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Hello, my name is Bren Booth-Jones.
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It's good to see you.
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Come on in.
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In today's video, we are going to talk about three ways that you can use reading books to slow your brain's aging.
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There is some fascinating scientific research into the ways
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that we can combat that deterioration of our gray matter through very practical and fun and easily applicable habits.
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And I want to funnel some of the key findings of this research through the practice of reading books
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and encourage any of you watching this to seriously consider building a reading habit into your life.
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I will leave a link to an article to the BBC which is a good popular overview of some of this research.
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There are links within that BBC article to more specialized academic papers.
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Okay first of all this might seem obvious reading books making
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a habit of reading every day certainly every week of your life
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but I want to kind of elaborate on that principle a little bit more.
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For those of you
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that you know are regular viewers of this channel of course we talk about reading and about the reading life,
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the literary life all the time but in terms of enhancing your cognitive
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and neurological longevity I want to talk about challenging yourself through your reading.
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So research in neuroscience science shows that challenging oneself,
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giving oneself a rigorous mental and intellectual diet,
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learning new ideas, new skills,
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this is a very key way to keep your brain healthy and high functioning.
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And so of course reading is one of the first things
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that scientists would suggest as a way to keep yourself mentally engaged.
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But we can also become complacent as readers,
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especially when it is something that you have spent years and years or perhaps a lifetime doing
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we can kind of get into a comfortable frictionless rhythm reading books that are very familiar to us
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or genres that we're comfortable in books that entertain us more than enhance
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and evolve our thinking our methodologies our philosophies our critical frameworks and our phenomenological perceptions of the world.
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So I want to encourage you to not just read books
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that you're comfortable with but to actually inject into your reading diet works that have friction,
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that resist easy access, that offer new realms of thought,
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new stylistic approaches and with that sense of unfamiliar,
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with that sense of having to grope and scramble and clamber your way into those works you really
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and a sort of cognitive robustness a workout to to your reading and and thereby
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continue to build up a kind of gray matter muscle memory
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that will only serve you in the long term with healthier brain function
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so you could read in different languages
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and reading books in foreign languages is always a good way
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to learn languages read genres outside of the kind of comfortable circumference of what you're used to,
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read books from different time periods,
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different cultures, read works of formal daring,
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read lesser-known works, read works that challenge the status quo,
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read books that add voltage and a kind of locomotive force to your reasoning,
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to your contact with the world,
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works that fine-tune your empathy and your cognition and your volition.
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Okay, so let's look at an example from my own reading life.
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For those of you that watch the channel regularly,
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you know that I live in the Netherlands,
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that I'm a fluent Dutch speaker but I'm not a native Dutch speaker
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and so I'm always striving towards a higher level of fluency in my Dutch
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and so you know a good way to challenge myself is to read works of high seriousness
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and density in Dutch translation
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and I'm now reading Kafka in Dutch I've read everything he's written in English translation
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and perhaps one day I'll be able to read him in his original german
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but for now a sort of intermediary step is to read kafka in dutch translation
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so there's a couple of sort of levels of resistance there
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which are cognitively stimulating now what if you're somebody
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that just has never gotten into reading but you're open to starting
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that wondrously rich and rewarding journey don't be ashamed it's never too late to start.
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I have made a video talking about some books that are great gateways into literature,
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so I will leave a link for that video.
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Okay, the second activity that is scientifically proven to enhance your brain function
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and to ward off early signs of dementia and decomposition of your
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mental faculties research shows
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that staying socially active is is a key way to ward off mental decline
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and to consolidate your brain function and the dynamism of your synapses
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so how can we apply this principle to the the reading
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life we tend to think of reading as a very solitary activity something
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that gives us this private epiphany to inspire means to literally to breathe in
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but if we substitute inspire with conspire we can then think of breathing together
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and plumb profound depths of understanding through exploring the bookish life together
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and that's all very well you say but how can i practically get involved in a kind of communal
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bookish activity well i would say join a book club
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or join a reading community
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and we are blessed in 2026 to have such a massive
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panoply of options available for people in any far-flung corner of
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the world you might be lucky enough to have reading groups book clubs
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or other book related social events in your you know immediate vicinity.
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I'm very lucky to live in Rotterdam and I have a wonderful communal space in the city called Het Verheijs.
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It's in this gorgeous historical building and it's a very community-centered space for writing and for reading.
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There's workshops, there's all kinds of cool things happening here and yeah I'm I'm very lucky to have that.
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In fact, I do have to take the opportunity to say
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that I have an event coming up later this year in
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the Fear House with Sarah Ladipo-Munyeka a phenomenal multi-talented writer who
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I've talked about on the channel before we've talked about some of her books we are doing an event together
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so I will be posting more about that in due course
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but yeah the fear house is just a good example of a place where you can develop
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that that communal social aspect of your reading life
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that is scientifically proven to enhance
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and protect your your brain function they've also got my my books
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and other local writers books on display here
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and at the opening event of the fear house i met one of my best friends the fellow writer
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and translator Daniel Akerbaum so yeah I just had to shout out the Fairhouse and even
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if you do live in a kind of cultural hub where
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there are those kind of communities available in person sometimes it's just more comfortable to join an online community
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and like I said there are
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so many options out there I'm just going to mention a
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few off the top of my head right there's Adam Walker close reading poetry.
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He's a great academic scholar who is quite poetry-centric and American literature focused.
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In fact just so much of English literary history but generally through the lens of poetry.
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He has a YouTube channel and he has an online book community called Verst.
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I really recommend checking out Adam Walker.
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He's an extremely accomplished and erudite but also very down-to-earth scholar.
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Second of all another great online reading community is Life on Books.
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Tony and sometimes his friend Andy are just two great book lovers.
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They're so approachable and yet well read.
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They are engaging in the content that they produce.
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I mean I think it's mostly Tony with some guest appearances from Andy
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but other than the hirsute majesty of Tony's lush beard he really is somebody who is
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so consistent and dedicated to producing content
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that is a kind of gateway to reading
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but also building a really cohesive and an inclusive online community
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and a book club so I would recommend checking out Life on Books
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and then Maria from Strange Lucidity she is another fantastic academic
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and content creator who has recently launched her own Patreon to give a more intimate
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and in-depth approach to the communal aspect of reading and understanding literature.
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She also has produced several amazing online courses which are opportunities to to grow and
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hone one's literary skills in a really affordable way.
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I contributed to a couple of the modules on
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that on one of her courses as well and I was really honored to do that.
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So yeah, look up online if there are local book communities in,
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you know, in the geographical zone in which you live.
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If that's not a feasible option for whatever reason,
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seriously consider seeking out book communities online.
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And then the third aspect of brain health and longevity that this BBC article references is spatial navigation.
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Research has shown that people that in their daily work were required to have mnemonic systems
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and memorize large quantities of information tended to have longer lasting high caliber brain function now how can we apply
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that to this lens of the bookish life you know readers and lovers of literature
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create a spatial navigation in your own environment in your home
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space build a catalog of literature of reference works of great texts of fiction poetry
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and non-fiction philosophy history build a personal canon a personal library
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and then lay it out with care and solicitude
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and a coherent plan
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so what i've talked about on the channel in terms of
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my own cataloging of my own personal collection is I have a system of chronology
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so you can trace lineages of thoughts and movements
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intellectual and creative movements
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and waves through my library chronologically my library is also subdivided by sort of broad genres
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so poetry fiction non-fiction obviously there's loads overlap there
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that is a way to create a kind of memory palace in your mind to kind of constellate
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and interconnect to create really a web of interconnections of intellectual history
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and literary movements and ideas and it's such a profound way to fortify
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and enrich your own thinking and it will definitely give you better brain function and help you to navigate your life
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through cognitive processes and prolong the health of your brain for as long as possible.
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Another literary practice to fortify your memory
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and strengthen your brain function in the long term is of course to memorize literature
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and that most naturally takes the form of memorizing poems
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and here I've got a list stuck up in my office of poems
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that I have memorized or are in the process of committing to memory
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and they become sort of incantations that you know beat a tattoo in your heart
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and in your mind and and and give you solace
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and consolation in difficult moments and but also just improve your memory
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so I just wanted to include that as well something
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that I recommend people trying to to institute in their lives so yeah those are three
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key areas of research that suggest ways to prolong one's brain health
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and those were my sort of literary angles on all three of those perspectives or principles or approaches.
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I would love to hear from you guys.
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Let me know what you think about this issue and ways that you might work on your own neurological well-being.
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I would love to hear from you about that.
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Thank you to our channel members co-producers and executive producers
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that allow me to keep doing what i'm doing
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and to all of you
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that are part of this community please don't be shy to
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say hello down in the comments i would love to hear from you thanks for watching speak to you all soon
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