So e’erybody is on this Keto craze and that’s cool and all, but is reading a part of your workout routine?
If you are over there drastically reducing carbs, loading up on fats and hitting a weekly spin class while claiming that you cannot read a book, well you and I cannot be friends. You heard it here: Reading is SoulCycle for your brain.
No, seriously. Don’t try to bribe me with food. Save your pancake recipe made with coconut flour. I. Don’t. Want. It. All of my friends read for pleasure and some for work and some just to be one up on 45’s nonsense. Reading and writing go together like peanut butter and jelly; like four chicken wings and fried rice; like Bey and Jay.
Listen, it makes no sense to be a hottie with a body, but your brain is a bowl of lumpy ass oatmeal.
Oh, that’s where reading comes in. The science people, the ones who research and study brains and stuff, said that reading can protect thinking and memory skills as we age—and it helps us live longer.
This is enough reason to thank Lavar Burton for that Reading Rainbow.
Somewhere someone is singing…`
Butterflies in the sky, I can go twice as high. Take a look. It’s in a book. It’s Reading Rainbowwwwww.
For writers, reading is especially crucial. Why? Well, I thought you’d never ask. Check the video for my thoughts about how reading boosts your creativity, vocabulary and spelling. Oh, and for my friends riding the back wheel of the grammar bus, reading helps you out too.
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