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充實(shí)你的思想
Feed Your Mind

【心靈感悟】

培根曾在《論讀書》里說過：“讀史使人明智，讀詩(shī)使人靈秀，數(shù)學(xué)使人周密，科學(xué)使人深刻，倫理學(xué)使人莊重，邏輯修辭之學(xué)使人善辯，凡有所學(xué)，皆成性格?！倍喿x作為讀書最重要的途徑，通過閱讀，我們不僅能夠獲得前人的智慧，也能拓寬自己的視野，書籍可打破時(shí)空的局限，暢游在過去和現(xiàn)在之間，借助智者的視角，去尋找真知。

【英語(yǔ)原文】

Hunger of the mind can be actually satiated through extensive reading. Now why reading and not watching TV? Because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from the childhood. Just like that to develop other aspects of our life, we have to take help of reading. You have innumerable number of books in this world which will answer all your "How to?" questions. Once you read a book, you just don't run your eyes through the lines, but even your mind decodes it and explains it to you. The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed. Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas. The same seed if used many times, can help you link and relate a lot of things, of which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing but creativity. More the number of books you read, your mind will open up like never before.

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事實(shí)上，思維的饑荒可以通過廣泛的閱讀來滿足。為什么是閱讀而不是選擇看電視呢？因?yàn)樽院⑻釙r(shí)代起，讀書就已經(jīng)是最具教育性的工具了。正如人生發(fā)展的其他方面一樣，我們不得不求助于閱讀。世界上有無(wú)數(shù)書籍可以回答你“如何做”的問題。讀書時(shí)不僅要用眼睛瀏覽文字，還要用腦去解讀、詮釋。書中有趣的部分就會(huì)像種子一樣儲(chǔ)存在你的腦海里。將來你會(huì)不自覺地運(yùn)用這粒種子引發(fā)新的想法。多次運(yùn)用這粒種子將有助于你把許多事情聯(lián)系起來，即使你做夢(mèng)都想不到這些！這不是別的，就是創(chuàng)造力！你讀的書越多，你的心智就會(huì)前所未有地開闊。