITH JUST ONE SOUL.
A good book has the power to change our lives, unlike any other thing. But with the rapid advancement of technology, people seem to have forgotten the simple joys good inspirational and motivational books could bring. Reading books let us travel through different worlds as Dr JOHN MAXWELL, the trusted leadership mentor succinctly put it thus in his book " 360 degree leader" it's through book that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds ... in the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts and pour their souls into ours. They are the voices of the distant and the dead and make us heirs of the spiritual life of the ages" There is no right book for anyone. That’s because a book automatically becomes the right one for you, once you start reading it. Big or small, fiction or nonfiction, biography or autobiography, reading books has the power to change your perspective on life. Let’s find out how:
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Every book that we read opens up a world of different characters, different storylines and different locations. Reading requires us to open up our mind to the world of imagination to experience our own perspective of the story. Our imagination and creativity automatically increase as we are enlightened with all the knowledge from a book. Reading books of sound minds increases our intelligent quotent,wide our Len and approaches towards obstacles of life and also tilt us a bigger bit ahead of our course mates and friends in and outside

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