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o yourself something like this, I want to know why Stephen Vincent Be happened to write about America. Because you know why you are reading or studying, you relate the information to your purpose and remember it better. 74 At least two important processes go on at the same time. As you read, you take in ideas rapidly and accurately. But at the same time you express your own ideas to yourself as you react to what you read. You have a kind of mental conversation with the author. This additional process of thinking about what you read includes evaluating it, relating it to what you already know, and using it for your own purposes. __75__ One part of critical reading, as you have discovered, is distinguishing between facts and opinions. Facts can be checked by evidence, Opinions are one39。 If you are hungry, what do you do? Have your favoritemeal and stay quiet after that?_ 71 But it never lets you know, because, you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars. So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow. When mind loses its freedom to grow. creativity sets a full stop. This might be the reason why we all sometimes think What happens next?, Why can39。t I think? 72 Why reading but not watching TV? It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood. Since it develops other aspects of our life, we have to take help from reading. Once you read a book, you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you. 73 Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas. If it is used many times, the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things, which you would have never thought