Name: 閱讀如何重塑你的大腦，讓你更聰明！神經科學揭祕 (Reading Rewires Your Brain for Intelligence | Neuroscience Explains)
Uploaded: 2026-02-01T15:05:41.000Z
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Elon Musk taught himself rocket science by reading textbooks.

Elon Musk 是靠讀課本自學 rocket science 的。

Reading doesn't just give you information.

And in the next five minutes, I'm going to show you exactly how this happens.

在接下來的五分鐘，我會跟你說這到底是怎麼發生的。

你的大腦在看書時 vs. 在滑手機時。

Your brain works in two completely different ways, depending on what you're doing right now.

你的大腦會因為你現在做的事情，而用兩種完全不同的方式在運作。

When you scroll social media, your attention span shrinks to about eight seconds.

滑社群媒體時，你的專注力會縮短到大約八秒。

You get quick dopamine hits, but you retain almost nothing.

你會得到短暫的多巴胺刺激，但幾乎什麼都記不住。

Your brain processes information at the surface level, and

the more you scroll, the harder it becomes to focus on anything that requires deep thinking.

而且你滑得越多，就越難專注於需要深度思考的任何事情。

But when you sit down with a book, everything changes.

但當你坐下來看書時，一切就都改變了。

MIT researchers tracked brain activity during reading sessions.

麻省理工學院的研究人員在閱讀時追蹤了他們的大腦活動。

They found that sustained reading increases your concentration span by 50%, not just while you're reading, but permanently.

他們發現，持續閱讀能讓你的專注力提升 50%，而且不只是在閱讀時，而是永久性的提升。

This is the part of your brain responsible for critical thinking, decision making, planning, and solving complex problems.

這是你大腦中負責批判性思考、決策、規劃和解決複雜問題的部分。

Every time you pick up your phone instead of a book, you're making a choice.

每次你拿起手機而不是書，你都在做一個選擇。

You're choosing between rewiring your brain for distraction or rewiring it for intelligence.

你選擇是要讓大腦變得容易分心，還是要讓大腦變得更聰明。

問題是，是往哪個方向重塑呢？

Now, here's something that surprised even the researchers.

現在，有件事連研究人員都感到驚訝。

Reading fiction makes you better with people.

閱讀小說能讓你更懂得跟人相處。

When you read a novel, you step inside a character's mind.

當你讀一本小說時，你會進入一個角色的腦袋裡。

You experience their thoughts, their fears, their motivations, their conflicts.

你會體驗他們的想法、恐懼、動機和衝突。

Your brain has to simulate what it's like to be someone else.

你的大腦必須模擬別人的感受。

Neuroscientists call this theory of mind, the ability to understand that other people have thoughts and feelings different from your own.

神經科學家稱之為「心智理論」，也就是理解別人有跟你不同的想法和感受的能力。

The same brain regions that activate when you read about a character's emotions are the regions that activate when you interact with real people in your life.

當你閱讀角色情緒時，大腦活躍的區域，跟你在現實生活中與人互動時，活躍的區域是一樣的。

哈佛大學對此進行了一項研究。

They tested thousands of people on emotional intelligence, the ability to read social cues, manage relationships, navigate conflicts.

他們測試了數千人在情商方面的能力，包括解讀社交線索、管理關係、處理衝突。

The people who read fiction regularly scored significantly higher than those who didn't.

經常閱讀小說的人，分數明顯比不閱讀的人高。

Because research consistently shows that emotional intelligence predicts success in relationships, in leadership, in your career, even more reliably than IQ does.

因為研究一再顯示，情商在人際關係、領導力、職業生涯上的預測力，甚至比智商還可靠。

When you read that novel, you're not just being entertained.

當你閱讀小說時，你可不只是在娛樂自己。

You're training your brain to understand the most complex system in the universe.

你正在訓練你的大腦去理解宇宙中最複雜的系統。

其他人類，以及他們的心理模型。

Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's business partner and One of the greatest investors of all time has this concept he calls a latticework of mental models.

查理·蒙格，華倫·巴菲特的事業夥伴，也是史上最偉大的投資者之一，他有一個概念，稱之為「心理模型結構網」。

Mental models are frameworks for understanding how the world works.

心理模型是理解世界運作方式的框架。

And the more mental models you have, the better you think.

你擁有的心理模型越多，思考能力就越好。

When you read philosophy, you gain frameworks for thinking about ethics, meaning, and how to live.

當你閱讀哲學時，你就能獲得思考倫理、意義以及如何生活的框架。

When you read psychology, you understand why people behave the way they do.

當你閱讀心理學時，你就能理解人們為何如此行事。

When you read history, you start recognizing patterns that repeat across time.

當你閱讀歷史時，你會開始辨識出跨越時間不斷重複的模式。

When you read science, you learn to think in terms of systems and evidence.

當你閱讀科學時，你會學著用系統和證據來思考。

But the magic isn't just in learning these models.

但神奇之處不只在於學習這些模型。

Let's say you read a book about evolutionary biology.

假設你讀了一本關於演化生物學的書。

Then you read one about economics, then one about human psychology.

接著你讀一本關於經濟學的書，然後再讀一本關於人類心理學的書。

Suddenly, ideas from one book start illuminating ideas from another.

突然間，一本書裡的點子開始照亮另一本書裡的點子。

You see connections nobody pointed out to you.

你會看到別人沒指點給你的連結。

You develop insights that are uniquely yours.

After a month, you have 30 ideas starting to connect.

一個月後，你有 30 個點子開始串聯起來。

After a year, you have an entirely different operating system running in your brain.

一年後，你的腦子裡就有一個全新的作業系統在運作。

Knowledge builds up like compound interest.

The smartest people aren't born with superior brains.

最聰明的人並不是天生大腦就比較厲害。

They just compound their intelligence every single day through reading.

他們只是每天透過閱讀來讓自己的智慧複利成長。

The neuroscience how reading changes your brain.

神經科學告訴我們閱讀如何改變你的大腦。

你的大腦不是一臺固定的機器。

它會根據你對它的運用而改變。

Here's what happens inside your head when you read.

這就是你閱讀時腦袋裡發生的事。

Your visual cortex decodes symbols on the page into letters.

你的視覺皮質會把紙上的符號解碼成字母。

Your language centers translate those letters into words.

你的語言中樞會把這些字母翻譯成單字。

Your memory systems pull up everything you already know about those words.

你的記憶系統會提取出你對這些單字已知的一切。

And then your brain does something remarkable.

然後你的大腦會做一件很了不起的事。

It creates new connections between neurons.

它會在神經元之間建立新的連結。

Stanford researchers used brain imaging to study what happens when people read.

史丹佛的研究人員利用腦部掃描來研究人們閱讀時發生的情況。

They discovered that reading activates more regions of the brain simultaneously than almost any other activity we do.

他們發現閱讀啟動大腦的區域比我們做的幾乎任何其他活動都多。

Every time you read, you're building new neural pathways.

每次你閱讀，你都在建立新的 Neural Network。

Think of it like adding new roads in a city.

你可以想像成在城市裡新增新的道路。

The more roads you have, the faster you can get from point A to point B.

道路越多，你從 A 點到 B 點的速度就越快。

The more neural pathways you build, the faster and more efficiently your brain processes information.

你建立的 Neural Network 越多，你的大腦處理資訊的速度和效率就越高。

The density of these connections determines how sharp your thinking is, how quickly you solve problems, how well you remember information, how clearly you express ideas.

這些連結的密度決定了你的思考有多敏銳、解決問題的速度有多快、記憶資訊的能力有多好、表達想法有多清晰。

A person who reads regularly for years has a fundamentally different brain structure than someone who doesn't.

一個多年來持續閱讀的人，大腦結構會和從不閱讀的人有根本上的不同。

並不是因為他們天生就比較聰明。

Because reading literally built a smarter brain.

而是因為閱讀真的打造了一個更聰明的大腦。

The challenge so here's what I want you to do.

挑戰來了，所以我想請你做一件事。

First, read for 20 to 30 minutes every single day.

首先，每天都要固定閱讀 20 到 30 分鐘。

Treat it like an appointment with yourself.

把這件事當成你跟自己的約定。

不只是那些輕鬆、舒服的讀物。

Pick something that makes you think hard, that stretches your understanding.

挑一本能讓你深度思考、拓展你理解力的書。

Mix philosophy with psychology, science with history, fiction with biography.

試著把哲學跟心理學、科學跟歷史、小說跟傳記都混著讀。

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