Name: The Power and Importance of...READING! | Luke Bakic | TEDxYouth@TBSWarsaw
Uploaded: 2025-07-23T11:29:33.000Z
Duration: 3 min 10 s
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Great readers make great writers, whilst great writers make great communicators, and great communicators make great persuaders, and you know what great persuaders make?

They make good societies, and that's what this world needs.

I think that it's totally crazy that all anyone ever talks about is games, TV shows, WhatsApp, Instagram, Bitmoji.

WeChat, Kiki, Siraha, and I could go on forever.

Studies have shown that some kids these days even spend six and a half hours on a screen a day.

I think we should draw attention to this problem.

However, not reading can even result in making your brain less active or engaged.

Just over the past year, I've enjoyed reading Winnetou by Carl May, the Harry Potter series with eight books, Roald Dahl's series with 12 books, and The Unwanted series with seven books, and many, many single books in between.

Some I've liked less, some I've liked more, but they all took me for such an adventure.

I'm a truly unhappy child when I don't have a good book to read right next to me.

I love reading in places like my bed, on the move while walking, in the toilet, in queues, in vehicles, but more importantly, at home.

I hide behind various corners of my house so nobody can find me and make me do anything else.

Once I even hid behind a flower pod pretending to be the flower, not moving at all.

So for all of you skeptical people out there, let me tell you, when you have a good book to keep you company, there is nothing better in the universe.

It takes you to places where you can't go and lets you meet people you can't meet.

Reading is love in action, and the positives are endless.

Like, I usually never have to study for spelling tests, and it makes my vocabulary so good that it easily impresses any grown-up.

Sometimes the first thing I know is I've just had a short conversation with the grown-up, and the next thing I know is there's a room full of adults talking about me.

What I'm comparing is the lost art of reading, writing, communicating, and persuading the sum of the great societal ills of the text message, the tweet, and the snap.

While these wonders of modern technology have their place, we, the young generation, have to hold on to reading.

So go out there, find a good book, not just any book, the best are the ones recommended by another kid, and just go for it!

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The Power and Importance of...READING! | Luke Bakic | TEDxYouth@TBSWarsaw

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