This is somewhat true ofc not entirely. But frankly speaking, reading is utmost manifestation of curiosity whereas the latter is projected when someone knows what he 'doesn't know'. But that's not even all of it. A thread. https://twitter.com/Luqmanap_/status/1264127658050195456

Great curiousity is somehow a very vast learning capacity that takes up our cognitive resources. Children learn along by exploring things, preferably guided by their parents.

Assuming you know everything (overconfidence) is a profound way to kill curiousity and learning capabilities, so as assuming you don't need to know a thing (underconfidence).

As psychologist Todd Kashdan has said, “Anxiety and curiosity are two opposing systems.” Fear kills curiosity.

Children who grow up in environments of profound physical or emotional uncertainty often seem to be incurious at school, but it’s because they can’t afford to concentrate on anything other than survival.

This concept equally applies to adult life, where ppl are really trying to get food daily and striving to make ends meet at the end of the day.

To simply cut it short, reading is a significant manifestation of curiousity. Behaving like anything should, curiosity requires an edge of uncertainty to thrive; too much uncertainty and it freezes.

That's partly why you can say, reading is a privilege for those with time and money. The facts are there, but that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't opt for reading and pretend 'to have the privilege' until you be and feel like one.

To see it through an Islamic perspective like UIA tells us to do. The first ayah from quran is an order, 'to read' (QS 96:1). We know verily that our prophet was an illiterate man.

That's when the entirety of miracles of reading (and knowledge gathering) come in just one ayah that speaks, "Recite in the name of your Lord Who created."

Rather than putting those 'privileges' of learning into a man's soul, God tells us to learn by the miracles of His name, putting the true credibilities and power of knowledge to the hands of God.

Yeah i believe that's not even all of it to learn by one ayah. Im just putting it here to fit the context we're speaking. You can always seek more. Sila2. Sekian.

^ This thread isn't aiming to substantially kill anyone urge to read. I always feel like the more we know about how our mental attitude, the more we can try to alter for the better.

Okay, jomla tidur buat apa nak baca2. Baca quran la jom.