Terminalcoffee discussion

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/the_b...

Reading makes you not only intellectually smarter, but socially as well. I feel like this is kind of a "duh" revelation, but I thought the article/blog entry was interesting all the same.

Thoughts?

I knew it
...cuz I'm smart! :)

I wonder what my social skills would be like if I didn't read.

I'm not sure I'm buying any of it.

I don't think so! I have NO social skills and I read all the time!!

I think it all comes down to the pool of individuals they chose to test. I know reading has never improved my social skills, though it may have made me more empathetic because fiction allows you to look through the eyes of so many different types of people.

Linda wrote: "I don't think so! I have NO social skills and I read all the time!!"

Ditto.

Smarter than your non-reading self, I imagine.

BunWat wrote: "I would send my non reading self a note to ask whose smarter but she wouldn't read it."

Whose what?

If you have to ask Phil...

Whose Booze?

Jim wrote: "If you have to ask Phil..."

Ask Phil what?

If I didn't read I wouldn't have joined Goodreads and met all of you fun people, so I would say it has enriched my social life.

I never saw my parents reading a book until I was an adult. However, my dad read fairy tales and picture books to my sister and I. I always saw them reading many magazines ( 2 or 3 a week would come to the house) and newspapers. I loved the concept of reading. to me it was magic. a story coming from letters of the alphabet. I still love a good story and probably always will. I prefer reading to tv because for the most part I prefer my own images produced by my brain cells to those of others. I read both for pleasure and education.

There are only 2 movies I consider as good as the book: "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Doctor Zhivago". I read to my son from the day he was born. mostly silly rhymes, Dr. Seuss which remained his childhood favorite. He is now 43 and still reads quite a bit.

Michele wrote: "There are only 2 movies I consider as good as the book: "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Doctor Zhivago". I read to my son from the day he was born. mostly silly rhymes, Dr. Seuss which remained his ch..."

I would add The Shawskank Redemption to that list. Way better than the short story.

Ha! I read your message too fast, Charly, and thought you implied that NBC did a 23 hour miniseries on a Sesame Street book of D words.
I was very entertained by the concept.
"Coming next week to NBC...the show people are calling DRAMATIC, DAZZLING, and DARING...from the producers of Follow That Bird comes an epic story of danger and disobedience in the Dark Ages..."

BunWat wrote: "Phil wrote: "BunWat wrote: "I would send my non reading self a note to ask whose smarter but she wouldn't read it."

Whose what?"

Whose damn smarter phone keeps editing her comments with its p..."



.Heh.