The Power of One
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Maurice
Sep 23, 2019 02:46AM
I was born in England, spent 37 years in Australia, but now live back in the UK. I have travelled the world, and experienced exciting, and sometimes, potentially dangerous situations.
I have read some brilliant books in my time. The Power of One. The Day Christ Died. War Escape Stories. And many more. But lately, since I began writing, I find reading books difficult. I should make more time to read, I know. But I struggle to get passed the first few pages.
If anyone has any advice for me, as to how I can get myself back into reading books, I would appreciate that very much.
I have read some brilliant books in my time. The Power of One. The Day Christ Died. War Escape Stories. And many more. But lately, since I began writing, I find reading books difficult. I should make more time to read, I know. But I struggle to get passed the first few pages.
If anyone has any advice for me, as to how I can get myself back into reading books, I would appreciate that very much.
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I know you wrote this a bit more than a year now, but I saw your question and felt I should reply. I was in the same place as yourself, it was an extremely difficult task to get back into reading. I have two suggestions, take them as you will:
1) Try audiobooks
- Some purists may deny the right of audiobooks as having 'read' a book, but I see them as the original way that stories were told (e.g. Homer's Odyssey was initially told by word, and later transcribed)
- A good audiobook is like listening to a great narrator reading out a book
- I found these great for my commutes and idle time and got me interested again in reading
2) Do not be overly ambitious:
- I found initially I had great ambitious goals for reading (eg sitting down to read for 1 hour or a certain number of pages)
- Now I am a practitioner of the small unit habit idea - I set a goal to read 5 mins a day before I go to bed - for a particularly hard book with me annotating that may only be a page of text, but if you compound that day by day, you get through more books than you would not reading
- I find that while my minimum is 5 mins, I am more likely to read for longer times depending on the day, but I rest easy knowing that I was able to meet my small goal per day
1) Try audiobooks
- Some purists may deny the right of audiobooks as having 'read' a book, but I see them as the original way that stories were told (e.g. Homer's Odyssey was initially told by word, and later transcribed)
- A good audiobook is like listening to a great narrator reading out a book
- I found these great for my commutes and idle time and got me interested again in reading
2) Do not be overly ambitious:
- I found initially I had great ambitious goals for reading (eg sitting down to read for 1 hour or a certain number of pages)
- Now I am a practitioner of the small unit habit idea - I set a goal to read 5 mins a day before I go to bed - for a particularly hard book with me annotating that may only be a page of text, but if you compound that day by day, you get through more books than you would not reading
- I find that while my minimum is 5 mins, I am more likely to read for longer times depending on the day, but I rest easy knowing that I was able to meet my small goal per day
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