For context, I didn’t have the best relationship with reading growing up. I used to read as a child, and then at some point naturally lost interest and felt “forced” to in school.
I’m well into adulthood and in the last 4-5 years I’ve tried to get more into reading. I’ll enjoy the first few nights of it, I’ll feel the benefits and even my vocabulary starts improving. I’ll enjoy the topic and medium. And yet, it’ll eventually join the list of the rest of the books I started, put down and never picked back up again. These were mostly non-fiction, philosophical or knowledge books on topics I found interesting.
It seems like if I ever have an interest in something, the best way to very quickly kill that interest is to buy a book on it. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s phone addiction, or the type of books.
Have any of you experienced similar? What habit change or book made you break through this?
by ConfusedCareerMan
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Do you find the topics really that interesting? Before starting a non-fiction book I usually ask myself if I find that topic so interesting to spend many many hours reading about it or if a two pages article would do it for me as well.
You can find many topics interesting but not *that* interesting.
What helps for me is switching genres when I find myself putting everything down. To maintaim my interest I normally read 2 different books at a time and switch between them every few nights. You could also try audiobooks.
>non-fiction, philosophical or knowledge books
get from these types of books what you want – there’s no plot, there’s no cliff hanger or resolution
Your phone use had broken your attention span and your brain is addicted to the visual stimulation and ability to scroll and hunt for a quick dopamine hit.
You need to wean yourself off the phone addiction and then give books a try.